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Is she an artist in her own right?

Or just a celebrity riding on the popularity of a Beetle?

she has talent, but she'll get slagged and bashed thoroughly on this thread anyway, so let the philistine pride parade begin...


oh, i see it already DID begin, oops.

Stax said:

I'm sure she has talent, but she hasn't revealed it yet.

Artistically, yes.

Musically, no.

well...she IS the godmother of new wave even if nobody wants to credit her for it.

AsianBoi777 said:

i think it's titled "Flashdance at Home Depot."





In all fairness, I saw her show currently at SFMOMA and some of the work is not bad.
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Well, she clearly has a talent for looking exactly like Michael Jackson.

GangstaFam said:

well in your avatar she does like mj being kissed... i would agree.

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Yoko Ono is a goddess. Personally, I think her music was much better than any of John's pretentious claptrap. Seriously. I have all her albums.

AsianBoi777 said:

Why the laughter?
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How do you say dilettante in japanese?

MrSquiggle said:

oh come on!! you can admire that as art but you cant ignore others for laughing at it...its a ladder!!!


but, i must admit ive seen worse.....

Yoko has loads of talent. She's a very artistic person, that's what initially attracted John to her. Having said that, she has a terrible voice and I don't care for any songs she attempts to sing on.

MrSquiggle said:

That's what worries me.

MrSquiggle said:

Of what? Bad singing? Ugly women who run around naked?



John's stuff isn't half as pretentious as Yoko's

Speaking of pretentious:

JediMaster said:

I wouldn't dare to call pretentious something I don't understand.
I don't get Stravinsky but I'll never say e was a bad musician

Personally I like much of her stuff (maybe listening before critizising helps a little).
Just looked and I have like 127 songs by her in my iPod right now

I think the answer's yes.

In addition to owning that incredibly wild and powerful voice, I've always felt Yoko possessed a subversive, deadpan sense of humor that a lot of people just plain weren't hip to . . .sure, I can understand why many have knee-jerk reactions to some of her more extreme music, but I've never really understood why people had such undying hatred for her--and why they think she's deserving of it. She's endured far more prejudicial hatred than any other celeb I can think of--decades of it.

Really, what the fuck is the bitch guilty of???

trashoblanco said:

For a start,

Getting rich simply because she was John's partner

Dewrede said:

Sorry, she was born rich. Her pops was a big Japanese banker.

And the ladder piece--well, that was the one that won over everyone's sainted Beatle. It's funny . .yes.

trashoblanco said:

What, did she screw him for the first time while they were on the ladder, or was he completely high at the time (probably the latter, since he was high for most of the 60's).

VoicesCarry said:

nope, if you climb to the top of the ladder, you find there's a tiny bit of text on the white panel above . .grab the hanging magnifying glass and read just one simple word: 'YES'

John thought since it said 'Yes,' the piece was literally making a positive statement (as opposed to 'No')--and its understatement made him laugh.

trashoblanco said:

she broke up the Beatles

trashoblanco said:

Ah, so completely high at the time. Gotcha.

ehuffnsd said:

Nah , they were about to regardless , besides i think they'd have sucked
had they continued

Dewrede said:

They sucked in the first place.
There, I said it.