Cee Lo Green alters woman-beater John Lennon's lyrics; DUmmies howl.

[BannedFromDU]

Dreamer Tatum takedown coming...

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1. Cee Lo Green Outrages John Lennon Fans By Changing Lyrics to 'Imagine'


Cee Lo Green upset John Lennon fans on Saturday night by performing a soulful version of the songwriter's classic "Imagine" with the lyrics changed from "nothing to kill or die for / and no religion too" to "nothing to kill or die for / and all religion's true." According to some fans, Green changed the meaning of the song by switching out the line. "The whole point of that lyric is that religion causes harm," tweeted someone with the handle geekysteven. "If 'all religion's true' it would be a pretty bleak place."

Green, who sang the song on NBC's New Year's Eve broadcast from Times Square, responded to criticism about the alteration by tweeting "Yo I meant no disrespect by changing the lyric guys! I was trying to say a world were u could believe what u wanted that's all." He responded directly to other angry Lennon fans on Twitter, but has since deleted all of the tweets.

You can watch Cee Lo Green's performance of "Imagine" in the clip below. Advance to the 3:55 mark for the beginning of the song.

AngryOldDem
That was simply outrageous.


I just heard about this on the news. Thankfully, I missed this Saturday night.

I hate it when singers don't get the songs right, or intentionally mess up the lyrics so that the song means NOTHING what the songwriter intended. How dare Cee-Lo take it upon himself to edit John Lennon. I think it's disrespectful to do that, no matter whose song it is -- a poor arrangement is one thing; dicking with the lyrics is something else altogether.

I think "Imagine" is a powerful song to hear at midnight on New Year's -- much more so than that tired cliche "Auld Lang Syne," (which will never go away) or the canned Frank Sinatra "New York, New York."

From now on they should play a recording of Lennon singing "Imagine" (and I thought they did just that in years past) and leave the amateurs to their own devices. Let them **** up their own songs.

Dreamer Tatum
99. I find it ironic to the nth degree that people who decry fundamentalism

are fundamentalists when it comes to Lennon's lyrics. See what you think of this:

Imagine there's no inconsistency
It's easy if you try
No self righteousness below us
Above us only reason
Imagine all the people being consistent in their beliefs

Imagine there's no hypocrisy
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to piss and moan for
And no indignation too
Imagine all the people letting others do what they want to do

You, you may say
I'm Dreamer Tatum, and I'm the only one
I hope some day you'll join me
And stop being such a whiner

Imagine no possession of John Lennon's lyrics
I wonder if you can
No need to defend what requires no defense
A brotherhood of minding your own business
Imagine all the people sharing all the lyrics

You, you may say
I'm Dreamer Tatum, and I'm the only one
I hope some day you'll join me
And you'll stop getting all pissed off about nothing




There. Sue me.

 

[jtyangel]

"Angry old Dem"...how appropriate...btw, dipshit, Auld Lang Sine won't go away because it's been around since the 1700's or so. Kinda like the Constitution that you all find 'cliched' and outdated too. I know you libs recoil from traditions like a vampire does to sunlight, but it is what it is.




***note, want to play your own song, throw your own damn party and put the music on at midnight. Seems pretty simple to me

[Mr Mannn]

Only one line was changed. But Imagine was taken from the holy songbook from the religion of progressivism.
It broke the cardinal rule: There can be no God, but the State.

How else can a Beatles song be held so sacred?

[movie buff]

Lennon was such a monstrous hypocrite.
He sang about peace and love, yet it's well known that he was verbally and at times physically abusive towards his son and both his wives.
He sang about imagining no possessions, even as he drove a Rolls Royce and lived in an Upper East Side penthouse.
That's another first/ record for John Lennon; He ushered in the age of the ultra- liberal, ultra- hypocritical celebrity.
Mr. Mann, good point. He only altered one small line from the song, yet it's the line that freaks like the DUmmies hold most dear. Again, the irony about this song about peace and love is that the one line his ultra- liberal followers hold most sacred is the one that encourages their hatred of anyone who believes in God.
Personally, I never liked that song. When I was at my job at a hardware store and that song played on the store's radio, I'd always try and find something loud to do to drown it out for me.

[jtyangel]

Lennon was such a monstrous hypocrite.
He sang about peace and love, yet it's well known that he was verbally and at times physically abusive towards his son and both his wives.
He sang about imagining no possessions, even as he drove a Rolls Royce and lived in an Upper East Side penthouse.
That's another first/ record for John Lennon; He ushered in the age of the ultra- liberal, ultra- hypocritical celebrity.
Mr. Mann, good point. He only altered one small line from the song, yet it's the line that freaks like the DUmmies hold most dear. Again, the irony about this song about peace and love is that the one line his ultra- liberal followers hold most sacred is the one that encourages their hatred of anyone who believes in God.
Personally, I never liked that song. When I was at my job at a hardware store and that song played on the store's radio, I'd always try and find something loud to do to drown it out for me.

I do that with the ridiculous Christmas song he and Yoko sang together That and Christmas Shoes can find their place in the circular file for all I care.

[Karin]

I hate that awful Christmas song!  Yorko skreeching out NO MORE WAAAAR

(That's a typo above, but I like it so I left it).

Look at the size of that bonfire!  Over one line! 

[DumbAss Tanker]

God, they are idjits.  "We can piss all over everything, because we are the Enlightened Ones, but you dare not mock our sacred chant!"

And Lennon, though a talented songwriter, was a pompous creep.

[Gina]

Wish Cee Lo would have responded with his trademark "**** you" in his tweet.

[AprilRazz]

God, they are idjits.  "We can piss all over everything, because we are the Enlightened Ones, but you dare not mock our sacred chant!"

And Lennon, though a talented songwriter, was a pompous creep.

George was a better writer.

[BannedFromDU]

George was a better writer.

     Let me stem this potential threadjack by saying **** John Lennon, **** George, **** the ****ing Beatles, and especially **** the ****ing ****head Beatles devotees still trying to grow enough hair to fit into a ponytail.

     

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Michael Jackson - pedophile, but that's OK, he's a tremendous entertainer

Roman Polanksi - child rapists, but that's OK because he's a marvelous film maker

John Lennon - wife beater, but that's OK because he's an iconic song writer

FOX News - ZOMFG!!! They're biased! Quick, get the government in here to shut them down!

[Chris_]

     Let me stem this potential threadjack by saying **** John Lennon, **** George, **** the ****ing Beatles, and especially **** the ****ing ****head Beatles devotees still trying to grow enough hair to fit into a ponytail.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Same thread.

A fellow DUmbass replies to DT complete with geometry fail:

AngryOldDem

103. Sorry that I have an opinion on this.

Given the place where the song was sung, and the circumstances, I just think any tinkering with the lyrics was out of line.

What Cee-Lo did was 360 degrees opposite of the intent "Imagine," and the reason why it's performed at New Year's. He added absolutely nothing of value to the song, and should have performed it the way it was written.

And If I want a Weird Al Yankovich song parody (or yours), I'll ask for them -- thanks.

DT retorts with a swipe at his interlocutor's username:

Dreamer Tatum

108. Imagine no kids...on my lawn...nt

[DumbAss Tanker]

Excellent find, SSB, that was a twofer of DUmmie humor!

 

[jukin]

Dreamer Tatum is getting under that micron of skin that Angryolddem  (talk about your department of redundancy department) rather easily. Well Played!

[Celtic Rose]

You know, this is really telling about the DUmmies priorities.  It isn't enough to have peaceful coexistence of religions (which seems to be Cee Lo's intent with this change), no, religion must be eliminated!

[shadeaux]

God is a dirty word to the DUmmies.  Like the word work is.   

I love seeing them all bent out of shape.  That Dreamer Tatum is funny. 

[IassaFTots]

I  Dreamer Tatum.