Yeah.....if you really want to appreciate their great music then trash the videos that distract you....put on the album version and wear headphones...... it's totally a better way to explore the music
not always, all the time, a lot of these reactors who are young and are not familiar with them, don't even know what they LOOK like, so they DO need to see some of their videos to SEE what they looked like and how their appearances changed in the 8 years that they were world famous.
Yeah, there be the problem, music reactors will always look for something with a video, which distracts from the music, it's a shame but it's a fact, and headphones are a must 👍
Strawberry Fields is a Park in Liverpool near where John Lennon lived and also the name of an lsd tab they experimented with. The video means to invoke an acid trip, as does the music and lyrics, so it's part and parcel. Also this was the B-side to the Penny Lane single, promoted as a double A-side so got exposure on tv pop programs. It was mooted to be on the Sgt Pepper's album but didn't make the final cut.
@@v-town1980 Lennon stole "Come Together" from the 1956 Chuck Berry song "You Can't Cath Me" and got his ass sued by Berry's record label. Listen to the Berry song and you'll see it's obvious.
It was however heavily reliant on studio techniques manipulating sound - speeding up and slowing down tape speeds and playing stuff backwards then playing over that so it sounds backwards when playing forwards normally. All cutting edge in its day thanks to producer George Martin and his team of recording engineers at Abbey Road.
@@AuxesisHyperbole666Techniques are not the same as "just autotune my voice." Plus, the melodies, lyrics, and harmonizing blows anything today out of the water. No comparison.😊
The video for "Strawberry Fields Forever" is distracting. The song itself is quite challenging for the first-time listener, and the trippy video has nothing to do with the song... it's just the Beatles having fun. To understand how the Beatles arrived at this point in their career, you have to know that they were the top entertainment act in the world and had been for the previous 4 years. They were trend setters and fashion icons. The Beatles started out playing poppy rock 'n roll love songs and opened the world to British rock. Then, album by album, they got more experimental and pushed boundary after boundary. By the time they reached "Strawberry Fields Forever" (and its companion album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"), the Beatles had pushed into every musical category: classical, country, jazz, soul, experimental, children's, folk, metal, etc. There had been nothing like the Beatles before, and they did it all while being the top entertainment act in the world. Imagine Taylor Swift and multiply that by 10 times. And then came "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". It was astonishing at the time... but you can't possibly feel the astonishment that your grandparents felt at the time. The decades have dulled the sense of awe that this music caused when it was released. I applaud your willingness to react to this challenging song, and attempt to find its meaning. Many of us couldn't figure it out at the time of the song's release. For future reactions to Beatles' songs, I recommend that you listen to a music track that does not have a video. The videos are often distracting and many times have nothing to do with the content of the song. ("Eleanor Rigby" is a perfect example... the "official" video -- an excerpt from the film "Yellow Submarine" -- really distracts from the meaning of the song.)
Yep. I don't like it when reactors use music videos because they invariably become more engrossed in the images than the music. Also, these two appear to be listening on a laptop (bad enough) without using headphones (worse still) which means they are missing out on much of the intricacies of the music.
Thanks for all that Bob...too many dismiss the whole story/picture of the earlier Beatles as boy band tripe, and have little idea how important they were to rescuing pop and rock music from the clutches of middle aged adult record producers dictating whom the next teen idol shall be and what they shall sing with parent approval. And middled aged to current metal heads dismissing the early Beatles out of carefully trained musical preference developed by corporate radio playlists and such. As a former music teacher I apply the same idea to ignorance of other music - an important experience and delightful at the same time, like ignoring early New Orleans Jazz as trite, unimportant...a musically ignorant country we have, no one knows who Duke Ellington was, or George Gershwin, Dvorak, etc. Part of the reason is in our country school music program budgets are always cut first, but you'll never see a weed growing in a football stadium....result = a culturally stupid country, that bleeds over into other subjects the media messes with. . Too many listen to music with their eyes ever since MTV was born.
@@christopherwinkler4451 This is a frustrating trend. I realize reactors are often working with the results that youtube provides them, but I think they would generally benefit from starting with the album version of most songs, ideally with no video.
they have been carefully taught starting with MTV to listen to music with their eyes instead of the ears and heart...while the music industry picks their pockets. I dare anyone to listen to Rachmaninoff's Variation 18 of a theme on Paganini, and not be moved . We are a culturally ignorant county ...Part of the reason is in our country school music program budgets are always cut first, but you'll never see a weed growing in a football stadium.
Young people have the attention span of an ant. Videos on the whole are so inferior to the music that they should be totally turned off. They are nothing but a distraction to amuse the small minded who simply can't appreciate music of great distinction.
Next up to react to is Penny Lane - a similarly-themed song from the perspective of Paul McCartney. Both songs were released simultaneously and represent the Beatles at the apex of their creativity.
that's what amazes me about some of their music and this song is a perfect example......... how often does a song maintain it's unique edge 50 years after it was recorded. I love it.
So to me (please forgive me) it’s cute you two chose this particular Beatles’ song to have your friend’s first experience with. There was a time before there were any music videos, and this was it. The Beatles innovated the whole concept of shooting a little film to go with their songs, and started this idea during the “Psychedelic Period” of the 1960’s era. John (the singer) was using LSD an awful lot during this time, and the song, and the video are intended to give the listener the experience close as possible to having a little bit of a psychedelic trip. The song may seem bizarre but the comments saying that it is a masterpiece are not very far off the mark. They did a longer film during this time for TV in the UK, called “Magical Mystery Tour,” that eventually made its way here to the states. There’s some place in a Liverpool park called “Strawberry Fields” that John used as inspiration….❤
They started relying on what was called "promotional films" when they stopped touring. But promotional films didn't originate with the band. In England they were more popular because they were used in variety shows and music programming such as Top of the Pops. That's one reason why the first year of MTV relief so heavily on English bands at first.
The video is a mistake as it throws people off from focusing on the music itself and gets them trying to figure out what's going on when it's really just a bunch of nonsense and the lads being playful.
Strawberry Fields is the Church garden of St. Peter's church just down the street a block. John used to climb the fence and have a little fort in the woods of the garden. It was his personal hideaway as a kid.
Don’t confuse yourself with the “video”. The “promotional film” was created at a time when tours were the way to connect with fans but the Beatles had made the decision to cease touring. If you go down the rabbit hole of music by The Beatles, realise that it was nearly 60 years ago, without modern technology. Any “video” was itself pioneering and experimental. Appreciate that what happens today owes plenty to those pioneering days.
it's a song that grows on you and you can listen to it again and again and hear new things every time. Lennon said he wasn't much of a melody man (as opposed to Paul's songs) but he imparts a rawness into his songs Paul rarely manages. Try Julia soon - about his late mother
It was just a fun song & video. Best with a buzz. This was made from 2 different versions of the song. One faster than the other one so they had to slow one down which explains the weird sound.
Great reaction ladies. BUT I must echo the other comments here, namely, ignore the video. Unless it's a live or lip-synched performance, ANY video before MTV (1981) should be taken with a pinch of salt. The earlier the video, the more salt. As a primer, I would take time out to view two UK TV appearances to show how good the lads were live. The videos are probably too long for you to react to but it will give you a flavour of groups of the time and of the time itself. First, "The Royal Variety Performance" (November 4, 1963) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-158Oyfxqbtg.html and then "Live At The ABC Theatre, Blackpool" (August 1, 1965) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--9nfO7NwWiM.html Don't skip through the introductions to the songs as it will give you a view of their personalities (at least as they were portrayed to the public). There is a more historically significant broadcast on the Ed Sullivan TV Show (February 9, 1964) as it opened up the USA to Beatlemania and thence The British Invasion but I would recommend seeing that after these two. By the time "Strawberry Fields Forever" was released (February 13, 1967) the band had long since given up live performances and were a studio group. But the insatiable appetite of the media required something to promote the latest release and naff videos were produced (this being one of them). You cannot underestimate the impact this record had especially on this (then) 20 year old. Nothing like it had been released as a single. Props to George Martin, Geoff Emerick and the other tech guys for realising Lennon's ideas. It was the first Beatle record I ever bought but it was easy to spend 6s 8d on it as it had "Penny Lane" on the other side. 😄 Stay cool.
Hi ladies, it's great to see you try a reaction to the beatles. I grew up with Beatles music and what a ride. You can't really begin to understand the music unless you, as others in this forum have suggested, listen to the whole album with head phones. With headphones you can hear more hidden content that will amaze you. Magical mystery tour, Sgt. Peppers, and abby road were their psychedelic and deep music time in their careers. If you want pop, when the girls went wild and though they were "dreamy ", then listen to their first albums like, meet the beatles, revolver and rubber soul. Great job, ladies.
Don't try to overthink it. By the Beatles' own admission the lyrics didn't really mean anything, at least anything too deep. People kept asking them what the deeper meaning of their lyrics were so they decided to write some that seemed deep but were actually just intentional nonsense. It was their way of having fun with some of the more overly serious critics and fans who missed the point of rock music, which was to have fun. In a way it predicted punk rock in poking fun at people who took rock too seriously, only in a far more musically inventive and, well, serious way. Plus it all stemmed from their taking LSD and other psychedelic drugs and the way it made them look at the world differently. Things really were different back then, in all sorts of ways. Btw the name of the song comes from a school playground of the same name from their childhood in Liverpool. And if you want to hear something even weirder, try I Am The Walrus (and the proper, not the remixed one).
@@northernlight2598 I didn't that that this was uniform, but not every Beatles song "means" something, and people who are looking for such meaning need to step back and take a breath, maybe listen to something else for a change.
Both of you did such a great job on this reaction. Love the way you interact together, and I would like to see more of Maya. I would also love to see more Beatles reactions because they have so many great songs. I would recommend reacting to a live performance, instead of something with a video. If your interested in watching history being made, choose one of their songs from their first live television appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964. Otherwise the song Don't Let me Down from their rooftop concert in 1969 which was their last.
The film ( not called video at the time) was simply a way to get their new songs out without having to tour. Why travel all over the world, when we can send a film everywhere overnight. Just a practical solution to performing live. Especially since they were doing things in the studio that they knew couldn't be performed live. They laid the foundation for what everyone now knows as music videos. For this video and all the ones they released, understand they were very creative and had a sense of humor.
Well if you girls live in the British Island look up strawberry Fields I believe it's a location for an orphanage his aunt lives next door to it Long story short, John was raised by his aunt because his mother was unable to care for him and she ended up dying when he was probably about 17 got run over by a drunk driver dad was a drunk and left John and mom , drank like a sailor. .Auntie lived next door to strawberry field , an orphanage where orphans were cared for . John would jump over the wall to play with the kids throughout the day. Johns aunt would always tell him not to do that,, but John would do it anyway, And once replied " aww Auntie you're not going to get hung for it" it's not like he was breaking the law in his own mind he was just going over the wall to play with the orphan kids. John also remembers sound of trumpets and drums in the big bass drum from the band that would play in the garden for the kids certain days so he was talking about his childhood .. Play John Lennon that is
Remember video take away the music. I suggest: She is so Heavy, A Day on the Life, I am the Walrus, Norwegian Woods, St Pepper’s Club Band, Come Together, Get Back, With a little help of my friends and Eight days a week.
If you were to dip into the classic rock genre from around 1966 to around 1979, and if you could understand the context; you'd find a good many of those songs as "deep," philosophical, spiritual, introspective, and political, etc. They were commonplace back in those days.
As Humans our main objective is survival, first and foremost we must ensure we continue to live or exist despite the danger of avoiding physical extermination. To ensure our odds of survival we increase our numbers, so we have sex, and yes, I know it is taboo to say the word (sex) after our first proper experience of euphoria, that was the goal of this music the Beatles turned into what was later labeled Psychedelic Music. The Beatles (John, Paul, George, and Ringo,) In early 1965, following a dinner with Lennon, Harrison, and their wives, Harrison's dentist, John Riley, secretly added LSD to their coffee. Now, mind you, uppers were the norm for bands in Germany playing 16 to 18 hrs. About every musician drank alcohol, smoked pot, or popped pills, hence the introduction to the Beatles LSD was being used by the military and yes, you can guess what happened next, the Boys loved that feeling of an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with the intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. So, if you ever see that same video or hear that song again, perhaps you can understand the lost translation of the mind to a motion picture or music.
With music from this era you need to understand that almost always it would have been listened to - music fans back then might see the video/film accompanying it once or twice on TV, but that was it. They had no phones or tablets, no computers, no video recorders - or anything to to watch video on. . They had a record player and perhaps a picture cover for the record. In those days it was ALL about the music and listening to it. That is why - IMO - when reviewing music made before the early 1980s you really should focus on the music in the same way that original audiences did - else you end up reviewing a video which (very often) has been retro-fitted onto a track far more recently.
By many in the Rock industry old and new this is considered the most influential and greatest popular song ever created. There were a few contenders before this but Strawberry Fields was the one that said “ Do/create whatever you want”
Great reaction. This was an LSD inspired song - reflecting how scrambled your brain can become on that particular substance. It was one of the pioneering songs of the psychedelic movement. I know I'm being a bit flippant here when I say that I think one of the reasons young people today find it harder to cope with their mental health is because, these days, they don't have fantastic music like the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd etc to immerse themselves in excite their imagination as my generation did. I appreciate, though, that there are many other factors in the modern world which play a part also
The Beatles are meant to be heard and their videos in this period weren't supposed to make sense, it's just supposed to be suoer trippy. They were experimenting with the newest, hi-tech, multitrack recording, and video recording, and were the first to put out their own music videos along with their songs, and were creating new ways of using audio and video, a long list of ways in which are still used in modern music and audio recording and songwriting today, and since then. The Beatles almost always did everything first. They have influenced every generation of songwriters and musicians over the last 60+ years. They are worth a deep dive, but you need to start at the beginning with the early "boy band" sound, thru the, and the amazing Abbey Road final album, and listen to the evolution of their sound, songwriting, and recording. They were musical geniuses and the most innovative and influential recording artists of the last 100 years.
This was nearly the peak of the first psychedelic era. (The 2nd was the early `80's but there were still people doing psych in the `90's). Despite not much of it being played on the radio or elsewhere, there was TONS of great psych, back then!! This song was, pretty much, the tip of the iceberg! I lived all through that era and had NO IDEA, back then, that there was SO MUCH great psych out there until about 25 years ago when I started getting heavily into it! Now, I've got a collection of at least 400 psych songs!! I started listening to the collection again about 3 weeks ago while doing things here on the computer and I still have at least another 2 week's worth of stuff to get through. I've actually had to stop looking for more because I've already got 175 full CD's worth, so far.
Oh yeah! Strawberry Fields Forever was recorded on November 24, 28, 29 and on December 8, 9, 15, 21 and 22, 1966 and they made 26 takes from it , which the take 7 was so much better! The song was composed by John Lennon while he was in Almería, Spain, and then on September 1966 he made a demo of the song in his home.
Back in the Beatles' day there was no MTV. The main reason for doing a music video in those days was so that when you had a hit, you could send the video clip to chart shows like Top of the Pops (don't know if TOTP was actually running in the 60s, but there were certainly shows like it) in lieu of making personal appearances every week. The music videos were all produced by the bands, and a lot of the time they were just home movies spliced together and had nothing to do with the music. Between all their films and the Saturday morning cartoon show, the Beatles could just send a clip for just about any song someone might ask them for, but on this one, A Day In The Life, and maybe one or two others they went the home movie route.
Way too much focus on the video which is entirely irrelevant resulting in a pretty rough analysis of one of the greatest songs ever created. Best of luck in your future reactions and all but just food for thought from someone who stumbled onto this channel.
It's about the beginning of understanding as you become an adult. There's great potential ahead, but it's unknown and kinda scary, as opposed to a personal history that's certain and in general, more comforting, even though it may not have been all that great. "... that is you can't, you know, tune in, but it's alright - that is I think it's not too bad." then later "... I think I know, I mean, uh yes - but it's all wrong - that is I think I disagree." The struggle to come to grips with the duality of it all.
This might be amusing to the two of you, but back in the 1970.s, this was innovative. There were no computers, digital effects, autotune, no gadgets. This was tape, probably 8 tacks. All the layered vocals, orchestra, their instruments, everything had to be mixed down to 8 tracks on a tape. This was also a time when LSD was king. This is what an LSD trip sounds like. Don't judge by today's standards. This was art at its finest. The Beatles were one of the most creative group of musicians to ever perform. I am glad I was around to experience the Fab Four.
The clip is about the reaction of the girls and to a lesser extent the songs themselves. It is awesome to see these youngsters experience this, embrace and wrestle with it.
At the time that Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane were released, The Beatles had been a global musical and cultural phenomenon unlike anything that had come before for 4 years and had quit doing personal appearances, meaning they had stopped doing concerts and TV shows. They came up with the idea of sending the TV shows a short film to accompany their latest songs instead. And of course, being the biggest entertainment entity in the entire world, every TV program showed the films. The Beatles were one of the innovators that invented the concept of the music video, long before videos became common in the early 1980's. As a result, the videos don't really have much to do with the song at all.
While they did the most to help make them popular, the Big Bopper created the music video concept in early rock in 1958 with his video film of acting out his song "Chantilly Lace" quickly followed by two more. He was quoted in an English newspaper as saying "Soon all music will be on film". He was also working on a plan to create video jukeboxes when he died in the plane crash. He also coined the term "music video".
The video is done in a lot of backwards motion just like the instruments on the song it's called the Psychedelic era folks grow up if you're going to if you're going to critique music make sure you know what your critiquing
Listen, this music needs to be listened to. I'm going to be real with you. I can't take your work seriously if you are not going to put in a little investigation time. Probably a lot of people who watch you, "react", probably lived this stuff for real, we just like seeing people discover what we lived through. The Beatles came, everything was new, nothing like this existed before. Everything changed My humble advice is to put on the original, albums and some headphones. Soon, if you want to realize the Beatles you're going to have to go back to the start. You've heard the Beatles now so there's no 1st time anymore. Do some research on the songs before you film. I'm not saying listen ahead of time, no, listen live but know what is going on so you can make intelligent observations and explanations Good Luck
Lennon played in Strawberry Field as a kid. He sold Lemon-aid. But when he was shot to death he was cremated and his ashes are allegedly scattered in NYC central park in an area, that wasn't yet built, called "Strawberry Fields". So that's weird -- "Let me take you down cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields, nothing is real and nothing to get hung about. Strawberry Fields forever." and his ashes will be there forever.
This was the first ever rock video. If you're confused, it's bcz it was actually two different songs slapped together in studio by George Martin. The two songs are in different pitches and registers, however, by playing one of them backwards, it sounded better and the result along with even more studio manipulation of sound, was Strawberry Fields. 🙂
It's not you. They didn't intend to make the video have significant meaning. Only loosely. Hence the paint being poured on a musical instrument to suggest the new musical colors they were exploring by putting in their music. Or the sensory/emotional blending/blurring of art like music and painting together.
A mix of acid and Hinduism resulted in the Beatles' hippie trip music and videos. Strangely enough, when I was a kid in the 80's, I didn't need acid or Hinduism to really get into their music. I just related to it's feel.
This was actually back in the day where everyone started smoking weed. Certain songs like Strawberry Fields were kind of high on songs...though they sound great completely straight. Just the reverse effect at the end would kind of mess with your mind. There was just a different level we got to with the Beatles, the Stones the Doors etc...and im a total lightweight as far as that goes
A lot of their later work was more abstract than literal. Sort of like abstract art. The interpretation was up to the listener. For example, I Am the Walrus and Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds. I Am The Walrus in particular was meant to be confusing and meaningless.
That was a transition piece that old Beatles wearing uniforms, no facial hair and doing their earlier music and they had pretty much quite touring because it was too weird (doing stadiums like Swift Era). If you have time watch the whole semi-fictional "Hard Days Night" movie, in black and white, but catches the whole Beatles vibes.
I always just concentrated on the lyrics... never really cared about finding out the meaning of the video.. it was just entertaining... The song is just outstanding..
You have to get the context. Which is hard to imagine. They were the biggest band ever, the most popular, and simultaneously the most experimental, pushing the boundaries. They went from basic 'boy loves girl' type stuff to high art and crazy experimental music that no one had ever heard before, all in a few years. Strawberry Fields came out as they were in their most rapidly evolving phase, trying out things. It sits in between Revolver and Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Two of the most revolutionary albums ever. It's hard to capture the amazement and excitement of a new Beatles record coming out. You had to get the record, you had to listen, you spent weeks talking about it. It was all so new. Start from the beginning with their first album, and work your way forward. Watch some videos about their history, watch the films A Hard Day's Night and Help.
Strawberry Fields is a song that should be listened to AFTER sampling the Beatles less psychdelic tunes. Only then can one understand the progression of rock as offered by the Beatles. They were arguably the most influential band in rock history.
That poor girl got introduced to the Beatles with literally the weirdest song in their entire body of work (except “revolution 9” which is more of a sound collage), but yeah….this is like ur first beer , or drink, being an entire big bottle of vodka😂🤣😂
Nobody had ever heard anything like this before it came out. Certainly not in 'mainstream' popular music. Musically, it was new and utterly different, and the words were dealing with concepts and feelings which were confusing and difficult to resolve. It certainly struck a chord with me as a 16 year old, struggling with confidence, self esteem, lack of certainty and all the usual teenage angst. I must have listened to it hundreds and hundreds of times and it still affects me to this day.
Don’t watch the video. 99.9999% of the public experienced this as a song. That is how it was meant to be experienced. The Beatles were musicians not filmmakers
I think it is lovely and important that you are open to exploring music from a very different era, that you allow it to make you feel and think about it from your own experience and that you are willing to research its context to understand more about it. I was 4 when the Beatles first started to become popular and famous in the UK (where I grew up and have always lived), so they were a really significant part of my childhood and their music will always be special to me. I think that, being young at this time, you are very lucky to have access to so much music and so many different kinds of music. Long may you enjoy exploring, and bringing your own experience to it. ❤
You had to have grown up in60s and 70's to understand when I was 12 I had my own interpretation you young people don't get it immerse yourself in that Era you might scratch the surface I don't know what life was in the 1920s having been in 1960s
Nothing wrong with it, just a different medium now. If we had ubiquitous access to video/audio on numerous devices back in those days, we'd have probably been focused on the video at least as much, if not more than the audio of the song itself
Strawberry Fields is an orphanage near where John Lennon grew up. It’s a song about loneliness. Forget the video. That’s just them playing around. There weren’t music videos then. And certainly no computer videos or music (except experiments in university labs). That’s all them playing. The video is inconsequential except that it is, I think, only the second music video in history (Bob Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues was the first, in 1965).
You have to first grasp the fact that at the time this was done the whole concept of music videos didn't even exist! And there wasn't even an internet back then! No social media! MTV didn't even exist. Must be hard to imagine growing up in a world where the video productions are as important, if not more important than the actual songs themselves! So yeah I get your reaction. And to be honest having grown up with the Beatles... I was 10 years old when they first landed in America and can't even imagine what life would have been like without them! Their influence was HUGE! They literally changed changed our world in many ways.... I got to hear this song by its self when it came out I was completely blown away! The Beatles just kept raising the bar over and over again with their innovation and creative genius. But I have to say I when I saw the "video" I was a bit disappointing as it has nothing to do with the lyrics of the song. To me I felt like it was trying a little too hard to be "trippy" or "psychedelic" or "Avant Garde". But here again the Beatles were breaking new ground! One could argue, as crude as it was, this was quite likely the birth of the whole concept of music videos. However IMHO This song is better listened to on its own without the distraction of the "video"!
The Beatles invented music videos. They had quit touring and decided instead of going on all these TV shows to promote the album, they would make little promotional "movies" and send them out to promote. Before them there was no concept of music videos
Strawberry Fields was a Salvation Army home very close to where John lived. He used to go there to play when he was young, then later to tune in or drop out of the world, if you know what I mean. As has already been said, the video is very distracting and has nothing to do with the song. Go back and just react to the song without the video. The song is stunning. It's actually two different songs spliced together, the slower song speeded up and the fast song slowed down to match. John liked both versions, so they used both of them. The song is introspective, dealing with John searching for meaning in life, and John knowing that he was "different" from most people ("no one I think is in my tree..."). It's a difficult, but beautiful song...........
Music videos were not "a thing" when this came out. And the Beatles did a lot of odd things (like playing recorded tracks backwards, as at the end of this video). When this album was released, you were just supposed to listen to the album on its own merits. This later "video" was probably intended to shock the viewer more than the music: avant garde.
John recorded this one day in the studio, and then their producer, George Martin recorded the symphony the next day. When he overlayed the 2 tracks, they were a semi-tone apart in tune. George had called John to come in an re-record his vocals to match the orchestra. John, being more lax than the rest of the band, said "No, George, I won't be coming in today, I am sure you can just fix it". George then slowed John's vocal track to match the orchestras tuning. This gives the track a smeared effect where John's voice sounds distorted.
The Strawberry Fields are the secret place of you childhood, at least that´s how I interpret it. It was a place in Liverpool where John Lennon used to sneak in to play.
I think you girls started off on the wrong foot. Best to start from tne beginning of the Beatles journey from their first album and listen with good quality stereo headphones and don't watch videos. Listen to only the music with them singing and them visually playing their instruments. A much better way if you're not familiar with them. Trust me and you'll find that they were the greatest band of all time. Don't watch those psychedelic videos first with their music unless you're stoned. Lol!!! 😊🌈🤩✌️🤣
Beatles, a very solid choice. When I experienced all these bands like the Beatles, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, etc. there wasn't such a thing called videos. It was straight off the albums. I recommend you try the tracks only before you consider videos. Especially for music before the 80s. Edit: Actually, 70s - 80s are when the videos really kicked in.
I think of John's lyrics here as a child trying to describe a new powerful experience they've just had but they're too young to have the words for, so they just stumble through a bunch of disjointed sentences. And John's trying to get at something in his own childhood but he's still too young to have the words for it yet, so he just committed to his inability to describe what he was feeling.
The video has nothing to do with the song. Hard to hear everything about this song that makes it iconic on first listen. Just try to listen for how clever the melody and key changes are, the non-standard time signatures, and remember how unusual that was for pop music in 1967. Even today.
