{"id":12223,"date":"2023-11-04T18:53:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T22:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12223"},"modified":"2023-11-04T18:53:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T22:53:30","slug":"the-beatles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12223","title":{"rendered":"The Beatles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up on <em>The Beatles<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>OK, I came a little late I guess, as <em>The Beatles<\/em> broke up when I was in the second grade, and truly it wasn&#8217;t until the fifth grade that a classmate introduced me to the Red and Blue albums&#8230; But I fell in love with their music. I couldn&#8217;t believe that they were not together anymore, and like many young teens my age, I kept hoping that they&#8217;d reunite until Lennon was murdered.<\/p>\n<p>I never stopped loving their songs.<\/p>\n<p>What I did not expect was that I&#8217;d be listening to a <em>new<\/em> Beatles song almost 50 years later, in 2023.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0.5em;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Opxhh9Oh3rg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I admit I was skeptical at first. I expected something that would bear a vague, soulless resemblance to what <em>The Beatles<\/em> used to be, a cheap attempt to cash in on their fame one very last time.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I was listening to an authentic Beatles song. One of their best, as a matter of fact. And I was looking at a video that brought Lennon and Harrison back to life, cheerful, funny, joyous, happy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Bless Peter Jackson. There are &#8220;deepfakes&#8221; and then there are &#8220;deepfakes&#8221;&#8230; and I cannot think of a more appropriate, more respectful use of AI, bringing legends of the past back to life, as in this video.<\/p>\n<p>I have listened to the song and watched Peter Jackson&#8217;s masterful creation at least five times in a row. And every time, I was almost in tears.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12223' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up on The Beatles. OK, I came a little late I guess, as The Beatles broke up when I was in the second grade, and truly it wasn&#8217;t until the fifth grade that a classmate introduced me to the Red and Blue albums&#8230; But I fell in love with their music. I couldn&#8217;t <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12223' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-personal","category-4-id","category-35-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12223"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12231,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12223\/revisions\/12231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}