Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the horrific attack on the Twin Towers, which took place on September 11, 2001 and claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people.
The trauma that this event left in the life of the American nation is also reflected in the songs and albums created following the attack.
Here are some of these works.
"The Rising," Bruce Springsteen
Perhaps the work most associated with the attack on the United States is Bruce Springsteen's 12th album, "The Rising," which was released about ten months after the events of September 11. As he said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine in August 2002, Boss Days was inspired to write the album. A few after the difficult events. It happened when a car stopped next to him and inside a fan who said to him, 'We need you now.' The album is optimistic and describes a state of civic unity and the transcendence of a nation in moments of crisis.
City of Blinding Lights ", U2"
"The City of Dazzling Lights", one of the last big ballads of the band U2, was written by Solana Bono during a tour in the period after the 9/11 attacks.
A few days after the attacks, Bono and his bandmates performed in New York, and a large crowd came to the show despite the proximity to the terrible disaster.
Bono later said that during the show, while looking at the sea of people who came to comfort each other, he was dazzled by lights as he performed the song "Where the Streets Have No Name".
So he called the new song "The City of Dazzling Lights," and included the line "Oh, you look so beautiful tonight," which describes Bono's feeling as he looks at the audience at that moving performance.
"Politics," Coldplay
"A Rush of Blood to the Head", Coldplay's second album released almost a year after the twin attacks, opens with a particularly noisy and aggressive section called "Politik".
In an interview with NME magazine, the band's lead singer, Chris Martin, said the song reflects his understanding of what it is to be mortal after the events of September 11th.
According to him, the song was a kind of tribute to the traumatic events, and the aggressiveness in the playing was intended to give a sense of fragility.
"I wrote the song on September 11th and recorded it on September 13th," he said.
"We were all still a little confused and scared. We stopped performing for a few days, but then I felt like writing songs and doing things, because you never know what's going to happen."
"Where is the Love", Black Eyed Peas
In 2003, the band released the huge hit "Where is the Love".
In an interview with the Telegraph in 2016, the band's star, Will A. M., said that he was inspired to write the song by the general feeling of anxiety that prevailed in America after the Ground Zero events.
"On our last day of filming in San Francisco I was just packing, and I saw on TV the first plane colliding at the World Trade Center," he said.
"I thought it was a movie scene. I was afraid to go home."
According to him, these feelings formed the basis of the lyrics, which deal with the loss of a sense of brotherhood between people.
"I Can't See New York," Tori Amos
This dark song was released as part of Tori Amos' "Scarlet's Walk" album in October 2002. In the song, the singer describes a first-person experience of a passenger on a flight on September 11, 2001, flying over New York City but failing to see the World Trade Center To "hunting ground."
Interestingly, most of the song's lyrics were written months before the terrorist attacks in the city, but Amos said it changed them and the melody of the song following the events.
"I started to really understand the words as I walked down Fifth Avenue in New York, smelling everything that burned," she said.
"My Last Breath", Evans
The song "My Last Breath" was written directly inspired by the terrorist attacks in the Twin Towers. The song deals with the thoughts of a man who experienced his last moments in the ruins of the burning buildings. "The song was written right after 9/11, from the point of view of someone who was suddenly thrown somewhere else and trying to convey feelings and parting thoughts, because it all happened so fast," the band members said. The song contains chilling lines in the style of "Hold on to me, darling. All I wanted to say was that I love you and I'm not afraid. Can you hear me?"