Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]
It was a big joke, there was no humiliation at all, people just laughed, and if you looked closely Ali was laughing really hard as well. Amy Poehler is a comedian and that's all it was.
Ease up.
Originally posted by MoFoNYR15:[..]
Agreed. I don't wanna hear it live. Not a fan. Congrats on the win but keep it separate.
Originally posted by ahn1991:
It reminds me of The Ground Beneath Her Feet in some ways, so a semi-acoustic version could be interesting, but very unlikely.
Originally posted by ahn1991:I don't see Ordinary Love getting played on a tour, at least not in it's current form.
It reminds me of The Ground Beneath Her Feet in some ways, so a semi-acoustic version could be interesting, but very unlikely.
U2 said working on the film completed a decades-long journey with Nelson Mandela that began with them playing an anti-apartheid concert 35 years ago. Lead singer, Bono, went on to add:
“We really have to thank Nelson Mandela for this award tonight. We wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for him. If it wasn’t for his vision, his inspiration and most importantly, the fact he died just as this film was being released, nobody would have paid much attention to this film or the bland insipid song that we produced for it. I mean his timing was impeccable. He literally couldn’t have picked a better time to kick the bucket. I thank him, the band thanks him and the shareholders of our record company thank him.”
When asked about U2′s plans for the future and the release of a new album, Bono was hesitant to commit to a release date.
“I think we’ll postpone the release of our new album for the foreseeable future. We’re finding it harder and harder to find worthy people to write songs about. We’ve written songs about peace protesters, political prisoners, even Michael Hutchence, but we’re running low on ideas now.”
“We have of course got a song about Seamus Heaney in the can already but one song, cashing in on the worldwide respect for a fellow artist does not an album make. We’d hoped that perhaps yer wan from Pussy Riot would have disappeared in Russia. That would have given us something to get our teeth into. But Putin released her before we could even write the chorus.”
When asked what would be the ideal situation for U2 to write about, Bono told us:
“Say for example if Maya Angelou was poisoned by some far right extremists, that would just be gold for us. I mean can you imagine the outpouring of grief we could ride for that? Thousands of people, holding their iPhones in the air in stadiums around the world, for £130 a ticket. It would be beautiful. Or Bob Geldof dying of AIDS? That really would be a double whammy for us. I know Bob well and that would only make it more poignant.”
“If you’ll excuse me now, I have to go and take a phone call from Annie Lennox. She’s made up a list of things I should be concerned about.”
