Badvertising – U2 And Blackberry
Do you like facts? Well it just so happens that we have one that will not only enlighten your day, but that of your friends and family.
Take Bono’s name and remove the b, n and one of the o’s. With the singular o add a G in front of it and the letter d after the o. What does this give you? A complicated sentence and the word God.
You see this is what Bono is, God. He is able to do anything. From releasing crap record after crap record to saving the world, Bono does it all! After whoring out U2 to Apple and the iPod campaign, he has now turned to bloody Blackberry.
There are a few errors in this clip. Let us point them out:
1 – There isn’t a choir of African children singing the chorus to the song in the advert in their native tongue. You’d think they’d be thankful for the U2-branded iPod’s and Irish-grown potatoes.
2 – Those circular balls of light should be replaced with bullets, let’s see him dodge those. That’s just to prove he’s superhuman.
3 – It isn’t possible for a gathering of that size for people to see U2. Yes, we know morons congregate in numbers, but there can’t be that amount of people who like U2. From the advert, you’d assume every Irish person had to attend a gig as part of national service.
With Bono dragging the band into more advertising, we’d like to propose our plans for a U2-based advert. Using our new and exciting mobile phone, we aim to launch the product ’shit for brains telecommunication device’. Here, we have launched something so simple that even a pensioner could navigate the handset with ease.
The campaign is simple. We need a celebrity to munch on a plate of poo, replacing their human brains for poo. We should bloody go into advertising. Bono, can you help us out?
Call yourself an adult? You’re extremely immature, and very wrong. I’m 17, my favourite band is U2, I know the whole discography back-to-front, inside-out, from U2 3 to No Line On The Horizon. 160 million albums sold around the world and 22 Grammys speaks for itself. What Bono does with his time outside the band is none of our business, and I support him with his aims and ideas. Grow up and have a bit of common sense.
Idiot
I am 40 and I am a first time fan.
Let’s hope that U2 is not going to fall into advertising… this is crap and wrong. I am a fan of the music but not necessarely of what the band is doing on the side. Bono is great about the poverty in Africa and I support this. But when it comes to advertising i say NO ! Enought of these multimillionaires doing advertising… for what? for money !
Crap !
Bob, agree with your comment
Val from France.
Not the best use of time to comment on such poor thought out message
I guess when morons aren’t congregating..they are writting stupid crap like this……but yea man, a loooot of people like U2..probably the opposite with you
Jealous much???
The Blackberry sponsorship is a media sponsorship,no money exchanged hands…just like MTV used to be a media sponsor of the bands tour back before MTV became shit.
The Apple deal 5 years ago was the same thing…..U2 was offered but did not take any money from the deal upfront,U2 does not take money from advertisers…instead its a barter tradeoff….you gives us exposure,we’ll give you access to our music….it ain’t a fucking Led Zeppelin Cadillac car commercial.
So Matthew Laidlow…..go fuck yourself….take a long walk off a short pier,you pretentious indie snob.
Jack? are you sure that there are no money Exchanged?
What, you’d rather they spent their time putting out another one of their shitty albums? Face it, this is how U2 make money these days; yes, they’re sell-outs of the worst kind but at least they’re not forcing another 45 minutes of their God-awful music onto us.
Wow Matthew I think you’re hitting the big time. You too, have fans.
Amazing… U2 groupies that think the last two/three albums are good.
Lots of venom. At least their ability to put together a coherient sentence on the web is better than the Chris Brown and MJ fan.
Just don’t diss New Order because then I’ll become a mindles fan that will put a plauge on both your houses.
Naaaa just kiding…
If this article wasn’t written so poorly, I might actually get offended. I would imagine this is just some kid who hates everything. While reading his article it is very easy to see how ignorant he is on very many subjects. I mean, the word “poo” was used multiple times.
U2 never took any money for the ad, by the way. They never have.
Hahahaaha! “U2 does not take money for sponsorship”…
I’m a U2 fan, and I can’t wait to see them on Friday. But the Blackberry thing is a bit of a sell-out. One that they do indeed make money from. Maybe not directly, but they still clean-up.
Why is everyone so precious about them? They’re still part of a business, they’re still making money. It’s their job to make money and sell records. Which is what that deal is about. Jeez.
Would you like u2 better if they were coke snorting, hotel trashing, suicide watch waifs? This isn’t an article, it’s a 2nd rate AICN blog comment. So what if u2 did a commercial? How else are they going to get their music out there? Radio is dead. Magazines are dead. Music sales are dead. Outside of adverts and touring the music biz is dying. U2 took no money for this ad, just like they took no money for the apple ads. They get their music out in the channels that are left. I don’t love u2 universally, I certainly don’t love bono universally, but you write like a bored bully.
“Would you like u2 better if they were coke snorting, hotel trashing, suicide watch waifs?”
yes. yes i would. although, being in adverts is totally cool. im sure ad execs are always thinking of the me$$age.
Is this Matthew guy for real? Unless he’s a musician who at least 100 people know of or someone of significant status which I doubt so then this writer epitomises crap writing.
Give this Matthew fuck a U2 ticket, he’ll probably try dryhumping Bono’s leg at the concert for an autograph.
Im not a big fan of the band but comeo on, when did journalism get this low. Get your facts straight about information then maybe you’ll start to write some decent pieces of journalism.
I’d just like to say that Bono is a self serving little twat with an egomania problem. Not content with turning out bland, similar-riffed “music” constantly, the pretentious little stain feels he can spoon feed us his own brand of morally bland, unrealistic politics on the world.
A quote comes to mind: “And I also don’t go for this other thing now, with MTV being so big where you get a band that gets a hit video, and all of the sudden they think that they’re like icons and they can tell us how to feel about environmental issues and how to vote and stuff.”
Bono talks about world inequality then spends $1700 FLYING A FUCKING HAT to a gig.
To the U2 fanboys: it’s nice you like a band, but for fucks sake, open your eyes to the reality of how individuals can be self serving, vain and aggrandizing.
and thats “my two cents”.
*applause* Well said!
Hmmmm. The crazy U2 fans are leaking a different vintage of piss to the Twilight lot, but still a cheeky little number.