Oct 10, 2023 08:04 PM
Forefathers of pretentious virtue signaling
https://youtu.be/EOFPbXl6_p4
VIDEO EXCERPTS: Steely Dan wrote a song mocking John Lennon's 1971 track "Imagine". ------> (The music video is here.)
One of the most intoxicating tracks from Steely Dan's 1972 album Can't Buy a Thrill is "Only a Fool Would Say It". The song opens with an upbeat bossa nova groove, crafted from layers of conga, snare, strong acoustic guitars, and undulating bass floating above mellow electric guitar lines.
Donald Fagen paints a picture of Lennon as an ignorant artisto whose talk of world peace is completely at odds with the life of the poor and impoverished.
[...] Fagen's image of Lennon as the highfalutin elitist is quickly contrasted with another artfully rendered portrait. This time of the man in the street who doesn't have the luxury of believing in some hippie's utopian ideal.
Fagen tells Lennon have a little more empathy to understand that asking somebody with nothing to abandon their worldly possessions and assume a life of immaterialism is a best laughable and at worst dangerously insensitive.
The sentiment behind Steely Dan's lyrics is likely quite familiar. Gal Gadot organized a Hollywood sing-along of Lennon's "Imagine" in the first month of the Covid-19 pandemic.
She was immediately criticized for misreading the rue. Far from sparking a surge in benevolent acts of kindness, listeners found a disconnect between Gadot and the gang's call for the jobless to imagine no possessions. And the fact the various stars who contributed to the rendition were singing from multi-million dollar mansions.
Clearly Fagen was right to mock Lennon. His lyrics are still causing outcry to this day...
The song Steely Dan wrote to mock John Lennon
https://youtu.be/EOFPbXl6_p4
VIDEO EXCERPTS: Steely Dan wrote a song mocking John Lennon's 1971 track "Imagine". ------> (The music video is here.)
One of the most intoxicating tracks from Steely Dan's 1972 album Can't Buy a Thrill is "Only a Fool Would Say It". The song opens with an upbeat bossa nova groove, crafted from layers of conga, snare, strong acoustic guitars, and undulating bass floating above mellow electric guitar lines.
Donald Fagen paints a picture of Lennon as an ignorant artisto whose talk of world peace is completely at odds with the life of the poor and impoverished.
[...] Fagen's image of Lennon as the highfalutin elitist is quickly contrasted with another artfully rendered portrait. This time of the man in the street who doesn't have the luxury of believing in some hippie's utopian ideal.
Fagen tells Lennon have a little more empathy to understand that asking somebody with nothing to abandon their worldly possessions and assume a life of immaterialism is a best laughable and at worst dangerously insensitive.
The sentiment behind Steely Dan's lyrics is likely quite familiar. Gal Gadot organized a Hollywood sing-along of Lennon's "Imagine" in the first month of the Covid-19 pandemic.
She was immediately criticized for misreading the rue. Far from sparking a surge in benevolent acts of kindness, listeners found a disconnect between Gadot and the gang's call for the jobless to imagine no possessions. And the fact the various stars who contributed to the rendition were singing from multi-million dollar mansions.
Clearly Fagen was right to mock Lennon. His lyrics are still causing outcry to this day...
The song Steely Dan wrote to mock John Lennon