Why "New" Makes Me Cry
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Bruce and Beatles4Ever&Ever, There is a thread on this forum called Things That Are Bothersome To You (or something like that!) and I wanted to post in it: Homophobia! I know how some people react and I chickened out! But after re-reading this thread I am going there right now and post it!
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Nancy R:
Bruce and Beatles4Ever&Ever, There is a thread on this forum called Things That Are Bothersome To You (or something like that!) and I wanted to post in it: Homophobia! I know how some people react and I chickened out! But after re-reading this thread I am going there right now and post it!
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Fan4-45years:
Bruce M.:
(This is going to be long. If you plan to read on, you might want to pour yourself a drink) Two recurring themes in the Beatles' songs -- that it's ok to be different, you need to live your life in a way that feels right and you'll be okay, and that there is hope even when things look bleak -- had wormed their way into my consciousness so thoroughly that I simply could not be Then, after being immersed in the passage of time and the distance we've all traveled since I was listening to those Beatle records as a kid, on comes New and -- bang! -- we're back in 1967. And Paul is singing the exact same thoughts that got me through adolescence: I never knew what I could be What I could do Then we were new We can do what we want We can live as we choose -- it's a happy song, fer chrissakes -- but it's 50+ years of worry and doubt and struggle and gratefulness and joy all rushing to the surface, propelled by this gorgeous song. To oversimplify a bit, my parents taught me what was expected of me. The Beatles taught me that I didn't have to be limited by what was expected of me. And I will be grateful for that till the day I die.
Bruce, it's 7a.m. ish, so I'll just stick with my coffee Thanks, though. Paul/Beatles inspired/inspires hope, gratefulness, and joy, and it's ok to be who you are. I concur. Their music has saved me through plenty of bad times, too. Paul's got lots of good years left in him, I would imagine, and even if he never did another thing, which I doubt, we have so much to listen to as is. Thank you for putting these thoughts into words. I could give my own story about their music instilling hope into my young fifth grade life when everything else in my life looked hopeless. I got through that year, literally, by playing their albums and singing their songs, and have never felt hopeless since.
Firstly, Bruce that was really heartfelt reading your experience with the Beatles music when you were growing up. Fan4-45 years thanks for sharing your experiences as well. I was equally inspired by the Beatles when I was young and I got from them my lifelong inspiration for Love, Peace and acceptance. I also loved that the Beatles were free to act silly and loved that they liked to have fun and clown around. They didn't care what other people thought, they just were themselves. It gave me the freedom to just be myself as well and to try and just have fun and enjoy life. NEW didn't make me cry, I find it freeing. The song that made me cry buckets when I first heard it was Early Days. It really affected me very deeply emotionally.
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love2travel:
Fan4-45years:
Bruce M.:
(This is going to be long. If you plan to read on, you might want to pour yourself a drink) Two recurring themes in the Beatles' songs -- that it's ok to be different, you need to live your life in a way that feels right and you'll be okay, and that there is hope even when things look bleak -- had wormed their way into my consciousness so thoroughly that I simply could not be Then, after being immersed in the passage of time and the distance we've all traveled since I was listening to those Beatle records as a kid, on comes New and -- bang! -- we're back in 1967. And Paul is singing the exact same thoughts that got me through adolescence: I never knew what I could be What I could do Then we were new We can do what we want We can live as we choose -- it's a happy song, fer chrissakes -- but it's 50+ years of worry and doubt and struggle and gratefulness and joy all rushing to the surface, propelled by this gorgeous song. To oversimplify a bit, my parents taught me what was expected of me. The Beatles taught me that I didn't have to be limited by what was expected of me. And I will be grateful for that till the day I die.
Bruce, it's 7a.m. ish, so I'll just stick with my coffee Thanks, though. Paul/Beatles inspired/inspires hope, gratefulness, and joy, and it's ok to be who you are. I concur. Their music has saved me through plenty of bad times, too. Paul's got lots of good years left in him, I would imagine, and even if he never did another thing, which I doubt, we have so much to listen to as is. Thank you for putting these thoughts into words. I could give my own story about their music instilling hope into my young fifth grade life when everything else in my life looked hopeless. I got through that year, literally, by playing their albums and singing their songs, and have never felt hopeless since.
Firstly, Bruce that was really heartfelt reading your experience with the Beatles music when you were growing up. Fan4-45 years thanks for sharing your experiences as well. I was equally inspired by the Beatles when I was young and I got from them my lifelong inspiration for Love, Peace and acceptance. I also loved that the Beatles were free to act silly and loved that they liked to have fun and clown around. They didn't care what other people thought, they just were themselves. It gave me the freedom to just be myself as well and to try and just have fun and enjoy life. NEW didn't make me cry, I find it freeing. The song that made me cry buckets when I first heard it was Early Days. It really affected me very deeply emotionally.
Agreed! And, I think that is his statement to all those people writing books ABOUT them.
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Loved the coverage of the Beatles on Sixty Minutes last night; all those great photos and details of the relationship/friendship the photographer had/has with the group. The recurring theme was: What you saw was exactly who they were and what you got. No pretense. They had the supreme and effortless confidence to just be themselves. That came through to all who watched them perform and to all of us who listened to their music.
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i admit it has the same effect on me... i'm 43 years old and maybe it's my "midlife crisis" but those days i'm not sure that what i've done in my life at a professional point of view is really OK. I'm a teacher and and i love my job but in the new school i am, my boss is megalomaniac and my pupils are so difficult ! As i always had an artistic disposition, i really think about this "we can do what we want, we can live as we choose". Moreover, my 17 years old son has the same disposition as me and he's often talking with me about what he should do in his life .... i really think that rarely a song brings so many questions.
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Fantastic post! Good on you! Yes, what the Beatles overt message is, I feel, FREEDOM! You can achieve many great things if you put in the belief and work ethic. The Beatles story os mostly a magical, great story. And music can help liberate people in many different ways; The Beatles help you come to terms with who you are as a person. I totally understand how the Beatles helped you through your difficult teen years. Music helped me through my often lonesome and difficult teen years to: I was an outsider, bit different but bands like Slipknot and Marilyn Manson (among many others) helped me have confidence in myself and that it was ok to be not like everyone else. I'm still a massive fan of both of these bands My Beatles obsession started off in 2003 when I was 17, and I too found myself connecting with them. Indeed, in around 2006 aged 21 I found myself connecting more with Lennon's solo music than I had previously: albums like Plastic Ono Band really got me through s difficult period, it was if someone was putting their arm around my shoulder. Cheesy but true, and I do get very emotional at times with the music.
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Great call on the energy that Early Days > New segue creates, and great story Bruce. The Here Today > Ballroom Dancing segue hits me in a very similar way.
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The music of The Beatles, Wings, and Paul McCartney are part of the fabric of my soul, and always will be. I was seven years old when I watched The Beatles debut on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964, and it was pure love for them ever since that day. I can get quite emotional listening to the Fabs or Paul, so I get how "NEW" makes you feel. I believe "NEW" is a great recording, Paul's best work in many, many years. I love it.
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lovelylinda:
The music of The Beatles, Wings, and Paul McCartney are part of the fabric of my soul, and always will be. I was seven years old when I watched The Beatles debut on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964, and it was pure love for them ever since that day. I can get quite emotional listening to the Fabs or Paul, so I get how "NEW" makes you feel. I believe "NEW" is a great recording, Paul's best work in many, many years. I love it.
I could have written that post--just change the age to eight!
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My goodness, I don't know how I missed this post a couple of months ago, but that was absolutely beautiful, Bruce! I found it looking for an appropriate thread to mention that, for the first time, I heard the song "New" in a gay bar. OK, it was a nearly empty gay bar, early afternoon, but we had just finished two glasses of wine and were ready to leave when suddenly those ascending notes of "New" burst out of the speakers. I looked at my husband and said, "Well, we CAN'T leave NOW!" So we sat and listened. The (youngish) bartender came over and said, "Is this Paul McCartney?" I said, "Yes, we're big fans." Just a very nice moment, and I can relate to so much of what Bruce said.
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favoritething:
My goodness, I don't know how I missed this post a couple of months ago, but that was absolutely beautiful, Bruce! I found it looking for an appropriate thread to mention that, for the first time, I heard the song "New" in a gay bar. OK, it was a nearly empty gay bar, early afternoon, but we had just finished two glasses of wine and were ready to leave when suddenly those ascending notes of "New" burst out of the speakers. I looked at my husband and said, "Well, we CAN'T leave NOW!" So we sat and listened. The (youngish) bartender came over and said, "Is this Paul McCartney?" I said, "Yes, we're big fans." Just a very nice moment, and I can relate to so much of what Bruce said.
How sweet! Thank you. A gay friend (that I didn't know was a Beatles fan until a few days ago) is having a Beatles-themed party next weekend, so maybe there are more of out there than we know!
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Bruce M.:
favoritething:
My goodness, I don't know how I missed this post a couple of months ago, but that was absolutely beautiful, Bruce! I found it looking for an appropriate thread to mention that, for the first time, I heard the song "New" in a gay bar. OK, it was a nearly empty gay bar, early afternoon, but we had just finished two glasses of wine and were ready to leave when suddenly those ascending notes of "New" burst out of the speakers. I looked at my husband and said, "Well, we CAN'T leave NOW!" So we sat and listened. The (youngish) bartender came over and said, "Is this Paul McCartney?" I said, "Yes, we're big fans." Just a very nice moment, and I can relate to so much of what Bruce said.
How sweet! Thank you. A gay friend (that I didn't know was a Beatles fan until a few days ago) is having a Beatles-themed party next weekend, so maybe there are more of out there than we know!
Let us know how the party goes. Have a good time!
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Funnily enough both 'New' and 'Early Days' are the tracks I am most likely to skip. I'm not much of a Beatles fan so that probably doesn't help.
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Bruce M.:
favoritething:
My goodness, I don't know how I missed this post a couple of months ago, but that was absolutely beautiful, Bruce! I found it looking for an appropriate thread to mention that, for the first time, I heard the song "New" in a gay bar. OK, it was a nearly empty gay bar, early afternoon, but we had just finished two glasses of wine and were ready to leave when suddenly those ascending notes of "New" burst out of the speakers. I looked at my husband and said, "Well, we CAN'T leave NOW!" So we sat and listened. The (youngish) bartender came over and said, "Is this Paul McCartney?" I said, "Yes, we're big fans." Just a very nice moment, and I can relate to so much of what Bruce said.
How sweet! Thank you. A gay friend (that I didn't know was a Beatles fan until a few days ago) is having a Beatles-themed party next weekend, so maybe there are more of out there than we know!
"Closet" Beatle fans!
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ewanme:
Funnily enough both 'New' and 'Early Days' are the tracks I am most likely to skip. I'm not much of a Beatles fan so that probably doesn't help.
Off with your head!!
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Nancy R:
ewanme:
Funnily enough both 'New' and 'Early Days' are the tracks I am most likely to skip. I'm not much of a Beatles fan so that probably doesn't help.
Off with your head!!
Haha,
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Nancy R:
Bruce M.:
favoritething:
My goodness, I don't know how I missed this post a couple of months ago, but that was absolutely beautiful, Bruce! I found it looking for an appropriate thread to mention that, for the first time, I heard the song "New" in a gay bar. OK, it was a nearly empty gay bar, early afternoon, but we had just finished two glasses of wine and were ready to leave when suddenly those ascending notes of "New" burst out of the speakers. I looked at my husband and said, "Well, we CAN'T leave NOW!" So we sat and listened. The (youngish) bartender came over and said, "Is this Paul McCartney?" I said, "Yes, we're big fans." Just a very nice moment, and I can relate to so much of what Bruce said.
How sweet! Thank you. A gay friend (that I didn't know was a Beatles fan until a few days ago) is having a Beatles-themed party next weekend, so maybe there are more of out there than we know!
"Closet" Beatle fans!
Fortunately, that's in the past.