Cee Lo Green

[ericadawn16]

I've been a bit leery of Cee Lo Green since the homophobic incident so when Carson Daly said he was coming up on their New Year's Eve show I switched the channel. Out of nostalgia and having liked New Year's Eve so well, I watched Ryan Seacrest and Dick Clark.

My best friend kept watching Carson Daly and soon, I caught his post on Facebook.

Cee Lo Green had changed the lyrics to Imagine.

"And all religion's true"

Now, I admit I've always found it sad that a perfect world would mean that we can't have our individual religious beliefs while respecting other's as long as they don't infringe on others, but that was his choice and his feelings and...

You don't just change songs on live television because you feel like it. Yes, we have two versions of "Candle in the Wind" and I prefer the original but Elton John wrote both, he has the power to change his own work.

Cee Lo Green didn't write "Imagine". He doesn't have that power. It's not right. It's like if Peter Jackson made the Ents go on about how industry was good and that progress was more important than nature, completely reverses the original intent.

Comments

[ayaneva.livejournal.com]

I missed the homophobic comment. What did he say?

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

This covers all of it:
http://www.eonline.com/news/cee_lo_says_sorry_outrageous_homophobic/248478 (http://www.eonline.com/news/cee_lo_says_sorry_outrageous_homophobic/248478)

[indiwise.livejournal.com]

Same here. I missed that, as well. The whole lyrics-changing thing - tacky scandal-whoring, imo. Tsk.

[whittertwitter.livejournal.com]

I heard about the lyrics changing thing; I was pissed. You don't just completely CHANGE THE MEANING of another artist's work, especially when that other artist is one of the best known and best loved of all time. I hadn't heard about the homophobic comment though, but considering he's a rapper, I'm not surprised.

[brass-cojones.livejournal.com]

A group of us happened to have Anderson/Kathy on just before midnight at our very geeky NYE get together at a friend's and caught him massacring that song. Not only does the man have no talent of his own, but he can't sing and was either high or drunk. I just call it the last epic fail of 2011. ;)

I don't take him very seriously, so I wouldn't take any of his music or machinations seriously either - its pretty obvious he is promoting his own agenda. His ego far outstrips his talent as evidenced by this recent news report as well: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cee-lo-green-john-lennon-imagine-lyrics-277511

[surreal-44.livejournal.com]

Don't know who he is, but anything is an improvement on the lyrics and/or music of "Imagin". :p :p Dullsville, with a healthy serving of nonsense.

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

I take Imagine so personally because it was my brother's wedding song.