"Imagine" is a uniquely bad song in so many ways Like it has the politics of a militant socialist anthem but the aesthetic of a sappy generic hymn to positivity so it doesn't function well as either if you actually listen to the lyricshttps://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/1241015109641744384 …
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Anyway there's something specifically very Boomer limousine liberal about this song, this idea that utopia could exist and all these big drivers of history - capitalism, nationalism, religion - could just evaporate if everyone just decided to be nice to each other
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The fact that-
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It was an aesthetic that was maybe more plausible in its hippie/folky era, but has gotten weirder and weirder with time.
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When I said that the song itself was bad, I was told I didn't understand it because I wasn't intelligent enough to imagine a better world. People gotta cape for a deadbeat dad who could write sappy songs good.
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He was just dumbing down Yoko's poetry
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"Imagine no possessions" -John Lennon in 1971
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Also like, "Imagine no religion" is such a 15yo edgelord atheist sentiment. Like some kid who just read Nietzsche for the first time wrote that lyric in the margins of his notebook.
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Also pretty much everyone who says that really just means "Mainstream Christianity and abusive religious practice in general". No one who knows what they're talking about actually wants all religion to go away.
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