The Ballad of John and Yoko - Teaser
Added 2023-12-08 23:56:14 +0000 UTCPosting the first ten minutes of our next video on the anniversary of the murder of John Lennon. This one took a really long time to make and is the longest we've done... possibly ever? (At least as a single video). Should be up a week from today. I'd say "enjoy," but...
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... thank you for excluding the letter John wrote from the public YouTube version. god, that's some heartbreaking shit. I think I know almost exactly how both he and Paul felt ...
Viera Galikova
2024-07-13 07:30:17 +0000 UTCFrom start to finish, this is an incredible video essay! I wish I had something more intelligent to say about it but thank you for making this!
Ellie G.
2024-02-01 00:13:40 +0000 UTCI’ve watched this at least four or five times and can’t stop thinking about it. I love it so much
Sydney Linders
2023-12-23 06:02:46 +0000 UTCI’ve never given them much thought unfortunately other than liking some of their music. I’m looking forward to learning more.
Lynn Short
2023-12-14 18:54:21 +0000 UTCCan't wait!
Mel Curtis
2023-12-14 08:42:25 +0000 UTCMy mum was pregnant with my (older) brother when Lennon was shot. She has repeatedly shared the story of having the radio on and hearing the announcement of his death, and how she just froze and went numb...and my brother, who was super active at the time, went totally still and didn't move for two days. I've always thought of this as her way of explaining the deep grief she felt at his loss, and trying to convey how intense his death was. Anyway...super keen to see what you put out. This is gonna be so fascinating!
Kait Hatch
2023-12-12 18:50:23 +0000 UTCJesus Christ, the vultures involved in this story. Thank you even just for this preview, Lindsay.
Pepita Paris, Queen in the North
2023-12-12 08:09:49 +0000 UTCd990ntv caerre
Dylan Audette
2023-12-12 05:09:20 +0000 UTCOh hey a teaser for a new lindsey video(a few minutes into the video) oh hey, todd's voice
Jan S.
2023-12-11 21:51:30 +0000 UTCCan't wait!
DoomSeventy
2023-12-11 21:26:39 +0000 UTCSee also: her "Phantom of the Opera (2004)" video. :)
Jon Heiman
2023-12-11 17:02:32 +0000 UTCThank you so much! I cannot wait for this.
Mark Delsing
2023-12-11 16:52:14 +0000 UTCYour videos are always well worth the wait. Looking forward to seeing the final product.
DAvid MmKay
2023-12-11 14:47:40 +0000 UTCHoly cow this has made me so hyped!
Reed
2023-12-11 05:07:06 +0000 UTCI’m actually really surprised by how hype I am about this! I’m not a Beatles fan by any means, I’ve probably heard like a tenth of their back catalogue and I’ve never really understood why they’re SUCH a big deal. But I’ve been thinking about this teaser and this video since this came out, and I’m really looking forward to the full video!
Caitlin
2023-12-11 00:12:32 +0000 UTCI saw the thumbnail and was like “oh, I don’t actually know much about this!” I’m just young enough to have seen a lot of the media that alludes to Yoko Ono and her “crimes” and I knew John Lennon was shot. And that’s it. It hit me how clearly I received, as a *child*, the message about Yoko despite literally never once feeling inclined to ask.
TarynItUp
2023-12-10 13:06:43 +0000 UTCOk now I believe that Paul has indeed been replaced with an alien or whatever
Stefan N.
2023-12-10 09:45:38 +0000 UTCGreat preview! I'm really looking forward to the full thing!
Sarah Jesness
2023-12-10 02:20:29 +0000 UTCwhen i was a kid, i remember finding out who yoko ono is through that episode of the powerpuff girls that's just an extended beatles reference where the good guys lure mojo jojo away from the villain supergroup, The Beat-alls, by temping him with a deceitful lady-monkey who screams... named moko jono. so... i'm super here for the dismantling of this sort of mythmaking, let's go
Kasey
2023-12-09 21:18:11 +0000 UTCIf this was made entirely to get out the frustration at this stupid person who advised you of the most over-said thing about the band, over-said to the degree that I 'knew' that sooner in my childhood than knew which band it was who sang that one song about holding hands, my support is wholehearted.
Crescent Minor
2023-12-09 18:22:50 +0000 UTCThis seems amazing. I am looking forward to it. And honestly even if yoko broke up the Beatles, why do ppl act like they do about her when a new partner or wanting to settle down or family is a common reason for bands to split
SwordAtSea-Hayley
2023-12-09 17:09:29 +0000 UTCthe only thing I really knew about Yoko is that she wasn't a great singer. now I'm finding out that she was publicly burned on a level that was somehow even worse than what happened to Monika Lewinsky... I so tired, can I go home?
Elated Megalodon
2023-12-09 16:44:11 +0000 UTCThe amount of infidelity, money squabbles, and just plain celebrity insanity in the Beatles totally shocked me. Most bands break up. Yoko made some conceptual art and is unjustly the most infamous Japanese woman in history for 'ending' the beatles.
Gideon Weinerth
2023-12-09 07:21:24 +0000 UTCOh that woman was thrown under a fleet of buses. Very much looking forward to this.
Andrias Høgenni
2023-12-09 07:16:03 +0000 UTCYer, cannot watch Patreon uploads for some reason... Have to wait for the Nebula one. Is there no Patreon support for backers to go for technical problems!?
DAS k1ishEé
2023-12-09 06:58:25 +0000 UTCFrom the title I got excited thinking it would be an excerpt from noumena book 3! But I’m excited for this topic too 💜
Eric J
2023-12-09 06:53:49 +0000 UTCA surprising topic but one I’m truly looking forward to. I do think revaluations can sometimes overcorrect the enormous wave of misogyny and racism Yoko was subjected to by flattening an incredible but flawed person. That said, it’s bonkers how she’s scapegoated as the person who broke up the Beatles when Alan Klein is right there. Or, even more accurately, the actual grown-ass Beatles? Or the inevitable passage of time?
Naomi
2023-12-09 04:51:59 +0000 UTCThe editing and the use of music so far are giving me goosebumps. The tolling bell from "Mother", and the isolated vocal harmonies from "Because" are brilliant. Looking forward to this one!
Anthony Behnke
2023-12-09 04:40:21 +0000 UTCThis is going to wreck me, isn’t it?
Lindsay Brown
2023-12-09 02:54:43 +0000 UTCI’ve been thinking about John a lot today because, y’know, so it’s great to hear from you on such a dear subject to me. Can’t wait to watch it!
John Fischer
2023-12-09 02:29:47 +0000 UTCoh this one is gonna be GOOD
Evan
2023-12-09 01:43:08 +0000 UTCYou know a video is gonna be good when after the intro you say to yourself, “This is gonna suck.” I want to know, but at what cost.
Hailey Dixon
2023-12-09 01:22:36 +0000 UTCGonna reference the Onion?!?
Adam Giess
2023-12-09 01:22:25 +0000 UTCWell i can already feel my rage at that man coming back full force for taking John so this is going to be a hard but really interesting watch for me. Thank you for what is already in the first ten minutes one of the most measured and even handed Beatle related essays i've seen. (also yellow submarine bag noooice)
Sarah Elliott
2023-12-09 01:13:21 +0000 UTCWow. I can’t wait to get educated.
Aya Maguire
2023-12-09 01:11:13 +0000 UTCStrange. I was just going on a true crime binge and I ended on a documentary about the murder of John Lennon. Funny little coincidence.
Brandon Powell
2023-12-09 01:00:25 +0000 UTCI had no idea that John Lennon's murder was yet another one of The Catcher in the Rye's crimes. No but seriously, this art style is amazing and I can't wait (in an apprehensive way) to learn about how horribly everyone treated/treats Yoko
Josie
2023-12-09 00:50:32 +0000 UTCPart of what pushed me to make this was realizing how little pushback there is about the narrative that Yoko broke up the group, that nobody calls out the inherent misogyny and racism when NONE of the ex-Beatles, even at the height of their acrimony against each other in the early 1970s, blamed her. Especially because… we know why the group broke up. There was a big ol lawsuit to break the group up. It’s all a part of the public record and everything.
Lindsay Ellis
2023-12-09 00:36:25 +0000 UTCIt certainly was a wreck to research ngl…
Lindsay Ellis
2023-12-09 00:28:56 +0000 UTCI'm so excited for this I remember even as a kid the expression of "yoko broke up the group" always irked me even though I was not a Beatles fan, and it's like side note wow how persistent the misogyny (also probably anti-asian racism) that to a young black kid in the 90s growing up from Detroit who knows of the Beatles purely cuz of osmosis and the most recognizable thing I knew was the phrase "yoko broke up the group."...yeah I'm gonna be seated with snacks when this drops.
Sinna
2023-12-09 00:28:51 +0000 UTCHonestly, as amazing as this sounds and I'm looking forward to it, I am also a little afraid that it's going to wreck me given the modern context for this kind of potential and actual violence.
BuckTurner
2023-12-09 00:12:59 +0000 UTCthis looks like it’s gonna be great!! i was Riveted the whole time. :3
Nate Brogan
2023-12-09 00:11:08 +0000 UTCI can't wait!
Ethan-Joshua Greig
2023-12-09 00:10:03 +0000 UTCYou never fail to surprise me with your choice of topics. (And I mean that in a good way)
WJ ZAV
2023-12-09 00:08:52 +0000 UTCSo excited!
Dorza
2023-12-09 00:05:15 +0000 UTC
