#johnandpaul

Who needs fanfics when you have real life

I'd obviously be dying to hear it and want it to be a Real Thing *so* bad, both bc -duh- new Lennon-McCartney music (!!!) but also just bc I want them to get their act together and just sit down eyeball-to-eyeball with their guitars again (after they've talked out their Issues bc No, Mr McCartney, songwriting is *not* a replacement for therapy...) I feel like to them writing would just seem as a...natural progression of things once they'd worked on their connection - whether anything would ever come of the material or not.

Musically, I feel it would be quite fascinating bc obviously they spent 10ish years writing without the other so they'd both be bringing different, new things to the table. I wonder where they'd be going with the album...my guess is that the first thing they'd do would be quite stripped down, just them and their guitars doing some old school Rock'n'Roll inspired stuff. That was their *language*, it's what they keep turning to during jam sessions in hope of reconnecting and I honestly find it quite endearing. *If* they were to go on and release other material afterwards, I can see them getting more experimental and I have no idea where they might have gone with it.

On a more personal level, I would be sooo anxious for them if I had to wait for a new album of theirs, simply bc I fear the consequences it might have on their -probably still tender- connection if the album weren't received well. (I feel like there would be a lot of pressure on them from the media and the general public with questions like "have they still got what it takes to be Lennon-McCartney?")

(I really hope they'd just record it quietly without telling a soul -except maybe George Martin, bc let's be real Paul's self-produced stuff isn't necessarily his best- and then they'd just fuck off to Scotland and wait out the worst of it. Maybe they could play some unpromoted pub gigs for the Nerk Twins nostalgia of it all haha)

I think it's fascinating bc most people I've asked are either violently against or in favour of it with nothing in between (my dad wouldn't want it bc "I'm scared it would rip them apart and I couldn't stand the thought of that", my flatmate is in favour of it (for the same reasons as I) and her bf is against it bc he thinks it might taint their earlier collaborations.