#beatlestshirt

god this song makes me so. it's just. so much. the most song ever.

it's in my abha x noor playlist of course.

OKAY LIKE. Honestly I misphrased because ACTUALLY it's about the "laugh" and "photograph" immediately after.

I find it interesting how throughout most of the song he's singing in a really clear accent that mostly highly resembles RP (Received Pronunciation, as in, the Properest of Proper English). It's the most audible that he's doing this, when considering his pronunciation of "rather" as "rahther", nothing like the flatter ræther typical of his usual Scouse accent.

RP was known to all the Beatles, as it was the accent used on TV at the time. Paul (and others) have even referred to it as "like the BBC [speak]". So, it's ra[h]ther fitting to take on that accent for a song about reading the news!

But THEN, he falls back into his Liverpool accent WITHIN THE SAME LINE when he says "And though the news was rahther sad, well I just had to læugh, I saw the photogræph" and it just PERFECTLY shows his facade cracking and how he truly can't take this news story seriously.

I don't know, throw in John not really liking Tara Browne and generally having little patience for upperclass antics and…

BEST question, bestie!!!!

OKAY!

The main thing I adore about it is how it's different, yet keeps the spirit of the original incredibly well. It's a splice of multiple takes and also features a complicated musical outro, just like the 1967 version, and YET it also takes you through a journey from the original demo to Take 1 all the way to the final version in all its bizarre, controversial beauty.

It feels like we're truly being "taken down", and I think the song is reallllllly strengthened by not starting with the chorus, and the anxiety of the final verse's lyrics hits so much harder when we built up to that production slowly. (I also find the original version was weakened by pitching John's voice. Literally LET him whine that's the whole POINT!)

AND THEN THE OUTRO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am a HUGE fan of mash ups and generally just connecting songs (as can be attested by the literal mash ups I've posted on here and my fic lmaoooooo). The way it blends the original outro of the song with Sgt Pepper AND In My Life AND Piggies AND the ending of Hello Goodbye!!!!

A well-done mash up, to me, makes every included part from a song feel that much stronger, and hearing melodies or instrumentals in a new context can really help you to appreciate them.

And the fact that so many songs are used fills me with inexhaustible love for this band, it just reminds me of how much joy they've spread and within that outro, I feel like their discography is its own entire universe. Also the emphasis on their more orchestral and classical/baroque sounding bits from songs makes it so insanely timeless.