#g&j

7 y/o me having a rave in my room after watching Gnomeo and Juliet for the 8th time that week:

“You are my muse.”

“And you are my idiot.”

20th week!

Not totally happy with most of the drawings

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Vigésima semana!

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mujer que mira al mar © víctor m. alonso

you’re not wrong bestie. the complaining on john’s part and the hot or cold- overbearing or uninterest- from paul didn’t make a great environment for george to explore his creativity. i’m honestly really proud of ringo for bringing in his own songs bc damn. j&p could unintentionally blow a song off in a harsh way.

i really don’t think j&p understood how hindering they were to george’s song writing until it was too late. it seemed like they were making much more of an effort to take geo seriously in Get Back but it was clear george had been held back too long and just wanted to put out his own stuff so badly. he knew if the planned live performance was like what they experienced before that his acoustic or softer songs would be blasted over by the crowd. so it probably felt like a waste of a song to him to put it on Let It Be. that probably contributed to why he really wasn’t keen on the whole thing. and like you said, he did For You Blue because it made john happy. which is extremely sweet of him but it goes to show he was willing to bend a lot more than the others to keep the peace and was still getting stretched beyond his limits.

he had gone from working with Bob Dylan and the band, feeling like he was being taken seriously as a song writer and guitar player, only to go back to The Beatles where he was third best to j&p again. and you can hear in the way he talks abt his guitar playing that he didn’t think he was good enough for j&p. he mentions that they need Eric Clapton and goes on about how much better of a guitar player he is than george and he’s so convinced of it that when john (i think) says they need george not Eric, george doesn’t take him seriously.

so yeah, trying to take the blame off j&p by saying george was just insecure ignores the root of that insecurity completely. which i think, and other have pointed out, comes from a place of j&p not wanting to grow out of their established relationship dynamics. it sucks that they couldn’t see george for what he was and how much he’d grown.

i relate a lot to george in this “you’ll always be the same person to me” struggle and it fucking hurts. it makes you feel like these people don’t care to learn abt you anymore and just want you to stay in your most docile and agreeable state. it’s not fun to experience from people you would have thought better of and i’m sure george did think them better at first. but maybe i’m just projecting now 😅