u2 - vertigo
What do you think?
It's pretty cool, though I wish it had built to something.
So, is he trying to speak spanish at the beginning of the song? Because if he is he's not doing a very good job. He's saying like, "ones, two, three, fourteen." The video was alright I guess, just a performance with a bunch of special effects, whooptydoo.
yeah... well that's U2... they're superheroes now with all the inherent special FX... and your translation is accurate
its just a bad corporate move.
no creativity, its already been prethought...
not very impressed, quality is there...
cause Hello Logan rocks, but its just -
apple: "put U2 in an iPod commercial"
Hello Logan : "pay me, and give me free computers."
apple : "how about a u2 iPod?"
Hello Logan : "Money and free computers."
lol
Guys, romanek did the U2/IPOD spot. And for whatever it's worth, it's better than this 'bullseye in the desert' shit. But what's really interesting is how both spots (and maybe the world) is obsessed with oil. Romanek is going for the now common IPOD silhouette look save their faces. So what we get is black band members with visible yet gritty visages. It's rediculous, these guys look like they've been dipped in oil (achilles face like) singing yet another boring rock song. It's my choice of the two because I could imagine the band disliking how they look and the idea of oversaturated rock stars making flat music and photographed to appear rediculous is amazing.
The second one features the band in the middle of a bullseye in an unknown desert. Just as things begin to 'heat up', the bullseye begins to rock, spin, and ultimately send tremors around them as they burn with clouds of black smoke. U2 becomes symbolic of wartime disaster. In a conflict poised for economic prospect, the concept of losing human lives is acceptable, but the loss of material goods and/or financially sought after natural resources is insufferable.
Imagine this bullseye as a target for US intelligence. The Bush administration would be furious if various oil reserves were set aflame -- and coterminous 'tremors' would absolutely make their way to the highest authorities. The government would go crazy until they finally realized there's no oil here, it's just U2, and they suck anyway.
It's yet another boring greenscreen video with a completely successful anti concept.
woah... ...thats a HUGE stretch. I hate bush, more than the next guy, but man. i don't see your correlation. its a design thing, not a political thing.
romanek did this? thats VERY dissappointing.
showing faces with the silouhette is selfdefeating. the point of the silouhette is show an "everyman" or a "demographic" rocking out. Therefor not aiming at skin color, eyes, or anything. just the way you dance and the size of your tits and ass.
Haha, yeah that oil is pretty...something. I'm also dissapointed with romanek's direction of the ipod spot. I mean, why would he even take a job like that? And if he did, I'd assume that he'd maybe try to do something different with it.
"showing faces with the silouhette is selfdefeating. the point of the silouhette is show an "everyman" or a "demographic" rocking out. Therefor not aiming at skin color, eyes, or anything. just the way you dance and the size of your tits and ass."
Exactly.
i'm not so much with the problems with the bullseye. i'm not so much with the problems with the ipod spot. i mean, c'mon. this is late capitalism. everything's selling you something, whether it's the new beasties video or an ipod commercial. and personally, i'm glad romanek didn't do anything different with the ipod spot - they're very effective as they are, and that one's no exception.
as for the bullseye in the desert. yeah, okay, i think we're all in agreement here that the oil thing was completely ridiculous. just because something is black doesn't mean it has oil all over it. anyway, now that the album has come out (and even before, if i had stopped for a second to think about it ) i think we can all be pretty sure that if there is any significance to a bullseye in the desert (and there doesn't have to be) then it's going to be referring to the trinity site. as for the bad spanish, i'm pretty sure he was just being playful. it's not as though this has to be one of those hard-hitting change-the-world songs in manner of "one" or "bad"...
and yes, "Just as things begin to 'heat up,' the bullseye begins to rock, spin" &c. well, the song is called "vertigo," right?
Guys come on. Don't you know alex&martin did this pretty lamish video.
