Your yearly reminder that John Lennon wrote a lot of amazing and wonderful songs that we should continue to sing and enjoy, but that "Imagine" is not one of them.
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I find it trite, boring, simplistic, and way, way, way, way, way, way, way overplayed and overrated. He wrote so many better things, and it's sad this is the one people sing or play all the time.
Imagine is treated like the holy grail of peace songs, but t’s a naïve, oversimplified vision of a perfect world that doesn’t account for the complexity of real problems. The worship of this song is about blind idealism not a meaningful message. There better tracks that actually offer depth/insight.
Steely Dan wrote a song about "Imagine", Lyrics...
The man in the street, draggin' his feet...
You do his nine to five,
Drag yourself home half-alive
And there on the screen, a man with a dream...
Talkin' 'bout a world where all is free
Your yearly reminder that Taylor Swift wrote a lot of amazing and wonderful songs that we should continue to sing and enjoy, but that "Christmas Tree Farm" is not one of them.
Not to mention the hypocrisy of "imagining no possessions" in his white suit, in his white stuccoed stately home, playing his white grand piano, with his white Rolls Royce on the white gravelled drive.
Lost his sense of humour somewhere along the way.
Lennon went from being an engaging cheeky Scouse jack-the-lad with a genius for writing catchy tunes and clever lyrics to being a pretentious hypocritical bore.
I think Yoko convinced him he was a genius in other ways. He came to take himself too seriously.
Becoming a martyr was a great career move.
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With the Beatles, way too many to list in a skeet. Across the Universe, Tomorrow Never Knows, Day in the Life, Lucy, Walrus, Dig a Pony, ....
The man in the street, draggin' his feet...
You do his nine to five,
Drag yourself home half-alive
And there on the screen, a man with a dream...
Talkin' 'bout a world where all is free
It's called "Only a fool would say that"
ok "Ballad of John and Yoko" is good too
the warbling children's choir in "So This Is Christmas" (or wev the title) makes me stabby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWG9KAgD6UA
"Was it a millionaire?
Who said imagine no possessions?"
Elvis Costello - The Other Side of Summer
Who said "we don't need no lessons!"
Lost his sense of humour somewhere along the way.
I think Yoko convinced him he was a genius in other ways. He came to take himself too seriously.
Becoming a martyr was a great career move.
B) It is at best gauche to describe his murder as a "career move."