Posted on 04/25/2022 1:38:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Weird thing about the Beatles...everyone talks about everything about them except the fact that their music sucked...just like this song!
Lennon regularly beat women, putting both his wives in the hospital. He also beat his stage manager to the ground and kicked him until his spleen burst and he died. And, Lennon liked to go our after Beatles concerts and in his words, “Roll Queers.”
Lennon was a violent, nasty ass.
“an era in which racial epithets were thrown around freely”
No, they weren’t. More concerning is that it got so much fame and is such a wretched song.
Where did you ever hear this?
Another man who grew up not knowing his father. We all have talent and his came out in the most creative ways. Still one can see there was something missing.
I hear you. I don’t think I’ve ever heard this song.
No, they weren’t. More concerning is that it got so much fame and is such a wretched song.
That's funny. I guess Corey Irwin doesn't spend much time hangin with the Hip-Hop lifestyle.
Thirty seconds of internet research reveals that Corey Irwin (the "Ultimate Classic Rock Journalist," according to himself) is a gen-X-er from the Pacific Northwest and San Francisco.
Judging from his pictures, he can't have been born before the mid-80s, and so wasn't even alive during the "era in which racial epithets were thrown around freely," as he puts it.
“I think the word —— has changed..”
No, it hasn’t.
Except it’s not a Beatles song. It was a 1972 single by John Lennon and Yoko Ono as Plastic Ono Band.
Here’s a more approachable tune from Lennon’s last solo album called “Woman”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0jTA0DtZvY
I've heard of it. I was under the impression that Yoko Ono had used the title in one of her "art" exhibitions, and John Lennon picked up on it.
Lennon was somewhat typical English youth of the time who got in fights. He described himself a fight where he beat someone with a shovel.
His first wife described him hitting her “really clouting her”.
This would be teens and early 20’s.
A more approachable tune and a bit less unnecessarily combative. But even so there are better songs on that album IMO.
The song — musically it’s not bad (Yoko does not sing on it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5RuCEhHcG4
<> Woman Is the _ _ of the World <>
Woman is the _ _ of the world
Yes she is, think about it
Woman is the _ _ of the world
Think about it, do something about it
We make her paint her face and dance
If she won’t be a slave, we say that she don’t love us
If she’s real, we say she’s trying to be a man
While putting her down we pretend that she is above us
Woman is the _ _ of the world, yes she is
If you don’t believe me take a look to the one you’re with
Woman is the slave to the slaves
Ah yeah, better scream about it
We make her bear and raise our children
And then we leave her flat for being a fat old mother hen
We tell her home is the only place she should be
Then we complain that she’s too unworldly to be our friend
Woman is the _ _ of the world, yes she is
If you don’t believe me take a look to the one you’re with
Oh woman is the slave to the slaves
Yeah, alright
We insult her everyday on TV
And wonder why she has no guts or confidence
When she’s young we kill her will to be free
While telling her not to be so smart we put her down for being so dumb
Woman is the _ _ of the world, yes she is
If you don’t believe me take a look to the one you’re with
Woman is the slave to the slaves
Yes she is, if you believe me, you better scream about it
We make her paint her face and dance
(Repeat 5 times)
We are far worse off because no one will print that damn word. Lots of racist or offensive words, and if they were part of a story they just printed it. Didn’t make the word any more polite but didn’t elevate it to some kind of taboo.
I recall this started with the OJ trial and the news wouldn’t repeat the word.
Well there ya go, he got attacked because he was an epic simp who let his wife put him in terrible positions just because she could and because she got off on knowing that she had all the power. Just like Jada Pinkett Smith and Megan Markle. Yoko gets a lot of heat but she's far from the only woman to do this sort of thing to men. There are men that put similar power trips on the woman in their lives, of course. It's not a female thing. But the public humiliation thing seems to be something that toxic women go for more than their male equivalents do.
Explain to me how John Lennon got six bullets in the chest, and Yoko was standing right next to him and not one bullet!
Not only that, she was cheating on him their entire marriage. She left him after a few years of marriage to someone else, but came back after her lover refused to marry her. She was cheating on him in the years before he died, and he knew it it. She was giving that person his property, and the man moved into their shared domicile the day after he was killed.
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