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Post by My Avatar Is A Hot Babe on Dec 13, 2021 20:14:13 GMT
I have no proof, but always suspected this was about Lennon losing a girlfriend to, say, David Crosby. A Byrd that could sing. This would make it a song of personal jealousy. The thing that kind of clinched it for me was hearing the original take that had a very Byrds-sounding arrangement to it. |
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Post by bradman on Dec 13, 2021 22:35:42 GMT
You lose IQ points the longer you read that stuff. Every day there's more, an endless river of shit.
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Post by j365 on Dec 14, 2021 0:05:12 GMT
There’s also this weird fantasizing they do that everyone knew everyone and every inspiration for every song just HAD to come from another famous rocker. Famous people can’t just be inspired by the every day.
Similar, any unidentified person in a photo just HAS to be someone super famous. That woman with curly hair? MUST be Bonnie Raitt. Guy with his face turned with an Afro? Definitely Hendrix. Guy in a suit, could that be Sinatra?
(beatard on… Sinatra is actually said to have inspired the title line but don’t tell the shites that)
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Post by daved on Dec 14, 2021 0:10:11 GMT
I must be one of the few people who doesn’t give a fuck who or what s song is about. As long as I like it, who cares?!
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Post by daved on Dec 14, 2021 0:12:01 GMT
There’s also this weird fantasizing they do that everyone knew everyone and every inspiration for every song just HAD to come from another famous rocker. Famous people can’t just be inspired by the every day. Similar, any unidentified person in a photo just HAS to be someone super famous. That woman with curly hair? MUST be Bonnie Raitt. Guy with his face turned with an Afro? Definitely Hendrix. Guy in a suit, could that be Sinatra? (beatard on… Sinatra is actually said to have inspired the title line but don’t tell the shites that) Drives me nuts how literal they take everything. “I lit a fire”……he burned her house down! And Your Bird Can Sing…..it’s about a member of the Byrds!. Fuck off. |
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Post by audiopro on Dec 15, 2021 21:18:06 GMT
Isn't it supposed to be a swipe at Sinatra, whose own career was well on the slide?
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Post by daved on Dec 16, 2021 10:25:53 GMT
Isn't it supposed to be a swipe at Sinatra, whose own career was well on the slide? As much as I love the song, I don’t think it’s about anything. Lyrically it sounds like he wrote it on the crapper in 5 minutes, which is probably why Lennon rates it so low. Musically it might be in my top 5 Beatles songs. |
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