Lords and Ladies, my official breakdown of Now and Then and Thots in general that no one asked for
- The everything about this starting from the songs origin (or how paul received it rather) blows my mind. It had “for paul” written on it, not for yoko or sean or julian or cynthia but paul. that was the last gift from john he got
- You can tell that Paul has thought about this song biweekly since 1980
- It’s Johns final message to Paul and The Beatles’ final message to its fanbase OUCH
- The finality of it all REALLY gets to me sorry to be upset on main guys
- John and Paul harmonizing for the first time in almost 70 years and it’s over the lines “know i love you” “i miss you” “i want you to be there for me”
- The original Now and Then is haunting and so melancholy and our new version is more reminiscent to me but they’re both full of longing and yearning and they want each other so bad
- George’s guitar 🥹 you can tell Paul wanted to pay tribute to not just John but George too
- More on george because i feel like we aren’t talking about him enough ! Ofc it’s a John song but ALL THE BEATLES are on it and it’s like them refined. idk to me it feels like this is something we would’ve gotten in a world where George and John are both still alive and they wanted to all make one final song together
- I really feel like this will be the catalyst for Paul to open up to the public more about the true nature of his feeling for John, it’s so intense and this is the first time we’ve witnessed him reminisce on John in such a raw way