Posted on 09/15/2018 8:15:16 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Paul McCartney slams Trump in new song: 'We've got a mad captain sailing this boat'
By Aris Folley - 09/15/18 10:48 PM EDT
Paul McCartney revealed in a recent interview that he took aim at President Trump in his new solo album, dubbing him the "mad captain" in one of his songs.
During an interview with BBC published Thursday, the former Beatles bandmate said he took swipes at several climate-change deniers, including Trump, in a track, titled “Despite Repeated Warnings,” on his new album, “Egypt Station,” which was released earlier this month.
The track includes verses like “despite repeated warnings of dangers up ahead, the captain won’t be listening to what’s been said” and “those who shout the loudest, may not always be the smartest.”
McCartney told the BBC that he made the track to “basically say, 'occasionally, we’ve got a mad captain sailing this boat we’re all on and he is just going to take us to the iceberg [despite] being warned it's not a cool idea.'”
When pressed during the interview about who it was he had in mind when he thought of the words “mad captain,” McCartney answered, “Well I mean, obviously it’s Trump."
"But I don’t get too involved because there’s plenty of them about,” he said added, while noting that Trump is “not the only one” either.
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Beatles
And here we thought it just couldn’t get any worse when nearly everybody was singing songs about f***ing . . .
I don’t know what possessed Paul to release that article.
Just to read the headline knowing who the subject was, I found to be extraordinarily degrading and embarrassing.
Even as a billionaire, Paul is extremely needy and willing to kiss anybody’s ass for a standing ovation, or maybe just a thumbs up.
Well at least he did marry some conniving gold digger that played on his sympathies with her bum leg to trap him and rob him blind after no prenup.
at least he DIDN’T marry . . . I meant to say. He meaning Trump.
Who is this we, Sir Paul?
Another one bites the dust.
Paul McCartney! It ain’t your boat or Captain! Go back to the USSR boy!
Sir Paul, the Jerk Party called. They need a new chairman.
I’m a Stones guy and that’s my era
Aged 60
I did like some Beatles but Stones aged mo better
Ringo and George are and were nice guys
Lennon had compensatory narcissism.
Paul is tight as a drum they say
Still I do like some of it
I just went from Hang Fire to Dancing Days
Late night Freeping....Stones to Zep on my Napster playlist
Ol lady sleeping
Bulldog too
Speaking of which..
A great Beatles tune....
I really liked the Who. (Until Keith Moon died.)
They seemed like a Beatles-Stones hybrid -- some of the earnestness of the former, the raw aggression of the latter.
(But as far as Beatles vs. Stones, I also preferred the Stones. So did my brother.)
Maybe he can get Yoko to sing that song. That would be a real treat. I’m sure she hates Trump as much as any dead Beatle.
Who is this, “We,” Paul? Stay in London where you belong.
Paul: learn to age gracefully.
So now I have to put Paul on my list? what’s this world coming to
Who cares.
Never wrote a good lyric in his life ...Big genious ...Michael Jackson was smarter and that ain’ saying much ...Bought Beatles’ catalog ...Paul marries one legger that takes him for millions and millions and millions ...F U Sir Poop . Sorry I ever bought a Beatles’ record !
‘The most OVERRATED music group in history’
the guy who made them what they were, George Martin, admitted they weren’t very good, or very original (he thought ‘Love Me Do’ was a possibility), but since they scratched an apparent musical itch at the time, an itch of unlimited financial value, he paved their way through the recording jungle...
I bought his last CD just to see where he was these days. His voice is gone. His invention wasn’t much either. He’s slipped a long way.
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