Cee Lo Green ruining 'Imagine' by John Lennon live on new years eve

[HannaBananaShow1010]

He really did ruin that great song! His style of singing doesnt fit with the song 

[DANGITBOBBEH1997]

Not as bad as Justin bieber ruining Let it Be

[MrDragseth]

I think he did good! What are you guys saying he ruined it, it is just a different style of singing!

[TheHyperHobo]

Wrong words aside, he fucking ruined this song. Terrible.

[Falloutsurvivor97]

@Alexdurrant and @dlrice don't make me call Jerry Springer

[iGiveHope]

@Alexdurrant7 their voices ere good, but not the best bc they didn't use auto tune back then. Now when you listen to something, you think oh their voice is so good, but it actually sucks without the auto tune.

[Alexdurrant7]

@iGiveHope Not true. There are plenty of singers I can name from that era and before who didn't use autotune, yet still sound amazing. The fact is that they were mediocre singers even by the standards of their time.

[iGiveHope]

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[iGiveHope]

Ok, after seeing this, no one can say they like cee lo. I mean, he was a one hit wonder, who's song sucked after the second time you heard it, and now here he is ruining a masterpiece by John lennon, while wearing a fur coat. The point of having the line "no religions too" was bc John wanted to show how religions corrupt people into believing what they are told to, and not having any voice of their own. So thank you, cee lo

[Cla900]

and people fail to comment on the fur coat...

i'm sure john lennon wouldn't be so pleased about that either.

i hope nobody supports this arsehole

[InverseAgonist]

OK, let me just quote what he was singing, minus some lyrics:

"Imagine there's no heaven...

no hell below us...

all religions true".

Y'know... aside from the ones with heaven and hell.

[realdocloco]

Hey Cee Lo, if you have something to say about religion, write your own song. Of course, it requires some work and skill ...

[SillyNelsonDuncan]

The US Supreme Court ruled that Humanism, Atheism, & Agnostic beliefs fit into the definition of religion. No matter what you believe, you are religious. "Imagine" is a Communistic, Atheistic song, therefore it's a religious song. If he was singing, "Jesus Freak" by DC Talk he would get blasted for singing a religious song. Liberals trample on the rights of Christians. I support Cee Lo, because if he would have sang the original lyrics, he would have been compromising his own beliefs.

[Tomasito261]

@SillyNelsonDuncan So the US supreme court gets to define words now does it? How about you look in your dictionary and have bit of common sense.

Religion - the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods (Oxford English dictionary)

[IceVikingDeathGrip]

LMFAO! Amazing. How every talentless HACK that throws on a pair of shades can get on tv now.

[exoticpanda101]

you guys do have a point. .

[Jay6459]

So what? As a song writer, one must respect another's work! It wasn't Green's place to change the lyric!!! The lyric change and Lennon's lyric have 2 totally different messages. Shame! Yes, WHAT A LOSER!!!!! How can someone be so STUPID and disrespectful?

[Alexdurrant7]

@Jay6459 It's extremely lazy to just sing the exact same lyrics, though. I always cringe when I hear a cover that's either lacking in creative interpretation of the tone or the lyrics.

[Jay6459]

@Alexdurrant7 Extremely lazy?...Oh, come on. Are you for real? The arrangement of a song is what give each and every person their artist right to interpretation but to actually change a lyric of one of 21st century's best rock/pop song writers? Lennon didn't just pull that lyric out of his butt. NO! It was deeply thought out from the core of what he wanted EVERY word to mean. I'm sooo sorry for you that you just don't get that.

Speaking up for Lennon. He deserved so much more than this!

[exoticpanda101]

IT WAS JUST ONE LINE SO WHAT!

[LetsGoFcukingMental]

@exoticpanda101 He not only altered a lyric of a song of a generation he changed it in a way that's totally disrespectful & opposite to the original meaning. If he didn't want to sing the original he shouldn't have bothered, plenty of cheesy upbeat no meaning songs I'm sure he would have preferred.

[SidneyTawfikBakar]

@exoticpanda101

Thank you! :)

[aqbalaa]

I disliked because his voice sucks

[flynstl1]

@reddfraser2 your freedom FROM religion doesn't give you the right to trample on eveyone elses freedom of expression. prayer is expression. that freedom doesn't dissapear the minute you enter a public place. including school or govt property The only ones censoring and fringing on the 1st amendment are lefty atheists douche bags. the victims? people of faith.

[flynstl1]

@reddfraser2 @CRUClEFICTION he said no because it would appear like his endorcement of 1view. that suggests rejection of other views and is contradictory of the songs purpose. no religion means no establishment religion. no more "my God is bigger than your God" bullshit. There can be no peace without mutual respect and tolerance. exactly what C-Lo intended.

[flynstl1]

@Skavar4000 I would love to, but there are so many tools in the back of your "bash C-Lo" bandwagon that its just easier to c&p than it would be to school all of you individually. It would be endless.

[iloveoldschoolanime]

disappointed with Cee Lo :(

[flynstl1]

You fucking morons know 0 about JL and that song. "Dick Gregory gave Yoko and me a little hind of prayer book. It is in the Christian idiom, but you can apply it anywhere. It is the concept of positive prayer. If you want to get a car, get the car keys. Get it? Imagine is saying that. If you can imagine a world at peace, with no denominations of religion - not without religion but without this my-God-is-bigger-than-your-God thing - then it can be true." John's words.

[reddfraser2]

@flynstl1 Sorry "PAL"....But you don't get to change history but just throwing a couple of " marks around some Bull Shite. Lennon chose 'and NO RELIGION too". This hack had 0 right 2 edit. I DO NOT have to respect his myths.His arrogant ilk, have no respect 4 those of us who can accept reality w/o the need for the load of sexist, racist, homophobic claptrap of his fairytale. They never seem to get a VERY simple concept: Their freedom OF religion =

our freedom FROM religion..

[Skavar4000]

@flynstl1 Stop copying and pasting your lame comment all over youtube you useless appendage!

[MyraMarks]

Suppose a non-religious singer was hired to sing "God Bless America" at a World Series game but changed the worrds to "God hates America" or "Godless America" instead. Religious people would be outraged, and they'd be right. What Green did is just as bad. He should have had the guts to say that he didn't agree with the words to "Imagine" and so he wouldn't sing the song. But he didn't.

[swlovesvegans]

i'm sorry but there are people dying across the world... we are at war. there are weapons killing innocent, people starving, children geting sold as sex slaves, oil in the oceans.. and THIS is what you people are worked up about. that is just SAD

[Skavar4000]

@swlovesvegans And you are incapable of thinking beyond your obviously deep deep depression... I am surprised you have not ended it all over your perpetual state of misery.

[halvepupose1]

religion has an undeserved respect that is unparalleled. You can be a learned moral philosopher and pacifist and be drafted despite objecting. Decry your religious beliefs, however unfounded, irrational, and evidence lacking as they may be, and you are granted a free pass by the highest courts of the land. Religious zealots in american society continuously over-sensitize the public to any form of religious descent, even via song, it is laughable. America has been successfully brainwashed.

[dlrice]

What a frigging non talent.Who buys this crap?

[Alexdurrant7]

@dlrice The Beatles were hardly amazing singers. They even acknowledged that they're not great singers. They're known for their songwriting, but their singing is dreadfully subpar.

[dlrice]

@Alexdurrant7 Oh just stop it.

What an asinine comment.

[Alexdurrant7]

@dlrice Asinine? You clearly don't know the meaning of the word, or else you would have chosen one that was actually relevant.

[dlrice]

@Alexdurrant7 What an absurd, foolish, balmy, brainless, bubbleheaded, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, fatuous, featherheaded, fool, half-baked, harebrained, half-witted, inept, insane, jerky, kooky, looney, lunkheaded, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, senseless, silly, simpleminded, stupid, unwise, wacky, weak-minded, witless comment.

[Alexdurrant7]

@dlrice How kind of you to arrange your adjectives in alphabetical order for me. Cute.

[dlrice]

@Alexdurrant7 maybe now you can get a clue.

NAWWWWWWWWWWWW

[crazyperson615]

WAT THE HELL THE REAL SONG IS SAYING NO RELIGION AND HE SAYS "all religion is true" SERIOUSLY WAT THE HELL C LO

[MrRockadonf]

it's so shit...!!! let's go to bed fatguy !!!! dear john you are the "one"...manu from belguim

[stevenmullis]

who cares suck it up

[Skavar4000]

@stevenmullis This comes from someone who cares about nothing? Not much of a recommendation then is it...

[TheMrcastino1]

I wonder if Cee Lo was a white man would this be a big fucking deal? its just a fucking song grow up and stop worshiping a dead man, my fault a dead white man. I also wonder if Justine Timberlake would've singed a Micheal Jackson song( Man in the Mirror) and changed the lyrics would people have a problem with that? people should be more pissed at more important things like homelessness, Aids, economy, and world hunger!.

[TheMrcastino1]

@TheMrcastino1

[Skavar4000]

@TheMrcastino1 When you mature and understand reality better, you will realize the inanity of your comment.

[patriotgateheep]

fuck c lo what a piece of shit

[MyraMarks]

It's really simple. If you don't agree with the words to a song, sing a different effing song. There are millions to choose from. Green should just have picked a song he liked better. If he wasn't allowed to do that, let someone else sing it.

I wouldn't go to Green's church and demand that the hymns be rewritten to take out all the Goddy bits.

[therealjonpaw]

he IMPROVED the song and offended a few sissies haha

[ColossalM]

@therealjonpaw John Lennon wrote that the way he wrote it. If he covers it, he shouldn't change the meaning of the song.

[TheLastBrainLeft]

Atheist butthurt is delicious. Brofist, Cee Lo. Big time.



[crazedvikingfan28]

If u cover the most beautiful song ever, sing it right!!!!!!!!!!! Don't karoke with some of your own lyrics too.

[TheLastBrainLeft]

@crazedvikingfan28 The song is shit. It's horrible, lame, dreary and unimaginative. Imagine a world where idiots stop worshipping four mediocre, mop-top kids from Liverpool ....

[crazedvikingfan28]

@TheLastBrainLeft Those four mediocre mop top kids from Liverpool will still be more popular than C lo in a 1000 years!!

[johnrunion]

"john lennon himself stated that when you lift lyrics from another song writer's work it is not a rip-off, it is rather a love in. google it! lennon ripped off ideas for the song from the communist manifesto. he also ripped off chuck berry lyrics for come together. all those all you need is love types are really spewing out the hateful bile! the atheists have just proven they worship a man and his works/words."

[psp3602]

What's so wrong with this, this is his interpretation, just like you are complaining about it right now, five words changed, and you start a fire of arguing, you guys are pathetic.

[slickstar15]

@psp3602 thank you, couldnt agree with that anymore

[jessx187]

No modern-day artist should ever touch such a classic song. Ever.

It's not only a slap in the face to John, but to every single fan of his. I'm sure Cee-Lo doesn't care that people cover his songs because they're all rubbish.. such a disgusting thing.

[jbswagod]

Fuck cee lo green

[1MikeC44]

Cee Lo Green took one of the single greatest songs ever written and trashed in in 3 mins...

[vidwatcher1107]

I thought he said "all religions too" but I guess that would still piss off the atheists. All religion is true doesn't make much sense.

[drawme916]

At one time I liked Cee Lo. He's lost me as a fan after doing this.

P.S. Isn't "All Religion Is True" an oxymoron?

[renumeratedfrog]

Even if didn't change the lyrics, it still would have been a horrible interpretation of that song.

[minkymott]

What is it with assholes like this who feel the need to ruin a great song. What a total and complete turd.

[Arder]

He didn't even get the lyrics right! I think its fair to flag this as rape.

[Chdonga]

Cee Lo didn't butcher the song. The song was bad to begin with. As for the message, it's still the same.

We should live in peace. But who am I kidding? The internet would complain that a song is too good.

[flyingeggrolls]

@Chdonga Yep, true

[talhoyle]

Way to go.

Now every time I hear him sing I will throw up in my mouth a little.

I am sure to avoid anything he does after this, even if Gnarls Barkley reform.

Oh. rnsone. This is the most beloved song for secularists and freethinkers. I have more than a grip. I have a grasp.

[JeanLeeke]

BOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE....­

[rnsone]

Get a life to all those criticizing Cee lo.its just a song! Get a freaking grip!

[alpuretim]

If I were an alien, and I visited planet Earth, I would look at Cee Lo Green with my big black almond eyes, blink, and say "YOU SUPERSTICIOUS FRIED CHICKEN EATER RUINING AN IMPORTANT SONG LIKE THAT" and leave.

[alpuretim]

What a stupid jerk. Pandering to the creationists. Only in America. NUTS.

[timand2037]

big fat jerk

[GOLDENFLYWARRIOR]

GREAT SONG YET CEE LO RUINED IT. PEACE. THE CONCEPT STILL CAN LIVE IN OUR HEARTS.

[DuskofCivilization]

Hey Cee Lo Green FUCK YOU!

[iHeartCav4ever]

It doesn't matter what religion you are, John Lennon wrote the song the way he did on purpose. John Lennon didn't care if he was offensive, he just wanted to get the message out there. Cee Lo just defeated the whole purpose of that.

[DustyAndPistolPete]

@iHeartCav4ever Actually to say 'all religion is true' is as offensive to someone who is of one of the major faiths as saying 'no religion too'.

[humanforotherhumans]

@iHeartCav4ever

The song is vehicle for a debate . John would have been happy.

[StickyFingers44111]

lol

he just couldn't bring him self to disrespect god.

it's hard to shake your superstitions.

[GodVlogger]

The best quote I saw was saying this would be like Cee Lo Green deciding to redo the Mona Lisa in order to give her a nice big fat smile.

Cee Lo Green has totally ruined his opportunity to cover a fantastic song. Cee Lo Green has also immediately lost many many many fans. What a loser.

[Joeybsmooth]

@GodVlogger

How many Cee Lo MP3s do you own?