Adam McKay rants about “white liberals” love for The Beatles: “Nothing is lamer or funnier”

Adam McKay has hit out at “white liberals” over their love for The Beatles.

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The Don’t Look Up director took to X last night to rant in number of posts ahead of the release of David Tedeschi’s Beatles ’64 documentary on Disney+ today.

“Nothing is lamer/funnier than white liberals’ never-ending fascination for The Beatles. It’s so Neo-liberal. ‘They’re the best, right? So let’s never stop micro-focusing on them,’” McKay wrote.

He added: “Liberals always operate from a ‘must get the right answer on the test’ list of approved culture. It’s so lifeless and flat. Like yeah, ‘Happiness is a Warm Gun’ and ‘Day in the Life’ are great tunes but let’s move past age 13.”

Nothing is lamer/funnier than white liberals’ never ending fascination for the Beatles.
It’s so Neo-liberal.
“They’re the best, right? So let’s never stop micro-focusing on them.”

— Adam McKay (@ZombiePanther2) November 28, 2024

Liberals always operate from a “must get the right answer on the test” list of approved culture. It’s so lifeless and flat.

Like yeah, Happiness is a Warm Gun and Day in the Life are great tunes but let’s move past age 13…

— Adam McKay (@ZombiePanther2) November 28, 2024

When one fan hit back him saying: “I cannot conceive of how sad it would be to live a life where I let any sort of politics give me a shitty attitude about the Beatles of all things,” McKay replied: “Got nothing to do with politics. It’s just that we all get into the Beatles when we’re 12 and then we move on. Being over the age of 30 and regularly talking about the Beatles just means you’re a bore.”

He continued: “And my love of music is a constant source of joy. It changes and grows in ways I can’t predict. But good lord, to watch a Beatles doc every year? Shoot me dead now.”

I cannot conceive of how sad it would be to live a life where I let any sort of politics give me a shitty attitude about the Beatles of all things

— Keith Hartel (@hartelkeith) November 28, 2024

And my love of music is a constant source of joy.
It changes and grows in ways I can’t predict.
But good lord, to watch a Beatles doc every year? Shoot me dead now.

— Adam McKay (@ZombiePanther2) November 28, 2024

The Beatles ’64 documentary, which is produced by Martin Scorsese, features rare, newly restored 4K footage of the band originally shot by the filmmakers Albert and David Maysles for the 1964 documentary What’s Happening! The Beatles In The U.S.A.

Tedeschi, who was an editor on Scorsese’s Rolling Stones documentary Shine A Light and George Harrison: Living In A Material World, also conducted new interviews with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and fans who greeted the band’s arrival in New York.

Per an official description, the forthcoming doc “captures the electrifying moment of The Beatles’ first visit to America” over 60 years ago.

Speaking about his relationship with Scorsese, Tedeschi recently told NME: “Before I started working with him, I knew his work very well. I think that, like the Beatles, certain pioneers create their own language.

“And his language is something that I had learned through watching his films and being interested in what he was doing. [Beatles photographer] Astrid Kirchner said about George and John in Living in a Material World: ’They had something going.’ I thought that was a cool way to say they collaborated well and really cared for each other. That’s how I would put it: we’ve got something going.”

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