FINNEAS brought together the voices of nine singers for a cover of U2’s “Beautiful Day” that was live-streamed during this past weekend’s Dear Class of 2020.
U2 frontman Bono introduced the cover by reflecting on the 20-year-old song.
“There were storm clouds over Dublin when U2 recorded ‘Beautiful Day,’ things were not as they might have been,” he recalled. “But the song was not a description of where we were at, it was a prayer for where we could go, and a dream — like America is a dream — of where we might be.
“We now know that America is a song yet to be written. That America might be the greatest song the world has never heard. It’s a wild thought, that America is yet to exist. And even wilder that the Class of 2020 might be the very people to bring it into being.”
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Produced by Finneas, the “Beautiful Day” cover featured Chris Martin, Camila Cabello, Ty Dolla $ign, Tove Lo, Khalid, Leon Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Ben Platt and Noah Cyrus.
Listen to it below: