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If We Can’t Believe In The Idea Of Miley Cyrus Being In A Taxicab While A Jay-Z Song Was On, What Can We Believe In?
Fri Nov 6 2009 by Maura
Not really understanding the lyrics you’re singing is apparently another thing that falls under the rubric of “just bein’ Miley.” An interview with Billy Ray Cyrus’ spawn reveals that the lyric in her Velveeta-and-Miracle-Whip single “Party In The USA” about hearing a Jay-Z song while in a taxicab is, shockingly, not based on real events. Someone else wrote that lyric, and she just did her job and warbled it through eighty layers of post-production. In fact, she’s never heard a Jay-Z song! Because she doesn’t listen to pop music! At all! Wait, what? More »
Berlin To Bono: “Tear Down This Wall… No, The One Your Show Just Forced The Building Of”
Thu Nov 5 2009 by Maura
As part of MTV’s Katy Perry-hosted celebration of the Berlin Wall’s destruction in the wall’s former home city this week, U2 will play a free show at the Brandenburg Gate later today. Freedom and free stuff! Yay! But with freedom comes responsibility, and those people who didn’t get their act together to get tickets for the gig—they, unsurprisingly, went pretty quickly—will have to watch on TV at home. They can’t even head down to the area near the Gate and try and hear the show… because a 12-foot fence draped with white sheets is being thrown up so ticketless people will have to stay at home and drive up the telecast’s ratings. More »
Bono: Ain’t That American
Mon Oct 19 2009 by Maura
You may have forgotten that U2 frontman Bono was a very occasional guest columnist for The New York Times—after all, it’s been nine months since his Gray Lady debut, and the missive published in yesterday’s Week In Review section was only his fourth under this arrangement. It’s about Barack Obama’s recently bestowed Nobel Peace Prize! And it opens with a reference to Bono getting in hot water with the FCC earlier this decade. More »
“Rolling Stone” Holds Senior Portrait Day For Bono And The Edge
Wed Sep 30 2009 by Maura
U2’s Stage Setup Causes Some Of Their Fellow Countrymen To Get Their Irish Up
Tue Jul 28 2009 by Maura
U2’s claw-like stage for its current world tour has been something of a boon for the band, at least as far as opening up formerly obstructed seats. But for people living near the tour’s stops, the custom-built stage—and its attendant video equipment—have caused literal headaches, thanks to their taking a really long time to set up and take down. Residents near Croke Park in Dublin, where U2 just wrapped up a three-night residency, got so mad, they got to picketing. Which apparently is in the process of throwing off the band’s plans to head to Sweden for shows this weekend! More »
U2 Remember The Days When They Used To Rule The World Of Mobile-Music Ads
Mon Jul 6 2009 by Maura
Surely I am not the only person who, while watching yesterday’s epic Wimbledon men’s final, did a double-take when a commercial featuring the music of U2 first flickered on the screen. “Wait, is that an iPod ad?” I thought as a series of lens flares flew around my TV, behind Bono and his band of merry men. As it turns out, I was wrong–but not that wrong. More »
U2 Stage Design To Turn Band Into Individually Wrapped Prizes
Tue Jun 30 2009 by Maura
Did Petulant Radio Programmers Take Off U2’s “Boots” After Bono Spoke Up About Royalties?
Wed Jun 10 2009 by Maura
An AP article this morning on a filing that the musicFIRST Coalition made with the FCC starts off with a tantalizingly blind item-y lede: “Which top-selling artist purportedly had his new single yanked from some radio stations playlists in retaliation for supporting royalties for musicians?” Ooh, who could it be? Well, given the roster of artists who publicly came out in support of radio stations paying out royalties to performers whose music got airplay–which would cost radio stations a huge chunk of change, there’s really only one answer! More »
“American Idol” Is Ready To Be Heartless
Wed May 13 2009 by Maura
Only three people left on American Idol! And it was the 300th episode! And there was a shoutout to “Idol Gives Back” even though that episode was canceled last year! And the judges spent way too much time fighting, because they are a bunch of children who can’t stand the idea of their time in the spotlight coming to an end next week. Ratings and reactions after the jump. More »
