All-Star 2012 London Olympics

[wcdad]

Hahaha this is a internet meme that has been taking over recently. People photoshopping the "unimpressed McKayla" into rather big events.

mckayla is not impressed

The internet version of Flat Stanley ,, thanks for getting me up todate

 

[hotTOPIC]

Mel B slayed me last night, it was the Mel b show. And Mel C was her usual fun spunky self, you would have never thought it has been almost 20 years the way she was moving....LOVED it!!!!

 

[TinyBlondie15]

 

[ACEDAD]

With all due respect to John Lennon's talent, I despise the song "Imagine".

Throughout the song, he claims that religion is bad. There's no heaven or hell, so just do whatever you want, whenever you want.

Possessions are bad. No need to plan for anything, just live for today.

No need for countries. Ironic as pointed out in previous messages playing this at the Olympics which celebrates competition.

Everyone living in peace. The world can have peace; everyone just has to give up any desire for freedom.

It's juvenile; naive and ultimately a very destructive world view.

 

[fiercerando88]

How is McKayla NOT impressed with the Spice Girls?!

McKayla should be impressed by them because she is VB's twin.

 

[Angelica]

The Spice girls give me life all day everyday.

 

[cheeromgbre]

Looks like I'm the only one who was never really impressed with the Spice Girls

 

[cheeeeer93]

SPICE GIRLS OVER EVERYTHING.

 

[gofriars610]

"Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can. No need for greed or hunger. A brotherhood of man." We place so much importance on things like winning medals and being the best when in the big scheme of things that's not what the games and life in general are about.

Karl Marx also imagined no possessions. Look how that ended up for a solid 61 million Soviet citizens, in addition to millions of Cambodians, Cubans, and Chinese. Lennon himself said the song was anti-capitalist and anti-nationalistic. The Olympics is ALL ABOUT nationalism--you're winning medals for your country. Nobody parades around with a United Nations or European Union flag after winning a medal, they're waving their country's flag. It's national pride. The song was a terrible, incredibly confusing choice by the closing ceremony directors.

 

[cheerKT]

And that's the beauty of music. It means many different things to many different people. In all fairness, he never comes out and says "possessions are bad" and "religion is bad", he simply wants you to imagine what it would be like. Thus the name of the song.

We can agree to disagree, and that's fine. =) The perks of living in our free country! But in my opinion it's taken a little to literally by some and whenever I hear it I like to sit back and do just that, imagine.

PS I love the Spice Girls

 

[cheerKT]

Just adding on, too late to edit. But I think the song works because the Olympics mean more to me than just international competition. If you look at it strictly as that then yeah, it's a little misleading. It's about people coming together to celebrate, putting aside their petty differences and enjoying themselves, and I think that's exactly what John Lennon was getting at. He's not marching around saying you should sell all your possessions and stop believing in religion, he's challenging you to imagine what the world would be like if we could all truly cast differences aside and come together as one.

Maybe my opinion is a little warped because I just really really love the Olympics. hahah. It's the best and only remaining example of the entire world coming together for a common purpose. (except maybe like the World Cup. But the Olympics have much more pageantry)

 

[kayleigh]

YESS and would have loved to see Laura Marling there and Florence but Ed made up for it.

ugh yes ed. performing at the closing ceremony in a sweater, jeans and gymshoes. and i personally love one direction but i feel like a majority of people on here think that because they're older than a majority of the fans (but not some of the boys themselves) that they're to good for them. hahahaha huge fan over here so just annoyed by some people. but ed was so good gotta love my favorite ging

 

[BlueCat]

Karl Marx also imagined no possessions. Look how that ended up for a solid 61 million Soviet citizens, in addition to millions of Cambodians, Cubans, and Chinese. Lennon himself said the song was anti-capitalist and anti-nationalistic. The Olympics is ALL ABOUT nationalism--you're winning medals for your country. Nobody parades around with a United Nations or European Union flag after winning a medal, they're waving their country's flag. It's national pride. The song was a terrible, incredibly confusing choice by the closing ceremony directors.

I am about as far from socialist as you can get, and the message of the song didn't bother me one bit. The whole tone of the closing ceremonies (to me) was a playful look through British musical history of the last 50-ish years. I thought that beautiful, simple song fit perfectly into that montage.

I'm guessing that if we put our political correctness goggles on and analyzed the lyrics of each of the songs they played, you could get your knickers in a bunch over SOMETHING no matter what your personal philosophy was. (Why would you build a house "in the middle of our street"? What do they mean by "really really really wanna zig a zig ahh"?, etc.) My suggestion is to stay calm and enjoy the show.

 

[ACEDAD]

Maybe my opinion is a little warped because I just really really love the Olympics. hahah. It's the best and only remaining example of the entire world coming together for a common purpose. (except maybe like the World Cup. But the Olympics have much more pageantry)

I don't disagree with this at all.

I love the Olympics.

 

[ACEDAD]

you could get your knickers in a bunch over SOMETHING

Look at you going all British on us!