{"id":631753,"date":"2026-10-15T21:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T21:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/631753\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T21:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T21:14:13","slug":"paul-mccartney-mocks-banal-modern-pop-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/631753\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney Mocks \u2018Banal\u2019 Modern Pop Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/02311be5243d87a7830ee71e21bdfabdf6-paul-goodhang.rsquare.w330.png\" class=\"lede-image\" data-content-img=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"330\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>\n                  Photo: Good Hang with Amy Poehler via YouTube\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmv9qjbb8000i01dhtgtoilbq@published\" data-word-count=\"161\">By all indications, Paul McCartney showed up to his recording of Good Hang With Amy Poehler with some shit to get off his chest. Most notably, the legendary musician used the platform to gripe about how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/paul-mccartney-height-biopics.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the actors who play him in biopics<\/a> are not tall enough (shots fired, Paul Mescal) to capture his impressive stature. But elsewhere, he took a moment to sound off on the quality of modern pop music, much of which, he says, is too \u201cbanal\u201d for his tastes. In the episode, which premiered October 13, McCartney waved off a question about whether there\u2019s any contemporary music he wishes he could have written by launching into an impromptu song-and-dance number featuring nonsensical lyrics like \u201cI want your ooh ooh\u201d and some goofy choreography he believes could easily be a hit today. Poehler laughs along gamely before shutting him up by gently pushing back with, \u201cThis from the man who gave us, \u2018She loves you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">paul mccartney being old enough to have said no to racially segregated concerts and making fun of songs made to go viral on tiktok in one lifetime  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/olXdPGenv1\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/olXdPGenv1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 bethany (@thenightbethore) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/thenightbethore\/status\/2110114286504665586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmv9qkbc600103b7edkg68a4r@published\" data-word-count=\"92\">The clip has since gone viral online, with people creating irritatingly catchy <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EclecticMethod\/status\/2110726044269633763\" rel=\"nofollow\">remixes<\/a> of McCartney\u2019s improvised bop, joking that McCartney was specifically mocking the K-pop group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@cute_swith\/video\/7696749385106853172?q=paul%20mccartney&amp;t=1792075716428\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">STAYC<\/a>, and debating whether the singer\u2019s impression is accurate or reductive. If any pop artist or fandom is offended by this, however, they should probably take the opportunity to view this as an if-the-shoe-fits situation and stop voluntarily positioning themselves in front of this bullet. Meanwhile, if anyone from Paul McCartney\u2019s team happens to be reading this, please play him some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/tinashe-nasty-viral-dance-quantum-baby.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tinashe<\/a> to broaden his horizons.<\/p>\n<p>          Sign up for the Vulture Daily<\/p>\n<p>An entertainment newsletter for the pop-culture obsessed.<\/p>\n<p>        Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n<p class=\"expanded-terms \" aria-hidden=\"true\">By submitting your email, you agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/newyork\/terms\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Terms<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/newyork\/privacy\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Notice<\/a> and to receive email correspondence from us.<\/p>\n<p>  Related<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Good Hang with Amy Poehler via YouTube By all indications, Paul McCartney showed up to his recording&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[57604,430,156,70471,227899,111,139,69,309680,466,11218],"class_list":["post-631753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-amy-poehler","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-good-hang","tag-good-hang-with-amy-poehler","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ooh-ooh","tag-paul-mccartney","tag-pop-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}