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I know I'm dipping my toe into dangerous waters, but the biggest takeaway from Get Back and Paul/Peter's narrativization of the Beatles was really just how much pain and resentment Paul is still holding 60 years later. Which isn't something I can personally judge, given that I haven't been alive for 60 years, much less had an event from 60 years ago heavily influence my ensuing life path, but it does feel like a reflection of his intense antipathy to any kind of self reflection or processing and how this precludes any real possibility that his personal interpretation of his life story will ever change. He's the same guy 60 years later and he sees things the same way, and that's both comforting and a little sad.
Новая еда 🍴🍱
МакЛеннонс в психоанализе — что об этом думает deepseek
Англоязычные sorry
beatles yaoi + mclennon songs
one of your girls - troye sivan
sometimes i need to be alone - ricky montgomery
paul - big thief
attempt - far caspian
copious - menomena
bittersuite - billie eilish
kaleidoscope - chappell roan
how long? - vampire weekend
i think ur a contra - vampire weekend
star - mitski
should've been me - mitski
happy - mitski
one more to see you - mitski
crack baby - mitski
3/3 - the japanese house
saw you in a dream - the japanese house
diamond dave - the bird and the bee
i know you - faye webster
um................... can i help you
(lana del rey voice) her pussy tastes like marijuana
1966 💭
okay but can we PLEASE talk about the absolute LIES some of you spread about john lennon’s looks?? “ugly”?? “not handsome”?? are we LOOKING at the same man??
because let’s dissect this crime against humanity:
- that face is LITERALLY a medieval portrait come to life—aristocratic oval, sharp yet delicate, like someone carved him out of history itself
- the EYES. THE EYES. hypnotic almond shape, long straight lashes, the kind of gaze that could either seduce you or dissect your soul
- THE NOSE!!! (we don’t even need to elaborate. it’s a sculpture.)
- and his aura?? PURE SUNLIT CHAOS. a smiley, wild-haired ginger cat with the energy of a flaming comet. fire incarnate.
He had this magnetic pull that attracted everyone
this man was art in human form. if you disagree, i respect your right to be objectively wrong (and also fear for your vision).
...and yes, you could just fall asleep in those straight, bushy eyebrows of his...
it’s because i wear four rings
Lovely words about Brian Wilson from Paul 💞
Michelle
Don't Let Me Down
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
She Said She Said
Mother Nature's Son
Fixing a Hole
I'm Only Sleeping
Because
Baby's in Black
Dig a Pony
My thoughts on why I think Paul had a preference for men -
As I discussed in an earlier post, as a young teen Paul found himself attracted to musical theater, which had a very strong gay element attached to it. As he put it, “I used to hang around stage doors, I was a bit of a Stage-Door Johnny. I was so fascinated by all of that stuff. I loved it. I just wanted to be near it. I hung around the stage doors, got to meet the Crew Cuts. I sort of wanted it, wanted it bad.”
He can remember every minute detail from the first time he met John, from the smell of his beery breath, to the feel of John putting his arms around his shoulders. Immediately after meeting this boy, Paul already started planning a life-long partnership with him, figured out how to combine their names, and was doodling pictures of him in his school workbook. This to me is the behavior of a boy who has already come to terms with his attraction to boys, not someone who’s confused, in denial, or unaware of his feelings.
Two of his earliest songs have themes of a forbidden, risky love. At fourteen, he described love as “suicide” and at 15 he’s promising someone he just met that he’ll love them “in spite of all the danger.”
When he started dating girls, he would pick out all of their outfits and would instruct them on how to style their hair. Yes, this could be interpreted as Paul just wanting his girlfriend to look like Brigitte Bardot, but to me it sounds a lot like something a stereotypical “gay best friend” would do.
He and John went to The Dart, a gay club, together. This, to me, diminishes the common belief around here that Paul thought of himself as “only gay for John” and not actually queer. The fact that he regularly hung out at a gay club implies that Paul felt that he was no different than all of the other gay men there.
Then when the Beatles went to Hamburg, Tony Barrow remembers how he thought Paul was gay “for months.” If Paul was truly sleeping with as many girls in Hamburg as he claimed, why did it take Tony so long to find out that he wasn’t gay?
The fact that Paul was known to use his “bedroom eyes” and “sex appeal” to get what he wanted from Brian implies that this isn’t Paul’s first time flirting with a man in my opinion.
If you trust Simon Napier-Bell’s account, Brian revealed to him that the Beatles had “other boyfriends,” implying someone not within the band. So this could suggest that Paul was casually dating men other than John during his time in the Beatles.
Mid-sixties, Paul once again deliberately placed himself in the artsy gay crowd of London. I find it interesting to say the least that Paul, age fourteen on, has taken every opportunity possible to surround himself with a group of other gay men. First it was the theater, then beatniks, now Swinging London.
When John dumped Paul in the summer of 1968, Paul seemed to genuinely be contemplating living the rest of his life as a gay man. When he briefly dated Francie Schwartz, he was said to be going off to gay clubs in the middle of the night. In Francie’s book “Body Count,” she recounts a conversation with Billy Lancaster where he asked her, “Really, what’s Paul like? I heard he was gay.” to which Francie replied, “He might have gone that way but he didn’t. He didn’t really dig fucking all that much if that’s any kind of an answer.“
And the emotional intensity of Paul’s breakup with John in itself speaks volumes about how Paul values his relationships with men significantly more than the ones he had with women.
Or in a 1970s Tom Snyder interview, Paul was talking about his days as a Beatles, being able to have any one he wanted. He said, “When you’re that age, that’s the thing to do. You’re looking for girls or whatever turns you on.” When Tom asked what the alternative to girls would be, Paul told him “Boys.”
And none of this even touches all of the crazy suggestive quotes and things regarding him and John’s relationship, like when Paul literally said that he and John were one of the first men to come out openly when homosexuality was still illegal (!!!)
I don’t know…there’s probably a lot more I’m forgetting right now but you get the point
(also this is all purely speculation so please don’t try to come for me)
Этот блог посвящён группе Битлз - моей детской гиперфиксации. Легенда гласит, что как только вам исполняется 23 — ваши детские фиксы возвращаются. И вот. Я здесь. Опять.
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