Be careful what you ask for Lennon fans...
Posted on 01/03/2012 1:53:52 PM PST by OddLane
It was, in it’s way, a great moment. Dumb and profound at once. On NBC television, singer Cee Lo Green ushered in 2012 at a Times Square studio by singing John Lennon’s leftist anthem “Imagine,” only he updated an originally atheist lyric so that it now came out as a multiculturally sensitive, ecumenical one.
In 1971, Lennon wrote and sang about his paradise on earth, in which there’s “nothing to kill or die for/and no religion too.” Green changed that to “nothing to kill or die for/and all religion’s true.”
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I think I first heard “Imagine” when I was 9 or 10....I hated it then, and 30 more years has only solidified my initial opinion.
Be careful what you ask for Lennon fans...
Very good article! They (meaning the local Unitarian and Methodist "ministers" and some city officials) had the nerve to sing this idiotic bit of blather at our 9/11 memorial one year. I left.
My only thought is that people never seriously listen to the lyrics; they're just thinking, "oooh, John Lennon," although I never saw anything that fantastic about him, either.
And "Imagine" has a whiny, irritating melody, on top of everything else.
“Nothing to kill or die for” has always meant to me having nothing to live for, either.
Moreover, what decent parent could ever utter - let alone write - such a line?
Cee-Lo felt instinctively uncomfortable with this beautiful atheist/communist lullaby. Good for him.
Lennon was quoted once as admitting it was an incredibly subversive song, but that it slipped by because of the melody, which I actually do like.
Cee-Lo felt instinctively uncomfortable with this beautiful atheist/communist lullaby. Good for him.
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You are too kind, I suspect. It’s probably more likely that the ugly slob was afraid of the wrath of the mohammedans, who seem to think their death cult is a religion.
Wow, what did he ever do to you?
Who?
The only thing John Lennon “imagined” was lower taxes, which is why he fled England, with its’ 95% marginal tax rate, for the US.
Good point.
Apparently John wasn’t a decent parent.
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