"Yoko and the Beatles" -- Lindsay Ellis

It came out two weeks ago today, but I didn't catch it until now. Lindsay Ellis' first proper video on YouTube in the past two years (I'm not counting a brief promotional clip for her new novel that recaps her previous ones), it's about how Yoko Ono did not break up The Beatles.

I didn't need any convincing of that fact, but some of the details were ones I didn't know about, not being a Beatles scholar or superfan. And this being Lindsay Ellis, she uses the case of Yoko Ono as a jumping-off point to discuss other (in her opinion) unfairly maligned women such as Britney Spears, Amber Heard, Courtney Love, and Meghan Markle.

I'm curious what others think. One argument that you could make against Ono is that the legacy of The Beatles has been mishandled due to over-curation, and Ono has certainly been one of the curators. The fact that it took until May of 2012 for a television show to successfully license a Beatles song ("Tomorrow Never Knows", in Mad Men) and the fact Danger Mouse couldn't legally release The Grey Album despite the approval of Jay-Z, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr makes me think that Ono or her legal advisors are responsible.

And there's the contentious relationship between Yoko Ono and Julian Lennon that doesn't get mentioned. This is not, I hasten to say, proof that Ono is responsible, either solely or even mostly, for that dislike. But it is ignored, and possibly because it would undercut Ellis' thesis.

But as I said, I'm not a Beatles scholar, and it's possible that there are good counterarguments to those potential objections.