{"id":448614,"date":"2026-05-14T14:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/448614\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:45:12","slug":"paul-mccartney-lets-rip-against-modern-day-celebrities-as-the-beatles-icon-hits-out-against-lack-of-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/448614\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney lets rip against modern-day celebrities as The Beatles icon hits out against lack of ‘talent’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sir Paul McCartney has expressed bewilderment about social media influencers, questioning what specific talents many of them possess.<\/p>\n

The 83-year-old Beatles legend cited his “generation” as the reason he struggles to grasp the phenomenon. <\/p>\n

Mr McCartney made the remarks during an appearance on The Rest Is Entertainment podcast with hosts Marina Hyde and Richard Osman, where he stated: “I think a lot of this influencer stuff – I just don’t really get it, because I’m not that generation.<\/p>\n

“I think it’s funny – and I suppose it always happened – but people who don’t seem to be particularly talented are incredibly famous. Billions of hits and views.”<\/p>\n

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The musician, who has remained one of the world’s most recognisable figures for over six decades, admitted he struggles to comprehend how modern celebrity culture operates online.<\/p>\n

Ms McCartney acknowledged that his views might make him appear out of touch with contemporary culture.<\/p>\n

“You’ve got to be careful about saying that, because it makes you sound very old-fashioned. Which I am,” he admitted.<\/p>\n

The former Beatle revealed that his exposure to influencer content typically comes through his wife, Nancy, who browses Instagram and shares posts with him.<\/p>\n

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“My wife will be looking at Instagram and showing me something, and then one of those will come on,” he explained.<\/p>\n

Despite having been at the centre of global fame since the 1960s, Mr McCartney confessed he doesn’t quite understand the world of online celebrity.<\/p>\n

The musician also disclosed that he often declines requests for photographs with admirers, a move he described as “radical these days.”<\/p>\n

Mr McCartney recounted how he had shared this with Oprah Winfrey, who was surprised to learn he refuses such requests. <\/p>\n

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“The minute I start thinking I’m something above myself, I won’t like me. It’s very important for me to just be me,” he candidly shared.<\/p>\n

He went on to share an analogy involving a street performer in Saint-Tropez who charges tourists to pose with his monkey.<\/p>\n

“I really do not want to feel like that monkey,” he said. “And when I take a picture with someone, I do feel like him. I’m not me anymore – I’m suddenly something else.”<\/p>\n

The musician’s comments come as he prepares to release his new album, The Boys Of Dungeon Lane, this month. <\/p>\n

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The record marks his first new material in five years and represents his 18th solo studio album.<\/p>\n

The introspective collection revisits his Liverpool childhood and early experiences with John Lennon and George Harrison before Beatlemania took hold.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on how celebrity has evolved since his rise to stardom, Mr McCartney noted a shift in attitudes among famous people.<\/p>\n

“When you’re first famous, you love it – because it’s what you were trying to achieve,” he said.<\/p>\n

“There was none of this ‘oh, people are bothering me’ – that’s a modern affliction. We loved it. And you learn to deal with it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Paul McCartney has expressed bewilderment about social media influencers, questioning what specific talents many of them possess.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[921,93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-448614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-celebrity","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}