Johns If I Fell Was A Songwriting Breakthrough For Him: His First Forthright Expression Of The Soft Core

John’s “If I Fell” was a songwriting breakthrough for him: his first forthright expression of the soft core of emotional vulnerability that he otherwise sought to mask with bravado, insouciance and wit…From the moment Paul’s voice joins John’s on the stately, rising melody, the whole tenor of the track changes. Their two parts do not move in simple, parallel motion (like a couple holding hands); instead their voices perform an intricate courtship dance, ranging from a sixth to a third apart, alternately closing and widening the distance between them. “If I Fell” is a love song that seeks to move beyond the shaky ground of infactuation - beyond the very idea of falling (like the chords in the introdution) in love. By the last verse, the music sounds like a hymn, the singing an exchange of vows.  (Source:Jonathan Gould, Can’t Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain and America, 2008)

Guys, I'm genuinely curious..

Do you think Paul is self aware of his homoerotic psychosexual relationship he had with John?

I've read a lot of things that are in favour of him being oblivious or him knowing everything and acknowledging it.

I just don't know what to believe, honestly.

stew on this one lads

Hello little girl || Written by John Lennon, 1957

I saw her standing her || Written by Lennon-McCartney, 1962

they’re so fucking rom-comy that’s what gets me. The 1950s summer meetcute set to a perfect and lyrically pertinent soundtrack?? The joke that is a gangly teenage boy looking like Elvis when viewed by someone who’s legally blind?? the whole good boy corrupted by an older leather bound teddy boy much to the dismay of his overprotective father thing they’ve got going on?? romantic trips to PARIS of all places?? they’re so fucking cliché who wrote this shit

I: Let me ask you about one of your new songs, ‘This One’. About a marriage?

P: A relationship, yeah.

I: And about not expressing emotions and feelings. 

P: You get those moments where you always think; “I’m saving it up. I’ll tell him one day.” And you know what happens. A lot of people, John for instance, getting back to that subject. He died. Um.. I was lucky. The last few we- months that he was alive we’d managed to get our relationship back on track. We were talking, having real good conversations. Real, nice and friendly. George, actually, didn’t get get his relationship right. I think they were arguing ‘till the end, which I’m sure is a source of great sadness to him. And I’m sure in the feeling of this song that George was always planning to tell John he loved him, but time ran out. That’s what the song’s about. Like, there could never be a better moment than this one. Y’ know now. Take this moment to say… “I love you”