[Wyatt's Torch]

"Because if there is no heaven and no hell then you can do whatever you want and sin all you want since there is no retribution. It's the epitomy of the 'me generation'."

Exactly. Found this from Rolling Stone magazine on the song:

"'Imagine' is a big hit almost everywhere -- anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic, but because it is sugarcoated it is accepted. Now I understand what you have to do: Put your political message across with a little honey."

[Netizen]

A quick rewrite

Imagine there’s no welfare
It’s easy if you try
No hands in your pockets
Trying to make you cry
Imagine all the people
Earning their own way...

Imagine there’s no crime
No pedophilia either
No crooked politicians
And no race baiting too
Imagine all the people
Relying on themselves...

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
God gave us guidelines
Told us what to do.....

Imagine border patrol
Allowed to do its job.
No need for illegals
To become a mob
Imagine all the people
Respecting sovereignty...

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
God gave us guidelines
Told us what to do.....

[Wolfstar]

"Imagine" is John Lennon's anthem for pure hedonism. Blake, who gives the impression of having become bored with the competition, gave by far his worst performance singing that crappy tune. His voice cracked at one point, and he sang with zero conviction or connection to the song. Not that I blame him for being unconnected to it, but it could spell the end of the line for him.

Big entertainment likes nothing better than to do copycats of a successful formula. So the AI powers keep pimping for Chris R., because he's a total Timberlake copycat. Timberlake is out with one of the bigger selling albums of the year. So Blake's wonderful individualism has been squashed and thrown overboard. He has to go because he and Chris occupy the same image space, and the AI powers prefer Chris. Blake's performances the last couple of weeks seem to indicate he knows that. He seems to have given up.

Jordin also gave her worse performance last night. She murdered that song. But the judges lied and raved about her performance. Even so, she is still in the running to win.

LaKisha jumped the shark weeks ago and has been awful. Melinda is the same every week. Polished, competent, good vocals. She stands out only because of her professionalism in a weak group this year.

Phil is the only one of the bunch who has actually improved. Unfortnately for him, he simply is not good enough or charismatic enough to win. But I do give him props for making the effort to improve.

So tonight we take a detour back to early vaudeville, although none of the entertainment big shots involved would ever admit that. Then I expect Blake, Phil or LaKisha to go home.

I'm currently reading a book entitled "The Shakespeare Riots" about the early theater in the US, circa 1806-1846. Back then, when theater goers didn't like a performance, or a ticket price hike, or anything else about "their" theater, they would demonstrate their displeasure by throwing rotten tomatoes or eggs, shouting and singing to drown out the actors, and dancing in the aisles. They even rioted for days and weeks at a time.

To bad we couldn't bring back a bit of those raucous activities. ;-)