Week Seven

This week I decided to listen to "Yesterday" by the Beatles for the week seven blog. As I have mentioned in previous posts, we are slowly starting to get to music that I actually really enjoy and I think this week hit the head on the nail with our song choices. I can say that I actually know about half of the songs of the week! Anyways, this song is actually one of my all time favorite songs. I enjoy how calm the song is and although the story behind the lyrics is a bit sad, I kind of like the peaceful sadness HA! In essence, his life today has fallen apart as the woman he loves has left him, and that's why he says that he "believes" and "longs" for yesterday, when his girl was still with him. I have always liked songs with stories behind them, and although this song doesn't give every detail or a lot of progression through a story, but rather a reflection at a point in time, I still like the song a lot. There's even a movie named after this song called "Yesterday" too. It's by far the best movie that I have seen in the past year, and that might be partly due to the fact I don't watch too many movies, but nonetheless the movie is based around all of the Beatles songs including this one. The funny thing is that when the star of the movie first plays "Yesterday" for his friends (who don't know the song) they think that it's incredible, yet the point of the movie is that everyone in the world but this guy forgot about the Beatles. It's quite ironic because of all things to be forgotten in the world, I believe the Beatles are one of the last! Once again, I really enjoy the Beatles music and especially this song!

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  1. SamOctober 14, 2019 at 3:33 PM

    I chose this song too! It's also one of my favorite songs, and it's definitely one of the best songs that the Beatles have produced. I haven't seen the movie you talked about, but I definitely think that this song deserves a movie named after it.

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  2. Music with RobynleeOctober 14, 2019 at 4:19 PM

    I haven't yet seen the movie but plan on it. This is a great song. I agree with the song Yesterday as I to have longed for a yesterday when things were going good and my love was by my side.

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