Yoko gave it the okay to do so. In being a celebrity we are indeed entering a realm where celebrities must be conscious of possible posthumous representation of oneself. Take the Orville Redenbacher commercial, released in 2006. In being a pop icon, he was immortalized, and he was taken property by the masses. Some may call it disrespect. I do not know what to call it. Inevitable? Intriguing? A consequence of mass media needing to appease consumer desire for sensation? I don't know.
@FloppyEmperor Nothing about the message that this company is giving is disrespectful. But the fact that they're having a huge public figure that is dead promote it is unacceptable. Because John never had the approval and right to make this commercial because he is dead. That's why it's disrespectful.
Yoko Ono apparently approved this ad because of its charitable intent, which is very admirable, but the fake Lennon voice and file footage that doesn't match up with the overdubbed dialogue distracts from what the ad is trying to promote. When your message is lost on the people you're trying to reach, your ad is a failure. Like this one.
Were laptops around when Lennon was alive? It might be a sound alike and they just wanted to use Lennon's face because of his history with charity, but if it isn't...
John Lennon was a caring and giving person, but this is awful the way they are using his image. it's helping ppl less fortunate than others but still he is gone and we should respect that. I hope congress gets involved and makes it legal to us the likeness of deceased celebs, or anyone not living for that matter. George Lucas is buying up some of the rights to dead celebs and is gonna make a movie, that is creepy.
I agree with most people on here. There are many more important issues at hand then supplying children with LAPTOPS. I mean, I bet there are kids that would take a meatball sub over a laptop any day of the week. Don't get me wrong, it's a great cause and I think it should be endorsed, but not by John Lennon. I think if someone were to go to such an extreme in advertising it should be used for something more important like world hunger or world peace. RIP John.
i just can't believe this is real. i feel like we need to tackle world hunger before we try to get wireless internet to everyone. and using john lennon? this is just absurd.
This is a double edged sword. It's for a very good cause I'd like to think Lennon would've supported, but at the same time there's something just not right about using the dead for advertising without their consent.
What there's no more powerful and influential people left in the world today so they get a poor dead guy to do it... SICK! Let Lennon's spirit rest in peace you corporate mongrels!! >:(
i heard his wife gave them permission to use his image and voice to do this commercial...i was extremely creeped out though when i saw it on tv. i was like "ummm...is'nt he dead?"
UGH. I HATE this ad. It's just... fucking offensive. A bad John Lennon impression and a complete ignorance towards what Lennon was talking about in his music. When I first saw this monstrosity, I thought it was a joke until the end bit. Fuuuuuu... I WANT IT GOOONE!
John might have objected to this if anyone had just taken his face and done it, but something tells me that he would have been very much in favor of it simply because Yoko gave her blessing. And that's not a diss at Yoko and her hold over John. It's a comment on the bond that the two of them shared.
It's creepy, though it's meant well. It makes me think of what might have been if John hadn't been murdered, had lived through the 80s to now, & how he would've loved the Internet. I can dream ...
Beyond wrong of them to do it this way. Using his image I can see, as I believe this is something he would be behind, but having someone do a Liverpool accent and pretend to be him is just disrespectful.
I don't think the cause is great either. I think a poor underprivileged child needs more than just a laptop. Besides, when I was as young as the kid in the clip, I certainly didn't have a laptop or a computer! I got a laptop for college! How did this get authorized anyway?
I agree.. very disturbing potential of using historic idols to push a dumb agenda. Oh, a laptop can allow someone to do ANYTHING they want? I don't think so. And I don't think John Lennon would have come up with such tripe. By the way, when do I get one of these laptops??
I hate this commercial. I was never a huge Beatles fan... but since he's no longer with us I find this commercial highly offensive... especially the horrible person mocking his voice
well its not a mcdonalds commcercial but for a good cause..Imagine persuading every person that watches this because of someones voice but not just any voice John ennon's voice is the one speaking to you
That's kinda not the point... the point is THAT'S NOT JOHN LENNON'S VOICE. It's a horrible impersonator... I understand the message and one laptop per child seems like a good thing education wise blah blah. I just think that there must have been a better way to promote this
wtf yoko?!?! and wtf whoever thought up this horrid idea?!?! i hate this commercial so much...hearing his voice made me shudder & cry; it certainly did NOT make me want to pull out my credit card & buy a laptop.SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO tasteless, and depressing :(
Someone please explain to me what the hell John Lennon has to do with kids getting laptops? Yes, I caught the "imagine", but it's still reaching quite a bit.
I think the thing that I find the most distasteful about this commercial using Lennon's likeness is that we have stepped beyond just using an image of a dead person to endorse a product. This now creates words that he never said while alive, imitates his voice to say those words and then doctors a video to make it look as if he were actually saying it (and doing a crappy job at that). Because Yoko endorsed it still doesn't justify putting words in John's mouth that he never said. Poor taste.
I saw this on Hulu and as it was running I thought it sounded like a Liverpool-esque accent that reminded me slightly of Lennon, then I saw his face...I know that giving 3rd world children laptops is a good thing....but having a deceased person endorse it....who can't defend or honor a decision he would or wouldn't have made....is just not wrong but just (shake head and look at ground)
@Nickdude6 Agree. If Lennon were alive, he'd likely endorse a number of charitable projects, but he'd been dead 28 years when OLPC began. Thus, he had nothing to say about his image & vocal endorsement (?) gifted to OLPC by Yoko & Sean. JL was never into his art being used as commercialism. Now at the 30th anniversary of his murder, Yoko & Sean feel John would be cool with this?? More likely, he'd have held a concert to promote funding electricity for many of the kids' villages. IMAGINE.
how does Yoko, let alone his children feel about using a caricatured impression of his voice to hawk a fucking laptop? something about this aint right
Well, this, in my opinion, is horribly wrong. Extremely disrespectful to John Lennon. He is gone - to all of our dismay - and they definitely should not be trying to recreate his voice to make it sound like he endorces this. John Lennon was a man much greater than this. He didn't imagine kids recieving laptops - they're just a possession. Honestly, a line in the actual song "Imagine" stated 'Imagine no possessions'. He imagined generosity to all, world peace, and worldwide love. RIP John Lennon.
maybe its just me.....but its not that it dosent sound like him. it does but in a very cartoonish VERY exaggerated way...He sounds like a young groundskeeper willy...this is bullshit
I thought it was really cool, it was like hearing him talking to us from the beyond. This campaign is something he likely would have embraced. Great idea.
If Yoko did ok this , then she really has lost the bloody plot. It's wrong and not just because it's John. I adore him sure, but I also loathed the Gene Kelly car ad and the one with Bob Monkhouse.
This wasn't from the song "imagine" and I have no idea why you would make the assumption other then the 2 "imagine"s he said. They just got some footage of John where he said words that were needed for this sentence, and parts of word that was needed to say laptop.
what the hell is up with the guys voice i mean everyone who does a john lennon voice makes him sound to animated or to cartoony like i know he had a weird voice but it wasnt the far out
I don't know if John would've agreed with it, I mean, they're giving laptops for more of an educational purpose, it's not like saying 'Give an Ipod to every child' or anything....
Still, I do think it was pretty bogus to use his image to promote laptops, no matter how or to whom they were aiming to give them to.
And it's so blatant that that's not his voice, it just makes it that much worse.
bottom line is that this is bullshit. no one would sell their image after death, Oh and check the website, people are profiting off this and the sales of the donated laptops. Lennon would have protested this himself, its saying he supports giving a technology to the world but its all about makin money for amazon and paypal LOOK IT UP
Thank you to all faceless corporations and their public servants
and? sorry but what does that have to do with this. Yoko is probably just half crazy by now and wants more money. The ones to blame (just like for Americas financial debacle) are stupid power/money hungry corporations that think and treat charity as nothing more than a PR stunt
if you ask me... i doubt yoko and john would still be together if he had lived... so her right should be null in void.. hey.. anyone see that simpson's episode where they had homer kill people so they can use their images? this made me think about that.. good cause tho.. but knee jerk reaction was that it was wrong... WHY COULDN'T IT HAVE BEEN YOKO INSTEAD OF JOHN???
What the hell's wrong with everybody?! I'm sure Lennon would be glad to do this if he were alive. I bet he'd be happy that he can do something like this even after his death. Everyone's an idiot that just wants to complain about anything just to try and get noticed. Human beings can be quite disappointing sometimes.
this is disgusting. yoko allowed them to do this. thees aren't his words. this isn't his voice. this makes me so mad... he wouldn't do this if he was alive. NOBODY should be allowed to make someone say something...they would do this with aperson that was alive, why do it with someone who has passed!
shame,,,,,i'm sorry lennon would'nt have agreed to this if he was alive,,,he cared for the struggle and helpin' the people who struggle, build teachin' those who need to learn, how to grow they're harvest get more doctors ,,,it's a shame,,,
This Company is great, they are nonprofit and Lennon would have supported them and im pritty sure if he still was alive he would have done this for real. + its not disrespectful cause if it was Yoko Ono wouldnt have allowed it to be aired: they got her permission first and she is extremly protective of him. Ill leave you with a quote concerning the food/technolgy issue.
"Give a Man a fish and you will feed him for a day. Give a man a Pole and Feed him for Life"
that kinda sounds like john's voice, but not really. but i am sure that if he were alive today he would be in full support of the one laptop per child cause.
I wish to apologize for the sour tone of my last comment.
It was rude of me, as I regard John Lennon too highly to mock his difficulties in such a way.
Also, I just don't like the way his likeness is being used here, nor the way people have tried to tear him down in recent years. It cheapens him and his memory.
Just to double post... they're also not going to jump straight onto the net and start looking up celebrities or something ridiculous like that, unlike the mostly spoilt generation of Westerners who currently see the internet as a resource for porn, pirating and gossip. They actually want to learn. They realise that they need to learn for their own survival.
I love laughing at the many short-sighted pricks who comment on this One Laptop Per Child issue. Like a few have said already, the laptops are going to provide children with the necessary education to improve their farming techniques, their water treatment techniques, and even teach them basic language and arithmetic skills.
One classroom can teach a handful of students for mere hours of a day. Laptops can teach every child in every country anything they ever need to know to survive.
Just like Exerci said: Because they need education. It's pretty much a measure of "Give a man a fish, and he'll be sated for one day, teach him to fish, and he'll be sated for the rest of his life."
Giving them food is a shortsighted solution, and so is giving them clean water. As is they have no way to live without support from Europe+USA+Aussieland. If we just keep giving them water and food, that will never change. If we give them education, give them tools to learn with, they stand a chance
This is awful. Plain and simple. Just awful. Misguided in the extreme. To those who knew and loved John it is a travesty and a betrayal. To those who did not, it will mean very little. Awful.
This is the most revolting thing I have ever seen... I think John Lennon would be more concerned with clothing and feeding kids than computerizing them
exploiting John like this is horrible. Yoko should be ashamed of herself selling rights to manipulate viewers into believing John would have done something like this himself if still alive?
moerevlu, what makes you think yoko sold the rights? i believe she just gave approval to this very well respected cause and she indeed did it for all the right reasons - no financial gain, just helping out a great cause
i agree. also, they would be exposed to cyberbullying, the internet's not-so-child-friendly database, and the addiction to net-surfing. They would be happier without laptops. I noticed that when Hurricane Ike hit here, all the power was off for 2 weeks, but I was happier with my family rather than on a computer all day. I'm sure in Lennon were alive today, he would have turned down the offer to be in this advertisement.
Relax. It's not exactly like his voice was. Sort of close, but no cigar. Listen closely to his old interviews and etc.. It's an impersonator. And, you understand, he's deceased, and digital technology isn't quite there yet to really pull it off.
what a load of shit what bunch of corporate idiots thought this was a good idea. Yoko should leave lennons legacy alone if he was still here yoko would have been hisory many years ago
John would be appalled. And if Yoko had anything to do with this, she should be ashamed of herself. What in insult to the man, his genius and his memory.
Yoko HAD to have something to do with it. She basically owns John's image now. Anything with John's face, name, or music on it after his death is Yoko's doing.
What a fucking joke. Way to spit on the grave of one of the greatest men in the 20th century. John Lennon wouldn't be pushing for an expansion of our western industrial consumer culture.
Indeed for a good cause, but this came out very odd. The marketing team should've thought of another way than this.
Falenas 1 week ago
FUK
PUMAPUNKU2011 2 weeks ago
It doesn't properly sound like him.... I don't like it.... where did they get the authority to do this....?
BrielleJeanMarie 2 months ago
5 words: unlicensed use of his image
giobbistar21 2 months ago
john lennon died in 1980. this was made in 2008... what gives?
aepnlexi1319 6 months ago
what the fuck is this
lennonsdoll 7 months ago 2
Yoko gave it the okay to do so. In being a celebrity we are indeed entering a realm where celebrities must be conscious of possible posthumous representation of oneself. Take the Orville Redenbacher commercial, released in 2006. In being a pop icon, he was immortalized, and he was taken property by the masses. Some may call it disrespect. I do not know what to call it. Inevitable? Intriguing? A consequence of mass media needing to appease consumer desire for sensation? I don't know.
kentmorita 8 months ago
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kentmorita 8 months ago
this is just fuckin weird.
lennon2starkey7 8 months ago
Did fucking Yoko let this happen?
c4r50n1 8 months ago
I don't get it.. o.o How is this disrespectful?
FloppyEmperor 9 months ago
@FloppyEmperor Nothing about the message that this company is giving is disrespectful. But the fact that they're having a huge public figure that is dead promote it is unacceptable. Because John never had the approval and right to make this commercial because he is dead. That's why it's disrespectful.
Carnicrush 8 months ago
this is just as vacuous as lennon's pathetic liberalism
frackle 9 months ago
Yoko Ono apparently approved this ad because of its charitable intent, which is very admirable, but the fake Lennon voice and file footage that doesn't match up with the overdubbed dialogue distracts from what the ad is trying to promote. When your message is lost on the people you're trying to reach, your ad is a failure. Like this one.
ShortyLongstrokin 11 months ago
Were laptops around when Lennon was alive? It might be a sound alike and they just wanted to use Lennon's face because of his history with charity, but if it isn't...
TuckerswordsINC 11 months ago
Okay wow.. just wow.. This is absolutely in poor taste, I don't care if it's for a good cause, that's just horrible.
DreamerDonovan 11 months ago
Why do we need to give every child a laptop? Let's focus on getting them all food, clothing, clean water, access to doctors. The basic stuff.
HicSuntDeus 11 months ago 2
Creepy.
ocelotecpatl 1 year ago
John Lennon was a caring and giving person, but this is awful the way they are using his image. it's helping ppl less fortunate than others but still he is gone and we should respect that. I hope congress gets involved and makes it legal to us the likeness of deceased celebs, or anyone not living for that matter. George Lucas is buying up some of the rights to dead celebs and is gonna make a movie, that is creepy.
8kotdtyrant8 1 year ago
I love John but that creeped me out.
GorillazFan1104 1 year ago
Was anyone else thinking of the scene with him and Forrest Gump after they saw this?
PunkVixen85 1 year ago
I agree with most people on here. There are many more important issues at hand then supplying children with LAPTOPS. I mean, I bet there are kids that would take a meatball sub over a laptop any day of the week. Don't get me wrong, it's a great cause and I think it should be endorsed, but not by John Lennon. I think if someone were to go to such an extreme in advertising it should be used for something more important like world hunger or world peace. RIP John.
Apollyon511 1 year ago
its a good cause but cmon... *facepalm*
Weedthrasher 1 year ago
I belive that John would be behind OLPC 100%.
sirapan11 1 year ago
were do they get wifi my friends?
Aquahorseify 1 year ago
i sound more like lennon than that thing
spoochlove1 1 year ago
ʘ_ʘ WTF?!
localvandals 1 year ago
if they can do this why cant they keep billy mays in the oxy clean commercials?! <-- kidding.
SingingInTheRain92 1 year ago 3
i just can't believe this is real. i feel like we need to tackle world hunger before we try to get wireless internet to everyone. and using john lennon? this is just absurd.
djfrikalo 1 year ago 3
@djfrikalo
Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime
hankokranko 1 year ago
This is even worse than the /watch?v=AqMjB7lXWQQ commercial.
To the creators of this "commercial": FUCK YOU!!!!
drrobertoboogie97 1 year ago 2
This is a double edged sword. It's for a very good cause I'd like to think Lennon would've supported, but at the same time there's something just not right about using the dead for advertising without their consent.
Gello70 1 year ago 2
If I was John Lennon, I'd kick at a TV screen when I saw this.
GDscissorhandedgurl 1 year ago 3
why did they think this was a good idea?
Jay4P 1 year ago
This is disgusting.
WhatsaKlobb 1 year ago 3
this is bullshit.
davidkrod 1 year ago 3
What there's no more powerful and influential people left in the world today so they get a poor dead guy to do it... SICK! Let Lennon's spirit rest in peace you corporate mongrels!! >:(
jackbliss 1 year ago 2
i heard his wife gave them permission to use his image and voice to do this commercial...i was extremely creeped out though when i saw it on tv. i was like "ummm...is'nt he dead?"
raynegurl123 1 year ago
UGH. I HATE this ad. It's just... fucking offensive. A bad John Lennon impression and a complete ignorance towards what Lennon was talking about in his music. When I first saw this monstrosity, I thought it was a joke until the end bit. Fuuuuuu... I WANT IT GOOONE!
sparkish808 1 year ago 7
next up a george harrison comercial for a vaccum
kingrunnisfilms 1 year ago 5
they shoulda had Bono do it.
he's a good humanitarian.
johnson1095 1 year ago
it doesn't really sound like him but it IS moving.
johnson1095 1 year ago
John might have objected to this if anyone had just taken his face and done it, but something tells me that he would have been very much in favor of it simply because Yoko gave her blessing. And that's not a diss at Yoko and her hold over John. It's a comment on the bond that the two of them shared.
ThatWasFred 1 year ago
disrepect for john lennon :(
justmariannemarkus 1 year ago
Lol I haven't seen one positive comment about this commercial. Probably because there is nothing positive about it.
meluvpancakes 1 year ago
this is completely wrong. shame on whoever made this
Suryavideo 1 year ago
This is sad... the only thing worse then the lip synching is the way yoko is still trying to destroy such an amazing man
ucantkeepmedown08 1 year ago
instead of laptops why dont we give them food, or clean water? or less aids? this charity is stupid
MCBigDfromtheAZ 1 year ago 6
It's creepy, though it's meant well. It makes me think of what might have been if John hadn't been murdered, had lived through the 80s to now, & how he would've loved the Internet. I can dream ...
MadameLil 1 year ago
I think I've commented this before but, it's CREEPING ME OUT! it's like taking a corpse and using it as a talking dummy
Ingridthepoet 1 year ago 2
Beyond wrong of them to do it this way. Using his image I can see, as I believe this is something he would be behind, but having someone do a Liverpool accent and pretend to be him is just disrespectful.
AbsentOfGrace 1 year ago
Yoko Ono is a totally disaster...
If you really loves John, as you said, try to don't repeat this again,, is a shame
merchu14 1 year ago
i think using a dead man to promote something is sick, no matter how noble the cause.
darfjono 1 year ago
I don't think the cause is great either. I think a poor underprivileged child needs more than just a laptop. Besides, when I was as young as the kid in the clip, I certainly didn't have a laptop or a computer! I got a laptop for college! How did this get authorized anyway?
HittingHard 1 year ago 3
I agree.. very disturbing potential of using historic idols to push a dumb agenda. Oh, a laptop can allow someone to do ANYTHING they want? I don't think so. And I don't think John Lennon would have come up with such tripe. By the way, when do I get one of these laptops??
cyryc 1 year ago 3
I knew they used black majik! fucking weirdos
radbrains 1 year ago
Disturbing on multiple levels.
Aufilena 1 year ago 3
This is the definition of exploitation...
dublecrux 1 year ago 3
I hate this commercial. I was never a huge Beatles fan... but since he's no longer with us I find this commercial highly offensive... especially the horrible person mocking his voice
reesey1029 1 year ago 6
well its not a mcdonalds commcercial but for a good cause..Imagine persuading every person that watches this because of someones voice but not just any voice John ennon's voice is the one speaking to you
average220 1 year ago
That's kinda not the point... the point is THAT'S NOT JOHN LENNON'S VOICE. It's a horrible impersonator... I understand the message and one laptop per child seems like a good thing education wise blah blah. I just think that there must have been a better way to promote this
reesey1029 1 year ago 2
its 70% John lennon's voice good enough and better than nothing
average220 1 year ago
wtf yoko?!?! and wtf whoever thought up this horrid idea?!?! i hate this commercial so much...hearing his voice made me shudder & cry; it certainly did NOT make me want to pull out my credit card & buy a laptop.SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO tasteless, and depressing :(
piratejenny23 1 year ago 5
Youre not buying a laptop but helping a child in poor countries use one
average220 1 year ago
Someone please explain to me what the hell John Lennon has to do with kids getting laptops? Yes, I caught the "imagine", but it's still reaching quite a bit.
FAIL.
tvpirate05 2 years ago
This is one of the worst commercials in history.
haisey 2 years ago 5
wow....that was horrible.
Sabbath104 2 years ago
I think the thing that I find the most distasteful about this commercial using Lennon's likeness is that we have stepped beyond just using an image of a dead person to endorse a product. This now creates words that he never said while alive, imitates his voice to say those words and then doctors a video to make it look as if he were actually saying it (and doing a crappy job at that). Because Yoko endorsed it still doesn't justify putting words in John's mouth that he never said. Poor taste.
kmdguy 2 years ago 6
this dosent sound like him did yoko diced to do this
penguinguy1011 2 years ago
this is fucked up
nniuq25 2 years ago 5
This is a terrible disrespect to the dead.
AJSTITAN14 2 years ago 40
If Lennon were alive I think he would be alright with the cause, but shit the man's dead, what the fuck is wrong with these people.
RomanBellic12345 2 years ago
This is wrong The man is dead R.I.P
TheTigercave 2 years ago
this is so fucked up
zardock111 2 years ago
This is so awful. I think my soul just died a little. Holy shit.
singitjohnny 2 years ago
Not cool
Kemotosen 2 years ago
I saw this on Hulu and as it was running I thought it sounded like a Liverpool-esque accent that reminded me slightly of Lennon, then I saw his face...I know that giving 3rd world children laptops is a good thing....but having a deceased person endorse it....who can't defend or honor a decision he would or wouldn't have made....is just not wrong but just (shake head and look at ground)
Nickdude6 2 years ago 33
i just saw it two minutes ago and thought the same exact thing
quakeroats0316 2 years ago
@Nickdude6 Agree. If Lennon were alive, he'd likely endorse a number of charitable projects, but he'd been dead 28 years when OLPC began. Thus, he had nothing to say about his image & vocal endorsement (?) gifted to OLPC by Yoko & Sean. JL was never into his art being used as commercialism. Now at the 30th anniversary of his murder, Yoko & Sean feel John would be cool with this?? More likely, he'd have held a concert to promote funding electricity for many of the kids' villages. IMAGINE.
zimmiesgirl 1 year ago
What's next, JFK hawking Tide? "Ask not what your detergent can do your you, but what can your detergent due for your whites?" Fuck that.
tandemwexley 2 years ago
ur funny start a utube show!
TheHDCam2 2 years ago
This is wrong.
narahimi 2 years ago
how does Yoko, let alone his children feel about using a caricatured impression of his voice to hawk a fucking laptop? something about this aint right
bauersnarky 2 years ago
This skeeves me out so bad.
Lalanii 2 years ago
Well, this, in my opinion, is horribly wrong. Extremely disrespectful to John Lennon. He is gone - to all of our dismay - and they definitely should not be trying to recreate his voice to make it sound like he endorces this. John Lennon was a man much greater than this. He didn't imagine kids recieving laptops - they're just a possession. Honestly, a line in the actual song "Imagine" stated 'Imagine no possessions'. He imagined generosity to all, world peace, and worldwide love. RIP John Lennon.
hiabbeyhimaggy 2 years ago 3
Now i feel bad about having a laptop..
PixieDust1996 2 years ago
nah - not him - fake cake
rsmko 2 years ago
maybe its just me.....but its not that it dosent sound like him. it does but in a very cartoonish VERY exaggerated way...He sounds like a young groundskeeper willy...this is bullshit
yannidevotion 2 years ago 2
WHAT THE FUCK??
itsthegreenplatypus 2 years ago
Why all the psycho reactions?
I thought it was really cool, it was like hearing him talking to us from the beyond. This campaign is something he likely would have embraced. Great idea.
scoita 2 years ago
WHAT THE SHIT.
kayumite 2 years ago
Actually this is Lennon. It was taken from the song "imagine".
Yoko shows full approval towards his appearance in this advert.
howfrom3 2 years ago
this cant be from "imagine"
he says :"you can give a child a laptop" there were no laptops on the 70's mate
MozoZozo69 2 years ago
obviously some bits have been added in..
howfrom3 2 years ago
That's right. Of course, they also didn't have computers advanced enough to allow someone to digitally recreate your voice back then, did they?
lolubentrold 2 years ago
Yoko split up The Beatles :\
NakedCreep 2 years ago
How bout we give these kids food instead of laptops?
jaredgetsacookie 2 years ago 5
If Yoko did ok this , then she really has lost the bloody plot. It's wrong and not just because it's John. I adore him sure, but I also loathed the Gene Kelly car ad and the one with Bob Monkhouse.
WRONG WRONG just WRONG! Let the dead rest!
Petr0nia 2 years ago 3
It doesn't sounds like John
igsexyqueen 2 years ago
This is evil! To think what they can do to you after you've died. How about Jim Morrison in a Tampax commercial?
blazak 2 years ago 6
Amazing...
elementa 2 years ago
AWFUL!!!
Ingvvarr 2 years ago
hella creepy. why does everyone who imitates john lennon puts nasal on it.
TinPinKing 2 years ago
It is Lennon's voice.. it was taken from the song "imagine"
howfrom3 2 years ago
This wasn't from the song "imagine" and I have no idea why you would make the assumption other then the 2 "imagine"s he said. They just got some footage of John where he said words that were needed for this sentence, and parts of word that was needed to say laptop.
NakedCreep 2 years ago
Yes it was. Look it up.
howfrom3 2 years ago
I did look it up, 3 months ago.
NakedCreep 2 years ago
I think...John wouldn't have done this...
He wouldn't give into a commercial jsut to make money and supposedly "stop poverty with laptops"! Yay!
No,
With the way things are today, he would have tried to make a REAL difference in poverty.
Figures Yoko okays this, first not allowing Julian to cover songs and letting Sean be a disgrace to his father's name...now this...yargh.
silveraura123 2 years ago 4
what the hell is up with the guys voice i mean everyone who does a john lennon voice makes him sound to animated or to cartoony like i know he had a weird voice but it wasnt the far out
CRMccoy88 2 years ago
good message. it'll never happen though. but a TERRIBLE way of advertising it.
mundthedrummer 2 years ago 3
o dear ...
I think..it comes frist the tools and knowledge of how to use them but firts of all about food water and electricity
thelmasss 2 years ago
I don't know if John would've agreed with it, I mean, they're giving laptops for more of an educational purpose, it's not like saying 'Give an Ipod to every child' or anything....
Still, I do think it was pretty bogus to use his image to promote laptops, no matter how or to whom they were aiming to give them to.
And it's so blatant that that's not his voice, it just makes it that much worse.
insaneforstuff254 2 years ago
haha the new kind of propaganda.
dear uniformed youtube viewer
bottom line is that this is bullshit. no one would sell their image after death, Oh and check the website, people are profiting off this and the sales of the donated laptops. Lennon would have protested this himself, its saying he supports giving a technology to the world but its all about makin money for amazon and paypal LOOK IT UP
Thank you to all faceless corporations and their public servants
noah1017 2 years ago
Actually, Yoko okayed this.
ankimo1 2 years ago
and? sorry but what does that have to do with this. Yoko is probably just half crazy by now and wants more money. The ones to blame (just like for Americas financial debacle) are stupid power/money hungry corporations that think and treat charity as nothing more than a PR stunt
noah1017 2 years ago
if you ask me... i doubt yoko and john would still be together if he had lived... so her right should be null in void.. hey.. anyone see that simpson's episode where they had homer kill people so they can use their images? this made me think about that.. good cause tho.. but knee jerk reaction was that it was wrong... WHY COULDN'T IT HAVE BEEN YOKO INSTEAD OF JOHN???
KIMICAL27 2 years ago 2
This is the least cool thing I've seen in a long time.
JoyGrenade 2 years ago
What the hell's wrong with everybody?! I'm sure Lennon would be glad to do this if he were alive. I bet he'd be happy that he can do something like this even after his death. Everyone's an idiot that just wants to complain about anything just to try and get noticed. Human beings can be quite disappointing sometimes.
Maurbel 2 years ago
this is disgusting. yoko allowed them to do this. thees aren't his words. this isn't his voice. this makes me so mad... he wouldn't do this if he was alive. NOBODY should be allowed to make someone say something...they would do this with aperson that was alive, why do it with someone who has passed!
itsthegreenplatypus 2 years ago
THIS IS SO WRONG
SydneyOnVideo 2 years ago 2
shame,,,,,i'm sorry lennon would'nt have agreed to this if he was alive,,,he cared for the struggle and helpin' the people who struggle, build teachin' those who need to learn, how to grow they're harvest get more doctors ,,,it's a shame,,,
mivoiosi 2 years ago 2
I wonder who he copied it from. He does nothing original.
Ned Jolley
NedJolley 2 years ago
Terrible impersonator (the voice).
Woohoo5241 2 years ago
wtf where the hell does the electricity comes from then??? solar plannels??
wouldnt books work even better?
likevvii 3 years ago
Yes, actually. Or anything that can charge a twelve volt car battery. Including a car battery.
TheGreatSparky 3 years ago
john lennons dead......
illosion 3 years ago 2
This expliotaion makes me sad.
ISeeSquid 3 years ago 4
This really makes me sick. Nobody has the right to put words into his mouth, and that includes Yoko.
cheesemonger71 3 years ago
oh lord, what an insult. thats really terrible.
ElnAlDigital 3 years ago 3
fraud
taylor1235 3 years ago 3
well no duh! lol jk jk
sweetpink562 2 years ago
defamation
taylor1235 3 years ago 3
eduction is great but John Lennon would have asked for laptops for cambodia children.
standingstrange 3 years ago
This Company is great, they are nonprofit and Lennon would have supported them and im pritty sure if he still was alive he would have done this for real. + its not disrespectful cause if it was Yoko Ono wouldnt have allowed it to be aired: they got her permission first and she is extremly protective of him. Ill leave you with a quote concerning the food/technolgy issue.
"Give a Man a fish and you will feed him for a day. Give a man a Pole and Feed him for Life"
heavyrocklegend 3 years ago
that sounds nothing like him. bad bad yoko!
christibrany 3 years ago
Thats Ringo doing John Lennon!!
tawtu 3 years ago
no, he wouldn't do that
sweetpink562 2 years ago
長いファンには噴飯ものだ。
聖人君子のイメージ作りは止めて欲しい。
It is the worst thing for a long fan.
I want yoko to stop the image-building of the saint man of virtue.
longford1962 3 years ago
thats just creepy!
and what child needs a laptop? how about giving the starving children in africa some food instead?
neev69 3 years ago 5
maybe its an edible laptop... just dont eat it while its plugged in... lol
Retep99999 3 years ago
i totally agree
turtles6932 3 years ago
That's a really awful impersonation of John.
Almost sounds more like Ringo.
ueberRegenbogen 3 years ago 4
that kinda sounds like john's voice, but not really. but i am sure that if he were alive today he would be in full support of the one laptop per child cause.
shmeeisme 3 years ago
mary is nothing but a monkey bum head.
but i love my little monkey bum head anyway
Hogie0372 3 years ago
His voice is weird...
pneultramicroscopico 3 years ago
I wish to apologize for the sour tone of my last comment.
It was rude of me, as I regard John Lennon too highly to mock his difficulties in such a way.
Also, I just don't like the way his likeness is being used here, nor the way people have tried to tear him down in recent years. It cheapens him and his memory.
libjen 3 years ago
Just to double post... they're also not going to jump straight onto the net and start looking up celebrities or something ridiculous like that, unlike the mostly spoilt generation of Westerners who currently see the internet as a resource for porn, pirating and gossip. They actually want to learn. They realise that they need to learn for their own survival.
Wilkono 3 years ago
I love laughing at the many short-sighted pricks who comment on this One Laptop Per Child issue. Like a few have said already, the laptops are going to provide children with the necessary education to improve their farming techniques, their water treatment techniques, and even teach them basic language and arithmetic skills.
One classroom can teach a handful of students for mere hours of a day. Laptops can teach every child in every country anything they ever need to know to survive.
So stfu.
Wilkono 3 years ago
Just like Exerci said: Because they need education. It's pretty much a measure of "Give a man a fish, and he'll be sated for one day, teach him to fish, and he'll be sated for the rest of his life."
Giving them food is a shortsighted solution, and so is giving them clean water. As is they have no way to live without support from Europe+USA+Aussieland. If we just keep giving them water and food, that will never change. If we give them education, give them tools to learn with, they stand a chance
Maku000 3 years ago
This is awful. Plain and simple. Just awful. Misguided in the extreme. To those who knew and loved John it is a travesty and a betrayal. To those who did not, it will mean very little. Awful.
bgreaves1 3 years ago
I think this is total rubbish and one more unfortunate denigration of a great, but flawed, man and his great ideas.
This laptop idea might be noble, but is illogical and impractical.
I'd much rather listen to the new 'drunk Lennon' tape just found and auctioned. At least that's known to be authentic, and sounds like more fun.
libjen 3 years ago
Laptops for quick access to Wikipedia??? or ebay??? It's more necessary that food??? This is the start of end of the world...
ptuzdi 3 years ago
'More than 'imagine''
Groan...
BlueChameleon01 3 years ago
This is the most revolting thing I have ever seen... I think John Lennon would be more concerned with clothing and feeding kids than computerizing them
TalkinToDaLooch 3 years ago
exploiting John like this is horrible. Yoko should be ashamed of herself selling rights to manipulate viewers into believing John would have done something like this himself if still alive?
moerevlu 3 years ago
moerevlu, what makes you think yoko sold the rights? i believe she just gave approval to this very well respected cause and she indeed did it for all the right reasons - no financial gain, just helping out a great cause
lucysirois 3 years ago
"I got a laptop in me pocket :)"
starscream9289 3 years ago
...hoe lee sheet!!!
LARUCUS 3 years ago
creeeeeepy as hell :/
damsokun 3 years ago
Sick motherfuckers. Using him for advertising.
Yoko is nothing but a fucking whore for allowing it.
freakishplay 3 years ago
but its for a good cause
fatas412 3 years ago
i'm pretty sure a laptop isn't top priority for most of the world's children
food, shelter?
thebestever3247 3 years ago
i kno i think they should be sending more important things but i was replying to "freakishplay" saying Sick motherfuckers. Using him for advertising.
Yoko is nothing but a fucking whore for allowing it.
fatas412 3 years ago
i agree. also, they would be exposed to cyberbullying, the internet's not-so-child-friendly database, and the addiction to net-surfing. They would be happier without laptops. I noticed that when Hurricane Ike hit here, all the power was off for 2 weeks, but I was happier with my family rather than on a computer all day. I'm sure in Lennon were alive today, he would have turned down the offer to be in this advertisement.
DaPieguyStudios 3 years ago
Relax. It's not exactly like his voice was. Sort of close, but no cigar. Listen closely to his old interviews and etc.. It's an impersonator. And, you understand, he's deceased, and digital technology isn't quite there yet to really pull it off.
lindenhu 3 years ago
Maybe not a laptop, maybe they should start thinking about food.
NakedCreep 3 years ago 3
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but.....how???
Its comforting at hearing his voice, but knowing that its a digital impersonation is...somewhat disturbing
DaPieguyStudios 3 years ago
Hi my name is Boitumelo from Africa. One laptop per child allow me to post this message from my village! High Five!
bdb3003 3 years ago
fuck you
moebags 3 years ago
youtube "blue siberia" wow! cool kaleidoscope with song that fits well.
alissact80 3 years ago
what a load of shit what bunch of corporate idiots thought this was a good idea. Yoko should leave lennons legacy alone if he was still here yoko would have been hisory many years ago
genetic23 3 years ago 3
She allowed people to use his image to make sneakers.
...
I'll let that sink in.
...
SNEAKERS!
sAndyTV 3 years ago 5
No, she didn't. That was Michael Jackson, who owns the rights to many Beatles songs.
techdiva 3 years ago
haha
cumminghamator 3 years ago
John would be appalled. And if Yoko had anything to do with this, she should be ashamed of herself. What in insult to the man, his genius and his memory.
PatrickB09 3 years ago
Yoko HAD to have something to do with it. She basically owns John's image now. Anything with John's face, name, or music on it after his death is Yoko's doing.
sAndyTV 3 years ago
What a fucking joke. Way to spit on the grave of one of the greatest men in the 20th century. John Lennon wouldn't be pushing for an expansion of our western industrial consumer culture.
I fucking piss on this advert
RIP JOHN LENNON
surge55 3 years ago
Watch, as an idiot makes John Lennon spin in his grave!
Ta Da!!!
abstract37 3 years ago
haha that's cracking!