lemon juice & olive oil

you know how being songwriting partners is like marriage and songwriting is like sex and making an album is like being pregnant and songs are like your children. i don't even have anything to add to this it's just like. ok! yeah! what more can any of us do with this? you said it, man. sure!

People were reblogging this like it applies to other people. No, listen. This is about a specific guy. One guy in particular said all of this. This isn’t me romanticising music - Paul McCartney is mpreging himself with songs. He literally said this. He songwriting married John Lennon and then they had songwriting sex together in John’s attic which Paul called “Daddy’s Room.” Do you understand? I am barely even paraphrasing the words that came out of his mouth. This isn’t about the art of creation, it’s about inventing a pseudo-marriage with your best friend when you are 15 because it’s the 1950s and you’re repressed and British and they haven’t invented bisexuality yet and this is the only way you can have sex with him and have his babies, and then you spend the rest of your life Saying Things instead of admitting you think your friend’s hands are sexy and you want to suck his fingers. But you do still call his hands beautiful. You say this with words that are in the bible. And by you I mean just this one (1) guy (Paul McCartney) who did in fact say this about the guy he wrote songs with (John Lennon). It was a specific instance of these words coming into existence from the vocal cords of Sir Paul McCartney. No one else said all of this.

you know how being songwriting partners is like marriage and songwriting is like sex and making an album is like being pregnant and songs are like your children. i don't even have anything to add to this it's just like. ok! yeah! what more can any of us do with this? you said it, man. sure!

too many people IS so much meaner than how do you sleep in hindsight bc hdys is just a group project of “let’s write the most clever rhyming couplets we can about how paul sucks” but too many people is paul smiling as he leans in to whisper into john’s ear that “you may think you’re hot shit now but i’m going to come out of this so much happier and more successful than you will ever be and you will wake up to realize you ruined your own life.” and wouldn’t you know that’s exactly what happened. can’t you just imagine that song haunting john as he sat in the dakota during the late 70s, cursing his writer’s block and deciding to throw paul with his guitar out of the house rather than concede that he had been right?

Too many people is the good luck babe bridge

looking up gay bars and I found one with a giant John Lennon picture painted on the wall

reserve me the John Lennon booth

John profile, 1963

John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs, Ian Leslie (2025)

What it comes down to is that I simply don’t want to hear about the Beatles from anyone except the female fans who were there. They are the ones who go it. They are the ones who all of this was and always should’ve been for.

it’s still so crazy to me that the guy who wrote this john and paul a love story book is a transphobe like ok dude if you showed up to mclennon monday we would kill you with hammers

sorry im still mad bc how are you gonna say “love story” “and i love him” “how two lost boys from liverpool fell for each other” when you have so much hatred for queer people i hope he dies. profiting off us when you can probably find more in depth analysis written by 26 year olds on tumblr for free

#a love story in songs is such an overdone idea anyway like oh does it come with an 8tracks playlist? get a job (x)

Social conditioning is so strong that many people here seem so honored that a white man cared enough to steal their ideas. Instead of, you know, wondering why they don't have the opportunity of publishing such material themselves.

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