The Pattern (Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly)

The Baby Rock Band emerges from its musical roots with its own unique interpretation. A learning process starts. The band is coming to terms with a new life, learning how to use their talents as musicians, songwriters, and performers, as well as the tools for recording in the studio; the band is crawling. A give and take starts with the audience and critiques alike. It's a confrontation with a new world that lasts for approximately three albums, until a moment comes in which the band is no longer satisfied, they don't want to crawl any more, they want to stand up and walk. They will have to work at it, approaching the studio and songwriting with substantially different techniques until a breakthrough is made and a fresh set of sounds, words, and melody arises. The impulse is so great that their creative approach lasts them for a while, approximately three albums, but inevitably not everybody will follow along with the band, a big part of the audience and press can't assimilate their every move, and in many cases the band will end up being vilified; so a negative aura entangles them. The band feels tired and is even considering break up as a serious option. Things are getting rotten for lack of movement. But not everything is lost, they give it a chance and take a radical step to shake things up, and that move saves them from break-up and propels them to new creative heights out of which a sound that was impossible to predict is produced.  They are not walking anymore, they are running, and now it's not enough to relate with the audience in the same old way, a new façade emerges to accurately represent the new colors of their music: personas are created, customs exaggerated, irony implemented; It's the band embracing the contradictions that are affecting them. All this has the strength to endure for approximately three albums until the contradictions are finally reconciled, and it no longer makes sense to keep up with the irony, on the contrary, for their next album the band has an urge to go back to basics recording music without ornaments or complications, just as how it was in the beginning, only now they are masters of their craft doing it gracefully without effort...and they fly away.

The paragraph above could be applied to the careers of both, U2 and The Beatles.

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