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Off Limits

Written by Jonathan Brown

February 29, 2008

 

For reasons unexplained, I was on the iTunes Music Store, happened to click the American Idol section and remembered how offended I was at the performance of John Lennon's Imagine.  And I was compelled to write the following review:

 

He's got a good voice, but I'm sorry... there are songs that should be off limits to the contestants and John Lennon's Imagine is one of them.  I find it highly disrespectful and pretentious of a 16 year-old to try and rewrite one of the most important and cathartic melodies ever penned.  The American Idol producers need to impose a moral authority, as protectors of art, to stop this kind of nonsense.  What worries me is that we'll see a lot of this butchery this season now that the Lennon/McCartney catalog is available to the contestants.

 

Who's with me?

Tags: american-idol, music, itunes, john-lennon, art

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MeI’m Jonathan Brown. I write software during the day, I bootstrap businesses at night and I’m a father on weekends. It’s not how I designed it, but that’s how it worked out.

Oddly enough, I hate reading and love writing. I can’t find time to do either. I only read non-fiction—typically business books and magazines.

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