Music Monday- Get on your boots

I’ve decided that every Monday will be a Music or Movie Monday, highlighting a music or cinematic inspiration. Here goes numero uno.

This week, U2′s “Get on Your Boots” is in the forefront of my mind. Not only do the lyrics describe a strong, sexy female with a wardrobe of kick ass boots, but the accompanying music video is psychedelic and gritty. Bursts of lava, smoke, soldiers, and crumbling Greco-Roman ruins spin in between the band members and various dominatrix holograms as Bono moans and twitches around the mic. The video also presents a grotesque association between religion and patriotic war, draping paint-flaked Madonnas in the star-spangled banner. The feel brings to mind high street designers like UNIF and Jeffrey Campbell, with their rebellious boot clad, “to hell with authority” attitudes, as well as the high-end psychedelia of Gaultier and McQueen.

The boots I’ll be getting on? These To Be Announced studded wonders, new in from Solestruck:

One comment

Excellent write up exemplifying the way in which art in its many forms influences and overlaps the other. You have shown how pop culture is a fine tapestry of all that has gone before as well as the now and the stabs into the future. Excellent, really excellent!