That's fair. I'm defensive about him because I've been a fan for a long time. Honestly, he was probably a part of my leftward trajectory early on. 'Imagine' is pretty radical. At any rate, I'm never going to hold artists I love to strict political or personal standards-- I probably wouldn't have anything to listen to!
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Favorite lyric?
“But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow”
Isn't that one of the more obnoxious ones, saying people would only be into Mao to get laid?
The song is Revolution and the lyrics directly preceding this are:
Institutional change? You’ve just gotta, like, free your mind, man
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yikes
I think you can more charitably read this as a rejection of reformism.
How do you square that with the Chairman Mao line?
I mean it's kind of true? Less so nowadays than it was then I'd say.
Regardless of the truth of the sexual prospects of Maoists, I don’t think it’s uncharitable to think that John was not a fan of Marxists.
That's fair. I'm defensive about him because I've been a fan for a long time. Honestly, he was probably a part of my leftward trajectory early on. 'Imagine' is pretty radical. At any rate, I'm never going to hold artists I love to strict political or personal standards-- I probably wouldn't have anything to listen to!