Released to significant hype, is Now And Then any good?
I remember standing in the kitchen at my parents’ house listening to the first play of Free As A Bird on the radio. I remember Simon Mayo’s semi-sneering assessment that it could just be Travelling Wilburys.
For me, there wasn’t anything of pop culture significance to rival the release of Free As A Bird or its companion piece Real Love for over 25 years, until Peter Jackson’s epic Let It Be documentary Get Back came out on Disney+. And even though that came out in a world saturated with content and platforms to distract us, it still managed to cut through the din and become a seriously big deal that got us all talking.
But that doesn’t mean that it should be beyond criticism. When you strip away all the hype and the buzz, you still have to ask the question, is it any good? On first impression, the repeated two chord minor key intro played on the piano is too reminiscent of Real Love, especially as the tempos of the two songs are almost an exact match. Given Free As A Bird and Real Love felt so different, it is a shame that this song starts in a way so similar to the latter of the two.
Think of the ‘When I’m home’ section of A Hard Day’s Night or the ‘Life is very short and there’s no time for fussing and fighting my friend’ portion of We Can Work It Out, or the ‘You’re asking me where my love grows’ segment of Harrison’s masterpiece Something. They are complete deviations from the general structure of the songs. The Beatles were doing this at a point when nearly everyone else in pop music was following a standard verse-chorus-verse-chorus formula.
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