In what can only be described as “The Most Awkward Live Cover in the History of Pop Music,” U2’s Bono and The Edge recently joined disco pioneers Chic on-stage to tackle the Daft Punk smash “Get Lucky.”
As Rolling Stone notes, the unlikely collaboration went down this past weekend at a charity auction after-party for (RED) in New York. And from the clip, one can only assume the whole “covering Daft Punk” thing came together at the last minute: Throughout, Bono struggles not only with the lyrics (“She’s up all night for dasuuumn / We’re up all night fugoofuunn”) and the melody, yelping randomly over Nile Rodgers’ inhumanly groovy riff.
It takes a lot to rattle Bono — this is a guy who literally wears sunglasses at night and hangs out with the Pope. But the U2 frontman hasn’t seemed this out-of-place since the video for “Discotheque.”
By the way, holy shit — I forgot just how awful “Discotheque” is. Wow. Let’s hope the Daft Punk cover is a misnomer and U2 don’t go “funky” on their upcoming studio LP.
