Bono: U2’s Music Will Annoy You For 100 Years
OK, OK – Bono didn’t say that U2’s music will annoy people for 100 years. Bono said that U2’s music will still be around in 100 years. But it won’t get any less annoying, will it?
In an interview with American TV show 60 Minutes, Bono also took time out from blowing his insufferably smug trumpet to announce that he doesn’t intend on retiring from music any time soon. Great – it never rains but it pours.
Bono took time out from his busy schedule of hawking video iPods,
selling his songs to lower-league football highlight shows, dancing to
his own music, reminding everyone what a visionary he is and finding
ways of disguising the fact that U2 (CDs) have only every really written two
songs to have his ego massaged on the CBS show 60 Minutes at the
weekend.
And it was on 60 Minutes that Bono decided that U2 would still be
remembered in 100 years time. Why? Because the songs that U2 perform
occupy:
"an emotional terrain that didn’t exist before our group did."
So, Bono and U2 invented emotional music. Remember that one in case anyone asks. Bono also took the time to announce that he will never retire, ever:
"You know I’m still hungry. I still want a lot out of music."
Also
in the 60 Minutes interview, Bono brought up the subject of his endless
political activism. Over the last six years, Bono has been one of the
most vocal lobbyists for the poor, starving and AIDS-stricken. He has
campaigned for heads of state and lawmakers around the world to help
abolish third world debt. However, he doesn’t want his good work to be
remembered:
"I think my work – the activism – will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away."
It’s going to be a long century, isn’t it?
Read more:
Bono says his music will last 100 years – CBS
[story by Stuart Heritage]
Look, forget about tax, that guy is a twat.
Many musicians are twats, but he’s a hypocritical twat.
Some little evidence:
a) Buying gaming companies making first-person shooters set in third world countries.
b) Supporting a Credit Card company.
c) Supporting iPods.
Depending on the level of outrage I might post more.
Joelb,
So he’s a twat because he’s endorses a credit card company or I-pods? First of all does anyone even say “twat” anymore. Do you have any proof of point “A” that you made? if not..Shut your pie hole or try and make sense. Bono has done more for impoverished countries than any rocker in history. He single handedly helped to erase billions of dollars in debt from 3rd world countries. So by your reasoning if you have been incredibly succesful and are amazingly wealthy even though you may be considered one of the greatest philanthropist of our generation and raise millions of dollars to advance the causes of the poor and destitute all over the world…. you are a “twat” and a hypocrit????? I guess Joelb has no credit cards or an I-pod????
Can you say jealousy? So I suppose if you were rich you would give all your money away and live like a bumb. Why not use your substantial money and influence to help those less fortunate?? I would say this is a more noble cause.
Do your research homie.
http://www.time.com/time/archive/collections/0,21428,c_bono,00.shtml
http://www.stopcapitalpunishment.org/coverage/171.html
J.T. Mitchell
Hi JT,
I’ve posted a response to Point A) in http://www.hecklerspray.com/bono-defends-own-self-righteousness/20051337.php#comment-1794, as it’s better off there.
Regarding Credit Cards, well yes I do have one. But I don’t pretend my excessive western livestyle paid for by credit card is going to stop world hunger. Unlike Bono.
Regarding iPods, again, yes I was given one and promptly gave it away in turn. iPods are the pinnacle of marketing hype (like Bono). They are disposable. To expand, as you obviously can’t be fucked to do your own research.
Disposable: aka Planned Obsolescence. The Lithium-Ion batteries in IPods die (often just after warranty expires). They are not replaceable by the user, and most likely as newer and “better” iPods come onto the market dead iPods end up in landfills. Lithium is a heavy metal. It’s not like you can take the battery out and recycle it. Very poor and not at all environmentally friendly.
There are also DRM issues with iPods but I can’t be arsed.
Hope to see you in “bono-defends-own-self-righteousness”
Cheers!
To put this honestly…this article is complete crap.
‘Stuart Heritage’, the prat who writes this shite, seems to have a personal vendetta against Bono and U2, I wonder why? Is it because he likes some other type of music, or band that hasn’t got anything on U2 and the idiot is in denial? Probably.
Most of the time, this guy actually gets traffic coming to the site to explain to him that he’s wrong about everything, which he is, so why can’t he do us all a favour and shut the hell up? But that’s not gonna happen though is it? So we have to put up with his complete bullshit about Bono, U2 and other famous people.
I mean comeon, who gives a damn what you think about Nicole Kidman getting married ‘atlast’, you seem to think people care for your opinion. They don’t.
Joel b,
So you use nothing that is disposable????
Dude, you simply come off as a jealous tree hug’n poser.
Doesn’t nearly everything we use eventually become obsolete???
T,V , Cars, cell phones etc. I could go on and on.
And Bono will not stop world hunger, but he’s put some major dents in it.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that his lifestyle has had a better impact on the impoverished than your has…..
Stop sounding so pathetcially jealous and critisize someone who deserves it.
I’m off to listen to my I-pod and then hug a few trees. Maybe a bowl of granola too. I hope it doesn’t turn me into a blubering idiot. JM
Hi J.T.
Come on J.T., you know I re-use what I can.
I have guinea pigs and a goose to mow the lawn, I’ve got a Cattle dog to keep the cats away. But it’s just too complicated to go into here.
By way of example, The dog and goose need water so we have a small pond, but because of mosquito’s we have a fish to eat them, but the fish needs plants and oxygen. So we have plants and an aerator.
Dr K (my Wife!) breeds pyrethrum, the only natural and effective insecticide. But indoors I’ve started natural insect “traps” consisting of native “sun-dews” to catch very small insects, Venus Fly-traps to catch middle sized ones and large Pitcher-Plants to catch those enormous blow-flys we get down here.
Just don’t call me a tree-hugger. There’s nothing I love better than seeing a truck with a 300year-old tree on the back on its way to the pulpmill!