For reasons unexplained, I was on the iTunes Music Store, happened to click the American Idol section and remembered how offended I was at the performance of John Lennon’s Imagine. And I was compelled to write the following review:
He’s got a good voice, but I’m sorry… there are songs that should be off limits to the contestants and John Lennon’s Imagine is one of them. I find it highly disrespectful and pretentious of a 16 year-old to try and rewrite one of the most important and cathartic melodies ever penned. The American Idol producers need to impose a moral authority, as protectors of art, to stop this kind of nonsense. What worries me is that we’ll see a lot of this butchery this season now that the Lennon/McCartney catalog is available to the contestants.
Who’s with me?
