A long time reader wrote in recently. “Considering your recent ‘Beatles kick,’ I’m surprised you haven’t blasted JC Penney for their commercial that uses John’s ‘Real Love.’ I don’t know about you, but I’m angry about it.”<\/p>\n
Well, to be honest, I hadn’t seen<\/i> it. And what I’d heard about the commercial — a Christmas commercial for the JC Penney department store that uses a Lennon demo of “Real Love” as its soundtrack — was all second-hand and, truthfully, generally hostile toward the commercial.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, I found a link to the commercial<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sorry, long time reader, I have no problem with the commercial.<\/p>\n It’s cute. It’s not great<\/i>. “Real Love” doesn’t actually fit<\/i> the story the commercial tells — a little girl is tormented by bullies in her neighborhood — but the song does sound very good. Indeed, I wouldn’t mind an official release of that version of “Real Love” (as it’s different than the version on Imagine: John Lennon<\/i> and the version Paul, George, and Ringo worked on over a decade ago).<\/p>\n It’s a good song. If Yoko Ono wants to sell it for a commercial, more power to her. If it gets people buying John Lennon and talking John Lennon, I fail to see how that’s a bad thing.<\/p>\n And, really. It’s a commercial. And it’s cute. And for me, that’s enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A long time reader wrote in recently. “Considering your recent ‘Beatles kick,’ I’m surprised you haven’t blasted JC Penney for their commercial that uses John’s ‘Real Love.’ I don’t know about you, but I’m angry about it.” Well, to be honest, I hadn’t seen it. And what I’d heard about the commercial — a ChristmasContinue reading “On “Real Love” and JC Penney”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4097],"tags":[64,77,488],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beatles","tag-christmas","tag-john-lennon","tag-real-love","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}