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Beatles discuss business sometime in early 1969 (John is offscreen to the right I’m pretty sure) 

“anytime is paradise when i’m with you” ahshhshdh y’allllll 

I watched Help! For the first time recently, it was a lot of fun, but my feelings are kinda mixed on it, considering how they used Hinduism in the film, and played into a lot of racist tropes towards Indians :/

yeah. they didn't even attempt to hide it. old media (and current media if we’re being honest, but they've just gotten better at hiding it) mocked/insulted cultures/races so much. they wouldn't even hide it. it was in kids cartoons, commercials, everything. even the monkees show had bits against mexicans, asians, and indians too with racist stereotypes. racist stereotypes have been around forever and it just keeps carrying over to other generations. sigh.

it’s just ignorance on the film makers part. i don't think the beatles were really involved in the making of the plot (not that i know of, at least), and they were stoned for basically the whole movie so they didn't give a shit. and to be honest, even if they were involved and sober i still don't think they'd see anything wrong with the film at the time. because it wouldn't affect them or hurt them/their culture. because a lot of people are ignorant to these racist tropes that they've deemed normal because they've seen it/heard it all their lives from media and their peers. 

help! is a decent movie (except ringo’s hair deserves jail time) and it’s a good laugh. it’s a fun movie. it’s okay to enjoy it but it’s important to understand the undertones it kind of had. and to acknowledge it. 

when i say “unfollow me if you support trump” im not saying it ironically. no, seriously, if you support trump then i dont want your disgraceful ass to be in any way associated with my blog. get out.

“Was ‘Dear Friend’ about John Lennon, and 'Let Me Roll It’ a deliberate Lennon pastiche? 'Dear Friend’ was written about John, yes. I don’t like grief and arguments, they always bug me. Life is too precious, although we often find ourselves guilty of doing it. So after John had slagged me off in public I had to think of a response, and it was either going to be to slag him off in public - and some instinct stopped me, which I’m really glad about - or do something else. So I worked on my attitude and wrote 'Dear Friend’, saying, in effect, let’s lay the guns down, let’s hang up our boxing gloves. 'Let Me Roll It’ was not really a Lennon pastiche, although my use of tape echo did sound more like John than me. But tape echo was not John’s exclusive territory! And you have to remember that, despite the myth, there was a lot of commonality between us in the way that we thought and the way that we worked.”

— The Paul McCartney Interview, Club Sandwich, 1994.

i wish this new wave of “grunge” was still poor/mentally ill people making art about their struggles and not the girls that bullied me in high school wearing a $60 flannel lol 

“The next thing I felt was arms being put around me and somebody hugging me. And it was John. And he just looked and said “Are you alright?” and I realized that only he and I felt this enormous emotional loss of Brian.”

— Paul talking about the first band meeting after Brian Epstein’s death.

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HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH FROM ALL OF US AT WOMEN OF NOISE.

let’s not glorify &/or stay silent about the beatlemaniacs in the 1960s that stalked the beatles, clawed at/got grabby with them when they walked by, physically harmed any of their wives out of petty jealousy, broke security rules to see/touch them, etc.

it’s not a testiment to how great the band was; it’s a testiment to how harmful fandom culture can be to celebrities. it doesn’t matter how much they “loved” the beatles; it’s not an excuse to harass people.

January, 1964: John works on the composition of ‘If I Fell’. 

JOHN: So I hope you see that I / Would love to love you / I hope that she won’t cry / When she learns we are two / We’re two / Gonna be the two two of us in love / Two two of us in love…