Posted on 06/04/2010 9:33:40 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
What is it with these left-wing entertainers that have to insult people while they accept their dubious awards? Why can't these lefties just graciously accept an award and go about their business without going out of their way to let the world know about their politics? But once again, this time with Paul McCartney, we have an entertainer forcing his politics on the world in an inappropriate manner.
While accepting the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, McCartney decided that the celebratory air of the event was a good time make to fun of George W. Bush and pump up the Obammessiah.
“After the last eight years,” the former Beatle joked, “it’s great to have a president who knows what a library is.”
This from a guy whose entire songwriting career is well known to be as deep as a thimble philosophically speaking. And this is not to even mention that this is from a guy whose country voted Neville Chamberlain into office once upon a time!
Let's face facts, here. Paul McCartney was the bubblegum, the popcorn, the fluff of the Beatles. For depth one has to look to John Lennon's dark cynicism or George Harrison's more thoughtful musings on life and religion. Even after the Beatles both Lennon and Harrison took their themes and memes more seriously than Mr. Paul "Silly Love Songs" McCartney ever did...
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He did write a symphony, I believe in the 80s or early 90s.
I wouldn't be buying anything anyway. Seriously, has the guy put out anything worth buying in the last 40 years? What an arrogant jerk. He comes here to accept an award and insults a former President who was elected TWICE by the MAJORITY of Americans. Dumb ass.
Sorry, but you are just wrong. Paul McCartney has written some great pop tunes, but every single song he’s ever written is bubblegum, empty of any deeper thought than “love, love, love.” McCartney is a mile wide but an inch deep.
All Things Must Pass is a brilliant TRIPLE album of songs written over the years by Harrison that could never find their way into a Beatles album since he got no more than 1 track per side.
If you were concerned with the way things were going in your life, and one night you had a dream in which appeared your dead mother, who calmed you, reassured you, and let you know that everything would work out given time, and then wrote a song about that experience, would you call that a bubblegum song?
Yes or no.
If you were close to the son of a good friend of yours, and that friend was going through a divorce, and you were concerned that the divorce was affecting his son, and you wanted to assure the son that there will be better days ahead---so you wrote a song about it---would you call that a bubblegum song?
Yes or no.
Rick Wright, rest his soul, had a severe cocaine problem in the mid to later 70s that incapacitated his ability to the point he was a non factor during Animals and virtually non exhistant during The Wall sessions to the point that he was paid as a session man on tour and not involved with The Final Cut.
Cut Waters some slack, he didn’t want his musical vision to be ruined by band members drug problems.
Cut Waters some slack, he didn't want his musical vision to be ruined by band members drug problems.
Paul is a talented musician, but talent does not excuse bad manners...his verbals at The White Hut were disgraceful. He needs to apologize to President Bush.
Nowhere Man
“Prohibition is awesome. “
Did you know you are prohibited from walking in public naked?
How can you submit to this great insult to your personal liberty?
Let’s pray that his big mouth will hurt his pocketbook...
I never thought the lawsuit over My Sweet Lord should have gone anywhere. Half of the Beach Boys early songs were basically re-writes of Chuck Berry songs, but they were nonetheless distinct songs with their own lyrics, melodic similarity notwithstanding. Nobody would ever confuse My Sweet Lord with He’s So Fine.
“Prohibition is awesome. “ Did you know you are prohibited from walking in public naked? How can you submit to this great insult to your personal liberty?OK, I am now FOR walking in public naked... as long as I can pick the walkers.
If I was a guy who rose to fame sharing a name with an insect, I’d be more reluctant to insult anybody’s intelligence.
“If I Needed Someone” is a great song. Not really well known. I’m impressed that you appreciate it.
As far as Sir Paul goes, he is an idiot and I am offended by his stupid comments.
“OK, I am now FOR walking in public naked... as long as I can pick the walkers. “
Aye, there’s the rub.
I guess “Sir” Paul, who can’t even read music, cannot read biographies either. If he did he would know that George W has been married to a librarian for more than 30 years. And she has two legs.
“If I Needed Someone” is one of the better “Beatles” songs. I liked George’s attitude in most of his songs too. Taxman was cynical but he was right and he sounded like a conservative or at least a libertarian. Many of his others songs were songs of praise.
Paul is an idiot and John was a rather unpleasant person. He was less of a fake than Paul. John was not a give peace a chance, wonderful father, humanitarian in his personal life.
If George was the best songwriter how come he went dry with a passion after they broke up and basically ended his solo career after several years. My suspicion is that John and Paul did a lot of ‘polishing’ on his songs.
Macca’s genius is music not lyrics. He’s a pop genius of the first rank.
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