And I Love Her vs. Girl

And I Love Her- A Hard Days Night, 1964

~written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, sung by McCartney 

Girl - Rubber Soul, 1965 

~written by John Lennon, sung by John Lennon

Remember, THESE are my own opinions and they may be totally, 100% different than yours so no hate please!

Compare: There are 2 things that hit me right off the bat that they are similar in. I'm really happy that my shuffle did this because if you notice, both of the songs have a girl implication in it, 'Her' and 'Girl', using those kinds of words bring us closer to the listener (which all know at the time were mostly girls). Secondly, they are only a year apart, but 3 albums away from each other. You might think that the sounds of the albums mostly sound the same, so both of the songs will be the same, but that is actually not true. Both of the songs have distinct sounds for each year.  

Contrast: The sounds of the songs are the closest things that they sound different in, 'And I Love Her' is a soft ballad that a person is talking about all of the things that he loves about his girl and almost in a taunting way to make the other person jealous. 'Girl' is like a story, starting out with, "Is there anybody going to listen to my story...all about the girl that came to stay" and goes on to talk about the girl and all of the things that makes the person crazy about them. 

Likes: I like both of these songs, they really hit home to you and play at your love strings when you listen to them. Hey, I'm not going to lie if I said I wished someone loved me enough like the people in the songs explain. Both good examples between McCartney ballads and Lennon ballads. They make my heart hurt (in a good way don't worry!). I love the version of Girl that is at the beginning of 'Across The Universe', it actually explains the movie quite well and Jim Sturgess does a fantastic job singing it!

Dislikes: I dunno, sometimes when I'm feeling hurt or something, these songs are really sappy and hard to listen to and so sometimes I skip them. Really, it comes down to (I don't wanna say it or not because maybe no one would understand) if you're a Lennon song fan or a McCartney song fan. 

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"Who is Paul McCartney?"

There are little things in this generation that makes me feel scared for the future. This story is one of those moments that give me the chills and make me think if The Beatles will ever be truly remembered in 20 or maybe 30 years from now. I know everyone is shaking their head at my last sentence, but once I get done with this post, I want you to think about how long it will be. 

Here's a little bit of backstory - on Kayne West's new song, he had Paul McCartney playing the piano on it, which is actually really cool! But some man Tweeted "who tf is paul mccartney?!?!?! this is why i love kayne for shining light on new up and coming artists" 

First, my friend actually texted me the Tweet over Christmas break and at that point, I just looked at it and laughed for a good 20 minutes, I really couldn't believe that some idiot would think that Paul McCartney is an up and coming artist. Second, my other friend brought it up to me the first day we got back from break and told me what he thought about it. Then it finally hit me, the guy who Tweeted the Tweet was being serious! He had no idea who Paul McCartney was! 

The reason why it angers me so much is that people in this generation have no idea who The Beatles are. Even though they were famous over 50 years ago, some to most people have no idea who they are or the music that they created. Yes, I know that I am a special person for liking The Beatles such a long time ago and close to none of the people my age who even likes them. Here's the thing, what if enough people stop liking them that they'll be forgotten into history. I know that they have made so many strides in music and some call them, "The Best Band that Ever Lived" but there is still a chance in the future that a band could over pass them, all of the people who liked The Beatles previously die and then we will have a forgotten band. 

If you want to read more about the Tweet, check out this article: https://hiphopwired.com/2015/01/02/man-asks-who-is-paul-mccartney/ 

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George Is Always on My Mind

Welcome back loveliesssss! First post back from break!!! *chears in the background*. I'm glad to be back (even though it was a nice little break from posting), and ready to start some new, wonderful posts for 2015! How was everyone's New Year? Ok? Fun? Enjoyable? Mine was, I went to a party that my friend had and I stayed over night, it was pretty awesome! 

Let's take a step back from that and give a little explanation to the meaning of this title for this blog post - "George Is Always on My Mind". I bet everyone is wondering "Jayci, why in the world would you make a post like that?! Are you crazy or something?!" Yes, I am, but there are many reasons why I wanted to make this post. 

Little things in my life confuse me when it comes to The Beatles, it's like my mind is trained to refer back to them no matter what I'm doing in my life. Like if someone says "Number Nine", I can't help but start repeating it over and over again like in the song 'Revolution 9' on The White Album. I can't help it when people start listing off names and start with, "John, Paul...", I have to automatically say "George and Ringo". See, things like these make me feel Iike I'm crazy. 

This last week in my German class, my friend was telling someone that she got a ukulele for Christmas and is very excited to start learning how to play it. I turned back to her in my seat and preceded to tell her a story from the doctumenty "George Harrison: Living in the Material World". This story was told by one of George's good friend Tom Petty. He said that one day he and George hung out and played ukuleles together and when George was about to leave, Tom handed his ukulele back but George refused to take it. As they walk out to George's car, he opens up the trunk and it was full of ukuleles! (Which I think was one of the most adorable stories I have ever heard). I said this randomly just because I heard her talking about a ukelele...yeah I know, I'm weird. Times like these make me wonder if any other die hard Beatles fans have moments like these...

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