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0:00Music facts that sound fake but are real!
0:02Imagine being so famous
0:03that people study your lyrics like they're the Bible.
0:06Now imagine getting so annoyed by it
0:08that you write a song specifically designed to be absolute,
0:11meaningless gibberish just to.
0:13In 1967,
0:14John Lennon received a letter from a student at his old high school.
0:17The student told him that his English teacher
0:19was making the class analyze Beatles lyrics
0:21to find deep, hidden meanings,
0:23and then found this hilarious and irritating.
0:25He decided to write the most confusing,
0:27nonsensical song possible
0:29to give the experts something impossible to solve.
0:31The result was I am the walrus.
0:33He combined three different unfinished songs,
0:35added random sounds of a police Siren,
0:37and threw in bizarre phrases like semolina pilchard
0:40and elementary penguin. He.
0:41He even recorded a live radio broadcast of King Lear
0:44and layered it over the ending
0:45just to add more fake clues.
0:47The song was literally built to sound bad to a traditional scholar.
0:50It has no logical structure,
0:52the lyrics are intentional nonsense,
0:54and the music intentionally clashes.
0:56The prank worked too well.
0:57Instead of giving up, critics and fans spent the next 50 years
1:00coming up with even more insane theories
1:02to explain what a walrus or an Eggman was.
1:05Lennon tried to make a joke,
1:06but he accidentally created one of the most analyzed songs in history.
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