GEN Z GIRLS REACT TO THE BEATLES - STRAWBERRY FIELDS REACTION FOR THE FIRST TIME
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"I Am The Walrus" is another psychedelic masterpiece by Beatles
Yes I just love John Lennon's explanation of how the real world works! Goo Goo Gajoob!
Don't do the video version though. It's an inferior audio track.
It's a place from your childhood that remains when you grow up. That's why it's happy and sad, it's nostalgic
The greatest band in history who were decades ahead of everyone.
As soon as they met Little Richard.
@@makeminealargecognacOh please. Richard, like Elvis and Berry, inspired them. But The Beatles' creativity surpassed all those RnR acts.
@@v-town1980 incorrect. They changed their style after workikng with Little Richard. He wasn't just an inspiration.
No comparison Beatles Forever
The video for "Strawberry Fields Forever" is distracting. The song itself is quite challenging for the first-time listener, and the trippy video has nothing to do with the song... it's just the Beatles having fun. To understand how the Beatles arrived at this point in their career, you have to know that they were the top entertainment act in the world and had been for the previous 4 years. They were trend setters and fashion icons. The Beatles started out playing poppy rock 'n roll love songs and opened the world to British rock. Then, album by album, they got more experimental and pushed boundary after boundary. By the time they reached "Strawberry Fields Forever" (and its companion album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"), the Beatles had pushed into every musical category: classical, country, jazz, soul, experimental, children's, folk, metal, etc. There had been nothing like the Beatles before, and they did it all while being the top entertainment act in the world. Imagine Taylor Swift and multiply that by 10 times. And then came "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". It was astonishing at the time... but you can't possibly feel the astonishment that your grandparents felt at the time. The decades have dulled the sense of awe that this music caused when it was released.
I applaud your willingness to react to this challenging song, and attempt to find its meaning. Many of us couldn't figure it out at the time of the song's release. For future reactions to Beatles' songs, I recommend that you listen to a music track that does not have a video. The videos are often distracting and many times have nothing to do with the content of the song. ("Eleanor Rigby" is a perfect example... the "official" video -- an excerpt from the film "Yellow Submarine" -- really distracts from the meaning of the song.)
Well said!
Excellent explanation!
Yep. I don't like it when reactors use music videos because they invariably become more engrossed in the images than the music. Also, these two appear to be listening on a laptop (bad enough) without using headphones (worse still) which means they are missing out on much of the intricacies of the music.
Thanks for all that Bob...too many dismiss the whole story/picture of the earlier Beatles as boy band tripe, and have little idea how important they were to rescuing pop and rock music from the clutches of middle aged adult record producers dictating whom the next teen idol shall be and what they shall sing with parent approval. And middled aged to current metal heads dismissing the early Beatles out of carefully trained musical preference developed by corporate radio playlists and such. As a former music teacher I apply the same idea to ignorance of other music - an important experience and delightful at the same time, like ignoring early New Orleans Jazz as trite, unimportant...a musically ignorant country we have, no one knows who Duke Ellington was, or George Gershwin, Dvorak, etc. Part of the reason is in our country school music program budgets are always cut first, but you'll never see a weed growing in a football stadium....result = a culturally stupid country, that bleeds over into other subjects the media messes with. . Too many listen to music with their eyes ever since MTV was born.
@@christopherwinkler4451 This is a frustrating trend. I realize reactors are often working with the results that youtube provides them, but I think they would generally benefit from starting with the album version of most songs, ideally with no video.
This is one of the finest music productions in history. This song is brilliant and they somehow did this production on 4 track tape.
The modern generation would find it hard to believe that it wasn't composed by a computer, and that actual musicians played actual instruments.
i find it hard to believe how many musicians are out of work because of computers.
It was however heavily reliant on studio techniques manipulating sound - speeding up and slowing down tape speeds and playing stuff backwards then playing over that so it sounds backwards when playing forwards normally. All cutting edge in its day thanks to producer George Martin and his team of recording engineers at Abbey Road.
John Lennon wrote melodies before there were any.
@@CAPTAINSLOG666Techniques are not the same as "just autotune my voice." Plus, the melodies, lyrics, and harmonizing blows anything today out of the water. No comparison.😊
but they don't know what 911 is or actual oppression
It's not a video review! It's supposed to be a music review..........
Great song. Ringo's drumming is stunning.
Ringo was an "artist" with a drum kit
Young people today care about the videos. The songs themselves are after thoughts. What a shame.
they have been carefully taught starting with MTV to listen to music with their eyes instead of the ears and heart...while the music industry picks their pockets. I dare anyone to listen to Rachmaninoff's Variation 18 of a theme on Paganini, and not be moved . We are a culturally ignorant county ...Part of the reason is in our country school music program budgets are always cut first, but you'll never see a weed growing in a football stadium.
It Otay, videos great.
Young people have the attention span of an ant. Videos on the whole are so inferior to the music that they should be totally turned off. They are nothing but a distraction to amuse the small minded who simply can't appreciate music of great distinction.
@@bohdan3239 Thanks to unsocial media, and don't be so mean to ants lol.
womp womp
Wear headphones when you react to music.
Yeah.....if you really want to appreciate their great music then trash the videos that distract you....put on the album version and wear headphones...... it's totally a better way to explore the music
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not always, all the time, a lot of these reactors who are young and are not familiar with them, don't even know what they LOOK like, so they DO need to see some of their videos to SEE what they looked like and how their appearances changed in the 8 years that they were world famous.
Yeah, there be the problem, music reactors will always look for something with a video, which distracts from the music, it's a shame but it's a fact, and headphones are a must 👍
Strawberry Fields is a Park in Liverpool near where John Lennon lived and also the name of an lsd tab they experimented with. The video means to invoke an acid trip, as does the music and lyrics, so it's part and parcel. Also this was the B-side to the Penny Lane single, promoted as a double A-side so got exposure on tv pop programs. It was mooted to be on the Sgt Pepper's album but didn't make the final cut.
Agreed - it seems they were concentrating more on the video than the music.
Iconic song! One of the Beatles game changers in popular music.
Your minds can't comprehend listening to a song without watching a video at the same time
Nothing wrong with it, just a different medium now. If we had ubiquitous access to video/audio on numerous devices back in those days, we'd have probably been focused on the video at least as much, if not more than the audio of the song itself
Next up to react to is Penny Lane - a similarly-themed song from the perspective of Paul McCartney. Both songs were released simultaneously and represent the Beatles at the apex of their creativity.
Realize that this video/song is over 55 years old.
that's what amazes me about some of their music and this song is a perfect example......... how often does a song maintain it's unique edge 50 years after it was recorded. I love it.
So to me (please forgive me) it’s cute you two chose this particular Beatles’ song to have your friend’s first experience with. There was a time before there were any music videos, and this was it. The Beatles innovated the whole concept of shooting a little film to go with their songs, and started this idea during the “Psychedelic Period” of the 1960’s era. John (the singer) was using LSD an awful lot during this time, and the song, and the video are intended to give the listener the experience close as possible to having a little bit of a psychedelic trip. The song may seem bizarre but the comments saying that it is a masterpiece are not very far off the mark. They did a longer film during this time for TV in the UK, called “Magical Mystery Tour,” that eventually made its way here to the states. There’s some place in a Liverpool park called “Strawberry Fields” that John used as inspiration….❤
Strawberry fields was a girls orphanage in Liverpool near his aunts house where he grew up
The Beatles didn’t innovate the music “video” idea. That would be The Big Bopper a decade before. Obviously it changed a lot during those years.
@@AlBarzUKI was thinking of Dylan's iconic Subterranean Homesick Blues, but I'll check out Big Bopper.
The film ( not called video at the time) was simply a way to get their new songs out without having to tour. Why travel all over the world, when we can send a film everywhere overnight. Just a practical solution to performing live. Especially since they were doing things in the studio that they knew couldn't be performed live. They laid the foundation for what everyone now knows as music videos. For this video and all the ones they released, understand they were very creative and had a sense of humor.
It's psychedelic. Music, lyrics and visuals.
Hi ladies, it's great to see you try a reaction to the beatles. I grew up with Beatles music and what a ride. You can't really begin to understand the music unless you, as others in this forum have suggested, listen to the whole album with head phones. With headphones you can hear more hidden content that will amaze you. Magical mystery tour, Sgt. Peppers, and abby road were their psychedelic and deep music time in their careers. If you want pop, when the girls went wild and though they were "dreamy ", then listen to their first albums like, meet the beatles, revolver and rubber soul. Great job, ladies.
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it's a song that grows on you and you can listen to it again and again and hear new things every time. Lennon said he wasn't much of a melody man (as opposed to Paul's songs) but he imparts a rawness into his songs Paul rarely manages. Try Julia soon - about his late mother
I guess they expected a choreographed dance in a field of strawberries...lol
🤣It's kind of hard to choreograph anything when you're stoned on LSD lol....
It was just a fun song & video. Best with a buzz. This was made from 2 different versions of the song. One faster than the other one so they had to slow one down which explains the weird sound.
The Beatles are meant to be heard and their videos in this period weren't supposed to make sense, it's just supposed to be suoer trippy. They were experimenting with the newest, hi-tech, multitrack recording, and video recording, and were the first to put out their own music videos along with their songs, and were creating new ways of using audio and video, a long list of ways in which are still used in modern music and audio recording and songwriting today, and since then. The Beatles almost always did everything first. They have influenced every generation of songwriters and musicians over the last 60+ years. They are worth a deep dive, but you need to start at the beginning with the early "boy band" sound, thru the, and the amazing Abbey Road final album, and listen to the evolution of their sound, songwriting, and recording. They were musical geniuses and the most innovative and influential recording artists of the last 100 years.
Don't try to overthink it. By the Beatles' own admission the lyrics didn't really mean anything, at least anything too deep. People kept asking them what the deeper meaning of their lyrics were so they decided to write some that seemed deep but were actually just intentional nonsense. It was their way of having fun with some of the more overly serious critics and fans who missed the point of rock music, which was to have fun. In a way it predicted punk rock in poking fun at people who took rock too seriously, only in a far more musically inventive and, well, serious way. Plus it all stemmed from their taking LSD and other psychedelic drugs and the way it made them look at the world differently. Things really were different back then, in all sorts of ways.
Btw the name of the song comes from a school playground of the same name from their childhood in Liverpool. And if you want to hear something even weirder, try I Am The Walrus (and the proper, not the remixed one).
Yeah, like 'Revolution' wasn't serious and just "poking fun". There's others also.
@@northernlight2598 I didn't that that this was uniform, but not every Beatles song "means" something, and people who are looking for such meaning need to step back and take a breath, maybe listen to something else for a change.
@@kovie9162 Interesting. How does reacting to a song turn into telling people what they need to do? What else do people "need" to do?
By many in the Rock industry old and new this is considered the most influential and greatest popular song ever created. There were a few contenders before this but Strawberry Fields was the one that said “ Do/create whatever you want”
Ignore the video, most of us that had the original experience of the music never saw it or only saw it once.
Both of you did such a great job on this reaction. Love the way you interact together, and I would like to see more of Maya. I would also love to see more Beatles reactions because they have so many great songs. I would recommend reacting to a live performance, instead of something with a video. If your interested in watching history being made, choose one of their songs from their first live television appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964. Otherwise the song Don't Let me Down from their rooftop concert in 1969 which was their last.
What part of this reaction was great?
Well if you girls live in the British Island look up strawberry Fields I believe it's a location for an orphanage his aunt lives next door to it Long story short, John was raised by his aunt because his mother was unable to care for him and she ended up dying when he was probably about 17 got run over by a drunk driver dad was a drunk and left John and mom , drank like a sailor.
.Auntie lived next door to strawberry field , an orphanage where orphans were cared for .
John would jump over the wall to play with the kids throughout the day.
Johns aunt would always tell him not to do that,, but John would do it anyway,
And once replied " aww Auntie you're not going to get hung for it" it's not like he was breaking the law in his own mind he was just going over the wall to play with the orphan kids.
John also remembers sound of trumpets and drums in the big bass drum from the band that would play in the garden for the kids certain days so he was talking about his childhood ..
Play John Lennon that is
Such a timelessly classic melody that never gets old to me!
I watched the Beatles cartoon's every Saturday morning and learned a lot of their songs!😊
Strawberry Fields was an orphanage near to John's house growing up in Liverpool. He used to play with the kids there. As an adult, famous of course, he went back to visit was devastated to find it torn down. He would have funded it to keep it alive, he cared so much for it. I have signed my name at the wall of Strawberry Fields. If you like the Beatles, take a trip to Liverpool. It is fantastic.
It's interesting to see how video focused younger people are, than in older generations. Nothing wrong with it, just a different medium now. If we had ubiquitous access to video/audio on numerous devices back in those days, we'd have probably been focused on the video at least as much, if not more than the audio of the song itself, which is almost 60 years old now! Good grief we are old AF. LOL
Back in the Beatles' day there was no MTV. The main reason for doing a music video in those days was so that when you had a hit, you could send the video clip to chart shows like Top of the Pops (don't know if TOTP was actually running in the 60s, but there were certainly shows like it) in lieu of making personal appearances every week. The music videos were all produced by the bands, and a lot of the time they were just home movies spliced together and had nothing to do with the music. Between all their films and the Saturday morning cartoon show, the Beatles could just send a clip for just about any song someone might ask them for, but on this one, A Day In The Life, and maybe one or two others they went the home movie route.
We have all had our Strawberry fields as we grow older!!
Great reaction! I love your honest approach to analyzing what you are hearing! 🧡, PJ
Context. This is from the era of hippy dippy psychedelia. The music is intended to be trippy.
Both of you have incredible smiles, good reaction.
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the Beatles changed everything when they came along with their experimentation and innovation in the way music songs were written how they sounded and how they were produced. you have to remember this track was made in 1967.. they were decades ahead of their time. they influenced everyone who came after them and are still influencing the musicians of today.
"Strawberry fields forever" is like "Happiness forever".
For what it's worth, Strawberry Fields was an orphanage close by where John Lennon grew up. That could account for the sad happy vibe.
Glad you took time find out reason behind song , also nice to know instruments used
You should wear headphones and not let the video distract you!
As in BEATLES fashion, one thing has nothing to do with the other, like the video vs the lyrics
Young people, welcome to the world of timeless music!!
Around 1978 Cherrie Currie, the lead singer of the all girl rock band, "The Runaways" sang a cover of "Strawberry Fields Forever". Its a very beautiful piano based cover. She also did a cover of "Here Comes the Sun", but the 1st song was very well done and is among my favorite Beatle covers.
Strawberry Fields is a part of the city of Liverpool,John Lennon was writing about places that he knew
There was no MTV until the 1980s so the Beatles were way ahead of the time. They made a few promotional videos because touring wasn't working for them. It was too hectic and out of control. The crowds were louder than the band because amp/speaker/ PA technology hadn't advanced enough to meet the demand of playing large stadiums and arenas. Also, the Beatles only had a crew of 2 or 3 guys working as their roadies. Today's major artists will have dozens of crew members for lighting, PA, truck drivers, technicians, etc...
When this song came out, I don't think I tried to understand it once I realized I couldnt. There was so much new music and sound with it to think about lyrics.
The song is a masterpiece, the music video was an afterthought.
The main thing about this video, is that it is The First Music Video ever produced. Score another 1st for the Beatles. Their next was I AM THE WALRUS was taken from their movie MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR. The Beatles is a very deep and expensive well musically. They inspired me to go into music when I saw them live in 1964, and I'm to this day still playing. (Very impactful)
Wonderful reaction to the band who changed music. Judging by your library, you will love a band called YES and a song called Roundabout, been dancing to it for 53yrs
Great reaction. This was an LSD inspired song - reflecting how scrambled your brain can become on that particular substance. It was one of the pioneering songs of the psychedelic movement. I know I'm being a bit flippant here when I say that I think one of the reasons young people today find it harder to cope with their mental health is because, these days, they don't have fantastic music like the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd etc to immerse themselves in excite their imagination as my generation did. I appreciate, though, that there are many other factors in the modern world which play a part also
If you thought it was unique now just imagine how unique it was nearly 60 years ago .This was their psychedelic period which revolutionized music back then:)
It is best to listen to the entire album for many of the beatles recordings. It's like a story.
Never watched an Beatles music video. But my dad did own the at least one of their movies and it was so silly and fun to watch.
"The Beatles wasn't a rock & roll band...The Beatles was a miracle". (David Gilmour).
At the time that Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane were released, The Beatles had been a global musical and cultural phenomenon unlike anything that had come before for 4 years and had quit doing personal appearances, meaning they had stopped doing concerts and TV shows. They came up with the idea of sending the TV shows a short film to accompany their latest songs instead. And of course, being the biggest entertainment entity in the entire world, every TV program showed the films. The Beatles were one of the innovators that invented the concept of the music video, long before videos became common in the early 1980's. As a result, the videos don't really have much to do with the song at all.
While they did the most to help make them popular, the Big Bopper created the music video concept in early rock in 1958 with his video film of acting out his song "Chantilly Lace" quickly followed by two more. He was quoted in an English newspaper as saying "Soon all music will be on film". He was also working on a plan to create video jukeboxes when he died in the plane crash. He also coined the term "music video".
amazing song probably one of my favourite songs of all time.
Penny Lane is next. Please react to it. Another awesome Beatles song, also recorded at the end of 1966 and in the beginning of 1967!
Oh yeah! Strawberry Fields Forever was recorded on November 24, 28, 29 and on December 8, 9, 15, 21 and 22, 1966 and they made 26 takes from it , which the take 7 was so much better! The song was composed by John Lennon while he was in Almería, Spain, and then on September 1966 he made a demo of the song in his home.
Of which Lennon was probably delighted to hear his voice slowed down, lol..."That'll weird them out, eh, Ringo?"
Strawberrt Fields was an Orphanage near their homes.
With music from this era you need to understand that almost always it would have been listened to - music fans back then might see the video/film accompanying it once or twice on TV, but that was it. They had no phones or tablets, no computers, no video recorders - or anything to to watch video on. . They had a record player and perhaps a picture cover for the record. In those days it was ALL about the music and listening to it. That is why - IMO - when reviewing music made before the early 1980s you really should focus on the music in the same way that original audiences did - else you end up reviewing a video which (very often) has been retro-fitted onto a track far more recently.
It has a psychedelic flavor. Strawberry field was in the UK. Loved this song and was one of the 1st psychedelic songs I ever heard. John was on drugs during this period. Another reaction you should do from the Beatles is " I Am The Walrus". The words will prob blow your mind.....
If you watched this video stoned in 1967 it made a lot more sense haha.
John Lennon, who wrote Strawberry Fields Forever, was putting into music his period growing up in Liverpool. Strawberry Fields was a large private school grounds he played in and daydreamed as a kid. He's capturing the surreal aspect of memory of childhood and it's enchanting aspects. The mystery of growing up and developing your own inner self. During this same time, fellow Beatle Paul McCartney did his song Penny Lane as his joy and enchantment of growing up in Liverpool. You should listen to Penny Lane.
I suggest starting from the beginning and getting to know these guys when they were young.
I think as someone seeing this video and not knowing who the Beatles really were, it would indeed be pretty strange. At the time, just about everyone on the planet knew who they were so the point was probably to showcase the new side of them that had been emerging once they were done with the gruel of touring. Highly recommend 'Let It Be' if you haven't already seen it.
I'm glad you looked up the meaning. It helps to at least know the reference to the place John was remembering. Yes more Maya👍 Also, I read the comment where someone recommended "I Am The Walrus", if you do listen to that one, please do the original recording. There is a video that has a horrible copy of the recording. Yea Princess, and Maya.❤
The beginnings of Psychedelic Rock, ladies. High school kids and Beatnik professors would smoke pot, eat special mushrooms or hit Acid, and "tune in and drop out". John Lennon's lyrics were not for understanding, they were for joining the universe.
It was a trip
The Videos Strawberry Fields was John Lennon showing off his Art Student background while commenting on his unreal childhood of being abandoned by first his father and then his mother, and being raised by hisMaiden Aunt after his mom started a relationship with some guy and had two sisters.
Companion Video Penny Lane was Paul’s nostalgic look as growing up In Liverpool, once a great Sea Port and Shipyard that was affected by the Post War depression in the UK. Every reference in that is real…
Don't worry so much about the video. Just listen to the incredible songwriting and production. There is nothing this good being written and produced today. They did this while writing dozens if other brilliant songs and just kept going. Unbelievable!!!!!
Strawberry Fields was an orphanage in Liverpool. The song basically explores the musings of an LSD trip, not uncommon in the late 1960's. We were all doing it. For example, the "no one I think is in my tree" verse deals with the difficulties of an individual in communicating with other people. Other verses deal with confusion and the vagaries of being "someone". It could have been titled An Exploration Of A Human's (John Lennon) Psyche.
This song was one of their hits during their drug experiments.
Deep. That's what you can expect from The Beatles.
strawberry fields was a park/playground in liverpool.
I would like you to react to Eleanor Rigby, by the Beatles.
Good on you for checking the context of the song about Johns childhood. Do more sixties and seventies reviews if you can :)
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Poor girls - they look like they've just had their minds exploded! 🙂
while my guitar genty wheeps-something- here comes the sun (all gorges songs)
If you were to dip into the classic rock genre from around 1966 to around 1979, and if you could understand the context; you'd find a good many of those songs as "deep," philosophical, spiritual, introspective, and political, etc. They were commonplace back in those days.
This song Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane where supposed to be the main featured songs on Sargent Peppers album, but in the end neither one of them made the cut.
You will love "She's leaving home" by the Beatles.
This is later Beatles. Start at the beginning. Maybe watch A Hard Day's Night and get a clue about Beatlemania.
Thank goodness Maya is quite pretty.
They are so pretty
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Great reaction ladies. BUT I must echo the other comments here, namely, ignore the video. Unless it's a live or lip-synched performance, ANY video before MTV (1981) should be taken with a pinch of salt. The earlier the video, the more salt.
As a primer, I would take time out to view two UK TV appearances to show how good the lads were live. The videos are probably too long for you to react to but it will give you a flavour of groups of the time and of the time itself. First, "The Royal Variety Performance" (November 4, 1963) ua-cam.com/video/158Oyfxqbtg/v-deo.html and then "Live At The ABC Theatre, Blackpool" (August 1, 1965) ua-cam.com/video/-9nfO7NwWiM/v-deo.html Don't skip through the introductions to the songs as it will give you a view of their personalities (at least as they were portrayed to the public). There is a more historically significant broadcast on the Ed Sullivan TV Show (February 9, 1964) as it opened up the USA to Beatlemania and thence The British Invasion but I would recommend seeing that after these two.
By the time "Strawberry Fields Forever" was released (February 13, 1967) the band had long since given up live performances and were a studio group. But the insatiable appetite of the media required something to promote the latest release and naff videos were produced (this being one of them).
You cannot underestimate the impact this record had especially on this (then) 20 year old. Nothing like it had been released as a single. Props to George Martin, Geoff Emerick and the other tech guys for realising Lennon's ideas. It was the first Beatle record I ever bought but it was easy to spend 6s 8d on it as it had "Penny Lane" on the other side. 😄
Stay cool.
Strawberry Fields Forever was released on a 45 single along with Penny Lane. It peaked at #2 in the UK and hit as high as #8 on the US charts. It broke their streak of 4 years straight having #1 singles on the UK charts. And the Beatles didn't like it when it was included on the Magical Mystery Tour album.
Best song ever!
I believe this video and Penny Lane were first shown on Dick Clark's American Bandstand as first music video to introduce new songs they were releasing since they became strictly a studio band. And this is what started it all.
Girls Listen To "In My Life"that"s also by John Lennon 1965,and he sings about memories,friends,ect,great song!
Right back from Poona. A good one. Very fresh "influences" in their musical style.
Strawberry Field was an orphanage that John used to break into the grounds as a young lad.
thank you........ that was the little factoid that I was trying so hard to remember : ) John Lennon was a GREAT lyricist and this is one of his best(imo) Having said that, I think sometimes we try too hard to find the meaning of these songs but one should keep in mind that the Beatles were definitely experimenting with mind altering substances. This song has always had meaning for me but I'd be at a loss to explain how. I love it because it's beautiful and unique.
As Humans our main objective is survival, first and foremost we must ensure we continue to live or exist despite the danger of avoiding physical extermination. To ensure our odds of survival we increase our numbers, so we have sex, and yes, I know it is taboo to say the word (sex) after our first proper experience of euphoria, that was the goal of this music the Beatles turned into what was later labeled Psychedelic Music. The Beatles (John, Paul, George, and Ringo,) In early 1965, following a dinner with Lennon, Harrison, and their wives, Harrison's dentist, John Riley, secretly added LSD to their coffee. Now, mind you, uppers were the norm for bands in Germany playing 16 to 18 hrs. About every musician drank alcohol, smoked pot, or popped pills, hence the introduction to the Beatles LSD was being used by the military and yes, you can guess what happened next, the Boys loved that feeling of an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with the intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. So, if you ever see that same video or hear that song again, perhaps you can understand the lost translation of the mind to a motion picture or music.
I was too young at the time, this song was released. My Dad said the Beatles were into Drugs in a heavy Way. Which would fit with your happy & sad analysis.
This song transformed everything in music production forever. The music we all listen to wouldn’t sound the same without this song.
And Lennon was one of the first mega stars to discuss his mental health openly.
Their song Help was about his deep depression and body issues. He had body dysmorphia about being overweight and impostor syndrome about feeling talentless at the absolute peak of their success.
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