WHAT WAS JOHN LENNON WRITING ABOUT WHEN HE PENNED THE LYRICS AND MUSIC TO THIS (ONE OF HIS BEST KNOWN AND LOVED SONGS?) READ ON ...
John Lennon: "I was trying to write about an affair without let...
WHAT WAS JOHN LENNON WRITING ABOUT WHEN HE PENNED THE LYRICS AND MUSIC TO THIS (ONE OF HIS BEST KNOWN AND LOVED SONGS?) READ ON ...
John Lennon: "I was trying to write about an affair without letting my wife know I was having one. I was sort of writing from my experiences - girl's flats, things like that. I was very careful and paranoid because I didn't want my wife, Cyn, to know that there really was something going on outside of the household. I'd always had some kind of affairs going on, so I was trying to be sophisticated in writing about an affair, but in such a smoke-screen way that you couldn't tell. But I can't remember any specific woman it had to do with."
Norwegian Wood is a fake wood that was used to make cheap furniture. Lennon knew people who were using it in their homes and thought it would make a good title. There are not many lyrics in this, but they tell the story of a man who gets invited to a girl's house, but when she won't let him into her bed, he sleeps in the tub. When she leaves the next morning, he sets the place on fire.
If anyone has any other interpretations, then please feel free to let me know.
Fascinating? ... Sinister, or both? I guess it's up to how one interprets the very Soul of the song itself. ----------------------------
This is a difficult song to sing; I only see one way it can be sung, and that is in the way John Lennon himself did it. Not many would boast to be able to emulate him; I certainly don't profess that I can. Anyway ... here is my attempt :-)
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bongorilao: Thank you so much for your support my friend. The song itself always fascinated me in how Lennon would have worked this one out in his mind. I find the song contemplative in how Lennon actually sings it; I guess the best way to cover it is to actually get inside the song itself, hencethe not too great attempt at manipulating
LOL@ my ghost image singing. HA! I am really not at all good at manipulating images and me-thinks this is about as adventurous as I will ever get!
Wow! I hadn't realized that it was a song about how much he disrespected women. There were so many of them too! I saw a documentary about them this past spring and it was very eye-opening and informative. I don't know why people put them on a pedestal. I can't separate the singer from their music. I listen to your videos because I like your voice and I watch because I like your editing style:) This one is so cool! :) BOP
BirdOfParadise777: I often am intrigued in perromers lyrics and their real lives; I too find it hard to split up the personalities that often clash in whatever they may write/sing/record.
Thank you so much for your comment and I am fast running out of even the smallest ideas to make my vid's a bit more interesting ... LOL :-)
Wow. Frankie, you are coming along very well with expressing yourself in this video! We can see you "thinking" about the lyrics as if John is whispering in your ear and then you become him. Btw ... Your ghost image sings very well. hehe
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LOL@ my ghost image singing. HA! I am really not at all good at manipulating images and me-thinks this is about as adventurous as I will ever get!
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I listen to your videos because I like your voice and I watch because I like your editing style:) This one is so cool! :)
BOP
Thank you so much for your comment and I am fast running out of even the smallest ideas to make my vid's a bit more interesting ... LOL :-)
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