John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ is a pretty lousy song. Sure, it is still massively popular today, but then again, so is war and racism. Numbers and time multiplied doesn’t necessarily show the inherent quality of something.
Either way, that doesn’t stop people being precious about it and today, various arms are being thrown into the air in disgust (because there’s little else to be disgusted about of course) after Cee Lo Green changed the words to one of the laziest lyrics in pop history.
During a televised performance on New Year’s Eve, the visually impaired Green altered Lennon’s lyrics, turning a line that criticises religion into one that actively promotes it.
Dressed in a black robe and shades (seriously, is he blind or something? He’s a big lad so his eyesight could’ve been taken from him through Type 2 Diabetes complications for all we know), Cee Lo took to the stage and sang:
“Imagine there’s no heaven, it’s easy if you try”
So far, so correct. But then JEEZ! IS NOTHING SACRED ANYMORE?! happened.
“Imagine there’s no countries, it isn’t hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for… and all religion is true.”
Of course, back in ’71, Lennon sang ‘no religion too’, which everyone kinda missed the first time ’round. He also sang ‘imagine no possessions’, while sat in his entirely white mansion, complete with the specially cooled room which kept all his fur coats just so.
Yeah. No possessions. Some people don’t have to imagine it Johnno because they don’t have any, y’spoiled berk.
Naturally, the hooting atheists were quick to complain in the most pious way possible. They took to their pulpits on twitter, with one shouting:
“You sang Imagine in a fur coat & expensive jewelry and changed [the lyrics] to be pro-religion!”
Oh the delicious irony! Green eventually tweeted an apology on his special phone for blind people:
“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 then deleted all his apologies because he knew damn well that most Atheists aren’t even worth talking to. Anyway, here’s the proof of Cee Lo Green singing a different line in an already pedestrian, clunky rock ballad.
john says
john lennon himself stated that when you lift lyrics from another song writer’s work it is not a rip-off, it is rather a love in. google it! lennon ripped off ideas for the song from the communist manifesto. he also ripped off chuck berry lyrics for come together. all those all you need is love types are really spewing out the hateful bile! the atheists have just proven they worship a man and his works/words.
chez says
c-low is a d-bag.