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Paul isn’t a victim..enough with this nonsense. He has a billion dollars and an army of lawyers.
Let It F, Let It U
I somehow have the feeling if John was alive and didn’t turn up at the Hall of Fame for whatever personal reason, people would have no problem calling him petty and immature. The media had no problem throwing him under the bus for years. Once again the daily reminder Paul at a human being and it’s ok to criticise him. And yeah taking more than his cut makes him the asshole. These weren’t his solo songs, this was music he made as part of a group. It doesn’t matter how much cash he thought he earned, he can’t pull a surprised pikachu face when he gets sued.
This is probably a weird question so apologies, but do you think Paul should have gone to the Beatles Hall of Fame award show? I know he didn't and I've seen it described as the petulant act of a child and understandable given the legal situation and hurt feelings. I would love to know what you thought of it?
Not a weird question at all!
I don’t think Paul should ever do anything he doesn’t want, to be honest. He’s earned being as petty as he wants. Not that I think that’s what he was doing, but even if he was, so what? I wouldn’t want to hang out with three people that were all suing me either. I’m sure he felt it was The Breakup 2.0 and I can’t imagine how shitty that must have felt. Also, this should have been such a special moment for him and then they sued him right before and ruined it. I doubt that was on purpose (the timing) but… I can see how it might have felt pointed.
I don’t know if George’s speech should be taken at face value. Personally it seems a little… disingenuous of him to suggest he’s surprised. But, perhaps he genuinely assumed Paul would always just roll over and put a brave face on/wasn’t capable of being hurt by that sort of thing/there was no reason for him to take it personally because really they were suing EMI/Capitol and not him.
Do I think Paul should have gone to make himself/The Beatles look better? Maybe? They had sort of been suing each other and everyone else for nearly two decades by that point, so perhaps they should have all just carried on like it was business as usual and that would have stopped some of the backlash. But it is also possible that people would have slagged him off for daring to be there when he was shitting all over their legacy for ‘stealing their money’.
I guess the other question is if Paul was trying to get one over on them with the royalties and therefore should have been there (or not been there) to apologise. I mean, if Capitol was just giving him more out of its own profits and it wasn’t taking anything from the others, he certainly had less to feel bad about. Of course I’m sure they all thought (and John almost certainly would have felt) there was a gentleman’s agreement not to take more. But, who can say. Paul was making a lot of money for Capitol and obviously it’s his right to negotiate whatever he wanted. I do get why people would feel that a) he didn’t need more money and b) The Beatles should be a completely separate thing and it’s almost petty to ask for a bigger cut of that because he (arguably) can’t deserve more of it now than he did before. I say arguably because there’s something to the idea that Paul being as successful as he was, was keeping the Beatles more in the public eye and therefore selling more. But how you figure out THAT I have no idea because John dying did as much as anything for that, and obviously Ringo and George released music too (along with other things).
But in summation, Paul often couldn’t win in the eyes of the press so it was almost certainly just better for him to do what made him personally happiest.
Always happy to hear other’s thoughts though.
This isn’t a shitpost though. It’s a literal play by play of what happened between these 2 idiots. I wonder if Paul lies in bed late at night and regrets not taking John up on his offer of a repeat performance?
Paul: "You just sort of see us, what we're doing..." "It's unbelievable, you know?"
Subtext: Boy did we act completely abnormally in India!
George: "What were you doing?"
Subtext: You and John have been acting extremely weirdly since India, what the hell happened between you guys there???"
John: "Yes, what were we doing?"
Subtext: Yes George, something significant *did* happen between Paul and I but we're not going to explicitly tell you what it was.
Paul: "I don't really know, you know?" "But it's like, we totally sort of put our own personalities under for the sake of it..."
Subtext: I do not want to address what happened between us in India, as far as I'm concerned it wasn't the "real" us anyway so I'm not going to acknowledge it, you can't make me!
John: "Who was writing all them songs?"
Subtext: Nice try Paul, if it wasn't really us how did we write all those songs while we were in India???
Paul: "Oh that was- that was..."
Subtext: Damn, you got me there!
John: "In the room..."
Subtext: Don't push me Paul, I'll happily tell George about what we got up to in the privacy of your room...
Paul: "Yeah right, I remember yeah..."
Subtext: I remember *exactly* what happened John, do not say another word!!!!
George: "Do you regret having gone there?"
Subtext: Since neither of you will tell me what the hell happened, can you at least tell me whether it was worth it??? Was it good or bad???
Paul: "No no, oh no no"
Subtext: No I don't regret it, I just never want to acknowledge it ever again
John: "I don't regret anything... ever..." *Intense simulation of d*ck s*cking while staring intensely at Paul*
Subtext: Well, judging from the fact you can barely string a coherent sentence together, I clearly blew your mind... Literally. If you want a repeat performance you know where I am ;)
i hate that like in order to feel healthy i need to wake up at like 7 am every day cause thats when my antihistamines run out and if i oversleep then my allergies be like HI SUCK MY DICK BITCH :/