One thing that Bono doesn't need is any more gushing praise. The tiny fool already gets enough of it heaped on him for either trying to save the world or going "doo doo doo," with U2 on iPod adverts.
But gushing praise keeps getting thrown at Bono and U2. The latest dumb accolade to be slung their way is that One, a 14-year-old U2 song, has been voted the song with the best lyric ever. God knows why; all that stuff about lepers living in people's heads must have struck a chord in the minds of VH1 viewers.
When Bono recently told a TV show that U2's music will be around for 100 years, he wasn't making an idle threat. Bono really meant it, and a new poll suggests that his statement wasn't just the out-of-touch ramblings of a stocky midget deluded with power that we thought it was. The new poll has named One by U2 as the song with the best lyric ever.
One, which we'd always thought had the sort of naff faux-inspirational lyric that would get it written around the walls of TV production company offices by overpaid interior designers but nothing more, was chosen as the best by viewers of VH1 from a list of 100 songs picked by lyrical geniuses like Noel Gallagher (sample lyric: "I can see a liar/ sitting by the fire") and Jon Bon Jovi (sample lyric: "Have a nice day/ Have a nice day/ Have a nice day/ Have a nice day.")
We're sensing a strange Mary J Blige theme to today's news stories. Mary J Blige records a cover of One by U2, and it's voted the best lyric ever. Mary J Blige records a duet with George Michael and he smashes a bunch of cars up. If we were Mary J Blige, we'd record a song about eating the placenta of Tom Cruise's baby sharpish to try and get the hat-trick.
The VH1 poll put One by U2 ahead of How Soon Is Now? by The Smiths and Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana. We're not sure how Bono celebrated the news of his feted lyrical skills; perhaps he flew another hat around the world first class or sued some more of his lackeys about his trousers.
Or maybe – just maybe – Bono wiped a relieved hand across his forehead as he realised that VH1 wasn't running a poll to find the worst lyric ever, since Elevation by U2 would have won that in a nanosecond.
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Top pop lyric is from U2 – Times
[story by Stuart Heritage]
Chris Nottleman says
You are way off with this one. Why the Bono bitterness? Sad about the failed Motley Crue tour?
helas says
‘One’ is a pretty damn good rock ditty, with very good lyrics…why the hate? Tell me, what’s a better choice? I might have gone with a Replacements song – Westerberg’s a genius – but even though Bono and U2 have been worshipped by the Vh1 crowd for a very long time and it does get annoying, it’s still an extremely well-crafted song, up there with ‘Every Breath You Take’ as one of the modern rock era’s very best.