Woman divides opinion after calling out Paul McCartney for ‘playing his own music’ at gig
A woman has rather stirred up the hive after complaining about a Paul McCartney gig.
She took to TikTok to say she'd been at McCartney's show in Melbourne on Saturday (21 October) and felt the 'Hey Jude' singer had let her down.
"This guy's like 85, I don't know how he's still standing but good on him," she said of the 81-year-old music legend.
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That was going to stop her complaining that there were altogether too few Beatles songs and too much of his new music on the setlist, though.
She continued: "Great show, except he played about 848 songs that no one's ever heard of and then about five Beatles songs that everyone was literally there for.
"And the funny part was he got on stage and said 'we know what songs you guys want to hear, every time we play a Beatles song the whole room lights up, everyone gets their phones out, everyone's singing along, it's electric, it's amazing'.
"He goes, 'And then when we play our new stuff the room turns into a black hole.' The room giggled and he goes, 'But we're gonna play our new stuff anyway'.
"[He then] proceeded to play stuff no one's ever heard of for an hour and a half straight with not one Beatles song in sight."
The TikToker said she wanted McCartney to 'throw us a f**king bone' and accused him of 'making it all about you', which prompted some responses from the musician's fans.
One pointed out 'it's not a Beatles concert, it's a Paul McCartney concert,' while another said she looked up the song list and there were 'five newer songs out of the 32 on the set list'.
Someone else said 'he played 23 Beatles songs and a lot from Wings', while quite a lot of commenters seemed to have been to the same concert and disagreed that McCartney had mostly swerved Beatles songs for his newer stuff.
Another commenter wrote that McCartney had played 'heaps of Beatles and Wings songs' and suggested to the woman that 'maybe you just didn't know them'.
Not playing the songs everyone expects him to do is actually a pretty common complaint among people who go to see Paul McCartney perform and expect most of the gig to be dedicated to classic Beatles songs.
When he performed a set at Glastonbury last year there were plenty who felt aggrieved that he wasn't playing the songs they wanted to hear, but plenty of his fans jumped in to defend him.
"For a man who has written some of the best pop songs in history, Paul McCartney seems like he doesn’t want to play any of them? What a disappointment!" some viewers said.
However, others pointed out that McCartney 'has a back catalogue going back more than 60 years' and called it 'one of the best Glastonbury performances I've ever seen'.
Joe Harker