#jon neda

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i fear i need cam to cut chelsie a la jon/neda

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It was an “emotionally wrenching and heart felt” performance.

“Surrounded by burning candles, performing on a grand piano and accompanied by a small orchestra of violins,” his rendition of this famous song “spoke to many of us who were suffering from the terrible tragedies in New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.”

It was just days after 9/11, when Neil Young performed the iconic song, according to a site dedicated to Neil Young News.

Although the song was banned from radio in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, “because envisioning a world where we all got along was at odds with the public demand for bloody justice,” according to Consequence, Young believed it was the right song to sing.

Pulse Magazine wrote that Young's performance of "Imagine" on the Benefit telecast was "one of those moments you never forget."

“When disaster strikes, musicians respond the way they know best: with song,” wrote Katy Waldman of Slate. “As composer Leonard Bernstein said three days after John F. Kennedy was assassinated, ‘This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.’”

“In times of trouble and grief, there is one song that millions of people turn to for inspiration and solace: John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s ‘Imagine’,” according to writer Martin Chilton.

The “Imagine” album was released on September 9, 1971, touching “the world with its hopeful message about the need for global understanding,” wrote Sari Rosenberg.

This is a new story on the Peace Page.

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“For nearly 50 years, credit for this song - "Imagine" - has gone to one writer - John Lennon,” according to NPR.

That changed in 2017, after Lennon himself admitted his wife Yoko Ono should receive co-credit. Lennon explained in 1980 “a lot of the lyric and the concept came from Yoko.”

“Ono's 1964 book of conceptual poetry, ‘Grapefruit,’ contained verses like, imagine clouds dripping and imagine goldfish swimming across the sky. She also contributed to the song's theme of a world without borders or religion pulling people apart,” according to NPR’s Neda Ulaby.

In an interview with David Sheff, shortly before his death in December 1980, Lennon also shared that Dick Gregory had given him and Ono a Christian Prayer-book which had inspired him to write the track. “The concept of positive prayer…If you can imagine a world at peace, with no denominations of religion – not without religion but without this my God-is-bigger-than-your-God thing – then it can be true.”

“When ‘Imagine’ was released, John Lennon said that the world was too focused on trivialities and ‘the thing we should be talking about is the violence that goes on in this society.’ It reached No. 1 following Lennon’s murder in December 1980 and entered the UK charts again in 2012 after Emeli Sandé recorded a cover for the 2012 London Olympics,” according to writer Martin Chilton.

“Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ is arguably the most loved song of all time,” according to writer Joe Taysom. “The track captures Lennon crying out for a fairer world . . . As the decades go on, ‘Imagine’ has morphed into a tragically appropriate tonic to whatever travesty is currently tearing the world apart.”

“It’s not surprising that musicians turn to this particular work in the aftershocks of tragedy,” according to Waldman. “For one thing, ‘Imagine’ is a song that musicians continually turn to, period: The Broadcast Media Inc. found it to be one of the most covered songs of the 20th century. Its simple, versatile structure has seduced and inspired hundreds of artists, among them Lady Gaga, Emeli Sande, Etta James, Davie Bowie, Pink, Eva Cassidy, and The Persuasions.”

More than 200 artists have performed or covered the song, including Joan Baez, Elton John, Diana Ross, Peter Gabriel, Melissa Etheridge, Dave Matthews, Dolly Parton, Seal, , India.Arie, John Legend, and Julian Lennon.

“The ritual arguably began on Dec. 9, 1980, when Queen covered the song at the Wembley Arena, one day after Lennon died. Stevie Wonder played it during the closing ceremony of the 1996 Summer Olympics to honor lives lost in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing. . . . In 2004, Madonna joined the ranks of “Imagine”-eers when she reinterpreted Lennon’s ballad at an aid concert for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami.”

“Though the song was banned from radio in the immediate aftermath of 9/11,“Neil Young recognized its potency, singing it at a memorial concert, ‘America: Tribute To Heroes’”, according to Chilton. “Coldplay performed a version after the terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015. Following discord around North Korea in 2018, ‘Imagine’ was the natural choice for a group of Korean musicians to perform at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics.”

“It’s now become the go-to song when it comes to grief or mourning,” wrote Taysom. “This is down to the tangible sense of hope that rings out from ‘Imagine’ and an overriding feeling that everything will eventually be okay.”

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“It returns to us most bittersweetly when something bad happens, when we are casting about for answers and consolation,” wrote Waldman. “The writer John Blaney called ‘Imagine’ a ‘humanistic paean for the people,’ a kind of secular prayer. Rolling Stone described it as ‘22 lines of graceful, plain-spoken faith in the power of a world, united in purpose, to repair and change itself.’”

“The song also derives considerable power from its historical context. Lennon, shot down before his time, reminds us that the universe can run ramshod over idealistic people. That knowledge makes ‘Imagine’’s plea for peace and brotherhood all the more poignant. On the other hand, the fact that the song persists, even though Lennon is gone, speaks to the enduring strength of his fantasy. If ‘Imagine’ captures the fragility of our hope after a violent or destructive event, it also reveals its tenacity.”

The legacy of the song was most perfectly summarized by President Jimmy Carter, who noted: “In many countries around the world — my wife and I have visited about 125 countries — you hear John Lennon’s song ‘Imagine’ used almost equally with national anthems.”

After Neil Young completed his rendition of “Imagine” after 9/11, reports were he “appeared to be on the verge of tears.”

Chilton says, “Decades after its original release, this popular music masterpiece, a model of simplicity, continues to inspire people of all races and creeds, offering the listener a momentary respite of hope in a troubled world, especially in the beautiful lines:

‘You may say I’m a dreamer

But I’m not the only one

I hope some day you’ll join us

And the world will be as one.’”

~ jsr

[Image, courtesy of Noam Galai]

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Juan Hortoneda

[jaysar]

a huge part of me is so excited for keesha to come back and play the game a second time bc i LOVED her on bb10, but on the other hand im terrified at the very real possibility that we’ll end up turning on her during the season à la neda bbcan5

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I think Will has a little crush on Paras? Whenever she’s around he’s always looking at her and pays most attention to her when she’s talking compared to when others are talking. Today Jesse left the spot next to Paras and Will rushed to take the spot lmao

doesn’t he have a wife

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I know we don’t talk about the show anymore but pail, xmas, josh and raven might be the final 4 which is the ugliest final 4!!! I hope Josh pulls a Jon and the beard, evil, little, loud elf get’s bbcan2 neda’d!! 

[bytherocks]

Kevin, Pili, Neda and Jon went to the Neon Dreams release party.

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Juan Hortoneda

[misskaelagrant]

say what you want but these two are my favorite together

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I totally took my insta off private so he would see this and block me🙃

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2014 set the precedent for Big brother

I honestly feel like the reason bbcan is now known for gameplay and bbus is now known for big alliances is because of Neda and Derrick respectively. 

BBCAN2 and BBCan16 both aired in 2014 and have influenced the past six years of this show. 

BB16 was right after the atrocity of racism scandals that was bb15. It looks like BB decided to hire a bunch of non-controversial recruits who didn’t know how to play the game, and superfans who weren’t that super dedicated to the show (Nicole called herself a superfan but only watched like 4 seasons and didn’t watch feeds). And then we got Derrick who figured this out and realized he could just make a super big alliance and get rid of all these unsuspecting people one by one. The Battle of the Block twist only helped his game because it encouraged huge alliances. And since he had such an easy time with all these factors helping him everyone now looks at him like a genius and wants to mimic his gameplay. Almost every season after 16 consisted of huge alliances, or people trying to get in on the huge alliances because they watched Derrick’s season and thought that’s how you play the game. Even the twists do nothing to encourage house flips. We get really useless ones like the safety suite or random punishment costumes that doesn’t really effect the game in the long run. All Stars is just exposing this trend because it brought back old players who do like the strategy and big move aspect of BB and are calling it out now that it is nowhere to be seen. 

BBcan2 was still in it’s early seasons, and if you look at the way players came onto that show, they didn’t really know what strategies to use (Ika and Rachelle both putting up members of their alliance, Jon learning everything he knows from Neda in that season while working alonside her since she was a superfan). It wasn’t until after the show was finished and people saw how many power shifts that happened and how Neda navigated everything that BBCan started really using strategy, house flips and big moves as apart of their promotion. Remember in bbcan3 when another superfan said he wanted to the next Neda and everyone was freaked out about Naeha becoming the new Neda because they were both brown? That was Neda’s impact. Arisa Cox always hypes up the audience everytime there is gonna be a house flip during evictions. Julie says the same thing every eviction regardless of if there may be a house flip or not. All the twists on this show are meant to encourage house flips/power shifts (like Britnee and Sarah being saved from the big alliance in season 3)

It just goes to show that casting is so important in a show like this. And US has really dropped the ball in the past six years. I’m not saying that recruits never do well on this show but superfans are needed to help keep this show alive in terms of the trends for strategy and gameplay. 

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Juan Hortoneda

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neda cheated on jon with alec? same gurl, same