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3.34pm
8 November 2012
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I didn’t see a topic on this in general, but Liv Warfield performed a song called “Blackbird ” in direct response to The Beatles’s song. From an Examiner article on it:
The lyrics sung by Warfield start out like this:
Paul McCartney got it wrong
I ain’t never want no song
I ain’t special, I ain’t strong
Black… birdOne and One is never Three
Sunken eyes can never see
I ain’t waitin’ to be free
I’m just a Black… birdThey may try to break my wings
They only love me when I sing
I ain’t no slave, I ain’t no queen
I’m just a Black… bird
I have to say, I love the song as well as the staging of it with the musicians surrounding her. David Letterman was impressed too.
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Offline Thought provoking lyrics for sure. Thanks for posting them.
Is this a new song? Has Paul made a comment on it?
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4.05pm
8 November 2012
Offline You’re welcome. I think it’s new. I just found the Examiner article through Beatles News, and it’s dated April 6.
I can’t imagine Paul commenting on it unless he’s asked directly.
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14 December 2009
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That’s pretty strange, the way the Examiner‘s framing it as her “defiant response” to a Paul McCartney song when she didn’t even write it, and Paul seems pretty incidental to song anyways. Trying to create a more interesting headline that “Liv Warfield Performs Song Which Mentions Paul McCartney “, I guess.
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5.03pm
8 November 2012
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That’s pretty strange, the way the Examiner‘s framing it as her “defiant response” to a Paul McCartney song when she didn’t even write it, and Paul seems pretty incidental to song anyways. Trying to create a more interesting headline that “Liv Warfield Performs Song Which Mentions Paul McCartney “, I guess.
Your comment made me do some digging, and I found a YouTube upload of the Letterman performance that mentions that Ryan Waters plays guitar. Maybe he wrote it for Warfield?
At any rate, I think defiant is an apt description, given the first line. Paul himself is incidental to the song, but it’s written in direct opposition to the original.
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5.33pm
14 December 2009
Offline Well, I was looking at the “one and one is never three” lyric and thinking “aha, “Come Together “! And deducing that Waters just felt like tossing in Beatles allusions for the hell of it. But I haven’t seen the rest of the lyrics, so what do I know? If Warfield and/or Waters say that the song is a direct answer to “Blackbird “, that’s good enough for me.
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2.03am
8 November 2012
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1 November 2013
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Why does Blackbird even need a response?
EDIT: I said that before I read the Dullblog post. Totally agree. Why go after Paul? I’m trying to phrase how stupid I find this, and I’m having trouble.
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2.45am
8 November 2012
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1 November 2013
Offline Yeah, but she’s being anti-anti racist. Doesn’t seem to make sense.
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2.51am
8 November 2012
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Yeah, but she’s being anti-anti racist. Doesn’t seem to make sense.
Maybe it doesn’t make sense to you, but it made plenty to me. It’s a complex issue, there’s no one way to look at it.
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21 November 2012
Offline ”One and one is never three”
Hey, if you do an attempt of quoting a song, then at least quote it correctly.
I don’t understand how you can be angry about the song. It’s 46 years old and it wasn’t meant to be patronizing or whatever in any way. I know that probably not everyone will agree with me, but to me it seems like just another way to gain attention and money.
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Offline Who said one and one was three?
What is the problem with the original in the first place?
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