PAUL MCCARTNEY THEBEATLES:GETBACK (2021) episode 3: day 21 → the rooftop concert
The greatest revelation, to a casual like me, is young Paul McCartney. My perception of him coming in was almost certainly a product of not studying the subject deeply enough, but I thought of McCartney as a sort of happy puppy dog figure, a la Mr. Peanut Butter in Bojack Horseman, a poppy contrast to the brooding, poetic/psychedelic genius of John Lennon. (…) In Get Back, I realized within minutes exactly how wrong I’ve always been. Above all, the two things that struck me most were McCartney’s sheer intensity and his ridiculous, irrepressible talent. The latter might sound awfully obvious — this is Paul McCartney, idiot, of course he’s an otherworldly talent — but watching him rehearse, riff off his fellow Beatles, and invent melody from thin air makes it clear that I never came close to understanding the scope of it. (…)
But McCartney’s intensity is something else entirely, and totally unexpected. Far from an innocent, he’s infused with pure energy; in ways subtle and overt, he can’t help imposing himself on everyone around him. Even when he’s in his “unfailingly polite” mode (…) he’s brimming with hidden force, the biggest person in the room. (…)
What’s so compelling about Paul McCartney is that more than any of the others, he seemed to want to break free. (…) He’s a one-man army, a force of nature, pick any term you want — they’re all true.
I wanna see a beatles cover band that instead of going for a 1964 look and doing a catalogue sampler from love me do to let it be, they’re specifically a hamburg beatles cover band who snort 200mg of adderall then play kansas city hey hey hey for 8 hours straight and make george do a 20 minute guitar solo while the rest of them go shotgun some heinekens and eat a piece of raw meat
how do you sleep is like paul mccartney i am in your walls and im going to kill you and too many people is like sorry i cant hear you over the sound of normal chill pussy from someone without a personality disorder. and my sheep
“Ringo isn’t withdrawn. He is completely open and friendly, the sweetest of them all really. He is not self-centered in any way … Ringo is a much stronger personality than he has appeared. He’s also much handsomer in real life, with rich blue eyes. He is in no sense the buffoon of the group, or even their pet mascot. His opinions are as valid as theirs. But in light of Paul and John’s more obvious talents, he has kept himself even quieter than he is. But they rely on him a great deal. He is a vital part of the four, contributing elements that they need - that old sentimentality again, but also a strong common sense, the ordinary human touch.”
worse than simply “the beatles are overrated” opinions is the ones who go “the music is fine but kind of basic and there’s way better stuff now”. if mcr released i want you (she’s so heavy) tomorrow you’d all be jacking off to it. shut up.
