Danger Mouse being secretive about U2 production...

[redhill]

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Says that he will not be talking about the collaboration...

I know that there is no real news here but it is interesting that he wants to keep it quiet. I am guessing this is a decision on U2's part as well.

Why do you think they want to do so?

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Secrets, secrets are no fun.

Secret, secrets hurt someone.

 

[corianderstem]

Secrets, secrets are no fun.

Secret, secrets hurt someone.

I have never heard anyone else say that outside of a girl I knew in college. (And then me, because I stole it from her.)

Anyway ...

I don't mind a little secrecy. Any blurb of news would just get repeated five million times in the press with some variations, like a game of telephone. And we'd just speculate until our faces turned blue with any little seed of news.

Not that we don't already speculate that much, but I don't mind. I think it gives it a little more excitement not to hear a lot about it in this day and age.

But if it's really the album that reportedly would come out in May, I'm sure there'll be more news in the coming months. But if they keep things close to the chest until just before the release, that would be kind of awesome.

So long as we have a release date, so we know it's actually happening and don't take no news to mean "it's not coming out."

/ramble

 

[The_Edge89]

Seems like someone didn't do their U2 homework...

Achtung 7:7-8
They say a secret is something you tell one other person
So I'm telling you, child.

But seriously, throw us a bone here. Don't mention there was going to be a single in December only to keep quiet - even if it's supposedly has been rescheduled to 2011. To be fair to Danger Mouse, it seems Bono was the one who couldn't contain his excitement despite telling Burton not to mention it from what I gather.

 

[beachball]

That's interesting! Thanks for posting. Don't know what to make of it, though. Bono was holding his hand over his mouth in the MTV interview, and smiling! It seems they are really trying to do things differently.

 

[adam4bono]

Secrets, secrets are no fun.

Secret, secrets hurt someone.

"A secret is something, you tell one other person, so I'm not telling you, Child."

Bono

 

[powerhour24]

Edge89, I'm pretty sure we've never seen any quote from the band saying anything about a single in December, that was just a throwaway line by the writer of one of the articles with Bono's recent quotes in it.

Besides, a December single never made any kind of sense, at Christmas time it'd just get buried.

 

[The_Edge89]

Edge89, I'm pretty sure we've never seen any quote from the band saying anything about a single in December, that was just a throwaway line by the writer of one of the articles with Bono's recent quotes in it.

Besides, a December single never made any kind of sense, at Christmas time it'd just get buried.

You must've misunderstood me.
I never said or implied that Bono was the one behind the December single quote, but nevertheless there has been a mention of such a release - as you correctly state, by the journalist.

What I remarked was that Bono told us about the Danger Mouse collaboration in the first place and despite all this Burton still wants to be quiet about it.

My bad, sorry for the confusion.

 

[U2girl]

There will be plenty of info once Spring comes and the May date comes closer...

 

[purpleoscar]

Maybe they want to shock us, with "lots of hits" and their "different sound". It's cool the DM doing something with Jack White and Norah Jones.

 

[nirniva]

Maybe they want to shock us, with "lots of hits" and their "different sound". It's cool the DM doing something with Jack White and Norah Jones.

Sort of off-topic, but I'm so excited for Rome! I've always loved the "spaghetti western" vibes in DM's production work ("Crazy" and the instrumental break in Broken Bells' "Mongrel Heart" being good examples of what I'm talking about), and a whole album in that style would just be -worthy.

 

[purpleoscar]

Sort of off-topic, but I'm so excited for Rome! I've always loved the "spaghetti western" vibes in DM's production work ("Crazy" and the instrumental break in Broken Bells' "Mongrel Heart" being good examples of what I'm talking about), and a whole album in that style would just be -worthy.

It's also one of the things I really enjoy in the last guitar part of MOS.

 

[mrex]

I wonder in DM is worried about a Chris Thomas situation. If he keeps it secret he won't feel overlooked in Lillywhite or Lanois step in for the last round...which I really, really hope doesn't happen.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Perhaps someone said "hey guys, every time somebody opens their mouth it creates a weeks worth of useless arguing on interference, so shut the hell up all ready."

 

[Registered Dude]

yeah he wouldn't answer any of the U2 questions he got during the live NPR chat interview a few weeks ago either..

 

[nirniva]

It's also one of the things I really enjoy in the last guitar part of MOS.

You know, I never thought of that! Now that you mention it, I can totally hear it.

yeah he wouldn't answer any of the U2 questions he got during the live NPR chat interview a few weeks ago either..

Eh, that's probably just because the NPR chat was supposed to be about Rome. I wish they would have taken at least a couple U2-related questions at the end or something, though.

 

[coolian2]

Perhaps someone said "hey guys, every time somebody opens their mouth it creates a weeks worth of useless arguing on interference, so shut the hell up all ready."

god how i wish that were the case.

maybe he's a member and he's sick of reading that shit? it always ends up with people talking about achtung baby anyway.

 

[powerhour24]

Did I mention Achtung Baby is my favorite album??

 

[corianderstem]

I wonder if DM isn't keen to talk about it right now because he's got other things going on that he'd rather talk about. Like this Rome project.

 

[Niceman]

I'd guess the most likely explanation is he's under contract to keep his mouth shut for now...

 

[Earnie Shavers]

He wouldn’t be “under contract” to keep his mouth shut. He just has his own thing to promote, and would know that once he starts talking about the U2 album, it's going to dominate. So why would he turn every headline from "Danger Mouse Talks About Rome" to "Danger Mouse Talks About Working With U2"? Plus he would at the very least instinctively know that if U2 are keeping a lid on it, then he absolutely should too.

 

[dan_smee]

And generally people have decent relationships with their producers, and if the band had a quiet word with him and said: "don't give any details away, we are going to try our hardest and surprise people with this one", he may actually listen

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

I think it'd be cool if they didn't overwork it and just, you know, released the fucking thing.

But if they don't release it for a long time, oh well. Worse things have happened.

 

[coolian2]

But if they don't release it for a long time, oh well. Worse things have happened.

exactly. if we're still waiting for it to come out in early 2013 (essentially the same gap between how to dismantle an atomic bomb and no line on the horizon), we'll have a problem.

lot of time before we need to rage.

 

[mama cass]

But if they don't release it for a long time, oh well. Worse things have happened.

oh yeah?!?!?!

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

oh yeah?!?!?!

It's early in the morning, but we should think about this. If, for some reason, the U2/Danger Mouse collaboration becomes long delayed or, God forbid, never sees the light of day, we should examine, throughout human history, "worse things that have happened" than the delay of the Danger Mouse album. Off of the top of my head, I can think of two things straight away that have happened that have been worse:

1. Diana, Princess of Wales, dying in a car accident at a much too young age.

2. Michael Jordan finishing his playing career as a slow, old man in a Washington Wizards uniform.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

3. this thread.

 

[nirniva]

3. this thread.

 

[Niceman]

He wouldn’t be “under contract” to keep his mouth shut. He just has his own thing to promote, and would know that once he starts talking about the U2 album, it's going to dominate. So why would he turn every headline from "Danger Mouse Talks About Rome" to "Danger Mouse Talks About Working With U2"? Plus he would at the very least instinctively know that if U2 are keeping a lid on it, then he absolutely should too.

It's VERY common in the entertainment business to have people contractually limited as far as what they can talk about when.

 

[Gonna Run 2 U]

DM : "What do you wanna hear man? That it sounds like a frozen sun in a far away universe with some A1 sauce on the side?"