Miami (U2 song)

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“Miami”
Song by U2
Album	Pop
Released	March 1997
Genre	Rock
Length	4:52
Label	Island Records
Producer	Flood
Pop track listing
"Gone" (7) “Miami” (8) "The Playboy Mansion" (9)

"Miami" is the eighth track from U2's 1997 album, Pop. Featuring a reversed drum beat and an unsettling sonic atmosphere, "Miami" is the most non-traditional song they have yet produced, along with "Mofo."^{[citation needed]}

When it was played live on the PopMart Tour, lead singer Bono donned a carnival hawker's costume outfit and guitarist The Edge added an extra guitar part to the chorus of "Miami". Pictures of now-dead celebrities, such as Marilyn Monroe, were flashed on the giant screen behind the band while they played this song. Invariably, Bono picked a female member of the audience to come on stage and dance with him towards the song's end which then led into their next number, "Bullet the Blue Sky."

In 2005, Q magazine included the song "Miami" in a list of "Ten Terrible Records by Great Artists."