Brilliant reaction, Miss Jayy! You're right on...you've just got to go with it! You had me laughing with "the deep meaning..." You always pick up on things. You're a smart young woman! Back in the day, I remember when this was first released (showing my age!), we all pretty much had the same reaction with the lyrics....but LOVED the song nonetheless!😂 The Beatles certainly pushed the envelope at every turn! Thank you!

John grew tired of everyone analyzing his lyrics, so he wrote this.

John caught wind of a certain teacher that was making students listen to Beatles music and trying to interpret their songs supposed deep meanings. So John wrote this saying "let them try and figure this one out." Classic John Lennon.

"I Am the Walrus" was written by John Lennon & is from their 1967 TV musical film "Magical Mystery Tour". It is one of their more quirky songs. John wrote the song to confuse listeners who who were constantly trying to make serious scholarly interpretations of the Beatles' lyrics.

John being John. Quintessential John.

Imagine this song in 1967 and you just got a new stereo. This song came out when I was 8 months old. The effects and genius of it, is next level.

From "She Loves You" to this in just under 4 years, talk about progression, not to mention music like that didn't even exist untill it was created out of nowhere, or maybe a lot of drugs lol

This song is like a musical collage. A tapestry of woven sounds. An experience outside your normal reality.

"Analyze that, you wankers." said John.

Listening to "I Am The Walrus" with headphones and your eyes closed is not a musical experience. It's a trip through outer space.

One of John Lennon’s greatest vocal performances. It’s always best heard while under the influence of LSD.

I am an old, old woman from England and I love you. Please keep doing what you're doing. :)

With American DJs and college kids looking to find hidden meanings in John's lyrics, he first went back through his songs to see if he could find any. After hearing many of the zany interpretations that were being spread around, Lennon wrote "I Am The Walrus" and said - "Let the f*ckers figure this one out."

Love your commend " Just go with it " You hit it right. It's one of those Beatles song that you have to hear several times to get the full impact . This Beatle song has been covered over 70 times . Every one of the Beatles songs have been covered.They are by far, the most covered artist ever , So you're right to say ,there is no bad Beatles song .

You totally get it!!!!John Lennon loved playing with words and making people sit up and take notice. I love it and I love the fact that you receive it exactly as he intended. Add his gorgeous voice to the strange lyrics and we have another winner! You are way ahead of so many other people who are trying to do what you do with so much insight. You’re the best. 🌺✌️

If you react to The Beatles Medley, you need to listen to it all without pausing or one pause in middle , because it's all unfinished songs put together on one side of Abbey Rd that blend into each other. You'll love it , I think lol

First here Love Beatles ❤ Kisses from Brazil 🇧🇷

"boy ya been a naughty girl ya let ya knickers down" "this has gotta be John Lennnon" LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

This one is a personal favorite. Surrealism all over it. It's astounding this is the same band who barely three years previously were singing Please Please Me. John loved Alice in Wonderland and by 1967 was playing around with words in his lyrics, inspired by Lewis Carroll. He also had at least one book of his utterly unique style published. "In His Own Write." It's a hilarious, bizarre work of art.

Ostensibly… John-who was never a fan of “intellectuals” attempting to try and analyze Beatle lyrics for some higher meaning-was rumored to say, “let them analyze THIS.” So that’s John in a nutshell. Vaguely a snot.

One of my most favorite song of theirs! Imho, arguably, (along with Tomorrow Never Knows) their greatest “artistic” achievement in sound, music and recording genius

and some Shakespeare at the end

"Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye." *Two second pause "Wait, what?!" LMAO!!!

Don't you just love the way they fade songs out

Since his early teens, John always loved to play around with words and their meanings, making up surreal cartoons and stories in magazines he distributed to schoolmates. If you read his two published books "John Lennon: In His Own Write" and "A Spaniard In The Works" you'll get the picture. He often used familiar everyday phrases and words like mosaic pieces to be taken apart and put together again in other more interesting, strange, funny or disturbing ways. He read and was inspired by classic children's literature like the original 'Alice' books by Lewis Carroll - the Walrus figures in a long and strange poem in one of them, called the Walrus and the Carpenter, about befriending little oysters on the beach and then eating them... Other phrases come from children's songs and games he'd have heard growing up in Liverpool, like "oompah, oompah, stick it up yer jumper!", and so on...

One of my favorite Beatles songs.

Fun fact! The Beatles actually recording snippets of live broadcasts on the radio at the time they were recording the song and spliced it in and throughout the song! So that’s what all those ambient and random dialogue is lol. Sooo cool!!

If you think this is wild, listen to Tomorrow Never Knows from their Revolver album. That whole album is kind of trippy, but that song especially caused quite a stir. The lyrics are lifted almost directly from the Tibetan Book of the Dead. It's a trip, literally. It really set the tone for the next 2 singles, Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane, and the Beach Boys-inspired Sgt. Pepper album the following year in 1967 - though I don't think they ever did another song that was quite as "out there" as Tomorrow Never Knows. I remember when I was about 16 putting on the Revolver album before bed that I had on CD. I never did that again. Lesson learned. 1966 and 1967 were very experimental years for the Beatles. The late 60s in general were. After I Am The Walrus was released, people started the whole "Paul is dead" theory and John Lennon to some extent played along, by continuing what he started with the song Rain from 1966 by back masking or recording certain sections of songs backwards and leaving silly messages to mess with conspiracy theorists. On the White Album, there was a song called "Glass Onion," and in it John actually sings, "The walrus was Paul." He almost made a game of it because in the beginning, the Beatles WEREN'T hiding messages in their songs. The Rain had a back masked ending, but that was almost an accident. They just thought it sounded trippy. But when people accused them of hiding satanic messages in their songs, John kind of threw in goofy messages, probably because he was high half of the time. Revolution #9 was the most notorious of those kids of songs. Playing it backwards is probably just as scary as Tomorrow Never Knows. The gibberish in that song you could make sound like almost anything.

Your reaction was adorable! It's so much fun for me to live my youth again, watching you react just as we did in our youth with each new Beatle's song that came out. It is a metaphor regarding magic, Satan, his demons, etc. This album opened the way for other groups such as The Rolling Stones and their delving into the dark side with "Their Satanic Majestie's Request" album.

Lowrider in the house for the walruses. This will be a epic reaction. Enjoy. Jayy.

In the 1950's and 60's there was a group of popular holiday camps in England called Butlins. To keep the kids amused and give the parents a break they hosted the Butlins Beaver Club for kids. As one of those Butlin Beaver Club kids we used to march around the camp shoutng...'Oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper' while pulling our jumpers out and sticking our fist up there

Love when people try to analyze every lyric. 🤣🤣🤣

I Am The Walrus was the first song the Beatles recorded after the passing of their long time manager Brian Epstein. Those present at the session said there was a negative vibe in the air throughout the session. The Eggman was Eric Burden of the Animals. Eric told John that he had a proclivity for breaking raw eggs on his sexual partners during love making. The two sets of vocals on the outro coda are "Oompah oompah stick it up your jumper" and "Got one got one everybody got one". RNB

You're hearing this in stereo (stereo means there's different information in the left ear from the right). But you have to remember, when we were first introduced to the Beatles music, we were listening to it on AM radio (low-fidelity MONO), since that's where music radio could be found. I wish all you reactors had gone through and discovered the Beatles music in CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, the way we discovered them. You'd have a better appreciation of how they evolved and grew. You can Google "Beatles discography" and bring up a chronology of their singles and their albums. Every single they released was a hit (most were #1 hits). And what set the Beatles apart from just about every other band in history is that even all the songs on their albums (including the ones that were never released as singles) were (and are) widely known to most everyone who was alive back then. Their music just became the soundtrack of our lives. For many, it still is. You're in about the 1967 time. Have you listened to "All You Need Is Love?" Maybe the greatest Beatles song of all time.

I was 16 when this came out. It’s fantastic John writing.

Thank you Jayy, i got it when i was just a little kid , say 7 or 8, its just a lyrical exercise, go with it! Need more reactors like you, great work as always.

Lucky you... listening to 'I Am The Walrus' for the first time in your life! 😉 I was 13 or 14 when I first heard it, and I thought it was very scary, but I immediately wanted to hear it again. And again. And again. Until today. It's a vibe.

Jayy. You nailed this so good!!!

Surreal song but a Masterpiece....!!!!

I love your comments”This must be John Jennon!”. Yes! Only John can do a composition such as this!

It took me quite a while to "get" the Beatles songs which appear to make no sense. As I've grown older, I find the best way to look at them is the way you'd look at a surrealist painting by someone like Salvador Dali. The images aren't meant to be interpreted as symbolism or allegory. They just are what they are, like images in a dream.

The more you figure this out then your mind get's blown once again. Welcome to I am the walrus. Good reaction once again.

Ur awesome Jayy. Luv ur reactions

As a teenager I use do sit ups to this song. IT WAS SIDE B on the 45rpm of side A. One of my favorite songs!

Genius music gods❤

The speeches at the end before the fade out was from a BBC radio production of King Lear that just happened to be playing on the radio at the time they were recording the song. I just think it was brilliant to include that in the song

"This definitely gotta be John Lennon." LOL, you picked up on that quick, ha! One of his best, which is really saying something. Great reaction!

Vid host says, "Just Go With It !" "Just vibin' like that, honey." Hit the nail on its head. No one was ever near the Beatles on this one. The whole world went, "Whhaaa ?" Yet it has a special place in the hearts of Beatle music lovers everywhere.

You made me laugh no end, the look on your face as the song went on was a picture ! Listening to the Beatles is an experience, not just another song !

That's production on a four-track recording machine. Innovators

Boy, you nailed it! It's meant to be a nonsense song. During the time when The Beatles recorded it, people were reading things into their records. Trying to find hidden meanings that aren't there .....Secret messages and such. So John decided, "Okay, I'll give 'em something to try to figure out." And he was just messing with those people's minds. They went crazy.

smoke pot.. smoke pot.. everybody smoke pot...the chant at the end!

Jayy, not a lot of people get "I am the Walrus" on the first listen, Great Reaction! Everybody who commented on your reaction is right. John with his tongue in cheek had to of said, "This oughta keep them up at night"

The line "Yellow Matter Custard" came from a nursery rhyme that John and his friend Pete Shotton sang as small children on the playground.

My head moves the same as yours when I listen to that song. My eyes are closed as well and the room is usually dark. Very pychocoolic!

Seriously? You totally nailed it. The song was meant to not make sense. Some of the lyrics were written during LSD trips. The music...the sounds...it's trippy, but you're right. It's a vibe. But, as weird and senseless as it is, it's a great work, with the strings, the background vocals and voices. I was a kid when this came out, and I thought it was very cool. The imagination that was used to create this with the technology that was available was pretty much as good as it could get. In a way, the limitations OF the technology helped propel it forward. I've always loved this song, and it never gets old for me. I've heard it so very many times and I still love it.

I know, I know, this song was Johns snub at everyone analyzing his lyrics, but the first line, "I am he, as you are he, as you are me, and we are all together" can totally be represented in a Venn diagram, and, using symbolic logic, you can prove this is a valid argument. That being said, this is my favourite Beatles song.

Yes my dear just totally brings back memories our memory and all this stuff 1st came out going to the record store buying it put it on kicking back those were the days

Just to clarify "yellow matted custard, dripping from a dead dogs eye" was the British equivalent to the USA kids song of Greesy, grimeie gopher guts. It was part of a little ditty they'd sing as children.

Maybe the most popular song from the Fab Four's psychedelic period.

Outstanding song choice ✌💛

Great reaction. It really took me back in time. You are officially pretty cool.

MASTERPIECE!!!! REVOLUTIONARY!!!!😀😀😀😀

You nailed it, you see many reaction videos, where they have no clue, this is one you just feel the vibe or you don’t, you clearly felt the vide girl. Hugs

One of the best, most hip bands of all time. Hands down. I was 15 when this came out. Your take is pretty much how it was for us back then. Right on.

I remembered my quirky geometry teacher asking the class if we ever heard the song, "I am the rhombus" 😂

LOL she really got it

An amazing production! And a groove! By the way, that talking towards the end is a radio play(that was playing on the radio when they recorded the song)of Shakespeare's King Lear. If you read King Lear, you can actually follow along(...Oh, Untimely death...Is he dead? Sit you down, Father...rest you"). Great job, Jayy!

It's hard for people today to understand the impact this song had on fans of the group when it was released. This was out there beyond Pluto! Released on the flip side of the single " Hello, Goodbye, " it proved how experimental the Beatles were becoming in the studio.

Just imagine it's 1967. You are listening to 'I Am The Walrus' and 'Strawberry Fields Forever' after a couple of 'hits' from your favorite pipe. Oh man, what a feeling. The good old days.

Try “Glass Onion” or “Happiness is a Warm Gun”, “Piggies”.. “Me and My Monkey”.. pretty much anything off of the White Album!

Masterpiece Still ahead of time

Back in high school in the mid 70's, we studied this song for a week in music class dissecting the lyrics!

This song is over the top “strange”. Unique

"This is one of those songs, where you just vibe to it.... Go with it!" EXACTLY. It's a vibe, it's a trip, but it's a groove too.

This song had the makings of rap bars

"...if the sun don't come you get a tan from the English rain....."

If you haven't listened to Glass Onion by The Beatles yet you must after this. Makes the most sense and reveals a surprise!

My favorite Beatle song. Not only John's excellent vocals, but the melody has a real majesty to it.

It's Psychedelic, Baby!

John wrote the trippy songs. This one, Strawberry Fields, Tomorrow Never Knows, etc.

They must have dropped about a hundred tabs of windowpane before doing this one.

I think john wrote the lyrics to this song after finding out that college professors were requiring their students to study his lyrics for the meaning behind them. John said something to the effect that the lyrics don't matter and wrote this song to prove a point.

That you even know and can say with conviction and without hesitation “This has to be John Lennon” tells me you have arrived in terms of the journey you have been on.

Jim Carrey actually does a decent performance of this, truly unbelievable

The Magic Mystery Tour album was heavily inspired by psychedelics. :)

A song like no other by no one else. Only John Lennon could write this. So great

The bit at the end folks through for years was everybody smoke pot. John said in an interview it was egg fart because Paul kept eating scrambled eggs at the home when they were working on the songs.

At the end of the song it sounds like there saying everyone is smoking pot… haha 😂❤

He wanted to show how the power of melody and slick production trumps lyrics and themes.

This song really freaked me out when I was a kid. I grew to like it when I got older. Just something I like listening to.

You are correct that was John… The Beatles will never disappoint!!

John was a fan of Lewis Carroll who wrote a poem called The Walrus and the Carpenter in Through the Looking Glass.

Welcome to Beatlemania! 💖🎸🎸🥁

I dont care about what the lyrics mean as i just love the music.

we really never Analised music much back then, it was all new magical mind food pyschadelic, to us teenagers we had just been let loose on a new Generation of wonderful crazy new sounds coming from the explosion and pirate radio stations and the ones that followed, The birth of the Beatles and the stones and many others that followed all still in its creative infancy, nothing deep nothing hidden at the time, it was just new to us teens, refreshing to hear all the stuff being created and coming on to the music scene from Britain and the USA to live through it all was amazing

I first heard this song when I was 18 & thought what the hell is this! I've loved it ever since. You probably need to read the lyrics to try to understand it, if it can in fact be understood. Note how John makes reference to "Lucy in the Sky", in his song "Glass Onion" off the White Album he makes reference to "The Walrus was Paul".

You need to understand that this was the era of LSD and very good marijuana, these songs were inspired by their LSD experiences. I know, I was there when these records were made, the 1960s was a great decade to be a teenager. The music was fabulous, there were so many great bands, you need to see some interviews of George Martin, the fifth Beatle, talking about this song, it was pure genius how he orchestrated this song.

The sitting on a corn flake lyric refers to a fetish some in England liked to do,they'd put cornflakes on the back seat of a car and liked the sound it makes when sitting on it.

Your take nailed it... just go with it!