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teenage girls in the 60s who wanted to fuck the beatles are the real fans and 50 to 60 year old dads who are beatles fans today are posers. this is obvious

#how about teenage girls in the 2020s who want to fuck the Beatles #that’s me and I’m a real fan #i do agree that dads are posers #the Beatles #on a sidenote I’m leaving this blog to rest for a while… you can find me obsessing over the Beatles on my sideblog thebvtles #will be very active there for obvious reasons

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So, here are my thoughts on Now and Then

Can you believe we just got a Beatles song??? because I'm still trying to wrap my head around it. Ever since last week my expectations of this song were high -I mean it is them either way-, but this was way more incredible than i could have expected.

It is them. I know it sounds stupid to say it, but it feels like them. It's been over 50 years since the four of them made music together and yet this brings me back to them at their prime, with John bringing the lyrics and the soft voice, Paul the musicality and the experimentation, George the wonderful guitar and Ringo always knowing how to adjust perfectly to the rhythm. It's them being them, which might not be a cause of surprise if it weren't for the fact two of them are no longer with us. The fact they managed to pull this off out of pure love and respect for one another, for their legacy as a group, as the biggest of all time, is mind-blowing to me.

I'm amazed at how Paul wanted it to be mostly a John song, and abid to that with so much respect. The fact he only sings to complement John's voice, to add depth and to bring us back to what it felt like to listen to both of them, I love it so much. I am also very much aware of the fact this is John in his 30 something singing it with Paul in his eighties, and it shows: their voices together sound like always but sound like never. You can feel that time has passed for Paul and I love it because it is the essence of now and then.

The backing vocals, the fact they used vocals from the four of them is everything to me. The string arrangements give us the sound of the Beatles in such a unique and wonderful way, you can't help but feel this belonged to a space reserved somewhere between Eleanor Rigby and Because, and it is perfectly placed right there. You can tell everyone involved on it loves and knows the Beatles completely, which is no surprise considering Macca and Giles were the geniuses behind it.

I do have one tiny comment: the production feels very 2023-ish, which is not bad, it just feels a bit too modern, takes me out a bit from the 1960s rhythm that made me fall in love with them in the first place, but I understand times have changed and this also has to sound contemporary, is what they would have loved. I'm just old-fashioned.

I feel John. I feel Paul. I feel George. I feel Ringo. Everything that made them them is present within those four minutes. Everything, including John and Paul's endless intense, complicated and absolutely beautiful love for one another.

This is the most precious and perfect gift and I can't thank Paul and Ringo enough for giving us the chance to live one last release. Never thought I would live to experience with the world a new Beatle song, and I feel it like the biggest treasure.

They remain my everything. And I can't wait for the music video.

Oh, and the fact it's done and Love Me Do starts right after. My heart can't take it.

Anyway, so many things to say, so many things I love. Let me know what you thought!!!

#i posted this on my beatles blog but i also had to share here because ill never get over it #i love you forever fab four #the beatles

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Barbie was about motherhood and belonging and feminism and love and identity and toxic masculinity and existentialism and humanism and it was, most importantly, pink.

#barbie #barbie movie

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RYAN GOSLING "I wouldn't dare Ken-splain the Barbie movie."

#he’s a national treasure that must be defended at all costs #ryan gosling #barbie #barbie movie

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RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE (2023) dir. Matthew Lopez

#im apologizing since now for the person I’ll be when this comes out #i read the book years ago and I loved it sm I know I’ll be a wreck watching this bc it looks soooo good #red white and royal blue #🌈🌈🌈 can’t wait

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John Lennon and Paul McCartney met on July 6th, 1957. The rest is history.

#happy mclennon day suffer with me :) #mclennon #💕✨

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HELLO?

I CAME BACK BECAUSE

FUCK BUDDIES??????????????????

??????????

HBO PLEASE EXPLAIN THANKS

#this is about tomgreg #tomgreg #ummmm #are we supposed to be normal about this or…? #for context: hbo uploaded a video where they refer to tg as fuck buddies #i couldn’t make this up even If I wanted to #they’re sick for this

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tom wambsgans’ italy outfits

#im sorry he’s so camp I love him so much kakdkdkskff #tom wambsgans #succession

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tom wambsgans to finally legalize being gay thank god for him

#akdkdkxksjxiskanadkslak broad minded help #succession #happy pride for those at gaystar who celebrate #that’s Tom Greg and karolina 🌈🌈

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SUCCESSION (2018 – 2023) season finales + final shots

There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart só heavy, if he had a hundred years & more, & weeping, sleepless, in all them time Henry could not make good. Starts again always in Henry's ears the little cough somewhere, an odour, a chime. And there is another thing he has in mind like a grave Sienese face a thousand years would fail to blur the still profiled reproach of. Ghastly, with open eyes, he attends, blind. All the bells say: too late. This is not for tears; thinking. But never did Henry, as he thought he did, end anyone and hacks her body up and hide the pieces, where they may be found. He knows: he went over everyone, & nobody's missing. Often he reckons, in the dawn, them up. Nobody is ever missing. —Dream Song 29, John Berryman.

#it’s missing succession hours #succession

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tom may not trust greg fully but he sure as fuck wants to, and i'd argue that greg is the person he trusts the most, even and especially when it logically seems he shouldn't. even more significantly tom objectively tries his damndest, above it all, to be someone that greg himself not only will trust, but can trust.

#yeah #tomgreg

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Tom 'I need to touch Greg or I will simply die' Wambsgans

#also the fact he touches him whenever he’s about to leave? like?????? #EXPLAIN THOMAS EXPLAIN #tomgreg #succession

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*Ron Howard voice* He was not, in fact, just kidding.

#akdjskfksj d #tomgreg #succession

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love them so so so so much

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the world is ending everywhere but when you laugh i don’t notice. we can sit together while everything falls apart somewhere else. there will be time for devastation later. for now, we can watch the trees. what were they like when you were younger? there was a window i used to look out of where one would wait for me. red leaves for most of the year. there are a few reasons why i don’t feel real anymore. the big one being that when people talk to me they talk through me. you are somewhere in my head and i am looking at you instead of them. it’s unfair to everyone else but i’m scared you’ll disappear otherwise. i feel so old lately but today i am younger than yesterday. yesterday i was 70 years old and i was letting you go for the last ever time. but today i’m waiting to meet you. i hope somehow you’ll know where to find me. i’ll be where the river is still. where the birds are mid-flight. where everything wants to bear witness.

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deleted ewan and greg scene

#we were robbed #succession