New U2 Song To Be Featured In NFL Network's Super Bowl Commercial

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[sue4u2]

*face red*
I can't explain why I didn't see this.
I swear I looked for this article before I posted.

anywho I'm still.. since I love football and U2, also.

 

[buzzkill27]

obviously you didn't get the sarcasm... I don't think she was being serious there.

Sorry if I didn't see that

 

[Mrs. Garrison]

At the same time, few "commercials" were as shamelessly tacky and obvious and commercial and dumbed down as the videos for "All That You Can't Leave Behind", especially the football video for "Stuck in a Moment", creating a parallel between missing a kick-off and suicide. Preposterous. Even the people in their videos looked so "perfect". That's partly why it's hard for me to hear Bono talk about "soul" because there's none in those videos and the present-day U2 marketing machine. Why don't they go into porn, too; they could make some money; Bono already sat on the board of a company that made a video game about assassinating Hugo Chavez. For the guy who decried American neocolonialism toward Latin America, this was unforgivable. It's video games like this that indoctrinate kids into thinking about the non-American world in a negative way. The US military wants it that way.

this post makes me want to start drinking early and often.

 

[dabiggestu2fan]

At the same time, few "commercials" were as shamelessly tacky and obvious and commercial and dumbed down as the videos for "All That You Can't Leave Behind", especially the football video for "Stuck in a Moment", creating a parallel between missing a kick-off and suicide. Preposterous. Even the people in their videos looked so "perfect". That's partly why it's hard for me to hear Bono talk about "soul" because there's none in those videos and the present-day U2 marketing machine. Why don't they go into porn, too; they could make some money; Bono already sat on the board of a company that made a video game about assassinating Hugo Chavez. For the guy who decried American neocolonialism toward Latin America, this was unforgivable. It's video games like this that indoctrinate kids into thinking about the non-American world in a negative way. The US military wants it that way.

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[PowerSurge]

The problem with this logic is that it's about degrees. U2 will be big no matter what, does it really need to associate its music with sports. "Desire" was different; it was a single that became popular and then sports events began using it. U2 is pairing their music with such a commercial industry and I think it's wrong. It's tacky. I can't take all those Beatles songs and other '60s stuff that was advertized on TV ads when I was a child because I think of the product. I was shocked to find out that "Like a Rock" wasn't composed by Ford, but by some guy named Seager.

By doing this, you mess up the meaning of your music. Vertigo will always be the iPod song. "Hold Me, Thrill Me" was always going to be subpar to me, but it's also just a song for a terrible, shamelessly commercial film.

Moby and Mogwai HAVE to do this because they just don't get played on the radio. It's an act of desperation. U2 doesn't; that's the difference; it will still sell millions, but the band is so greedy, it can't resist pairing its music with the most cheesy aspects of American culture like CSI and other shows. There's no dignity in it. It's pathetic really.

hahahaha!

Dude, how old are you?

Are you 80??? I've never seen someone complain about more stuff with such an old fashioned/archaic way of thinking. You sound like a old grandpa watching Elvis Presley for the first time on the Ed Sullivan show on a 13 inch black and white tube.

"The whole neighborhood is going to shit!!!!!"

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

At the same time, few "commercials" were as shamelessly tacky and obvious and commercial and dumbed down as the videos for "All That You Can't Leave Behind", especially the football video for "Stuck in a Moment", creating a parallel between missing a kick-off and suicide. Preposterous. Even the people in their videos looked so "perfect". That's partly why it's hard for me to hear Bono talk about "soul" because there's none in those videos and the present-day U2 marketing machine. Why don't they go into porn, too; they could make some money; Bono already sat on the board of a company that made a video game about assassinating Hugo Chavez. For the guy who decried American neocolonialism toward Latin America, this was unforgivable. It's video games like this that indoctrinate kids into thinking about the non-American world in a negative way. The US military wants it that way.

the facist italian government tried to convert me via super mario brothers.

 

[U2Fanatic4ever]

Sorry if I didn't see that

no worries.. LMPA has a special kind of wit that most around here get but not all.

 

[bram]

But Muldfeld, would it be ok if a U2 song were featured in Battlestar Galactica?

 

[ShipOfFools]

Cool beans!

 

[digitize]

I have the Super Bowl on mute right now, and I'm un-muting it at every commercial break (and I will to see Br00ce at halftime) to hear 30 seconds of a U2 song.

 

[bonocomet]

yep... waiting now.


Oh HA ha just saw the last part of your post. LOL so true.

 

[digitize]

The Thupah Bowl is annoying to watch if you despise 'merican football like I do.

 

[Val]

I think the U2 NFL feature will be aired during the third quarter. At least that's what I understood they said during a small ad in the beginning of the game.

 

[digitize]

GoDaddy's ad's web content is unrated.

 

[Bonoisgodly]

Has the commercial aired yet?

 

[bonocomet]

nope

 

[cdirani]

I'm watching here but I'm afraid the commercial won't be broadcast outside the US.

 

[MMP]

^Where are you watching it? (You're in Brazil, right?)

 

[TheFlyOnTheWall]

I'm watching from Croatia, but there absolutely no commercials...
Haha, for the first time I miss them...

 

[bonocomet]

They were just playing GOYB in the stadium weren't they?

 

[bonocomet]

woooooooooooooo!

 

[Sicy]

Haha there it is.

 

[bonocomet]

What was that like 5 or 10 seconds?

 

[Sicy]

Wow that was exciting.

/sarcasm

All that waiting and hoopla for that?

 

[Mountain Dew Ma]

yeah hey hey

 

[ramblin rose]

That was anticlimactic.

 

[Rob33]

I just went nuts went that came on for some reason....even though it was so short, still cool!

 

[digitize]

Fifteen seconds of the worst part of the song.

The NFL fails.

Unless an expanded version will be back later.