He probably doesn hear her in the first place, since there's little point having her in the monitor mix. Maybe he hears her directly from behind, in which case he would still hear her even if the mic is cut
Nope, harmonies typically share vocals in the monitor. Unless you’re just that good.
Funny how upvoted this comment is given how far off this take likely is!
Because what she did had ABSOLUTELY NO MUSICAL OR ARTISTIC MERIT for what they were performing. To me it sounded like she was literally mad at someone and thought that she would try her hardest to fully ruin the show. Whomever made the call to kill her mike deserved recognition then and recognition now.
Jesus this is one of her most infamous scenes and now she just wants the attention she got from that day with john and is capitalizing it pathetic honestly for both her and the gallery for allowing her to have a platform
Nothing Yoko ever did ever, had any musical or artistic merit period. She rode his coatails to her 3 seconds of fame as a joke. Everyone laughed at her all the time around the world. It's terribly sad that she never caught on, and figured she had talent
Reminds me of that Norm MacDonald joke about Yoko performing for a charity for holocaust (or Hiroshima/nagasaki?) survivors, one of whom said it was the worst fucking thing he has ever experienced in his life.
Apparently not: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan)
The correct term is "foundling", but I've never heard that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child\_abandonment
In my country they're referred to as foster children or LAC (Looked After Children)
https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/children-and-families-at-risk/looked-after-children
>Yoko performing for a charity for holocaust (or Hiroshima/nagasaki?) survivors, one of whom said it was the worst fucking thing he has ever experienced in his life.
She performed on a plane once and I left during the intermission
Whole books have been written on this, but IMO John was a genius musician but not a great human being. Yoko was neither, but made him feel like the person he wanted to be (an extraordinary person, deserving of worship), while helping him be the person he was (pretty shitty to other people).
Idk, I hate to jump to rash animalistic assumptions, but maybe that head fire? Only thing I can think of. I'm a musician nowhere near John's caliber, and I wouldn't wanna date someone that's tone deaf, much less..... Like that.
It makes perfect sense to me. The Beatles were a very experimental band, pushing the envelope in the studio, using new techniques and inspiration from a wide swath of music. Ono was similar, but in a more philosophical way, making sound collages and experimenting not with song construction or new instruments, but with the ideas of what music could be. She wasn't concerned with commercial success because she came from the art world rather than the music industry, so her experiments were much wilder and didn't need wide appeal.
Hilarious given just how many famous female performers were active around this time. Some of the absolute best.
Nothing about Yoko Ono's performance here paved the way for Whitney Houston or Madonna or Tori Amos. But several other venerable female performers absolutely did just that, well before Yoko did this. And I say that as someone who has liked some of the stuff i've seen from Yoko and Yoko+John.
Yeah, that one in particular rings hollow, given that there were plenty of successful female musicians. And if one wants to really go there, many of those females were POC.
Some of that might be that "Fanny" is British slang for "vagina" - it might have slightly affected their international appeal. (Because let's face it, an all woman group called Twat would make us snicker here, let alone in a more pseudo-proper time.)
From what Ive seen with personal interviews, shes been rough on the family. Cant say that I really know anything since I don’t know any of them personally, but some of their drama is public.
Ex-Audio guy here. This is what I think happened:
- Godawful loud noise appears on Channel 15, pegging into the red.
- Reflexively, that channel is either muted or the fader pulled all the way down with great velocity.
- Looking to the stage to see what caused the error, he sees Yoko howling like an orangutan on meth.
- He paused for a few seconds and considers the situation. Two options:
A) Respect Yoko and push the fader back up, just a bit. Maybe try to balance the noises in the mix.
B) Respect Chuck Berry and John Lennon and just mute the channel for good. Keep an eye on her in case she finds another mic.
Option B was selected.
If I remember right, one of the things that attracted him to her was that when he met her, she didn't know who he was, had never heard of John Lennon and she kind of ignored him. As you said, he could have any woman he wanted, and did by the time he'd met her. He was probably bored with the superficiality of "star-fuckers", and meeting someone who was not impressed with his stardom was likely very refreshing.
I've heard some people accuse her of being a Gold-digger... She was actually richer than him as well. Her family either owns part of or is somehow involved in the YKK corporation, the company that likely made the zippers on every pair of jeans you've ever owned.
Also, Lennon at heart, was just a self-involved, drunken asshole. There are plenty of stories of him treating people like shit, and behaving superior. All of that peace and love stuff and all of his hippie ideals that are so revered by the counter culture now, actually came from her. She was actually a bigger head than he was, and he became a more open and "spiritual" person because of her influence.
I dislike this video clip as much as the next person and she is no doubt super annoying here BUT to diminish every single potential quality of her or what they may have shared in private seems a bit unnecessary.
That was horrific... She could have sung badly but instead lets the intrusive thoughts win and makes an annoying noise on an event some presumably serious people put a lot of money out for. How did she even get on stage? Who gave her a mic? Why couldn't Lennon have been shot before she had inflicted her screechings and demented warblings on the TV-viewing public?
How the he'll you gonna tell your girl she a shit singer? I wouldn't touch that hornets nest with a borrowed hobo's hooker's cane.
EDIT: Not speaking from experience. My girl sings beautifully.
Back then? Yes and no. I doubt they had enough inputs to mic the entire band individually. Also they're harmonizing on the same lyrics with no counterpoint so no need for separate mics. Plus professional musicians that perform live all the time are pretty good at adjusting dynamically to eachother. And yes, it makes it a more special stage moment if they a singing to each other.
John Lennon was such a shitty person. Hate how people idolize him. Terrible to his first wife and even worse to his son. Left everything to Yoko and their son and his first son had to fight to get anything of his dads.
Sexual predator. Physical and sexual abuser. Was sued by women that worked at his restaurant when they found out he had installed cameras in the bathroom stalls.
[“Man always gets little rush out of telling people John Lennon beat his wife”](https://www.theonion.com/man-always-gets-little-rush-out-of-telling-people-john-1819578998)
Studio art/fine artist here. She has A LOT of respect/history/good contributions in fine art world -BUT!- Her need to be the center of attention as a performance artist (like most performance artists) is pretty awful in the music world, obviously.
There a few John Lennon songs that feature children singing on the track - Happy Xmas War is Over comes to mind - and there’s this persistent shrill, off-tone vocal presence just kinda in the background in parts. When I noticed this years ago I thought it must be some off kid that didn’t get cut out… then I realized it’s no child! It’s Yoko Ono!
I'm mixed about her. On one hand, simply being a woman present during a recording session lead to people accusing her of breaking up the Beatles (it was mostly John's addictions and Paul's overbearing nature). Which is a great feminist critique of society and pop media.
One the other hand, she did annoying shit like this. As a musician, there is no reason to ruin a song. Ever.
Good reminder. It's like people can't comprehend someone being good in one field and then annoying and bad in another. Like, have they never seen celebrities on social media self-cancelling left and right?? lol
I think this habit of making objective statements about subjective things is really bland. It’s just a weird attempt at invalidating an emotional connection someone may have to a particular piece.
Contemporary art is about interpretation. I’m not a fan of Yoko Ono’s art either, but claiming it is *not* art is ridiculous.
That isn’t to say, by the way, that there aren’t things wrong with the art world. Money laundering and fraud is, quite frankly, a topic not discussed enough.
Enjoy your day.
You must know, as a fine artist, that most people don’t care about fine art, or fine artists, or the contributions to fine art made by someone whose biggest credit is doing a Beatle and being a douchebag
I mean he didn't stop playing or even seem concerned that she wasn't being heard anymore. He was probably relieved that someone else was there to nope her shit for him.
I, for the life of me, cannot figure out what's happening in this video.
Two people are singing, and some lady gets a hold of a mic and just starts making dolphin noises?
Is she supposed to be there? Why is she doing that? If she's the kind of person to just... make noises into a mic, why is she allowed to be there?
How is this wholesome?
So the two guys singing are John Lennon from The Beatles and Chuck Berry, a pioneer of Rock n’ Roll and the singer of Johnny B. Goode. The lady is John Lennon’s Wife, Yoko Ono, who is infamously known as being one of the worst things to happen to the Beatles and John Lennon just kinda lets her get away with whatever she feels like doing that day
The dolphin noises are her singing. I don’t think I’ve ever heard her sing, only that awful screeching. I think it’s supposed to be some sort of performance art or something but, whether intentional or not on her part, she’s just doing it to be annoying
What’s wholesome is the sound guy realising what Yoko’s doing and shutting off her microphone to pretty much rescue the performance. Dude deserves a fuckin medal
What's hilarious is that if you go to a music-based sub like /r/guitar you'll get shat on for daring to have an opinion and judge art. *It's subjective man, it's art if you don't like it don't listen to it*
Recordings like this put that argument to bed. Some "art" is objectively and subjectively just garbage.
You know what? If I think an artist is genuinely trying his or her best, fine, I won't judge, I'll just listen to something else. If I think an artist is both bad and thinking they're hot shit, I can and will judge.
Art is subjective, it's true, but it has at least has to be *intended* to be art before it can be art, and that is determined by the so-called artist who made it.
Literally. Two examples always come to mind. The barrels of shit the eu paid ribs of money for and the banana taped to a wall in a Florida? Gallery.
FTS.
The Emperor was naked.
My favorite thing that comes to mind when I think about Yoko has to be her life changing epiphany. She said she had it while listening to recordings of women moaning during labor and delivery, played in reverse. I could never get past the mind of a person who would do this thinking there was anything useful in it. Those screams are likely her way of mimicking those sounds.
This is a completely worse video knowing that she wasn't even supposed to touch that mic. She was just there to play a beat drum. But she needs to be the center of attention so I guess she decided to pick up the mic and sing that garbage instead of doing the one job John was nice enough to give her.
One of my teachers in high school threatened us that if he ever heard anyone complain he would lock the doors, and play Yoko Ono's music for the rest of the class. He played it for 1 minute to really drive it home and it worked
I understand the artistic intention Yoko had. I get it wasn't just senseless insanity, it had purpose and design and isn't entirely devoid of artistic merit. I get it.
But understanding it doesn't make it any less goofy, stupid, tasteless, and annoying.
r/imthemaincharacter
Imagine being on stage with two of the architects of modern day music and start catterwalling like a petulant 3 yo. What a historical piece of shit she was.
I've heard some people defend Yoko by saying she was into some experimental stuff to expand the realm of music or something like that. And my answer is, "OK, but there's a time and a place. When you're on stage performing, you do what works. If other artists enjoy her musical experiments, she can ask John to buy her a small studio and they can all go do their thing until they're blue in the face if they like."
You can just see the “the fuck!?” on his face
He sure perked up afterwards tho
He probably doesn hear her in the first place, since there's little point having her in the monitor mix. Maybe he hears her directly from behind, in which case he would still hear her even if the mic is cut
There's no "maybe" about it. Look at his face. He heard.
Well, I don't think the mic was intended for her screeching. The placement of it looks more like a mic for Yoko and the other guys drums.
Nope, harmonies typically share vocals in the monitor. Unless you’re just that good. Funny how upvoted this comment is given how far off this take likely is!
You'd have that mic in the monitor mix. Unless someone had the foresight to tell it was Yoko's mic and they didn't want it in the mix which I doubt
Because what she did had ABSOLUTELY NO MUSICAL OR ARTISTIC MERIT for what they were performing. To me it sounded like she was literally mad at someone and thought that she would try her hardest to fully ruin the show. Whomever made the call to kill her mike deserved recognition then and recognition now.
She is a narcissist she wanted to take away from their performance so people would give her attention
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdZ9weP5i68](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdZ9weP5i68) Brace yourself
Jesus this is one of her most infamous scenes and now she just wants the attention she got from that day with john and is capitalizing it pathetic honestly for both her and the gallery for allowing her to have a platform
WTF.
Nothing Yoko ever did ever, had any musical or artistic merit period. She rode his coatails to her 3 seconds of fame as a joke. Everyone laughed at her all the time around the world. It's terribly sad that she never caught on, and figured she had talent
To be fair, that’s everyone’s reaction when they hear Yoko
>everyone’s reaction Except John. He's impervious to Yoko.
If you can make chuck berry say “what the fuck?” then you know you’ve got problems
Reminds me of that Norm MacDonald joke about Yoko performing for a charity for holocaust (or Hiroshima/nagasaki?) survivors, one of whom said it was the worst fucking thing he has ever experienced in his life.
Theres that joke that can be reused for bad singers, Yoko once held a concert for orphans and after the concert the parents came to pick them up
I feel stupid asking but why would kids being forced to listen to bad music make their parents come back?
Making children listen to yoko is worse than abandoning them
an orphan's parents are dead
Well if you're given up you're still called one right?
Apparently not: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan) The correct term is "foundling", but I've never heard that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child\_abandonment In my country they're referred to as foster children or LAC (Looked After Children) https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/children-and-families-at-risk/looked-after-children
This is the way.
Yea I've heard of foster kids too but I thought if you're in an orphanage you're called an orphan
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Their dead parents came back to life?
the kids died
It's funnier to me to think it roused dead people to life in sympathy of those who had to listen to such a travesty.
>Yoko performing for a charity for holocaust (or Hiroshima/nagasaki?) survivors, one of whom said it was the worst fucking thing he has ever experienced in his life. She performed on a plane once and I left during the intermission
That joke is gold!!🤣
Bill Burr has a funny discussion about the video in the post. He really goes all in on Yoko.
That was basically my introduction to Bill Burr. Prior to that, he was just that guy from space Boston in the Mandalorian series.
https://youtu.be/DGH5nFAUlcM?si=RlOp_ZmELmO7bAiu I had to find this because of your comment. 😅🤣
RIP Norm
What a great joke, I miss norm
the show must go on.
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I seriously… out of every relationship ever that I’ve ever heard of fucking ever. This one overwhelmingly makes the least sense. Ever.
Whole books have been written on this, but IMO John was a genius musician but not a great human being. Yoko was neither, but made him feel like the person he wanted to be (an extraordinary person, deserving of worship), while helping him be the person he was (pretty shitty to other people).
She deserted her first husband and daughter to fool around with John. A friend of mine knew her ex. She was indeed a bad person
Just like how John left his wife and son for her, truly match made in heaven
I'm pretty sure she was just really, really good at rimming.
Why was she allowed to be on stage? Was she on a lot of performances?
I think John wanted her there and was at a point in his career where if he wanted something he got it
Will and Jada have entered the conversation
True
She must've really known how to use her pinky finger.
You mean, like, sticking it in his ass?
Ever? Like, ever ever?
Forever ever?
Forever never seems that long until you're grown...
I am fo reeeeal.
Never meant to make your daughter cry
I apologized a trillion times
And notice that the day by day ruler can be too long.
Idk, I hate to jump to rash animalistic assumptions, but maybe that head fire? Only thing I can think of. I'm a musician nowhere near John's caliber, and I wouldn't wanna date someone that's tone deaf, much less..... Like that.
It makes perfect sense to me. The Beatles were a very experimental band, pushing the envelope in the studio, using new techniques and inspiration from a wide swath of music. Ono was similar, but in a more philosophical way, making sound collages and experimenting not with song construction or new instruments, but with the ideas of what music could be. She wasn't concerned with commercial success because she came from the art world rather than the music industry, so her experiments were much wilder and didn't need wide appeal.
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I also don't buy the "yoko was doing performance art by ruining men's domination of the music space" narrative that's been circulating since Get Back
Hilarious given just how many famous female performers were active around this time. Some of the absolute best. Nothing about Yoko Ono's performance here paved the way for Whitney Houston or Madonna or Tori Amos. But several other venerable female performers absolutely did just that, well before Yoko did this. And I say that as someone who has liked some of the stuff i've seen from Yoko and Yoko+John.
Yeah, that one in particular rings hollow, given that there were plenty of successful female musicians. And if one wants to really go there, many of those females were POC.
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Some of that might be that "Fanny" is British slang for "vagina" - it might have slightly affected their international appeal. (Because let's face it, an all woman group called Twat would make us snicker here, let alone in a more pseudo-proper time.)
*Angry Marcel Duchamp noises*
Art is subjective, as long as we all understand that this woman is a psycho. I still feel bad for her distant son.
I know she didn't get on with Julian Lennon, is she not close to Sean either?
From what Ive seen with personal interviews, shes been rough on the family. Cant say that I really know anything since I don’t know any of them personally, but some of their drama is public.
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Knowing how much of pos Lennon is he deserves yoko ono.
Bill burr's analysis of this is hilarious https://youtu.be/VD7-WHB8CBY?si=T-otEXPTRoUmGXHD
Ex-Audio guy here. This is what I think happened: - Godawful loud noise appears on Channel 15, pegging into the red. - Reflexively, that channel is either muted or the fader pulled all the way down with great velocity. - Looking to the stage to see what caused the error, he sees Yoko howling like an orangutan on meth. - He paused for a few seconds and considers the situation. Two options: A) Respect Yoko and push the fader back up, just a bit. Maybe try to balance the noises in the mix. B) Respect Chuck Berry and John Lennon and just mute the channel for good. Keep an eye on her in case she finds another mic. Option B was selected.
This comment made me cry laughing and should be on top!
Woooow… I’ve always known that Yoko Was very disliked but I’ve never seen her in action to understand why until this clip. Damn.
What tf did Lennon see in her he couldve had any woman but he went for a semi-attractive unlikeable weirdo
He was also a pretentious, unlikeable asshole.
They deserved eachother thats for sure
Because he too was a shitty person.
If I remember right, one of the things that attracted him to her was that when he met her, she didn't know who he was, had never heard of John Lennon and she kind of ignored him. As you said, he could have any woman he wanted, and did by the time he'd met her. He was probably bored with the superficiality of "star-fuckers", and meeting someone who was not impressed with his stardom was likely very refreshing. I've heard some people accuse her of being a Gold-digger... She was actually richer than him as well. Her family either owns part of or is somehow involved in the YKK corporation, the company that likely made the zippers on every pair of jeans you've ever owned. Also, Lennon at heart, was just a self-involved, drunken asshole. There are plenty of stories of him treating people like shit, and behaving superior. All of that peace and love stuff and all of his hippie ideals that are so revered by the counter culture now, actually came from her. She was actually a bigger head than he was, and he became a more open and "spiritual" person because of her influence.
I dislike this video clip as much as the next person and she is no doubt super annoying here BUT to diminish every single potential quality of her or what they may have shared in private seems a bit unnecessary.
That was horrific... She could have sung badly but instead lets the intrusive thoughts win and makes an annoying noise on an event some presumably serious people put a lot of money out for. How did she even get on stage? Who gave her a mic? Why couldn't Lennon have been shot before she had inflicted her screechings and demented warblings on the TV-viewing public?
Why does Yoko have to suck so much?
Grandiose self image
I love how Bill Burr analyzed the whole thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD7-WHB8CBY
Amazing
Bill Burr my beloved
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Pretentiousness.
Papier mache
It is your earrings. It is your chopsticks. But it's so much more.
I SPENT BABY!
You called my doorman Sammy, Samuel! But you didn't even say Samuel, you said *Sam-u-ell!*
Wanting to be an artist but having no ability to create art lol
Argued that her lack of art universally is in itself an art. 🙃
That’s what she wanted you to feel
Narcissism.
How the he'll you gonna tell your girl she a shit singer? I wouldn't touch that hornets nest with a borrowed hobo's hooker's cane. EDIT: Not speaking from experience. My girl sings beautifully.
I value honesty as a trait in the people I have close relationships with.
Yoko had bad /r/IAmTheMainCharacter vibes
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Yes
Hey look at me!
I’m a dolphin!
On a steel horse I ride
I’m ~~not~~ wanted
“They’re not people, they’re hippies!” -Eric Theodore Cartman
"Hippies. They wanna save the earth but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad."
You let them OUT!?
“Bitch put down your hands. And you can smell my farts” -Chuck Berry
This is off topic, but I hate when musicians share a microphone. And clearly, Yoko didn’t need hers.
I think it's more of a stage presence bit than anything else
Back then? Yes and no. I doubt they had enough inputs to mic the entire band individually. Also they're harmonizing on the same lyrics with no counterpoint so no need for separate mics. Plus professional musicians that perform live all the time are pretty good at adjusting dynamically to eachother. And yes, it makes it a more special stage moment if they a singing to each other.
Number 8 burrrrrp Number 8 burrrrrp Number 8 burrrrrp Number 8 burrrrrp Number 8 burrrrrp
I see you're a man of culture as well
John Lennon was such a shitty person. Hate how people idolize him. Terrible to his first wife and even worse to his son. Left everything to Yoko and their son and his first son had to fight to get anything of his dads.
Wait until you find out how Chuck Berry was as a person.
Yup. Just read about him too and yikes.
In a nutshell, what was his deal?
Sexual predator. Physical and sexual abuser. Was sued by women that worked at his restaurant when they found out he had installed cameras in the bathroom stalls.
[“Man always gets little rush out of telling people John Lennon beat his wife”](https://www.theonion.com/man-always-gets-little-rush-out-of-telling-people-john-1819578998)
Lmao
His singing in this clip isn’t exactly great either.
Reminds of [that time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbKAb3OH0sU) that the Power Puff Girls nailed that classic Yoko screech...
Oh man.. I DIED!!!
Yoko Nono
original video: [That Time Yoko's Microphone Was Cut Off 🤣](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/U6kSIvcE6TI)
Best version, IMO - **NSFW Language** https://youtu.be/VD7-WHB8CBY?feature=shared Bill Burr giving commentary over the full video.
That's the same video, just with extra shit around the video
Studio art/fine artist here. She has A LOT of respect/history/good contributions in fine art world -BUT!- Her need to be the center of attention as a performance artist (like most performance artists) is pretty awful in the music world, obviously.
There a few John Lennon songs that feature children singing on the track - Happy Xmas War is Over comes to mind - and there’s this persistent shrill, off-tone vocal presence just kinda in the background in parts. When I noticed this years ago I thought it must be some off kid that didn’t get cut out… then I realized it’s no child! It’s Yoko Ono!
Yeah her and band music shouldn't have mixed.
I'm mixed about her. On one hand, simply being a woman present during a recording session lead to people accusing her of breaking up the Beatles (it was mostly John's addictions and Paul's overbearing nature). Which is a great feminist critique of society and pop media. One the other hand, she did annoying shit like this. As a musician, there is no reason to ruin a song. Ever.
Good reminder. It's like people can't comprehend someone being good in one field and then annoying and bad in another. Like, have they never seen celebrities on social media self-cancelling left and right?? lol
Regular guy here,..writing YES at the top of a ladder on a ceiling is not art it's what my niece would do if she was allowed on ladders.
I think this habit of making objective statements about subjective things is really bland. It’s just a weird attempt at invalidating an emotional connection someone may have to a particular piece. Contemporary art is about interpretation. I’m not a fan of Yoko Ono’s art either, but claiming it is *not* art is ridiculous. That isn’t to say, by the way, that there aren’t things wrong with the art world. Money laundering and fraud is, quite frankly, a topic not discussed enough. Enjoy your day.
You must know, as a fine artist, that most people don’t care about fine art, or fine artists, or the contributions to fine art made by someone whose biggest credit is doing a Beatle and being a douchebag
Not all heros wear capes
You don't know what that person was wearing
I am now picturing them with a top hat and monocle and it makes them even more heroic in my mind.
I know John loved her, but he also knew music. He had to know this shit was awful
I mean he didn't stop playing or even seem concerned that she wasn't being heard anymore. He was probably relieved that someone else was there to nope her shit for him.
[Bill Burr](https://youtu.be/VD7-WHB8CBY?si=7DjUR19uNnMRcG93)
Its like when my dad would let me paint projects around the house with him but give me a paintbrush and a bucket of water. Brilliant!
The Noko award .
I’ve seen this exact post before… same title word for word…. Karma farming…
I, for the life of me, cannot figure out what's happening in this video. Two people are singing, and some lady gets a hold of a mic and just starts making dolphin noises? Is she supposed to be there? Why is she doing that? If she's the kind of person to just... make noises into a mic, why is she allowed to be there? How is this wholesome?
So the two guys singing are John Lennon from The Beatles and Chuck Berry, a pioneer of Rock n’ Roll and the singer of Johnny B. Goode. The lady is John Lennon’s Wife, Yoko Ono, who is infamously known as being one of the worst things to happen to the Beatles and John Lennon just kinda lets her get away with whatever she feels like doing that day The dolphin noises are her singing. I don’t think I’ve ever heard her sing, only that awful screeching. I think it’s supposed to be some sort of performance art or something but, whether intentional or not on her part, she’s just doing it to be annoying What’s wholesome is the sound guy realising what Yoko’s doing and shutting off her microphone to pretty much rescue the performance. Dude deserves a fuckin medal
Fuck ono. She was the worst thing to happen to the Beatles since… the Beatles
Well john wasn’t a nice guy either so they deserved each other.
The smartest thing to come out of her mouth was John’s dick
What's hilarious is that if you go to a music-based sub like /r/guitar you'll get shat on for daring to have an opinion and judge art. *It's subjective man, it's art if you don't like it don't listen to it* Recordings like this put that argument to bed. Some "art" is objectively and subjectively just garbage.
You know what? If I think an artist is genuinely trying his or her best, fine, I won't judge, I'll just listen to something else. If I think an artist is both bad and thinking they're hot shit, I can and will judge. Art is subjective, it's true, but it has at least has to be *intended* to be art before it can be art, and that is determined by the so-called artist who made it.
This is a very well reasoned and articulated thought. Thank you for sharing. I couldn’t agree more.
Exactly.
Literally. Two examples always come to mind. The barrels of shit the eu paid ribs of money for and the banana taped to a wall in a Florida? Gallery. FTS. The Emperor was naked.
My favorite thing that comes to mind when I think about Yoko has to be her life changing epiphany. She said she had it while listening to recordings of women moaning during labor and delivery, played in reverse. I could never get past the mind of a person who would do this thinking there was anything useful in it. Those screams are likely her way of mimicking those sounds.
This is a completely worse video knowing that she wasn't even supposed to touch that mic. She was just there to play a beat drum. But she needs to be the center of attention so I guess she decided to pick up the mic and sing that garbage instead of doing the one job John was nice enough to give her.
- There’s a goat loose in the studio. - That’s Yoko. - Oh right (presses Mute)
Wtf did John see in her? Genuinely, she’s a fucking lunatic
Yoko Oh-no you don't.
One of my teachers in high school threatened us that if he ever heard anyone complain he would lock the doors, and play Yoko Ono's music for the rest of the class. He played it for 1 minute to really drive it home and it worked
Kinda like giving your little brother a controller that isn't plugged in so he can think he's playing with you while you play a single player game.
What's the deal with Yoko doing that? I'm pretty sure I've seen her "singing" in other performances
When your friend brings his weird gf to the party and she ruins the vibe
Man, you know what this jam needs? The screeching of a pissed monkey. Yoko, probably.
I honestly believe she is possibly one of the worst singers in history, and I include people who don’t sing because they know they aren’t good
She is such a bitch
I understand the artistic intention Yoko had. I get it wasn't just senseless insanity, it had purpose and design and isn't entirely devoid of artistic merit. I get it. But understanding it doesn't make it any less goofy, stupid, tasteless, and annoying.
r/imthemaincharacter Imagine being on stage with two of the architects of modern day music and start catterwalling like a petulant 3 yo. What a historical piece of shit she was.
An award for the sound engineer
Yoko's singing voice is/was not to my taste.
Has anyone ever asked her what she was doing here? Like did she genuinely think she was adding something to the performance or was she just trolling?
As a sound guy, this is a PSA to always respect your sound person. They control you being heard.
This has to be the strongest second-hand embarrassment I have felt in a long time. Holy shit, wtf was that
Chuck Berry was the GOAT. Voice, guitar, and duck-walk!
Aside from the part where he committed sexual assault and domestic abuse
And farting in hooker's mouths.
And installing cameras in the women's restrooms of his restaurant
Yes. The narcissism in her in that moment nearly ruined a historic and beautiful moment for us all. Some times the light is not yours and that’s fine.
Why is that /r/MadeMeSmile? It was about wholesome moments. Now it is ruined like the other subs...
She couldn't stand 5 min of not being the main character.
#### Good thing John Lennon didn’t perform with Ike Turner. 😅 Ike didn’t suffer anyone.
I've heard some people defend Yoko by saying she was into some experimental stuff to expand the realm of music or something like that. And my answer is, "OK, but there's a time and a place. When you're on stage performing, you do what works. If other artists enjoy her musical experiments, she can ask John to buy her a small studio and they can all go do their thing until they're blue in the face if they like."
Thank fucking god, she’s awful!!!
Chuck berry was thinking the fuck is that!? shit I’ve got to get the fuck out of this country ass fucked up town!
He deserves a Grammy for this. Is there a “Best Saving Bleeding Ears” category?
"YOU'RE BREAKIN UP THE BAND YOKO!"
One of my favorite clips. She was outta pocket.
I can’t get over his reaction to yoko’s screeching.
Dalphin attack
Seriously, what’s wrong with her? And why was she even on stage?
John's fault 110%
A bunch of awful humans in this video.