I call BS. To wit:
"Just what is so wrong about Yoko Ono?"
As Yoko Ono prepares to take the stage at Fuji Rock Festival on July 26, a BBC video of her performing the 1969 Plastic Ono Band track “Don’t Worry Kyoko” at this year’s Glastonbury festival has racked up nearly 2 million views, largely from people tuning in to see the “worst live performance of all time.”
Comments on the Japanese Twittersphere largely followed the pattern set overseas, garnished with an added frisson of national shame. Some placed her raw performance alongside the mewling antics of disgraced politician Ryutaro Nonomura in the pantheon of “Those Who Have Shamed Japan.”
If Lennon thought “no possessions” were such a good thing, why didn’t he give away his own possessions? I read that he and Yoko actually had two apartments at the Dakota, one to live in and one to hold all their stuff. In an interview once, Paul McCartney said that when he and John sat down to write songs, John would say, “Let’s write a swimming pool,” or whatever he wanted to buy at that time. Nothing wrong with that, but then he shouldn’t have turned around and lectured others that they shouldn’t want possessions.
I don’t expect much from a drugged sex addict.
I don’t care for the meaning of the song words, but from a musical standpoint its a good tune. If I cared about or following the meaning of most songs, I would have a very short list of music to listen to. While I do enjoy Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and others from the Classical and Baroque periods, I will generally listen to most music. However there is some noise that I won’t listen to.
I always considered it to be the national anthem of communism and atheism.
HoustonPus thinks that the new Planet of the Apes movie is timely with its Earth would better off with no more humsns message. The critic is gleeful
Of course, Lennon also wrote (and had a #1 hit with) “Whatever Gets You Through the Night”, whose lyrics are almost diametrically opposite (though both are anti-Christian). I suspect that he didn’t really mean the lyrics to Imagine (though Yoko might have liked them) but just wanted to make a pop ditty and it got away from him and became an anthem.
- Elvis Costello
I absolutely love that song. Every time I listen to it, I can’t help but be amazed by the contrast between the way the catchy tune and upbeat word-sounds harmonize with each other to form a sublime composition, and the utter desolation contained within the actual lyrics.
I do not listen to most music for its lyrics. Often, if I look at the lyrics for a song, I am surprised by what they say—and this is true even if I sing along with the song every time I hear it. Much of the time, I can’t even understand the lyrics. (Why does Fleetwood Mac sing about a one-wing dove, anyway?)
There are several songs that I love, but which have appalling lyrics. Such is the way of music.
If only he’s imagined a bulletproof vest.
Imagine there's no nothing....
Even if you could....
Nothing to enjoy or plan for.....
Nothing anywhere at all.....
Imagine all the (stupid) people......living life with nothing.....
Oo, ooh, ooohooh
"We're conservative { uhh } but progressive"
--Banksteress Poodle Herder/Archeeetect
"I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits....
Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises as only a king
of the gipsies can assume, dressed as printers, publishers, writers and schoolmasters?
If ever there was a body of men who merited damnation on earth and in Hell,
it is this society of Loyola’s.
Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration
to offer them an asylum."--John Adams to Thomas Jefferson; May, 1816
I would post a link to the Rock & Roll Circus performance of Whole Lotta Yoko, but I have too much respect for the denizens of this forum to assault them in such a heavy handed manner.
That said, as a homeschooling family many years ago, we also used the lyrics as a teaching tool. This article unpacks ideas we hadn't thought of. (The 'music' of Beyonce and others of her ilk hadn't come on the scene yet, or we would have had more instructional material to work with.)
Look it up on youtube.
FMCDH(BITS)