Dan Price: uh, what comes after 3?

Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Mike W. just pointed out that on the new U2 song "Vertigo" Bono counts 1, 2, 3, 14 in Spanish. We should be looking for quattro.

jimi said...: hmmmm...
see i thought that at first but then i came to the conclusion that he is actually saying 11, 12, 13, 14 in French (onze douze treize quatorze), not that i had a justifiable reason for it, but that was my solution...although, maybe he was just drunk like one of the posters suggests on the link you gave.; 11:30 AM
Dan Price said...: man, you are so freaking smart.; 1:54 PM
Mike said...: Nope... I would like to give him the benefit of the doubt but according to http://hem.bredband.net/steverud/U2MoL/HTDAAB/vertigo.html

"The counting Bono does in the beginning is uno does tres catorce is spannish for one two three fourteen. According to several sources in the U2-Talk mailing list, the album is U2's 14:th album (including Wide Awake in America) and Lillywhite has been involved with U2's first, second, third and now fourteenth album. There have been some debate to which albums to include to get fourteen albums, if the "Best of" or "Wide Awake in America" should be included etc., but nobody knows for sure what Bono is referencing to yet. It might be so he just thought it sounded cool. "

Other sites list the lyrics as the numbers would be "en espanol" not in french. I wondered about the same thing myself and was just makng jokes to my roomie the other day about that.; 3:01 PM