Posted on 12/29/2018 7:09:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I've just heard it announced that one of the "highlights" of the New Year's Eve celebration in NYC's Times Square will be a performance of John Lennon's "Imagine," this time by one Bebe Rexha. I'll admit to being "culturally deprived"; I've never heard of that person. And it turns out that "Imagine" has been performed at other Times Square New Year's Eve celebrations since 2005 (2012 and 2016, for example, by other performers of whom I'd never heard), with videos of the crowds enthusiastically waving their arms and singing along.
Now, I'm a big fan of The Beatles, and I happen to think John Lennon was a musical genius, and I'm still sad and angry at his having been murdered in front of his home on Central Park West in December of 1980. And I've even visited "Strawberry Fields," the shrine to him just inside Central Park from the spot where he was gunned down.
And I think "Imagine" is a great song, musically speaking. Content-wise, I'm not that crazy about it. For anyone unfamiliar with the lyrics, they are as follows:
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will be as one
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Nothing like an atheist’s song to brighten up the secular new year. The should have yoko nono sing it.
And how many people think that they are singing praises to the Lord Jesus Christ when they are listening to George Harrison’s My Sweet Lord? How many listen close enough to the lyrics to hear, Hare Krishna, Krishna, Krishna!
I also like the Beatles, all of their music has great melodies, but a few of their song’s lyrics are horrible (not to mention, “Run for your life.”
Great idea!
That would be the end of this New Year's Eve "tradition."
Hell these Bozos can’t even figure out what a turn signal is for, let alone how it works. Let’s just try to master turn signals before thinking about complicated subjects like world peace.
The commie lib “progs” once again fail to come up with something original.
Nice.
Yes, lyrically, it stinks. Idealogically, I mean.
Not huge on the tune, either. Once again, a minor key, which is dull and depressing.
Do you think the PTB are going to choose “How Great Thou Art”?
Better chance of Occasional Cortex bringing a Bible to congress.
Imagine there's no Lib'rals.
It's easy if you try.
No haters,
no race-baiters.
No one to cheer when,
babies die.
Imagine all the TAXPAYERS,
LIVING THEIR LIVES FREEEEEE....
...EE-EE-EE-EE-EE!!!!
(etc)
Try putting it into G#dom7. That’s a far cheerier key.
John Lennon couldn’t even master negotiating peace between the Beatles, let alone his wives or kids.
I’ve seen an elderly leftist woman get angry over hearing the Beatles’ Taxman still being played these days.
I’m A Loser
The Beatles
I’m a loser
I’m a loser
And I’m not what I appear to be
Of all the love I have won, and have lost
There is one love I should never have crossed
She was a girl in a million my friend
I should have known she would win in the end
I’m a loser
And I lost someone who’s near to me
I’m a loser
And I’m not what I appear to be
Although I laugh and I act like a clown
Beneath this mask I am wearing a frown
My tears are falling like rain from the sky
Is it for her or myself that I cry?
I’m a loser
And I lost someone who’s near to me
I’m a loser
And I’m not what I appear to be
What
If thats the case, he failed.
I have a friend who thought Lennon was a better songwriter because he had to struggle for it, versus McCartney, to whom it came too easily. I thought that was a poor criterion to make the judgement by.
Exactly. Who made this choice, Kaiser Wilhelm DeBlasio?
Certainly the most nauseating.
Nice melody, but the lyrics were sappy, even forced, as with the awkward line, “ . . . and no religion, too.”
I can’t believe this writer has never heard of Bebe Rexha. She’s been putting out music for years now. Like Lady Gaga, she was a songwriter before she turned to singing. I first saw her performing with Cash Cash singing “Take Me Home”. She was also featured in the G-Eazy song “Me, Myself and I”. Her most famous song that she wrote before becoming a singer is “The Monster”, performed by Eminem and Rhianna.
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