People still Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon these days, too, but I doubt Humphrey Bogart would make it as a leading man in the 2020s. Just because something’s become a famous cultural touchstone doesn’t mean you can just pick it up and plop it into a completely different context.

We did have two new Beatles songs in the 90's, and they were hits, but only because they were new songs by the Beatles (and not very good songs by the Beatles). Nostalgia played a HEAVY role in them being hits to the point that there really is no cultural memory of them at all. When was the last time you heard either…

The Beatles are still popular today because they were massively popular in their time, not the other way around. Their overwhelming popularity was also very much a product of the time, and I don’t mean this to take anything away from them, I personally love them, but the ways to listen to music back then were very…

I thought the scene with John Lennon was disrespectful, in a way, for a movie that was meant to celebrate the Beatles. It basically wrote Yoko Ono out of the John Lennon story, and I’m not sure John would have been cool with that, even if it meant not dying at 40.

I liked it but didn't love it.  Honestly the chemistry with Lily James made it work more then the Beatles stuff.  That woman is painfully underrated.

Not to mention how much of the success of those songs were the personalities and charm of the Beatles themselves coming through. None of the cover versions surpass the originals - the only ones that come close are by other singular talents like Stevie Wonder or David Bowie. And the guy in the movie brought nothing…

The key distinction though, is we’re talking about master recordings from the period of creation, the 1960s. I’m not sure the reception of 1 would’ve been the same if, say, they were covers by new artists, or new recordings by the surviving beatles.

I’m really curious to know what the people in the movie made of Taxman, and its extremely specific references to Britain’s economic system in the ‘60s, including name-dropping specific politicians.

YES! When I saw the film, it seemed obvious to me that it had missed a real opportunity by exploring how tied in to a particular moment in cultural history a particular song or work of art is. Hey Jude is going to be received differently if it were written in the 50s, or the 60s, or the 70s, or even today, and it was…

“Me new album’s out. It’s the dog’s bollocks, innit?”

Her album was released barely over a year ago, so I guess you could say we haven’t gotten to the career stage of Billie Eilish.

Are people getting stir-crazy with coronavirus? Because this must break records on the “who gives a shit?” scale.

Maybe she’s just upset that Cardi B got to be in the Pepsi Superbowl commercial and she wrote that “my pussy tastes like pepsi” line and got nothing to show for it.

I’m bored of being offended. Is there anything else on the menu?

LDR is kinda like Grimes for me: I really, really like her music (well, in LDR’s case, her first two albums, before the “I like the 60s and also I say fuck sometimes” angle wore thin), but she seems insufferable outside of that.

It seems people are implying that those listed artists are somehow above reproach and scrutiny, and that bums me out even if LDR’s take here is bad.

J think I get what she’s trying to say, “that the only women who are being seeing as feminists are those that are openly sex positive, whereas she doesn’t do that and is criticized for it” which I can see.

I don’t know the music of her or most of the people she “drags” but I shall comment nonetheless, for this is the Internet after all!

WHOOOP DEE FUCKIN DOOO! This is all so fucking stupid. She’s stupid. Her critics are stupid. This is a big ol pile of stupid that no one will care about in 10 days, let alone 10 years.…

Agents really need to start requiring that their clients surrender their social media accounts.

Sadly, no drug companies make Quaaludes anymore because they were used only for recreational purposes because of the euphoria that comes with them, and much less dangerous drugs such as Valium were preferable for anti-anxiety purposes. If somebody says they have a Quaalude now it’s been illegally produced and could…