Many Apple users were not pleased to find that the new album from U2 was automatically added to their iTunes.
Apple partnered with U2 to make music history by giving customers their new album, Songs of Innocence. Many were upset that their iTunes library was filled with the U2 songs that they didn't ask for.
Conan O'Brien aired a solution to the U2 problem on Thursday night's Conan, that features a fake Apple executive explaining how customers can cure their brains from any lyrics or memories of the famous band.
In the fake commercial, the executive "Marcus Pratt" says that because U2 was ranked number one among senior Apple executives, so they thought the free album was a "no brainer."
"Apparently, to today's youth, giving away a free album from one of the best bands of all time is like going to their house and taking a gigantic crap on their doorstep," Pratt says.
The outcry caused Apple to create a way for customers to delete the free album from iTunes by going to an URL and clicking "Remove."
But for the unlucky Apple users who heard U2's new album and still remember it, a technique similar to the memory erasing procedure seen in the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind can be used to cure the brain of any U2 memory.
The fake commercial features eRase U2, a new app service that will remove all memories of the new album and the band.
In reality, once you delete Songs of Innocence it is gone from your library forever. Those with a change of heart who wish to download the album again for free can do so until Oct. 13.
