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[u2popmofo]

I listen to the last two live albums we got from the U2.com fanclub quite a bit while working out. I REALLY hope we get a Songs of Experience tour CD this next year. I killed my membership this year with the crap "gift".

I'd love a new U2 album each and every day of the week, but if we don't get one this year, whatevs. There are other things to listen to and gush over. No lack of awesome music out there.

 

[BoMac]

I just saw a perfume commercial featuring a cover version of Love is Blindness I had never heard of. I wasn't even watching TV, but I only clued in at the end that it was LIB and then confirmed it when I replayed the commercial.

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[Oregoropa]

The scent of early 90s excellence


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[elevated_u2_fan]

I just saw a perfume commercial featuring a cover version of Love is Blindness I had never heard of. I wasn't even watching TV, but I only clued in at the end that it was LIB and then confirmed it when I replayed the commercial.

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Im assuming you've heard the Jack White cover so who did this one?

 

[BoMac]

Im assuming you've heard the Jack White cover so who did this one?

YSL Mon Paris Commercial Song – 2016 ‘Love Is Blindness’ Yves Saint Laurent Advert | TV Ad Songs

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Wow, thats like a cover of a cover :/

 

[Mack_Again]

It may be true that I might not be as much of a U2 fan as I used to be.

 

[Hewson]

So now we can officially say they have sold out. The Vertigo commercials were one thing, but this is just 100% a product shill. Sure someone else is singing, but its their song.

 

[corianderstem]

It still doesn't bother me.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[david]

That commercial is intense.


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[david]

So now we can officially say they have sold out. The Vertigo commercials were one thing, but this is just 100% a product shill. Sure someone else is singing, but its their song.

Does it even matter in 2016?


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[namkcuR]

I don't care that the song is used in a commercial, but I am bugged by that performance. It's obviously inspired by the Jack White version. I've seen a couple people sing the song that way on the Voice as well. It irritates me that there could be a generation of teens and people in their early twenties who think it's a Jack White song and have never even heard of Achtung Baby.

Generally speaking, U2's original, more restrained version is always the best. That said, White's cover is also great. He can pull off the more aggressive take on it because he's Jack White. These other people though, don't do it as well.

Look at these girls singing it on The Voice:

 

[david]

I don't even think a majority of the people who even see the commercial will know or bother to look into the fact that the song is a 25 year old U2 song.


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[Popmartijn]

So now we can officially say they have sold out. The Vertigo commercials were one thing, but this is just 100% a product shill. Sure someone else is singing, but its their song.

Yeah, and because it's someone else singing I'm not really sure U2 can do much to prevent it. I'm no expert in copyright law of course, but I believe it's a bit harder to stop a company from using a cover of your song in a commercial. It's also a reason why you hear so many sound-alikes in so many other commercials instead of the original version.
But if U2 really gave the go-ahead themselves then this stinks.

 

[Lancemc]

who caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaares

 

[DaveC]

pretty sure the days of worrying about "selling out" ended about 15 years ago.

 

[namkcuR]

I don't even think a majority of the people who even see the commercial will know or bother to look into the fact that the song is a 25 year old U2 song.


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That's what I just said in my post. A whole generation is going to think it's a Jack White song.

 

[prbiker15]

Love is Blindness, as made famous by Jack White. Wouldn't be surprised, but that would be sad.

 

[namkcuR]

Love is Blindness, as made famous by Jack White. Wouldn't be surprised, but that would be sad.

I mean, there's probably a generation that thinks Lovesong is an Adele song, so I'd guess there's some precedent.

 

[DaveC]

i mean, there's probably a generation that thinks "the man who sold the world" is a nirvana song.

i mean, there's probably a generation that thinks "nothing compares 2 u" is a sinead o'connor song.

i mean, there's probably a generation that thinks "crazy little thing called love" is a queen song.

i mean, there's probably a generation that thinks "twist and shout" is a beatles song.

i mean, there's probably a generation that thinks "blue suede shoes" is an elvis song.

 

[Axver]

i mean, there's probably a generation that thinks "crazy little thing called love" is a queen song.

Well shit, I must be part of that generation.

 

[DaveC]

lol okay i got one wrong

i mean, there's probably a generation that thinks "stuck in the middle with you" isn't a bob dylan song.

 

[Hewson]

i mean, there's probably a generation that thinks "the man who sold the world" is a nirvana song.

i mean, there's probably a generation that thinks "nothing compares 2 u" is a sinead o'connor song.

i mean, there's probably a generation that thinks "crazy little thing called love" is a queen song.

i mean, there's probably a generation that thinks "twist and shout" is a beatles song.

i mean, there's probably a generation that thinks "blue suede shoes" is an elvis song.

Plenty of folks think All Along The Watchtower is a Hendrix song, there's lots of examples. But I don't recall Jack White's LIB being any kind of big hit like the others you mention.

 

[DaveC]

my point is, that's inherent in the nature of covers. there's no point in moaning about it.

 

[Hewson]

my point is, that's inherent in the nature of covers. there's no point in moaning about it.

I understand & agree, just that White's song never hit big with the mainstream anyway,

 

[namkcuR]

I understand & agree, just that White's song never hit big with the mainstream anyway,

This is true, but the way it's being performed in the commercial and by those voice contestants, there's no way they're imitating the original recording.

Also, White's version was used in the Great Gatsby soundtrack, I think that's where it got its attention from.

 

[Kieran McConville]

I always thought "Heroes" was a Wallflowers song.

 

[U2inUtah]

I always thought "Here I Am" was a UB40 song. Of course I also thought the lead singer was Jamaican

 

[Kieran McConville]

Didn't UB40 write Red Red Wine?

 

[DaveC]

ub40 wrote that song about streets not being named