To dig or to boycott the song "How Do You Sleep? That is the question...
This is something I recently posted onto my favorite Beatles social networking website. I've been torn about it since I first heard the song and was told who/what it was about, which was probably somewhere in my early teen years. Okay...let's list some feelings:
Dig:
*It's a great song in general, even just the music.
*That unmerciful, stinging fire within John is what people love and admire about him.
*The lyrics are very clever, especially the line about "Yesterday" and "Another Day."
Boycott:
*It's never good or nice to be hateful. Period.
*He attacked his long-time best friend who partnered his entire career peak...someone that everyone adores as much as himself!
*Whether they made up before John's death or not, that song permanently exists to embarrass and wound Paul.
Share your thoughts on this debate! What side do you stand on? Dig? Boycott? Let me know. Do you have a hard time enjoying the song? Are you able to forget about who it's targeting? Does it not bother you? Do you take the "everyone fights" approach? Do you think Paul's tiny one-line comeback in "Too Many People" was good or bad? Why? Let's really think/talk this out.
1 comment:
Appreciate the song for what it is. Don't dismiss art because of your personal feelings about the circumstances of which it was created.
John was hurting at that moment, and as you probably know, he lashes out when he's hurt. This is a part of who John was.
Paul knew this. And even with songs like this, Paul still wrote Here Today when John was gone. Brothers hurt each other, and they were brothers in all regards except biological.
Celebrate the song as part of that narrative.
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