my breakfast. wrote:Yoko Ono's shit only seems to be listened to people as a badge of pride to say "well I can put up with this barage of noise, I'm fucking cool".
I listen to her because I like her voice and her lyrics. It has nothing to do with being "cool" - judging by the almost entirely negative reaction to her here, how could it be cool to praise? It seems like it is more cool to dislike her. But thanks for making stupid assumptions.
It is very easy to post videos of her doing loud wordless vocals and then claim that she is talentless and free of substance. If people don't like that, fine, but don't act as though it is representative of her entire recorded output. Most of her music DOES have lyrics. Interesting lyrics written from the perspective of an Asian woman living in the West during the 1960s and '70s; she might have been wealthy, but she was hardly writing from the same position of privilege as John Lennon. She was immediately scapegoated for no good reason by ignorant white people who thought she was an easy target and didn't want to acknowledge that their heroes McCartney, Lennon and Harrison's ego clash was the real reason for the Beatles splitting up. She put up with so much shit but still managed to write very good songs with empowering feminist messages. It's a shame she was vilified and didn't reach a wider audience.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8k4lN3Kd28
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXER5lLmvOI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffPu8ooRZxg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQF5e_dndcM
On the plus side, some people DO appreciate her and she has managed to influence some very good musicians in spite of the Yoko stigma. John Lennon is probably the most well-known. I should emphasise that my previous post was not an attempt to diss him - I like his music a lot and I'm glad that he used his status to help Yoko Ono try to spread her messages (both by helping her to make her albums and by performing her songs, e.g. "Woman is the Nigger of the World").