One of many parts of the 4-hour opening ceremony of the Olympic Video games in Paris was a efficiency by French artist Juliette Armanet. The singer and composer carried out John Lennon’s nice hit – “Think about” – which is commonly known as the anthem of peace.
On TVP, along with the music, viewers additionally heard a commentary on the piece by Przemysław Babiarz.
“A world with out heaven, nations, religions, and that is the imaginative and prescient of that peace that’s to embody everybody. That is the imaginative and prescient of communism, sadly,” he said, inflicting an enormous storm among the many viewers.
“Did Babiarz actually touch upon Lennon’s ‘Think about’ on TVP on the opening of the Paris Olympics with the phrases ‘It is a imaginative and prescient of communism’? Is that what his mind instructed him?” – commented Zbigniew Hołdys.
Przemysław Babiarz about “Think about”. This isn’t his first such remark
It’s price recalling that Babiarz allowed himself a barely longer commentary on “Think about” on the event of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
“On the one hand, an enchantment for peace, equality and brotherhood for all humanity, such a utopian imaginative and prescient of the world, and one should discover that the composition comprises a decisive and controversial message with a communist, anarchist and anti-religious tinge. Apart from, Lennon himself defined it by saying that it’s a content material sugarcoated within the type in order that the sharp message doesn’t scare away,” he mentioned on TVP on the time.
“His views had been similar to communist views, each his and Yoko Ono’s, with clearly anarchist options. Typically they’re related in some ideas to varied modern globalist postulates. Communism additionally wished to embody all the world, to remove variations,” he added a second later.
That assertion by the TVP journalist additionally triggered fairly a stir.
What’s John Lennon’s “Think about” about?
The only “Think about” noticed the sunshine of day in 1971 and promoted the album of the identical title. The music nearly instantly gained recognition all around the world, regardless of being pacifist, extraordinarily anti-religious and anti-capitalist. The strategy for potential criticism of the singer’s views was a really gentle type of the music, which nearly utterly overshadowed the extraordinarily necessary lyrics (test!) composition.
Lennon has admitted in quite a few interviews that because of the accessibility of “Think about” the necessary content material of the composition would attain a bigger variety of listeners, and maybe a few of them would change into fascinated with what the singer was singing, and never simply in how he did it.
Apparently, the musician himself said that “Think about” unintentionally turned a political manifesto. He emphasised, nevertheless, that he himself was by no means a communist, and what’s extra, he didn’t belong to any political motion.
“Think about” Johna LennonaIPLA
Do you’ve gotten any strategies, feedback or see an error on the web page? Write to us
