Cee Lo Green changes Lennon's "Imagine" lyrics to include pro-religion message

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Quote from: Joost on Jan 27, 2012, 04:02 PM
What's your point? I admire John Lennon for being a musical innovator, a charismatic personality and one of the greatest songwriters that ever lived. But I can't take him seriously as a "peace activist". It's my impression that his "peace activism" was little more to him than a temporary hobby to pass the time and something that he could write songs about.

I was trying to make a serious point and I think I'm entitled to my own opinion. If you want to prove me wrong with good arguments, please be my guest. But don't be an ass, please.
now see here mr Joost, i tried to clean this up the first time. if you seriously understood what plain vanilla peace activism was about, i wouldn't have to qualify anything i said, whether or not you do consider it to be reasonable or unreasonable. so just ignore what i have to say, i just happen to believe this to be truth.
day tripper yeah

Joost


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Quote from: nimrod on Jan 05, 2012, 08:48 PM
yeah but it coming up with a melody thats the hard bit (especially one that people will remember and sing)  ???

now come on Todd, this is one of THE most positive songs ever written, of course its a dream but just imagine....no countries etc etc
you change the lyrics, you change the structure of the song, you change its meaning and you corrupt its value, and in this case the message of love and world peace and harmony. i have to agree with mr Joost, this is kind of stupid. not to mention shallow and insincere.
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day tripper yeah

nimrod

I actually think it was a staged publicity stunt......a way of getting his name known to people all over the world who previously had never heard of him

I guess it worked. He is now a lot more famous than he was before he did it.

My take on this is, if you respect an artists work, you dont fiddle with it.

Nada Surf

So Nimrod...
what about all the artist's work the Beatles "fiddled" with in the early 60s?

RubberSol

If you cover a song you should not change the lyrics first of all. Second, Cee Lo is basically giving a big middle finger to John's opinion of the subject. In my opinion, you shouldn't cover a song if you don't believe in the message it was meant to convey.
"Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"
John Lennon


nimrod


tkitna

I just read through the entire thread. Some of it was pretty heated. Glad i'm not an instigator.  8)


nimrod

Quote from: tkitna on Jul 01, 2012, 05:40 AM
I just read through the entire thread. Some of it was pretty heated. Glad i'm not an instigator.  8)

its all good fun, were all different...........................................................................................(than Todd) ha2ha