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12.14am
26 January 2017
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The song works really well with Paul singing the lead vocal. Definitely singing to John, and its a really heartfelt performance.
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6.10am
1 October 2024
Offline This was always meant to be a Beatles song.
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Many of you may not realize what an out of body experience this was for me and possibly others who grew up listening to that crackly, worn out demo tape in the early and mid 2000’s, dreaming of what it might have sounded like, listening to fan version upon fan version, trying to guess what the completed lyrics would have been…man. I tell you the truth: For some, Carnival Of Light is the Holy Grail of Beatles recordings – and in many ways, rightfully so. However, for me? Nothing–absolutely nothing–can compare to the sheer elation that I had in the hours leading up to the premiere of this song. I was on absolute pins and needles. A completely 50/50 mix of excitement and stress. There was SO many ways in which this could have gone bad. Would the song be overthought and ruined? Would it be GREAT? For that matter, even if it was…would people care? What if it flopped? I couldn’t bare the thought…and then the hours approached, and the lyrics were leaked. I was in total “OH MY GOD, OKAY, IT’S HAPPENING! EVERYBODDY STAY CALM!” mode. I didn’t know what to think! “THEY CUT THE MIDDLE?! HOLY S**T, PAUL! CAN IT WORK?! –OH! OHH! BUT ITS “I WANT YOU TO BE THERE FOR ME!! OH MY GOD, OF COURSE! IT’S SO OBVIOUS! IT WAS RIGHT UNDER MY NOSE ALL THESE YEARS!” etc….and then it happened.
It was beautiful, yall.
I saw both videos hit hundreds of thousands of likes…
I saw non-fans cry their eyes out at the music video…
I saw them completely overshadow every other song that week on multiple streaming platforms…
and best of all…I saw a Beatles song hit number 1 in real time.
THINK ABOUT THAT, We were here…we lived to see a brand new OFFICIAL Lennon/McCartney hit. IN OUR LIFETIMES….and just as the cherry on top, it completely upstaged The Rolling Stones’ new song to boot, just as a final little cheeky stamp on the “Rivalry.” MMM! sublime.
Everything about it was perfect. It may not be everyone’s personal favorite, but I wouldn’t trade the memory of those few weeks for anything in the world. I was THERE. I don’t think i’ll ever be happier as a Beatles fan.
Thank you, Beatles. I love you wonderful, wonderful people. [Image Can Not Be Found]
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20 August 2013
Offline Will this song win a Grammy?
Please, please, please, please, please. Fingers crossed.
https://www.grammy.com/news/20…..inees-list
It has been nominated for Record of the Year
and Best Rock Performance
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8.08am
26 January 2017
Offline I think it will be more of a career honor for The Beatles if they win. I love the Beatles and was happy with the release, but it was not nearly as relevant or significant as these other songs nominated. The Beatles do have surprisingly few Grammy wins, so they might try to make up for that with an award this year. Somebody would be getting snubbed, like with Steely Dan’s win with Two Against Nature. (I love that album by the way.) Best rock performance I would enjoy seeing and think that it is absolutely deserving of that.
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1 May 2011
Offline ‘N&T’ is a great song, it holds up well, but I doubt it’s record of the year – it’s more a marvelous achievement of technology in how the track was put together. I haven’t heard the others but I’d be surprised if The Beatles won. It would be nice for all involved to have their work recognised but even back in the 60’s the Beatles weren’t that fussed with winning trophies.
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14 June 2016
Offline I think it would be more a gesture of goodwill to the legacy of the Beatles if the song actually won. Which I’m not against. It’s holding up well for me.
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4.26am
21 February 2024
Offline Frankly, the Grammys are so bad they’ll reward some modern rubbish like how they disregarded Angry by the Rolling Stones.
I won’t be surprised if Beyonce or BTS gets Best Rock Album or best song instead of Now And Then or Hackney Diamonds, which are far superior but unappreciated as a whole by the judges.
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8.26am
26 January 2017
Offline Ive been thinking a lot about the use of AI in this song a lot lately. On one hand, you hear that The Beatles used AI on John Lennon ‘s voice for a new single, without any context it seems almost disgraceful. The threat AI poses to art is real and significant and many have faced backlash for the use of AI for visual art and music. The Beatles however are on the cutting edge once again. New AI plugins have become pretty widespread at this point to eliminate or isolate elements such as individual drum sounds, background noise, and in the Beatles’s case, lifting John’s voice from a 40 year old demo. Im not sure if The Beatles will be particularly influential or groundbreaking in this regard, but it is a cool element of their story that they continued to use tools on the cutting edge of recording technology. They tastefully implented AI as a tool to bring a very real song written by an alive and real person at the time to life. Its an extremely impressive tool, but also an explosive and potentially dangerous invention that may soon infiltrate deep into society and its technology.
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1.22am
7 November 2022
Offline I don’t know much about this newfangled technology of the whippersnappers, but surely it should have been possible to isolate John Lennon ‘s voice from a 40-year-old tape prior to the dawning of the age of Emperor Augustus Tiberius Elonius Musk, no..?
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9.27am
30 August 2021
Online Well, they weren’t able to do it in 1995.
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14 December 2009
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But the AI isn’t creating anything, is it? Just separating and isolating the Lennon-voice frequencies from all other frequencies on the cassette recording, is the way I understood it.
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