It’s not that, so much as it’s hard to imagine that picture inspiring much of anything at all. Maybe the colors faded during the time between when Julian drew it and when the photo was taken, but nothing stands out much from the background. I can see it inspiring “Mellow Yellow” maybe.
I went poking around, and there are different photos with slightly different colors. I think it was more green when it was drawn, and has faded. And the reds may have faded even earlier.
No one is arguing against that.
Yep.
Maybe not arguing against it, but 24% of the poll respondents so far say they’re against it. Close enough AFAIAC.
For what it’s worth, I was one of those 24, mostly because I clicked too quickly before reading all three options. I’m closer to “a little about drugs”.
We should all remember that songs have one and only one very specific inspiration behind them. No other events in the life of a lyricist, no one else they knew, met, encountered, or even heard about has any influence on their work. Lucy in the Sky was either entirely about a child’s drawing, or about nothing but a trip on acid.
This is the divide. Yes the song is psychedelic, yes, there may be drug imagery in there. But that doesnt mean it is ABOUT drugs, or that Lennon was pulling a scam on their fans.
If the song was Lucy in the Sky with Stars, no one would say it is about LSD or drugs. It would be just another trippy song on a rather psychedelic album- some of which seemingly were inspired by taking drugs. And some of which were admitted to be inspired by or about drugs.
Am I really going to be the guy who brings up The Wizard of Oz?
'Kay, whatever. There’s a difference between acknowledging that a Populist sympathizer inserted an element of his stance in the form of the main character’s shoes in a famous work of fiction and insisting that the entire story is an allegory of a real-world political struggle. Likewise, there’s a difference between agreeing with what appears to be a strong consensus that illicit substances, which probably did include lysergic acid diethylamide, played some part in the making of a certain Beatles song (which I’m totally cool with!) and dying on the hill that the song was about a drug and absolutely nothing else, particularly when the song title is twice as goddam long as the drug in question. Seriously, that is a stone-cold ironclad thousand year brick wall dealbreaker for me. I don’t care if you wink and nudge hard enough to set off car alarms.
While I’m at it, I’m pretty sure Toy Soldiers is about alcoholism. (It would help if Martika could sing for beans…)
Who in this thread is saying that?