#ob la di ob la da

[elafranco2024]

Thousands of colourful ballons for our Paulie.

[fidjiefidjie]

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Marmalade 🎶 Ob La Di, Ob La Da

(Live on Beat club)

[got-ticket-to-ride]

When Geoff Emerick quit on July 15th 1968 due to the tense situation in the studio

About Ob La Di Ob La Da Sessions: "This was a McCartney composition that Lennon openly and vocally detested,” engineer Geoff Emerick asserts, adding that John viewed this song as “more of Paul's 'granny music sh*t'.” In his book “Here, There And Everywhere,” Geoff Emerick explained the atmosphere in the studio during the making of this album: “These days, the two former close friends and songwriting partners expressed little but disdain for each others' contributions; in fact, it seemed that whenever one would even bother to offer a suggestion to the other, it would be rejected out of hand, even if it was a good one. Paul and John weren't having legitimate musical differences; instead, they seemed to be saying, 'I don't like what you're suggesting because I don't like you.' They weren't necessarily angry at each other, but you could see that both were highly frustrated, and Yoko's constant presence certainly wasn't helping matters any. As a result, within what had once been a close-knit group, there was no longer any sense of team or unity; any camaraderie that had once been there had now simply vanished.”

[joen-lenawley]

In Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, they never say what Desmond sells exactly in the marketplace…he could sell cabbages.

Desmond Jones cabbage merchant confirmed?! /j

[piovascosimo]

paul mccartney | obladi-oblada (rio, 16.12.23)

i was sad that i missed the whole fun, but i had to pee, and it was so cool to see the opposite perspective of the crowd, so very into it, i loved it!

[daveydoodle]

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[strawberrifieldseternal]

😬…that’s kind of a dick move. Especially if this was a personal catch phrase in Jimmy Scott-Emuapor’s family that Paul didn’t come up with. Just wow…I’d even argue it’s racially insensitivity. Then Paul trying explain to Jimmy that “just an expression” even though Jimmy’s family is the one who created that said expression. Okay, I need to calm down, this was the late 60s but it was very disappointing to read.

Anyway, to provide context, this is from the wiki on Ob-la-di-, ob-la-da in the background and inspiration section.

 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ob-La-Di,_Ob-La-Da

[purplesweetpotatoes]

tonight's playlist

[inthesummerof69]

song of the day!!!

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da by The Beatles

Originally came out in 1968 and credited to Lennon-McCartney it appeared first on the album "The Beatles" also known as The White Album!! It was released as a single post the album coming out and peaked at number 49 in the US!!

[sunflowervolum-6]

I LOVE THE BEATLES!!!

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Elizabeth Montgomery

Ob-la-di ob-la-da

[torchlitinthedesert]

I'd be curious to hear your Ob-la-di Ob-la-da take lol

I claimed Ob-la-di Ob-la-da as a political song. No, I'm not kidding.

Obviously, Ob-la-di Ob-la-da isn't a protest song. It's a perky ska-style number about the happy, everyday life of an immigrant family. And it was released in 1968, when immigration had just become the most inflammatory topic in British politics.

In spring 1968, the UK government proposed a new Race Relations bill, making it illegal to refuse housing, employment, or public services to anyone on the grounds of race or national origin. It was a response to racism, particularly against recent immigrants, especially those from the Caribbean.

Cue a lot more racism, most notoriously from politician Enoch Powell, who gave what is still commonly referred to today as the "Rivers of blood" speech. Powell ranted about sending "the immigrant and immigrant-descended population" back to the countries they or their families had once come from. He was particularly freaked out by the idea that, having come to Britain, people would settle down and - horrors - have babies, eventually outnumbering the white population. Powell was sacked by his party the next day, but he sparked a horrible wave of racist protest and abuse.

All this was brewing over the summer, as The Beatles worked on the White Album, and on this song. What is Ob-la-di Ob-la-da about? It's an everyday love story. The ska style frames Desmond and Molly as Jamaican - which, in a British context, strongly suggests that they're immigrants. The song builds a happy ending out of exactly the things that racists like Powell were terrified that immigrants would do. They work, get married, and have children, who grow up and help with the family business. Life going on, happy ever after.

The Beatles were certainly aware of the tensions sparked by Powell, immigration and the Race Relations Act; they were still talking about it, and trying to write a protest song about it, in the Get Back sessions in January 1969. Ob-la-di Ob-la-da doesn't talk directly about any of that. Its subjects - work, home, children - are the sort of thing that 1970s rock journalists would put down as Paul's normie bourgeois sensibilities.

But normie is where most people live. The song presents Desmond and Molly as deeply relatable. It assumes that their happy ending is something everyone can root for and sing along with. That is not an apolitical act, particularly not in Britain in 1968.

And people did sing along, in their millions. Ob-la-di was staggeringly popular. The Beatles didn't release it as a single in the UK or the US (though it topped charts in Australia, Japan and Europe). There were multiple competing cover versions. One by the band Marmalade went to No 1 in Britain, and sold about a million copies. Paul's own favourite cover was by The Bedrocks, whose members were all first-generation immigrants from the Caribbean.

(Obviously, there are other questions here about race, music, and appropriation; The Beatles, and most of the artists doing cover versions, are white people singing black music. Hello, history of western popular music.)

As I said, this isn't a protest song. But it has been sung in protest. @beatleshistoryblog found this great footage from a Women's March in London in 1971. Just listen to the first seconds: la la la la life goes on.

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maxwell’s silver hammer was worth it

[intizzies]

i only ever come on here to rant abt nysm 3 updates now. but u know when the media youre hyperfixated with continues and ur fav character doesn't come back???

i am broken inside GET LIZZY BACK RN OR I WILL GO INTO A CATATONIC STATE she's been my blorb for the past 8 months honestly best time for nysm fans worst time for lula may fans

for context she is like the Only Horseman not confirmed returning and I am going to lose it. she's like one of the most loved characters according to the incessant "research" (stalking) I have done of all the official socials going back to the release of 2 in 2016 UGH

someone at lionsgate better see this and cater to me or else!!! i have strongly worded emails ready to send don't TEST me

[daveydoodle]

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