Paul McCartney Comments on Kanye West & Jay-Z ("Best gig he's attended") and Katy Perry

IDEK what a twerk is. A new type of beef jerky?

 

Paul's forte has always been his open mindedness, he's never been one of neat little boxes. But he used to the a trendsetter and used to be in the forefront. With the artists he name drops now, he's become a follower.

 

McCartney likes to seem hip.



NEXT!

 

It would make Paul true. He grew up loving, revering, and being inspired by those '50s artists. But could you imagine how turned off the youths of today would be if Paul dropped the names of Buddy Holly and Little Richard? Those kids would have the look of a deer in the headlights.

 

For anyone that looked at Twitter while this was going on... well most of it was Twitter as usual... a race to the bottom of some really ugly tweets.

It's too bad that a fun Q&A had to be filled with a lot nasty comments.

 

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Yeah, Double Fantasy is a true signpost of the punk movement. Some of you younger listeners may not know this, but when that album came out it was positively subversive. Banned by a lot of stations on general principal. How times have changed. It almost sounds quaint now, like Never Mind the Bullocks.

 

Hip-Hop/Rap has officially been validated.

 

Amazing comments here. I love Macca just too many that are so closed minded. What i reality think cant be posted here but I bet you can guess.

The Beatles have always been more opened minded than most of their fans.

 

It really is time for a sub-forum. The powers in control here should consider creating one.

 

I guess Paul had to hold his nose and pretend to like Dave Grohl when he cut this track with him:



I'm not even really a fan of Grohl or of the Foo Fighters, but the boomer snobbery here that Rock God Sir Paul is too far above a Dave Grohl or a Kanye West too ever dig their music for any other reason than scoring cool points with "the kids today" is simply laughable, and more than a little sad.

 

boooo. u tried.

 

McCartney likes to seem hip.



NEXT!

 

It just seems to me that the people who don't care for Kanye or JZ, etc., don't really want to believe that Paul likes them.

In reality, the people here have no reason to doubt that Paul likes these artists, but somehow it makes them uncomfortable so THEY have an agenda.

 

Funny to see all the haters here blow off comments from one of the most beloved musicians of our era as nonsense. However, if he had stated the opposite, the forum would have been acting completely validated.

Rap/Hip-Hop and Pop have been officially validated.

 

I am waiting for Bob Dylan to post a pic of himself playing Grand Theft Auto.

 

uh no...unless you're confusing the front with the back, in which case I agree with you completely.

 

Kanye must have performed "New" live only three days after Paul released it!

 

So do his fans have to be open-minded to everything Paul does? I was open minded when he went Disco for a bit, amd when he experimented with weird sounds for the McCARTNEY II album. I thought he had a decent single with Michael Jackson in 1983 with "Say Say Say" (though don't get me started on "The Girl Is Mine" or "The Man"). I thought Paul pulled it off with Dave Grohl in the "Nirvana" mode... but I think that rap and hip hop is beneath him. Just my opinion.

 

He loves those great singers and songs to death. But marketing wise, Kisses On The Bottom was aimed at the baby boomers. And a business man like Paul knows what names to drop when.

 

Well, I've heard from everyone who saw that Watch the Throne tour that they put on a hell of a show. In my experience, many, even most professional musicians have great curiosity about and respect for the best of the best in what seem to fans to be "other" genres of music and they stay on top of the whole industry, and, like I said, he's not the only guy who has set that those two put on a hell of a show.

 

Lou Reed, that already has been cited here, made a record in homage to Doc Pomus inviting Little Jimmy Scott to sing. Many years later, he gave a rave review to Kanye West. If he wanted to be cool, back in 1992, he would've called any big grunge name and made a "grungy" record instead of one with almost no distorted guitars and jazzy chords all over the place. He didn't talked about Kanye because he was a vampire but because the guy is REALLY talented even if a little sociopath. That's why Paul name checked him.

 

Sir Paul knows great music when he hears it. But we already know that!