Comments on: BlackBerry Loves Stupid U2 Song So Much They're Going To Play It For Us Again And Again And Again

By: slinkimalinki

slinkimalinki — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:24:12 +0000

yep. also i think i outgrew their lyrics. bono writes at a 15 year-old level, and once i stopped being 15 it stopped being awesome.

By: HiredGoons

HiredGoons — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:41:18 +0000

U2 sucks.

By: HiredGoons

HiredGoons — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:40:05 +0000

Modest Mouse.

By: Lionel Mandrake

Lionel Mandrake — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:13:37 +0000

Same here. I think that was the last one I bought. I honestly don't remember anything that's come out since.

By: shorty

shorty — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:51:42 +0000

Snow Patrol.

By: Moff

Moff — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:42:13 +0000

And after U2's big iPod campaign five years ago, the folks at Apple can't have been happy about the Pre thing. Even with Bono qua Bono being a more autonomous, separate entity from U2's business machine, it's pretty bizarre. But I guess since he's managed to both support and irritate all the major players in the PDA market, it all evens out?

By: lizp

lizp — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:40:31 +0000

"Yulch," heh. I'm totally using that.

By: philomene

philomene — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:37:04 +0000

The fact that he is doing this ad is even weirder when you consider that Bono's private equity fund, Elevation Partners (yes, named after his song) is a major investor in the Palm Pre, which is supposed to challenge the Blackberry and iphone. Someone there must be pissed about these ads running every 4 seconds.

By: Moff

Moff — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:27:29 +0000

Seconded on all counts.

By: dado

dado — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:00:59 +0000

Not only that, they rescheduled their Friday night show at Giants Stadium to Wednesday, and now I'll have to go to work Thursday with a pain in me noggin.

By: jfruh

jfruh — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:46:46 +0000

Does anyone else experience the phenomenon where there's a band you actually like quite a bit and then all of the sudden their new album comes out and you realize that you don't want it? Even though you're perfectly happy to enjoy their older stuff you already have, you just have no desire to get the new ones? It's not that you're like "Oh, their last album sucked," it's just that you're kind of done with the band. This happened to me with U2 right around Zooropa, for whatever it's worth.

By: sunnyciegos

sunnyciegos — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:36:44 +0000

As someone who has defended Bono against haters for many years now, I agree this commercial is maddening. Boos all around.