Sean Lennon was criticized by a bunch of jealous bloggers for wearing this jacket at a fashion show:
Yes, that is correct. That
fierce jacket, worn casually over some REGULAR clothes ignited such rage in posters on
THIS SITE that they resorted to using super-intelligent catch-phrases like "pretentious d0*ch*(^g" and "retarded hobo" while diminishing him as not looking very "bright."
SIMPLY FOR WEARING A FURRY JACKET AND A BOWLER HAT. What is wrong with our society that we think it's ok to use this kind of terminology to describe people we don't know who have done NOTHING to us except share their talents and congenial personalities? Sean is constantly attacked for really stupid stuff, and I am sick of reading/hearing about it. I've been a fan of Sean's for about 13 years...I have read/heard almost all his interviews,
and I have met and spoken to him personally. This young man is anything but pretentious or any of the above-mentioned words...he's a super awesome, incredibly nice, and brilliant guy who just happens to be the son of John Lennon. Just because his dad was
the coolest mofo in music and a songwriting genius does not excuse people to write Sean and his own singular talents off...or even judge his PERSONALITY based on his clothes. How dumb.
So anyway, Sean himself responded to The Cut bloggers who decided they would psycho-analyze him based on what he was wearing with this:
BY SEANTAROONOLENNON on 02/13/2011 at 2:40am
In what way am I to dress exactly that would please you? Has it occurred to any of you insightful people that I was in fact hired specifically because, and in order to dress in a rock and roll fashion? It was my bloody job to dress crazy that day, and frankly I enjoyed it! It doesn't mean I'm a bad person, it's just more fun than wearing flannel.
And it certainly doesn't make any of you better than me that you choose to read so negatively into my outer appearance. You are just bigots disguised as moralists.
I feel no need to apologize for dressing in a manner that you deem unacceptable for someone so despicable as myself. One need not apply for a license or be a professional couturier to have permission to dress as they please. One need not be the most successful, or the most loved, or the most suave or the most handsome, just to wear a pink bow-tie, a bowler, and an old coat. This is not Prussia, or Victorian England.
I am sorry that you are all so vacuous as to think you understand me simply because you dislike my clothes, that you think I have committed some criminal offense in having had a wealthy and successful father.
I will continue to make music and dress as I please, and none of you have any right to tell me I cannot or should not. You of course have a right to hate me for it, but then again, it's you who have to live with yourselves for being such judgmental idiots.
I wish you all luck in pursuing what must clearly be elevated and enlightened lifestyles. I yawn in awe at your 'moral supremacy.'
Sincerely,
Sean Ono Lennon
I'm so glad he did. I am SICK of reading ignorant comments on boards like OhNoTheyDidn't (mainly perused by stupid teenagers who cling to whatever they think makes them look against the status quo- thus, if John is the beloved Beatle they despise him or if Gaga were compared to Beethoven they would praise the former because she's more "cutting edge and pushes the envelope). I was shown this site by a friend who rates blogs as a day job and was slightly amused then disgustingly annoyed by the people and their comments. It just scream: "
THIS is what is wrong with the world!
Anyway, what does everyone else think? Sorry for going off on a tangent, but it has annoyed me to no end that this extremely gifted young man is treated with such crap and people like Lindsay Lohan are glorified to cult status.
It just makes no sense...