Yoko and The Beatles
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- čas přidán 7. 07. 2024
- The reasons the Beatles broke up are extremely well documented and even at the height of their animosity none of the band ever blamed Yoko Ono for it - so why is this still a thing?
The amount of editing and censorship I had to do to keep this video from getting age restricted (including even the Birth of Venus gag) was funny at first, then it was frustrating, and then it was just farcical, at points veering into disrespectful once it gets into heavier territory towards the middle of the video (which is why there's an unaliving prevention service at the bottom of the video). It took me almost a week of trial and error to make it inoffensive enough to be seen by people who are not logged into the app.
If you want to see the uncensored version of this video (trust me, it’s better), as well as every other video I've produced in the last three years you can do so here: nebula.tv/videos/lindsayellis... or on my Patreon: / lindsayellis
To be clear, these other videos will never be on CZcams, because they are Nebula Originals - Nebula owns the distribution rights. This one was not an Original.
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0:00-10:30 The Ballad of John and Yoko
10:30-16:10 She's Not a Girl That Misses Much
16:10-20:56 Baby You're a Rich Man
20:56-24:21 Don't Pass Me By
24:21-27:28 Isn't it a Pity
27:28-32:52 I'm So Tired
32:52-34:31 There's a shadow hanging over me
34:31-39:16 The Fool on the Hill
39:16-46:07 You Never Give Me Your Money
46:07-55:29 Everybody's Got Something to Hide (Except for Me and My Monkey)
55:29-01:02:58 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
01:02:58-01:04:54 Her Majesty
01:04:54-01:07:53 I used to be cruel to my woman, I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved
01:07:53-01:18:18 Carry That Weight
01:18:18-01:24:27 Happiness is a Warm Gun
01:24:27-01:32:04 Well I bet you I'm gonna be a big star
01:32:04-01:36:54 Now and Then, I miss you
01:36:54 Remember Love - Zábava
Yoko Ono didn't break up The Beatles, but she did reunite Lindsay Ellis and CZcams
To some that is an even greater crime. But to most, it is duly appreciated.
🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡
Reunited and it feels so good.
Yoko One deserves a million awards for bringing Lindsay Ellis back to CZcams
arguably a more important event
you know the video is about to be fire when you get the suicide prevention disclaimer beforehand
i didn't get one 😮
Hahahahahahahahah m8
Yeah its right under the video. 'Hey so uh. Cobaaaain..' "DONT DO IT'"- You tube.
@@Ocidad You’re ngmi.
Witness herrrr!!! Witnessssss!!!!!
Superb!!!!
The last few minutes of this (especially Yoko's tweet about the chair) made me think of something Yoko herself said about the breakup of the Beatles. She referred to a Japanese folktale of a beautiful golden temple. One of the worshippers in this temple eventually burned it down because he couldn't stand the thought of it decaying as the years went by, and wanted the temple to stand forever in people's memories in its most perfect form. Yoko said that this was one of the reasons the Beatles remain so popular...they ended before they deteriorated.
People think the Beatle’s breakup was a tragedy. In reality they pulled a MatPat almost half a century before it was cool.
Oh I love that!
The entire 27 club is like that, too. They are definitely good to begin with. And they also get a multiplier on their memory due to exiting before they fizzle out. They would probably not be held up on quite as high pedestals if they had lived to ripe old ages.
indeed
So Baby Boomers screamed so incessantly during Beatles performances that:
-They didn't hear the music
-The Beetles couldn't hear themselves and quit touring
-Future generations can't enjoy the live recordings
I feel like there's a metaphor here somewhere
Beatles.
Somewhere..
... the boomers ruined the future for their own enjoyment?
Makes me glad for the more controlled screaming of fan chants. I can actually hear BTS.
It continues with K-pop performances X'D I'll never go see a concert... impossible to ear them lol
Lindsay: "For thousands of years I lay dormant! Who dares disrupt my slumber?"
Random guy: "You know Yoko broke up the Beatles, right?"
Lindsay: ...
Is this a dbza reference?
@@samoppedisano3994Power Rangers, I think?
@@EviePontecorvo That would be, "After ten thousand years, I'm free!" (possibly with a side order of *_Who Disturbs My Slumber?_* of Disney's Alladin fame), yeah nah this one's a more niche internet trash meme.
@@samoppedisano3994of all the places she could have dropped the vid she chose here... in the middle of the artic
Paul on Howard Stern did say it was John who broke up the Beatles
This is so thorough, detailed, heartfelt, and poignant.
Favourite CZcamsr spotted in the wild!
Hey, Dan... wanna buy some goooold?
Yeah... but did they f?
It goes in deep without running into tangents, like how General Walker was a member of the John Birch Society and promoted it to his troops, which would mean explaining what the JBS is (yes, it's still around) and why US Army officers cannot promote political causes to their subordinates (until recently it was an understood rule that officers were not supposed to vote, only enlisted personnel could). Speaking of tangents I want to thank you for introducing me to the work of Michael Snow; I never went to film school, and the film classes in college I took were on narrative films, so whatever non-narrative experimental films I've found I had to discover on my own. I will be looking into Snow's fellow Structuralist filmmakers.
Do you know James Rolfe?
never was a big fan of Nirvana, but I read "Sing Backwards and Weep", an autobiography of the vocalist of Screaming Trees, Mark Lannegan, who went from touring with Alice in Chains (as he was best friends with both Kurt and Layne), to... being a homeless heroin and crack addict and dealer.
But anyway the point is, he was saved... by Courney Love, who somehow managed to locate him and offered him a exclusive detox and recovery all paid for by her, vreated specifically for musicians and artists struggling. She had nothing to gain from this. Mark was never a big star besides Seattle grunge fans. His most recognisable contribution to grunge is probably being a part of few songs on the Mad Season album... and he was COMPLETELY forgotten by then, nobody cared, nobody would even recognise him as he looked like your typical junkie hobo. He didn't have the star power for her to be like "Imma get him clean and squeeze him for money once he starts releasing music again..
She did it because she lost her husband to heroin, and lost herself to heroin, so she spent time helping out her husbands old friends to get clean, and fellow musicians who were never big and could never afford proper detox. And I never heard about this before, and I never heard anyone taking about this meaning she did it without any media or public attention.
I never understood all the hate she got. I truly believe it's rooted in misogyny. Kurt and her both suffered from addiction, and Kurt Def had his demons.
@@eddielouisemoran5881A lot of people can't comprehend suicide. That is a sign of health I suppose, but they miss the point and try to seek a rational explanation where there often isn't one.
Depression feels very clear and rational, but it will completely screw up your emotional and rational intelligence.
Courtney had made herself a perfect target for all kinds of accusations. Her public persona was that of the white trash rock bitch. She even copied the style of Nancy Spungen. It is so damn easy to blame her, because she looked and behaved like a hot mess.
What makes me so mad is that most guys who blamed and moralized over Courtney, probably dreamed of a woman like that: beautiful and destructive, a girlfriend who doesn't give a fuck and can party harder than any of your male friends. That kind of woman (stereotypically) is very seductive, but still men tend to hold them at a higher moral standard just because they are women. They get a pass, but they don't get a pass.
I believe Courtney was a bit of that, but she was also a loving partner and a mother. She was growing out of that destructive phase and being a couple years older than Kurt, she had begun to face her demons at a point when he just wasn't ready for it.
Courtney lost her husband at what? 30 years old. The whole world's attention was directed at her, and a lot of Nirvana's fans almost felt like their own personal loss was just as big or more than Courtney's tragedy.
Fuck 'em.
@@eddielouisemoran5881Misogyny is a big part of it. Marie Antoinette was portraited as a devilish woman because Louis was in love with her and didn't have official mistresses. Every unpopular policy of louis was her fault because that evil woman was controling him with lust and the help of devil. Very old story.
Even though academics have debunked this portrail, in the collective unconscious she was still evil.
About Ringo in India. He had some lifelong intestinal issues and spent quite some time in hospital as a child. It was a bit more than not liking spicy food. And as far as "Don't Pass Me By", there is an interview from '64 or '65 I think? Where the interviewer asks of Ringo has ever written a song, and John and Paul mockingly begin to sing the chorus for "Don't Pass Me By", so it had been in the pipeline for some time.
As someone with gut disease, though, even if he just didn't like spicy food and could only do with his beans, I hold no judgment. Spice is a bitch if you don't have the fortitude for it it, and it's absolutely iconic that he packed himself a suitcase of his favorite go to foods.
And I think Ringo got pneumonia once and missed the first leg of (the last?) tour and they just grabbed a sub and went on tour anyway until be caught up with them in Australia, but I think they did a warm welcome for him... Anyway, I think Ringo spent a lot of time being sick the first 30 years of his life
I have a severe intestinal disease, but spices are generally fine for me, and I love Indian food. If I was going to India I would be extremely cautious, however - not primarily because of the spices but quite frankly the insufficient kitchen hygiene standards.
My heart skipped a beat when I got this notification.
Saaame
I know I immediately opened CZcams to see if this was another trailer and saw the length and immediately ran to get headphones.
@@kiragane99 me three!!!!
Same
Facts
Only funny joke I've ever seen about Yoko was in the Simpsons when she ordered "a single plum, floating in perfume, served in a man's hat" and turns out she turned it into a sculpture at her exhibition! I genuinely love that she has a sense of humor
I was young when that came out and it was my first exposure to Yoko so I thought that "yoko onno broke up the beatles" was because she made such weird art she fascinated John away because I thought the Beatles music was boring.
@@dismurrart6648 Based Yoko?
Slight correction, that wasn't her that made it - another artist did and she included it in an exhibition featuring lots of different artists making art inspired by hers.
@@seamussmyth1928 Well its not yoko ono in the simpson episode. its another artist.
You missed the best part of the gag, which is when Moe just pulls it out from under the bar already prepared
Being a black woman and seeing this is so complicated! Like I feel so bad as a woman for Yoko Ono but as a black woman her racism is so disgusting and harmful! No one should go through what she went through! The sexualization of her and other Asian women, the murdering of her husband in front of her, and the misogynistic backlash she received while grieving are all too sick to fathom!
You're valid in everything you're feeling. The racism yoko experienced and her racism against black women can both exist at once and neither side has to be negated or justified. embrace the grey of life.
It really sucks when marginalized people project that horrible energy right back at other marginalized people. We could be so much stronger if people could just reject that impulse.
@@kasia3582yep! Just because someone is from a minority doesn’t mean they can’t be prejudiced against other minorities
Thank you so much for writing this comment, and calling out Ono's racism. It's such a shame that she fails to identify that, by uniting with Black & other WOC, her work and message can be so much stronger
What did Yoko do that’s racist I tried loookihg it up but found nothing
My dad was a massive fan of the Beatles. He was team Paul while his closest friend was team John.
My Dad always maintained though that Yoko saved John and made him financially stable again.
She did save him in a way because she introduced him to 60s feminism which made him rethink the way he was treating women, you can hear it in him when he's explaining why it was dumb of him to not credit her on Imagine, It's hard to say how we'd think of him today if he never met her.
@@samantharedacted9226There’s an interview in the 70s where John admits to his mistreatment of women in the past and overall anger issues and says he wants to set a better example going forward. That’s part of why he wanted to do more public activism and political songs. Many people see his songs about peace, love and activism to be hypocritical considering how horrible he could be in his personal life, but I see someone trying to be better and to set a better example as a public figure than the person they used to be (not that it excuses him hurting people). I think Yoko definitely played a role in him being more open about these things.
It’s simply horrific to learn that in the immediate wake of John’s murder, Yoko was plagued with death threats, bomb threats, suicides of fans, theft and betrayals from people looking to cash in. How sick people can be.
Much like Alexander the Great, as soon as he fell, so did everything he built. Legacies just end up like I suppose…
@@eyeizarandummuggaI mean sure his hastily conquered and ungovernable empire collapsed but the Seleucids, Ptolemeus etc. went on and Hellenic culture impacted all the regions conquered by Alexander. His name is remembered to this day with the epithet "the Great" so I'd say his legacy did not crumble.
when life gives you lennons...
It was bedlam for at least a year in Ono's household.
It reminds me of the insane crap that kpop stars go through, like being stalked across the country to their hotels, literally people attempting to kidnap them from offstage.
Perfect Blue really was only a slight exaggeration of reality.
"You know Yoko broke up The Beatles right?" is to Lindsay Ellis what "Lion King is a ripoff of Kimba" was to YMS
What is YMS?
@@thedoublechip YMS stands for the channel Your Movie Sucks.
I'm *so old* I remember this (ripoff) rumor and eventually having to go to Suncoast to get a copy of Kimba because no rental stores had a resonable selection of foreign films (not even incredibly popular anime) in stock. Even then, it was only available to buy on VHS.
(Disk was a thing but still slim for anything without *massive* following.)
[Bones creaking at the thought.]
I love how true this is and I love you
Wait, it wasn't?
As a kid i participated in Yoko’s wish tree installation and was lead to believe by my mother that she was really cool and it was really important that we (my family) all got to be a part of her art. It was so fucking strange as an adult (and even before as a kid) hearing people my age spew the ‘yoko ono broke up the beatles’ and ‘she’s an evil crazy person waaaah’ rhetoric about her. It always felt weird and off but like I always assumed I was missing something, that these people knew more than me and that my mother was wrong. I also loved the music the Beatles made (the yellow submarine movie was like my shit for way too long). All that is to say thank you Lindsay, I am glad my mom is right and that the ick those people caused was well warranted.
the "yoko bad" narrative was all over cartoons for kids, so many just repeated it without knowing anything about it. and yoko is very different, so ignorant people who fear different things tend to believe anti-yoko rhetoric without questioning it. many people already have an anti-yoko opinion, based on nothing, when they realize why the beatles were cool.
I remember a few days after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscar's I came across an image online.
It was a cartoon that depicted Will Smith as a marionette puppet whose strings were being pulled by Jada Pinkett Smith. She was drawn as a monstrous caricature of herself.
I couldn't help but repeatedly think about that cartoon while watching this video
I read that as a child he saw his father abusing his mother and was helpless to stop it. And that personal history influenced him stepping up to slap Chris Rock. That he didn't want to sit by again and watch a women he loved treated badly.
Although he absolutely should NOT have done that. That reasoning is much more tragic and understandable than "mean lady made him do it"
I felt like I was going crazy! What do you people mean she “made him” slap Chris? How??
It’s insane people repeat this cycle over and over uncritically.
The fact people in my country generally agree with him slapping Chris is so fucking funny to me. Like this opinion united the left and the right, just for weirdos to act like they WOULDN'T defend their wives honor (and if they wouldn't, they're bad spouses)
Seeing John Lennon vehemently insist that his black friends gave him permission to say the N-word is a level of cringe that you can never truly prepare for.
John Lennon said and did many unsavory things, including beating his first wife and allegedly berating Epstein for being gay, worried that it would tarnish his rise to fame. But you're absolutely right, cringe to say the least and I'm a bit surprised Yoko hasn't pulled it from the available catalog.
I had to go 'oooh NO' out loud. Hearing somebody use 'my black friends' and 'straight white guys (sic)' that many years ago rlly got me
He tried, and for God's sake, he failed miserably.
Lindsay was voicing my thoughts. “John? John, please stop.”
@@Sailormac2Forreal, literally speaking my inner monologue, haha
Hey, I paid for a Nebula subscription SPECIFICALLY to watch this, and now you have the audacity to upload it to YT for free? Awesome! Really glad you're comfortable enough to upload on here again, you have been sorely missed!
I literally got one yesterday just to see this video, im so mad but im glad more people will get to watch it
@@felentelechy yeah I got mine last month! But yes, this is genuinely one of the best video essays I've ever seen and I'm really glad everyone will get to experience it
A lot of time youtuber have you play to see things sooner then everyone else but careful not to make it exclusive so it's "pay for it to see it earlier" over "pay to see something no one else can see" Did she ever mention she would never put these vids on youtube? I know she quit youtube because of drama ...but she didn't fully Joecat it.
Nebula is the best place for quality content these days, thank goodness.
It feels like a 3-in-1 for me - I got to see it early (yay!), support her making more video essays (yeah!), and now she’s comfortable posting on youtube again (YEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH)
Words cannot describe the pure joy I am now feeling with this upload. You have been so deeply missed Lindsay and I hope this means you are back to bless us with your video essays that we’ve all miss so much
you are truly the goat. seriously, i’m going to get a nebula subscription because of you. thank you for everything you’ve ever made for us. i’ve been here since your nostalgia chick days and you’ve always been a very thoughtful and innovative artist who somehow improves with every project. thank you
The Queen has returned..
all bow down
she was technically never gone, she has been active on nebula for a long time
Long live the Queen
Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl, after all
The real version of this has been I. Nebula for months
"Nobody ever said anything about Paul having a spell over me when I was with him for a long time. Or me having a spell over Paul. They didn't think that was abnormal. Two guys together."
Don't worry John, it's just that nobody had invented AO3 yet
hmm
As much as I hate the ppl who post 2 ppl from the past as gay, it’s not nearly as stupid as the Yoko haters
@@swansonjoe7121 If you saw the Peter Jackson documentary, that is heavily edited, and approved by Yoko, during the recording of Let It Be, seeing her doing the annoying screams inside the recording studios, on camera, imagine the things she did outside shooting. Paul Lyrics in "Get Back" are stupid I guess, because Jojo is Yoko. People "hate" on Yoko for a reason, is not misogyny, Lynda is a woman and nobody is "blaming" her.
@@SebastianHackeado “heavily edited“ ofc it is! Who tf is gonna watch over 300 hours of footage ? And I don’t like how you insinuate the bs about Yoko. Are you not watching the video?
@swansonjoe7121 you know if they ever release all 300 hours of recording footage the fans would buy it in a heart beat. The Beatles are still a cash cow
I’m absolutely tired of the trope where a woman is responsible for the downfall (perceived or otherwise), of her partner just by existing. It’s insulting to both parties.
Like give a dude credit for his choices. Even if they aren’t good ones.
For instance everyone is like “Megan has ruined Prince Harry’s life” as though he’s had no say as to what happens. It’s entirely possible that’s true, but it’s also entirely possible that he’s just living the life he wants to live, but because people don’t understand, they’ve decided she is a problem.
Having watched this video on New Year's with friends, it still hits so hard and some of Lindsay's best work.
New years?
Not gonna lie. Yoko is legit "My haters are my motivators." That's pretty badass.
I keep thinking of her song Death of Samantha: "Every day I thank god, That I'm such a cool chick, baby"
That a hardass bar
Michael Jordan: "That's all I needed."
Wrong. She is an evil woman and admitted to practicing witchcraft multiple times.
Now that's based.
A good example of the misogyny Yoko dealt with is the fact that I learned "Yoko broke up the Beatles" before I ever learned Lennon beat Cynthia.
seriously. the only thing i ever knew about yoko was that shes an evil harpy who broke up the beatles. its unbelievably sad to think that that is how people have and will see her for a long time. i doubt we'll get a wide social acknowledgement of this maybe ever but if it does happen, probably not for genuinely another 100 years.
John Lennon didn't beat Yoko. He hit his ex-wife Cynthia once. By the time he was with Yoko, that was the biggest regret of his life. Pretty much the main reason we know about John's domestic violence is that he wrote a bunch of songs about how he felt so bad about it. Not defending him, just want to get the story straight.
@@MegaMegaMiner100 This. Lennon genuinely felt bad for what he did to Cynthia and wanted to better himself as a person. Sadly, he died before he could really atone for it, so that's how history remembers him.
@@spookyspice596yeah that’s typically what happens when you beat a woman, you’re known as a woman beater.
i know i know nuance, but i don’t feel bad for grown ass domestic abusers
Oh I learned about Yoko the only way any young millennial did, thru the weird Powerpuff Girls "parody" of the Beatles and Mojojojo's gf being the Yoko stand in. Why was that in a kids show???
Leaving a comment for the algorithm if it helps! Glad to see you comfortable enough to post here again. This was an amazin watch on Nebula!
Lindsay Ellis? On my timeline? In 2024?
What a joyous occasion :D
That bit with Courtney crying while reading Kurt's letter hit me deep in my soul.
Yeah, that genuinly felt so real. Especially when she started swearing at him for leaving. If that was all an act, she's a damn good actress.
@@ofanichan did you not get the whole point of the entire video?
@@sparksparkle I did get it. I'm just saying it cuz people still believe she was the evil witch.
@@ofanichanI still low key think Courtney had something to do with it. To many inconsistancies
@@dewfan4I don’t think she had anything to do with it, but her and Kurt’s relationship was much more toxic and on its last legs than John and Yoko’s. It’s a little jarring hearing John and Yoko were also doing heroin, because compared to Kurt and Courtney, they look like members of the upright citizens brigade.
THE QUEEN HAS RETURNED -R
hi red
What is this, a crossover episode???
Red commenting on an ellis video? A surprise to be sure but a welcome one
My thoughts exactly! Also, good to see you over at this part of CZcams, Red!
As soon as i watched “Lindsay Ellis” in my feed, I thought exactly the same
This is easily one of the best and most well-made videos I've watched on this platform. It's nuanced, but also so distinctly human. Thank you
Boomer here, never been a fan of the Beatles, but I realised long ago that the dislike of Yoko was clearly racist and misogynistic in origin.
Boomers always start their comment by mentioning their age.
Except the ones who don't
@@hello11197 their comment has to do with their age so why would they not mention it
Yoko ono once randomly followed me on twitter and then unfollowed me soon after, I like to thing it was performance art.
You too?
I found it so, ethereal in a weird way, that she just floats by, visits, and passes on, but she visits us all.
hbomberguys voice is like a jump scare. You never expect it. Not twice in the same year.
It's entirely too soon
yeah he exists in a youtube void to entertain you. He cant leave his hole until a videos done. Fuck him for lending his voice to this one. He should be working on his 2000000000 hour video on why james sommerton pooped his pants or whatever
Munecat as well!
If I had a nickel...
I 100% expect to hear HBG randomly anytime I watch a Lindsay Elis or contra points video
What a fantastic video. I love taking cultural “facts” and proving them as misconceptions. All the themes & examples flow so well together and the editing is great. Incredible work and I can’t wait to see what’s next.
Great vid Lindsey! It's so nice to have you back on CZcams, looking forward to reading your third book!
To truly understand how pervasive the "Yoko Bad" narrative was, let's just remember that one episode of the Powerpuff Girls where the villains team up (nicknaming themselves "The Beat-alls") and prove unstoppable, until the girls introduce Mojo Jojo to a "performance criminal" modeled after Yoko who eventually splits them up.
It became a running joke, or what we today would call a meme, but it's silly to act like each and every writer that used that as a joke genuinely believed that. It was just an easy joke and reference that's been made in pop culture since the breakup.
That one pinky and the brain episode…
The buffy episode called "the yoko factor" in season 4
@@TxWIllTrue, but that doesn't make it any less harmful toward Yoko and her reputation. In fact, I would go as far as to even say that its worse for someone to make that "joke" if they don't genuinely believe she did that. Because in that circumstance, that's just someone straight up lying for attention and fame, to get a rise out of people by using a tired, old, racist and misogynistic false narrative, waged against a woman for so long, even during her times of grieving.
It's still bad if someone says that sort of thing because that someone genuinely believes she did that, but at least in that case, you could make the argument that they're going about things in a "punching up" sort of logic/intention. I mean, it wouldn't _actually_ be punching up, because she didn't actually break up the band - as confirmed by the bandmates themselves, of course - but at least in this case, it would be misinformation rather than disinformation.
Im not from the US, as a kid that episode was the first introduction I got to the beatles, as many other children during that time around the world, even if it was a silly joke that episode got an impact in my generation and Im pretty sure that everyone has this idea in their subconcious that "Yoko broke the beatles" and wouldnt dig any depper because is a band of the past. Then the memes came and all my generation knows is that yoko ono is an old lady that do weird sounds and is crazy.
finding out Yoko co-wrote Imagine, and is the female vocal on War is Over was like discovering the secret identity of Superman.
So she only achieves memorable art in collaboration? Got it.
@@bend3rbot Thoughtless snark, ah, thanks for reminding me I'm on CZcams.
I can't get past the hypocrisy of Imagine and John & Yoko
I think many diehard Beatles fans already knew this. John and Paul have stated it on record in several interviews that the lyrics of Imagine were derived from Yoko's poem. But I do think casual fans would be hearing this for the first time.
Whose voice did you think it was?
This was an incredible piece of art. So rarely do I find a video that keeps me captivated and even more rarely does that video handle the topic with such care, grace, and empathy. I teared up towards the end of this video, something I thought CZcams videos couldn't make me do anymore. What an fantastic job you both did. Kudos.
This is one of the most rewarding things I've ever seen. Unexpectedly I was moved to tears encountering this masterpiece.
All praise to the writer(s). How lucky we are to have people like you preserving our true heritage.
“Dad, Dad, Dad, please stop fighting…”
-Ringo
Wrong. He almost beat his wife to death he’s not some fun character as much as you would like to believe that.
@@mcbonezs457
Ok
Like John and Yoko, Ringo is a complicated human being who did good and bad things.
Not excusing what he did to his wife, but he has shown remorse for it and got treatment for his alcoholism.
I swear every Beatles fan goes through a phase where they learn that four of the most famous men to ever exist did some horrible things, and it breaks their brain. We forget that they weren't literally Jesus, they were just bigger than him 😉
Honestly I'm shocked we don't have any WORSE substantiated stories about them.
@@mcbonezs457 you've heard of "man gets a rush out of mentioning john beat wife" now prepare for the sequel: "man gets a rush out of mentioning ringo beat wife"
@@dellybird5394 "I'm shocked we don't have any worse substantiated stories about them"
FOR REAL! Considering their level of fame and how young they were, it could be A LOT worse. Makes me think of the Led Zeppelin groupie and the mud shark
In a better timeline, this saw widespread theatrical release.
and nominated for an Academy Award. Maybe there's another Hugo in the cards...
Not really. It's great, but documentaries generally don't go into the theaters. Only time I can remember that happening is with Fahrenheit 9/11. And if if this were released in theaters, nobody would go. People aren't going out to see regular/block busters movies with only a few exceptions. They aren't going to pay 15 bucks to watch a youtuber documentary.
@@crushycrawfishy1765 everyone loves a good "here's why your hypothetical scenario is wrong"
Lol, no.
Documenteries don't really go into theseatres? What you on about. I've seen plenty of docos at the cinema.@@crushycrawfishy1765
wow. i had a beatles hyperfixation phase when i was 12 - which is a little weird in hindsight, but what else do you expect from a kid who likes music - and the whole yoko broke up the beatles thing struck me as mean even then. like the stories of john being a not good husband, it tended to make me feel a little guilty for loving the band's music. i have a complicated relationship with it, much the same as my complicated relationship with my love for hole, for nirvana, for the foo fighters... but i think the wider context you've brought here is really the most important piece of the story.
your editing here is phenomenal too. as a long-time beatles fan but someone who never really dove into much solo work of the band members or ono's catalogue, it was a little startling to realize that there's something in sun king that matches remember love. it makes sense! idk, there's a metaphorical thread there that i can't quite find. anyway. fantastic work. glad i got to see this one despite not having the money for nebula at the moment.
I've never commented on the things I've watched in the past, but this was a truly wonderful watch. Many, many thanks for taking the time to create this.
I was in an experimental "school" in Syracuse when we were enlisted by Yoko to be "security" for the opening of her first museum exhibition at the Everson in Syr NY. We met her in a room a day before; and she came out with John who stayed back and silent and she spoke about her work. She spoke about what it meant to her and why it was tactile... the importance of the interaction of the 'viewer' who walked thru ... and she was polite, and business, and direct. At no time was she an asshole. And her exhibit was quite beautiful and interesting, and very unique. I ended up on the stairs between the offices/ auditorium and the 1st floor so I got to watch the press and their back and forths and watch the lovely pair go from the offices to the piano in the auditorium and I realized... they are really short. Thank you , Lindsay, you kick ass. *hug*
Yoko was weird. Maybe she can do art but she sang like a cat was being tortured. She couldnt be lacking confidence going on stage with a Beatle sounding like an alley cat.
@@tubester4567 There are times that Yoko 'used' her voice as an instrument, pointedly NOT as a singing tool as most would; that's the artist in her. That's her pushing the boundaries which I respect whole heartedly. Fly for instance, is a gorgeous piece of vocal Dada and btw, fantastic for acid trips. On the other hand she has a gorgeous voice as you can hear in her work with John on his later and important pieces. So, I think your statement, though honest, is subjective and not a true view of an artist's range and work. But, that's my opinion. :)
@@tubester4567 ... kind of an odd thing to say when less than 15 minutes into the video there's a clear example of her being singing quite decently on a record, but alright.
@@tubester4567 spotted the sexist
@@tubester4567 She had an OK voice. The screaming and wailing was a choice. I don't care for it but she could sing when she wanted to.
For those who didn't watch this on Nebula when it first came out, you are in for a treat. This is one of the best video essays I've ever seen.
It's a Lindsay Ellis video. Being one of the best video essays is the norm.
100% agree.
It really is ridiculously good.
Ikr I might just have to watch it again
i dont even like the beetles and its my favorite lol
I was excited for this video of course but couldn’t have guessed just how great and expansive it would be. Well done, welcome back, and thank you!
Lindsey Ellis is one of those people whose absence just felt wrong. Beyond happy to see her release an essay here again ❤
I love that Lindsey uses the Hbomberguy foreshadowing joke and then he’s immediately the next VO. 20/10, that was some real foreshadowing.
Thanks for the heads up, I will now avoid this video. HBomberguy is a monster and I can’t stand the sight of him anymore.
@@NeelLLumi-AnCatDubhI beg of you to elaborate
@@NeelLLumi-AnCatDubh Well, it isn't the sight of him so....
Also, wut?
@@NeelLLumi-AnCatDubhlmao what did he do to offend you?
@@NeelLLumi-AnCatDubhlol
when mac miller passed away, a lot of people blamed ariana grande, even though they weren't together at the time. she'd attempted to tell people that she was not responsible for his behavior a few months before that, but it clearly did not work. i still see people blaming her for it today, and they can never really articulate why they think she's responsible beyond, "she broke up with him." they have no sympathy for her whatsoever and only take his struggles seriously.
@@shawnfoster4506 it was ruled an accidental OD
I'm not even an Ariana fan but it's incredibly obvious how much his death affected/still affects her, even though they were separate when it happened. I can't even fathom losing someone you loved like that, having it affect you so much, and having millions of strangers hound you for years about it being your fault with 0 consideration to your own personhood. And for Yoko it's been decades. It's truly cruel (edit: I meant Courtney Love, not Yoko, though it still applies to Yoko too)
To take it a little further, like Yoko Ono and Courtney Love, Ariana Grande also has done some questionable things. The donut incident, the blackfishing, and the messiness of dating Ethan Slater make her someone that is acceptable to hate in the public eye. Because she's done these other things, it's easy to assume the worst regardless of evidence
@@emmaarmo379 LOL the donut thing is so funny because i've seen a lot of people online realize that like...... it truly was not the end of the world the way everyone thought it was. now that clip of her talking about it on the news and obviously not caring at all gets reposted and made into edits with megan thee stallion playing over it
@@emmaarmo379I don’t know who Courtney Love is but I think the only Ariana Grande controversy that was actually somewhat worth talking about was that Donut licking incident.
Oh, I haven't seen one of your videos in a while. Glad to see you're still doing them!
God, this video is a true piece of art. So eloquent, informative, precise, impartial. Wonderful job!
"Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman" - Khaled Hosseini
Either that or an unrelated ethnic group
Or both. Republicans seem to have decided that critical race theory, immigration and women voting is behind all the ills of America.
I really think that misogyny is the original form of bigotry, and all others are just sequels to it
Isn't this just pointing the finger at men?
@@jacklong9449 no, only accusing men
Imagine the Beatles were mature enough to simply say "we need a break" in 1969
I don't think that would have changed what happened to John and George, but it definitely would have helped Yoko's reputation
Too much too young has a way of ruining people
band breakups obviously had happened before them but they literally didn’t figure it as a solution b’c bands taking a break just wasn’t something bands did in the 60s. they set the bar for what a band breakup is in our minds
they only got as close as “hey let’s do solo albums but when we do beatle albums we’ll all have equal share of writing the songs (4 paul 4 john 4 george if im not mistaken) plus Ringo gets two songs”, and even then that was between John and George, they never told Paul about that idea.
they were always going to breakup in the way that they did.
In a different timeline they had seperate careers and had a reunion album every 7 years or so.
Not everyone can be Fleetwood Mac
Thank you Lindsay for uploading this here, we are blessed by you!
I'm so glad you posted this. I hope it means you're back - we missed you. Brilliant as always.
What a glorious return. This makes up for the Beatles breaking up.
Mr Brest, when compare Beatles and beetles video?
its so weird to see all corners of youtuber converage today
Just like Starting Over.
One thing I've noticed is how a lot of casual fans love entertainers while also holding them in contempt. My dad was a huge fan of Blondie, so I was surprised once when he described her as stupid. He liked her music and her image and what her art made him feel, but he didn’t actually respect her or the work that went into what she did. This seems to apply especially to female artists, who I think are often seen as “lucky” to be famous, while men are seen as being famous for their specialness. Yoko is easy for many to caricature and “other”. She’s a foreign and “new” wife, hot on the heels of a spurned wife, she’s a conceptual artist, she’s opinionated. She’s not one of us.
How did your dad came to the conclusion that Debbie Harry is stupid? Did he had a particular moment of her in mind?
@@sparkle_jump_rope_queen He said that he’d seen her in an interview and she sounded stupid. He didn’t say which interview and I’ve no idea which one he would have had in mind. It may have been that she was just talking in a lofty way about her process or something and he dismissed this as “stupid”; I think like a lot of people, he liked the art without appreciating what went into it, or taking it seriously as “real” work. Like the guy in the Dire Straits song, “Money for Nothing”.
Wrong
@@Paologuitare What?
@@Paologuitare Oh, you’re a crazy person. Sorry I engaged.
i had this on as background watching while i drew and now im finding it difficult to move on from it. thank you for this glorious return to youtube and for your wonderful words and thoughts and connections on a band that has meant so much to me for so long.
This was wonderfully set out and edited and one of the best video essays I've seen in a long while.
I think about Yoko's dress performance piece every time I am vulnerable on the internet
The look in her eye
The idea of strangers touching you… and you just take it.. shudders
You get it. I am one of the few Beatlemaniacs that loved Yoko’s art. People like Laurie Anderson owe Yoko so much.
My favorite is her performance with Chuck Berry…LOL 😂
@bhusar1 As a much younger on and off Beatles listener. I had the luxury of the internet and attending countless museum exhibits of all forms as a kid. Warhol led me to the Velvet Underground, John Cale's involvement with Theatre of Eternal Music led me to Fluxus, Fluxus led me to Buddhism (intermittently). It's kind of ironic how I grew up in a family that went with the narrative that all things avant-garde was bullshit and Yoko was the prime motivator in their breakup due to them encouraging creativity and most importantly, reading. Their methods of raising me was in direct opposition to their politics and views on society. Nowadays, we made up and they've finally begun to separate from their overall humanist attributes, endless curiousity, and their misanthropic cult-like trappings.
Just going through the first nine minutes of this video, I can’t even imagine the absolute living menace people were to Yoko after her husband died (and on top of that she still had a kid to take care of). She basically had to constantly live her life wondering who around her would be the next book, the next tell-all. She would have had very few people who treated her like a human being.
@@amyweston4640 And you obviously haven't watched a bit of this video. If you had, you'd know that this is just bs.
@@amyweston4640You must be miserable.
@@Quotenwagnerianerthere’s tons of video footage of her wailing. Watch the clip of Chuck Berry reacting to her. It’s indisputable…
@@oohjon1537just because you don’t like someone’s version of self expression doesn’t mean they deserve harassment at all let alone to the degree Yoko experienced.
@@samanthablewett2448 Disagreed. If you put yourself out there as a public figure you will receive criticism.
Lindsay, this is an incredible video. Thanks for making it and welcome back!
Glad you posted this! Saw it on Nebula a few months ago and enjoyed it a lot.
yoko's tweet about the burning chair was really touching to me for a very personal and specific reason. my mom's friend and a family friend recently died of cancer last year. even after months and months of her body physically being gone, not once did it ever feel like she and who she was really left. she was more than a body, more than simply a woman, it was... her, something so complex and real and even problematic at times (as overused as that word is) that her dying isn't enough to snuff out my "idea" of her. memory is all we have. it's how we know anything ever existed at all.
This is beautiful. My grandfather died of dementia earlier this week and reading this was really comforting
I'm really sorry for your loss. I had to think of one of my best friends who died in may when I read the tweet. the way she can't ever be really gone, because of her memory and the impact she had on everyone and everything around her.
thank you for writing this comment
I agree with the other comments. Thank you for this perspective. My sister was sick for many years before she passed. Your comment made me think of her.
i cried the instant i read the tweet on screen because it made me think of my mom. it's been two months, and the proverbial chair in my mind is as real as ever.
After everything the internet has done to hurt Lindsay, her making a POINT of making this version for CZcams is really brave imo
She had already released a teaser of "Yoko and the Beatles" on CZcams (?) and linked it to her Twitter account a few months ago. That has been disappeared or made private since this was put up (I can't find it on Vimeo or the unlisted CZcams website.)
"Brave" is not the word I'd use. What's the word for "Did you guys ever stop to think that maybe you wouldn't act this way towards me if I were a dude?? And, like, y'all are supposed to be feminists".
Yeah when it got to the part about women and fame it felt deeply personal to her.
Back story? I'm not up on Lindsay's Internet history.
@@amidala3927 she's kind of had a hate mob for a long time, but she got cancelled completely a year or two ago on twitter- I'm not super inclined to go into details because imo the backlash was a lot worse than she deserved, and some of it involves painful stuff in Lindsay's past. Things got bad enough that she withdrew from CZcams pretty much entirely; this is the first video she's posted here in quite some time.
This video made me laugh and cry. Thank you for coming back to release this.
I didn't expect this video to be quite so moving. Bravo Lindsay!
The bit about redemption through suffering really got to me. Something that stuck in my mind for years was seeing a trans person comment on the movie Boys Don't Cry, and saying while they appreciated it, they were saddened that it felt like cis audiences could only relate/feel sympathy for a trans person if they died. It reminds me of the Hays Code and its effect - if you deviate from the norm in any way, you have to be punished by the narrative to be seen as a good character.
This feels like the same thing. The sin of being a woman the public eye doesn't like is one that can only be redeemed if you suffer for it. Even if you were the one victimized.
Damn, that's powerful.
That reminds me of a book called "People Love Dead Jewish: Reports from a Haunted Present" written by Dara Horn.
Its like college hazing x1000. A ritual sacrifice for acceptance of the future deviations until theyre assimilated into normalcy. But what a shitty normalcy to be assimilated into if that is its terms of acceptance.
Imagine unironically using the term cis 😂
@hamayuri33 aw poor baby did the word jumpscare you
All this reminds me of how Korean pop stars are contractually obligated to stay single to avoid conspiratorial bad press.
So do they actually have to stay single or do they just have to tell everyone that they are single?
@@greywolf7577 If you're good enough at lying, you can break damn near any contract with impunity.
@@greywolf7577 Tell everyone they are, including the company and its personell, cus even they will threaten to abandon the artist if they start dating
Yeah Kpop groups and idol groups in general are more like militaries than they are bands. Late-Stage Capitalism mixed with music that is designed in a lab to be popular and the idols be as uncontroversial as possible so they can sell records before they're determined to be "unattractive" by their corporate overlords and replaced with some girl a few years younger.
@@greywolf7577 Look up Ke$ha. She had more control than Kpop stars.
Glad to see you on here. Hope you're doing well. Thank you for this content.
Thank you for this. much has been learned and I am left with a fair bit to think about.
I have missed your essays.
I bet the old guys who blame Yoko Ono for breaking up The Beatles don’t even realize they’re actually diminishing the John, Paul, George and Ringo as men. As if they were some thoroughly happy, blissfully ignorant band without any possibility of difference of opinion or goals in life, etc.
They're usually the same guys that blame their bad behavior on women so yeah, they see nothing wrong in their logic
Men from older generations and the ones that came even before them tended to blame women for emasculating them. I recently reread One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest and it was shocking how much misogyny and blame on women that I had previously missed there, and you see it often as a major theme in men's art, music, and literature. They get off on playing the victim to women when it's usually the other way around.
Lets not kid ourselves, women believe Yoko ono broke up the beatles as well. This isn't just an old man problem.
@@fugithegreat Wow, you're actually defending the abusive psychiatry ward. Is abusing the mentally ill a girlboss move?
This! also, they’re giving Yoko so. much. power/credit. Silly misogynists!
Lindsay Ellis with a trillion John-penned Beatles songs as a soundtrack is an extremely fun and good time
There are actually quite a few Paul songs in this video. Paperback Writer, Helter Skelter, She Came in Through the Bathroom Window, For No One, just to name a few.
@@nsb144 This and Long Long Long was written/sung by George :]
Makes me wonder how long this will stay up before CZcams decides to go all CZcamsy on it
@@DrMcFly28 right? Lmao
@@nsb144 Yeah I commented too early in the video lol. Was wondering if I'd get called out for this
Omg a return! Thanks for another excellentnin depth video, particularly found your analysis of narratives and what we do to fit sense into them when it doesn't quite work really insightful.
over 800k views just 2 days after uploading
I think it's clear we missed you, Lindsay!!
As someone whose favorite group is The Beatles, by a large margin, it’s sad how their mythology has set so many lies in stone. People seem to forget that new things are uncovered, with the bombshell Get Back releasing only a few years ago. Like the odd way people seem to jump on the nature of John and Cynthia’s relationship as a little tidbit always struck me as disingenuous. It’s important to acknowledge John’s disgusting action as well as his later search for atonement. Just like the boomer, it seems odd how real people are reduced to little fun facts and gotchas. Such a shame, cause there’s so much to dig your teeth into, if you just lay down your preconceptions.
I just dont understand why so many people insist on seeing the world as black and white and simply refuse to acknowledge that their favorite artists are human and that therefore are complicated beings. Why is it so hard to accept that someone who did bad things can make really good art, and that someone who is good can also have done bad things and vice versa?
She was human, yes, but her art was garbage to me. It was flash and without substance. Like a lot of performance art, it was over-glorified by the elites with money and no common sense. She changed nothing but laws and rules did.
We get it; women are vulnerable. Now, shut up and start doing something besides giving people something to ridicule. Bed Peace is a definition of boomer stupidity. They stopped so the housekeeper could make up the bed.
To me Yoko took advantage of someone who was mentally ill and getting worse. He was probably suffering from depression ever since his mom died when he was 5 years old from being hit by a car. That traumatizes you. John was using drugs, meditation, and sex to self-medicate. Yoko saw dollar signs with him and went to town. Now she can sleep on a pile of money every night, and her Nepo baby Sean can piss on Julian Lennon's own removed legacy.
@@liaspooked4980 because people are scared of what *might* happen if they're wrong. We lionize so many people, ideals, etc., that for some, when you pull just a little at the thread, it all unravels
@@autumntaylor2533 yeah but I just feel like living with that world view just makes you bound for dissapointment, does it not? Because most of the artists you like are eventually going to show their not so great sides during your life time. I wonder how people are able to continue with the black and white ilusionment for so long, even after life has proven over and over again that it's a farce.
Even in this comment section, I've seen people still acting like Yoko is pure evil because of some bad things she has done (e.g. making Julian buy letters that his father wrote him)
She's a complicated person, but she shouldn't be maligned as a harpy
I was today years old when I found out John Lennon and Yoko Ono are the ones who wrote and performed a very Merry Christmas… I’m surprised and face palming I never put it together lol
It's called "Happy Xmas (War is Over)".
I always thought he sang it with a children's choir for some reason
@@M123Xoxoso there is a children's choir for the last few verses. But the main female vocals are Yoko. I remember because the recording on the radio has them all clapping at the end and it's definitely more than 2 people lol.
This went over so many topics, and you've managed to connect and make them all feel really cohesive all throughout it, as well as just intriguing to go through.
Welcome back, Lindsay :)
This video is a masterpiece. I sat down to watch 10 minutes, but found I watched the entire thing. Although you ask in your video why so many famous female celebrities have gotten their redemption yet Yoko hasn't, I would argue with this beautiful video you are taking a crucial step to do just that. Thank you for helping to tell this story.
People: Fans today are out of control. They act so terribly due to parasocial relationahips.
Fans in the eighties: Sending death threats to a recent widow because they were still mad at a band break-up from the previous decade.
(Not defending current terrible fans but this video made it very clear that is not a recent problem.)
Fan is short for fanatic, no matter what generation.
@Cassie-pt7mt exactly 😂 trying to make it seem like current fans aren't just as obsessive and wild is insane to me. They still do the same things and are even more obsessive because of social media and how it's so easy to have access to celebrities and their lives now
Entertainers have been murdered by their fans (or anti-fans) every decade since lennon.
Let's see, Christina Schaeffer, Selena, Dimebag Darrell, Christina Grimmie. Only the 20s I can't think of anyone, but decade not over.
@@GoofRebelMusic Given how many celebrities have had stalkers apprehended trying to enter their residence, I wonder if that is just because famous people tend to have more security now, not a lack of trying. Poor Christina Grimmie was more vulnerable because she was a relatively new celebrity in terms of money and broad fame, and so far as I know did not have a security team to protect her. But thanks to her fame beginning on the Internet, certain people had been aware of her long enough for there to be danger.
@@BleedingLiar17 Definitely did not mean to imply fans are not just as bad now, just that there is a certain tone on conversations I've seen about obsessive fans and parasocial relationships where people act like pushy, rude, and potentially dangerous fans are a brand new phenomenon.
And certain aspects of fan culture are new, the Internet makes the unwell behavior a lot more visible and allows fans and anti-fans more access to their target of love or hate and to spread conspiracy theories more quickly.
But the root of the issue is probably as old as fame and what Ono went through, both before and especially after John's death, is a really stark argument for that.
the comments, the jokes, the racism, the misogyny, so many people acted like everything was yoko’s fault. meanwhile when i actually read the beatles books as a teen obsessed with the beatles, i very quickly realized this was not the case at all. seems like a lot of these ‘fans’ of the beatles never bothered to do a tiny bit of research, cause it was always more convenient and enjoyable to them to pin everything solely on her.
also, people act like she was just an add on to john but when i was in university the lecturer talked about her art completely separately and without mentioning him at all.
Yeah, I think it's important to realise how many men people had to ignore in the process of honing in on Yoko. It suggests a motive.
As much as the Beatles were really a sum of their parts, many people always saw John as the “lead” and their “favorite”. Give this was the decades before 24 hour new networks and even longer away from social media, it was easy to craft a narrative of who a person was and John was scene by many as this insightful, caring, counter culture icon. His assassination just cemented that further to almost deify him. So in their mind he would never allow the “greatest band in history” break up and clearly someone manipulated him and Yoko, the quarky counter culture weirdo that she was, was an easy target. Especially because of good old fashion Asian racism
I was fully introduced to her through her art. When I found out about the Beatles, and I heard about Yoko Ono because of Lindsay’s Nebula announcement, I was like, “it can’t be THAT Yoko Ono” and just went about my day assuming there were just 2 famous Yoko Onos out there, wow what a coincidence. Must be a common name lmao.
@@FTZPLTC Yoko was still an active down fall onto Lennon's life and was somewhat of a contributing factor of the already breaking up process of the band went through. Also you need to take into account that many of the actual guys who were the cause of the downfall of the band weren't in the public eye or was well known to most people outside of actual hardcore fans. So no duh that a lot of that blame is going to be shifted onto the weirdo who screams onto the mic.
It’s not racist or misogynistic at all when I tell you she was an evil, evil spirit and an admitted witch.
The Nirvana parallel is really strong in this video.
This is beautifully woven together! Thank you, Lindsay.
Watching the Get Back documentary made me feel so bad for Paul. It has the vibe of doing a group project where he's the only one throwing out ideas and George just says "no" while John has overslept from presumably doing drugs the night before. God bless Ringo for just being humble and rolling with the punches.
Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg butting in with his overblown concert ideas didn’t help, either. “Imagine one thousand Arabs with TORCHES!” I kept yelling at the screen, “SHUT UP AND LET THEM WORK!”
Ringo was actually the one throwing the punches. At his wife, who he beat almost to death.
@@mcbonezs457 Jesus dude, you're everywhere. you're the living embodiment of that old "Man always gets little rush out of telling people John Lennon beat his wife" Onion article.
Relationships often end when one person wants it to end, but they don't want to break the other one's heart, so instead of blindsiding them and calling for the breakup they just emotionally check out. That emotional detachment drives the other one to actually call for the break up. That seems to be what happened with John and Paul.
@@lancerguy3667 I feel like thats relevant context when people ask me to feel bad for this guy because he worked with jerks.
We studied Yoko as an influencial conceptual artist at my design school and then i remembered how i hated her as a child, being a beatles fan, damn
Glad I can legally pack a sigp365 wherever I go, I would have Elvis Presley’d that TV if they ever put that on in my classroom.
I stopped regarding her as punching bag for puerile misogyny a while ago, but didn't think much about her one way or another until I saw some of her pieces in a museum exhibition and was blown away.
What would people say about her if she had never gotten mixed up with the Beatles? Perhaps that she and Yayoi Kusama are the best and most representative female Japanese artists, or even the most representative Japanese artists period, of their generation.
@@TheHunterGracchusI think about this every so often and feel much stronger about it now: I’d love to see her art in person. the ladder is one of my favorite works of art. 🪜
@@TheHunterGracchus That's an outrageous slander of Japanese art, which is absolutely world-class.
Kid me used to be so confused when I heard women around me state they will never dated musicians. As I got older, I figured it was because of the traveling they did, long-distance relationships, etc. Now I'm almost 34 and it hit me that another reason, not often talked about, is how fans behave so grossly about the wives or girlfriends of their favorite male musicians.
Can’t wait to watch this later. So good to see Lindsay in my timeline again. Welcome back queen 🫡
So anyone who doesn’t know: the famous line “it’s better to burn out than fade away” is from Neil Young’s famous song “Hey Hey, My My” (not originally from Def Leppard as some thought). Neil Young was quite disturbed by this as he wrote about the horrors of big H, which was about his bandmate, in “Tne Needle and the Damage Done.” Kurt was a big admirer of Young’s music.
Young later wrote the song Sleeps with Angels about Cobain.
@@shawnfoster4506 Kurt Cobain suffered from a chronic undiagnosed stomach problem that caused severe pain constantly, (iirc I read the autopsy showed actual scar tissue in his stomach from whatever he'd suffered from), which had been acknowledged since he was a child. He started with pain kill3rs then graduated slowly til he reached H, which is usually how it happens for people who suffer chronic pain and can't get relief from anything else other than strong 0piate medication. (This was also back when 0piate pain meds were just on the market, prior to the crack down by the govt, so doctors were pushing them HARD around that time, which is what got so many people addicted to them in the first place & caused the current "crisis", bc drug manufacturers assured everyone they weren't addictive. [Look up the Sacklers.])
So my speculation, (as someone his age who went through this exact situation, as did many people our age), is he was probably taking medicine prescribed by a Dr before moving up the 0piate ladder to the big bad H bc after taking them for a while your body will build up a resistance & it takes more or something stronger to effectuate the same relief.
But that's justy speculation/theory on it. It was known he was on H at the time; Courtney tried to get him to rehab but he refused to go. She later blamed herself bc she knew how much pain he was in, & felt like it was her fault he took his life bc she wanted to get herself clean for their baby/family/her career/etc. but he probably felt like he needed it for his pain.
Hope that makes sense. ✌🏻
@@shawnfoster4506 Yes.
you mean Lennon was disturbed by it
@cedricrust9953 no, young was anti-H and was disturbed by the use of his line in cobain's note
Already saw this video on Nebula, BUT I’LL DO IT AGAIN
Same. We're so back.
shame same
Yesss
Very Ray Holt of you and I love that for you.
How much better is the uncensored ?
I just saw this in my recommendeds... then I saw the 2 days... and then I screamed. I'm so happy you posted.
So happy to see you back on CZcams, and I hope you're doing well!
dear Lindsay Ellis,
as an Iranian living in poverty and sanctions with no way to access this exclusive essay, thank you so much for eventually making it available for me, you really made my day madam❤
Same thing coming from Russia! Wish i could've bought the lifetime subscription to nebula back when it was possible in my country. I was a teen but still
One thing that always stuck with me about Yoko was a quote from a popular 90s show that had a vampire that looked oddly enough a bit like Billy Idol and in one episode the vampire said this…
“And when they (The Beatles) broke up, everyone blamed Yoko, but the fact is, the group split itself apart.”
The quote always stuck with me, but I didn’t read much about Yoko, but now watching this I now know why the quote stuck. Thanks Lindsay!
"popular 90s show that had a vampire that looked oddly enough a bit like Billy Idol"
It would have been much easier to just say "Spike from Buffy"
Seriously haha lol AM I THIS OLD@dungeonsanddobbers2683
Forever knight?
The episode in question was outright called "The Yoko Factor", too.
@@dungeonsanddobbers2683 Sorry, was in a silly mode when I wrote that description. I was going between that Billy Idol reference or call him William the poet.
I hope this is the first of many new uploads! Welcome back, Lindsay!
It's great to see another video of yours. Thank you.
I'm Syrian, I was only 8 when the war started, the story Yoko told of her and her brother imagining dinner reminded me of the things my younger sister used to tell me during the tense first days when things changed forever. Her being the mind behind "Imagine" makes so so much sense, what a beautiful mind and a beautiful person. I never knew much about her before, but now thanks to this phenomenal documentary, I feel.... Changed.
Welcome back, Lindsay.
Shit sorry to hear that your Syrian lol
@@jonathanramos8414what happened to Syria is a tragedy for our whole generation. I'm so saddened by what happened to your nation, by what keeps on happening, by the future that doesn't look much better.
@@jonathanramos8414 So am I it's like being born into hardcore minecraft lol
@@fallingphoenix2341 The future is bleak, but I can try to create my own light at least. What happened would take lifetimes to repair, but I have hope that something good is going to happen. I don't know when, but just saying it could even make it happen.
@@janjanbinks1710 😭😭😭 God I love Kate Bush. What a beautiful reference. Sending love from the other side of the world. 💚💚💚
Ringo took the baked beans because of his allergies. He is allergic to so many things that he has to be very careful with what he eats. He's knows the baked beans are safe and he was able to travel with them as they were in tins. It wasn't that he was scared of trying Indian food because of the taste but because he didn't want to end up in hospital. His mother was told that he was going to die 3 times before he turned 20 so he had a long and complicated medical history and we are very lucky to still have him, and he's looking incredibly healthy for a man in his 80s.
He also almost beat his wife to death 🤠
@@somefella6989 I guess you could say they knew how to stay “on beat”. LOL
@@oohjon1537…okay? And… you want to expand on that? Did you have a point?
I know he was/is allergic to basically everything, but here's the thing - a suitcase full of beans is very funny.
@@LindsayEllisVids that is very true lol. I just remember him telling once about his experience in India, and why he basically gave up on it and bailed, is that he asked for some eggs with his beans because once again, safe food for allergy-boy (I can relate honestly, I have lots of food allergies and although nowadays people are more understanding, in the 90's traveling was a nightmare and a hazard), but that he caught the staff burying the egg shells because they were vegan and they wanted to give him his eggs but then hide the evidence or something?? I don't know but Ringo spotted bullshit and fucked off back to England haha
Thank for this and for helping clear the air around the Beatles. And welcome back!
we're so back it's like it wasn't ever over
Lindsay will always come on top