Provoked by the Nom about Billy Eilish and her rendition of ‘Something’.
Yes something about ‘Something’
I never liked. Just something.
Something in the way he moves. Or moved. Creepy.
Nor do I like ‘Here Comes The Sun’ either. It’s that religion thing.
‘My Sweet Lord’ struck the wrong chord for me. (By the way did he nick the tune off The Chiffons? Plagiarism by one of the Fab Four?) Well, I thought Lord referred to Jesus. But no it’s Krishna or Hare Rama (whoever he is).
Slight digression. Just watched a netflix six hour series telling the story of The Bhagwan. That cult that set itself up in Oregon. Horrible. Weird as fuck. All the devotees smiling inanely. Like free sex, jumping up and down. All about ‘liberating yourself’.
Yes the connection –George went in for jumping up and down in his ‘Natural Law’ party didn’t he? And the smiling inanely. Like a permanent lightheadedness they have. Like they are brainwashed, their minds captured by something. I have a quote from Chesterton, something like ‘beneath those ancient eastern esoteric religion there is a terrible levity’. Yes a terrible levity.
George had it. There is footage of him playing hide and seek in the grounds of his mansion, weirdly. Just odd.
What was that other thing? Why is it or why was it that hippies then and young people today have the assumption that spirituality is only to be found in the sacred writings of ancient India? What about your own Western tradition? Christianity. Why don’t you explore that?
John, Paul and Ringo had a healthy skepticism when visiting the gurus on their trips to India I think. John certainly wasn’t fooled.
But George stayed with it. And all that effort learning the sitar with Ravi Shanka but did it really add anything to the music of The Beatles?
To be fair to him he did revert to traditional rock and pop in later years.
But kept the stupid spirituality.
I hate that amorphous mysticism of the East where there is no truth. I heard some Hindu guru say ‘we are come comfortable with contradiction’.
I remember once being in an Asian taxi (referring back to Chesterton’s ‘terrible levity’) on the dash beside a Laughing Bhudda a smiling Mickey Mouse.
Back to George.Yes, that was another thing. One of his beliefs was ALL religion is a manifestation of the Divine. And we are to treat ALL religions with the deepest of respect. OK then well why did you finance Life of Brian where the crucified Christ was ridiculed…?
I remember when he died. The press release-‘He was conscious of God when he died’..:mmm…not terrified of or at peace with but conscious of God.
Well, we’ll all be conscious of God when we die. Standing before THE JUDGEMENT SEAT.
Nominated by: Miles Plastic
