beatle mania

true life: im a huge beatles fan. i know, i know. theyre old. theyre dead. theyre broken up. their music is totally dated. theyre before my time. im a huge dork. blah blah. all of those things may be true. but it doesnt discount the fact that they are hands down one of the best bands ever. their music is amazing. 

that being said, i dont like ALL of their music. the early stuff was very boy band, cheesy stuff that their record company made them record to please the masses. its very bubblegum. the talent is there, the voices, the instruments. but its just not real. its very superficial. what i really like is the darker stuff. the music they recorded once they had established themselves. once they were making enough money that their record company said 'ok, you guys rock. do what you need to do.' basically, the music they made after they started getting high. ha. but true. and while i dont condone going to work under the influence, maybe thats what worked for them. because the result was some of the best music ever created. 

case in point, although the beatles as a band have been dunzo for quite some time, their legacy lives on. one of my alltime favorite movies, love actually, features a acapella version of all you need is love at a wedding, orchestrated by a friend to surprise the bride and groom. the movie across the universe is basically a modern musical, set to versions of many beatles songs, including characters named jude and prudence - get it, hey jude and dear prudence? and the most heartwrenching redone version of let it be [if you havent seen it, please youtube asap]. if you take a trip to vegas, you can see cirque du soleil's love that recognizes just how fab songs like come together and lucy in the sky with diamonds is. it just so happens to be my favorite song. not sure why i relate, because its about drug addiction, buttt the words are insane. and duh, rockband just made a version entirely made up of beatles songs. thats like a ridic big honor for bands, right? rockband is like a phenomenon right now. 

most people i know probably think im strange for loving the beatles. part of me feels like i need bell bottoms and hippie flowers in my hair when i listen to them. part of me thinks i should be my mother. part of me thinks i need to grow mj in my closet (a little nd reference, if you will). but i cant help it. everyone has guilty pleasures. i guess the beatles are one of mine. and maybe they were smoking god knows what when they wrote the songs. but like i said, maybe it worked. they rock out. and you should rock out to them.