Pretty Faces Who Care

Why we all hate celebrities right now.


If he were just one iota more self-aware, Bono would be quite thankful to Gal Gadot right now.

Quarantined Italians singing to one another from balconies during the worst pandemic in a century is sublimely haunting, perfectly capturing how it feels to cling to your hope in crushing isolation. By contrast, Bono’s “Let Your Love Be Known,” which is dedicated to Italy, is an exercise in cloying, saccharine, self-aggrandizing cluelessness. From him, it’s predictable.

If actress Gal Gadot hadn’t intervened with her “Imagine” cover, there’s reason to believe that more commentators would have eventually called out Bono’s song for what it is. But thanks to Wonder Woman herself, Bono has been largely spared.

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