HELP!: We need somebody with artistic respect!
Well, well, well, brothers and sisters, the Apocalypse must be at hand---a musical using the Beatles' music. No, it's not about Charlie Manson, i's about a dude from England who hooks up with an idealistic chick (not really a woman, lady, etc. from what I can tell) named Jude in the good ol USA during (affect faux surprise here) the 1960's and Vietnam War protests.
HIP HIP HOORAY!
Well, I guess it isn't as bad Catcher in the Rye, but the 1960's, especially Vietnam, has come to symbolize coming of age in the arts' collective psyches. And who's handed this foreign picture--the youth. Of course, the dream is promoted by well-off armchair intellectuals who want to make sure the youth only remember Vietnam as the greatest American tragedy/injustice/etc. ever (and not for leading to the deaths of countless thousands under Communism). But this isn't about my views on being nursed on ideologies (not by my own family, though, thankfully), it's about a movie.
The thing that really makes this movie of note is its musical take on the Beatles' songs. Just a few months ago we witnessed the desecration of their catalog by George Martin and his kid in Love. Love was really a desperate attempt to cull up profits and maybe re-inspire Beatle-mania. A Cirque de whatever performing to "expert" re-mixes of the Beatles is just a horrible intellectualizing and esotericizing music that was meant for everyone rather than a noveau elite. This new film, Across the Universe, comes at an interesting point in the music
s ownership, where only two members remain out of the original four. Was Harrison a stumbling block? Possibly. It seems all to convinient that only a few years afte his death more and more Beatles-related commercialistic attempts are coming out. Of course you really ccan't blame Harrison.
The last official Beatles album issued (technically released post-Beatles) was a disgusting mash-up and overly lush concoction called, ironically enough, Let It Be. Fortunately, though, someone decided to restore the album to its original sound. Let It Be....Naked is one of the few success stories in the Beatles cover catalog. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band risked turning them into a lounge act memory, but for the stellar performances of Aerosmith.
If you want to perhaps the most agriegiously ridiculous exploitation of the Beatles' music watch this clip I found on YouTube. THIS IS NOT A JOKE, THIS WAS REALLY RELEASED!!!!
HIP HIP HOORAY!
Well, I guess it isn't as bad Catcher in the Rye, but the 1960's, especially Vietnam, has come to symbolize coming of age in the arts' collective psyches. And who's handed this foreign picture--the youth. Of course, the dream is promoted by well-off armchair intellectuals who want to make sure the youth only remember Vietnam as the greatest American tragedy/injustice/etc. ever (and not for leading to the deaths of countless thousands under Communism). But this isn't about my views on being nursed on ideologies (not by my own family, though, thankfully), it's about a movie.
The thing that really makes this movie of note is its musical take on the Beatles' songs. Just a few months ago we witnessed the desecration of their catalog by George Martin and his kid in Love. Love was really a desperate attempt to cull up profits and maybe re-inspire Beatle-mania. A Cirque de whatever performing to "expert" re-mixes of the Beatles is just a horrible intellectualizing and esotericizing music that was meant for everyone rather than a noveau elite. This new film, Across the Universe, comes at an interesting point in the music
s ownership, where only two members remain out of the original four. Was Harrison a stumbling block? Possibly. It seems all to convinient that only a few years afte his death more and more Beatles-related commercialistic attempts are coming out. Of course you really ccan't blame Harrison.
The last official Beatles album issued (technically released post-Beatles) was a disgusting mash-up and overly lush concoction called, ironically enough, Let It Be. Fortunately, though, someone decided to restore the album to its original sound. Let It Be....Naked is one of the few success stories in the Beatles cover catalog. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band risked turning them into a lounge act memory, but for the stellar performances of Aerosmith.
If you want to perhaps the most agriegiously ridiculous exploitation of the Beatles' music watch this clip I found on YouTube. THIS IS NOT A JOKE, THIS WAS REALLY RELEASED!!!!
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