{"id":2466,"date":"2018-03-04T10:15:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T09:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/humm.loverde.fr\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2024-08-30T06:21:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T05:21:12","slug":"happiness-is-a-warm-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humm.loverde.fr\/?p=2466","title":{"rendered":"Happiness is a warm gun"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00ab Happiness is a Warm Gun \u00bb par BERNARD GENSANE<\/p>\n

Il y a un peu plus de cinquante ans, les Beatles sortaient le single \u201cLove Me Do\/PS I Love You \u201d. J\u2019avais quatorze ans, je ne m\u2019en suis pas trop aper\u00e7u. J\u2019ai rattrap\u00e9 le wagon un peu plus tard avec \u201c From Me To You \u201d. \u00c0 ma grande honte, j\u2019ai connu la version mignonette de Claude Fran\u00e7ois avant l\u2019originale.
\nPendant ce demi-si\u00e8cle, les Beatles ne m\u2019ont jamais l\u00e2ch\u00e9. J\u2019ai appris l\u2019anglais, en partie, dans leurs chansons, ainsi que dans celles de Bob Dylan. J\u2019ai beaucoup \u00e9crit sur eux.
\nQuand je mourrai, on jouera des musiques autour de mon cercueil. Il y aura \u201c Hey Jude \u201d, l\u2019une des dix chansons les plus fortes du XXe si\u00e8cle.
\nCa j’aurais pu l’\u00e9crire mais, c’est \u00e9crit par Bernard Gensane ainsi que l’article qui suit.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Le cas de \u00ab Happiness is a Warm Gun \u00bb<\/p>\n

(\u00ab Happiness is a warm gun in your hand \u00bb. R\u00e9action de Lennon \u00e0 cette publicit\u00e9 : \u00ab I thought, what a fantastic, insane thing to say. A warm gun means you\u2019ve just shot something. \u00bb \u00ab J\u2019ai pens\u00e9, quelle folie incroyable de dire une chose pareille. Une arme \u00e0 feu encore chaude veut dire que vous venez de tirer sur quelque chose. \u00bb)<\/p>\n

Cette chanson est \u00e0 ce point complexe, sa structure musicale tellement irr\u00e9guli\u00e8re qu\u2019elle n\u00e9cessita quatre-vingt-quinze prises. Elle commence comme une folk song en mineur (\u00ab She\u2019s not a girl who misses much [\u2026] \u00bb), se poursuit sur le mode d\u2019un blues \u00e9th\u00e9r\u00e9 (\u00ab I need a fix \u2019cause I\u2019m going down \u00bb), puisse passe \u00e0 un rythme de rock lent (\u00ab Mother Superior jump the gun \u00bb), avant de s\u2019achever en majeur, John chantant \u00ab Happiness is a warm gun \u00bb, accompagn\u00e9 par ses deux camarades qui, tels les Platters dans les ann\u00e9es cinquante, le soutiennent avec des \u00ab Bang bang, shoot, shoot \u00bb. Le style Platters s\u2019accommode de paroles surr\u00e9alistes (\u00ab She\u2019s well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand like a lizard on a window pane \u00bb et d\u2019une prise de position tr\u00e8s nette sur la prolif\u00e9ration des armes \u00e0 feu aux \u00c9tats-Unis (\u00ab Happiness is a warm gun \u00bb).
\nLennon a trouv\u00e9 le titre de sa chanson dans une affiche publicitaire pour la America\u2019s National Rifle Association. A contrario, une phrase telle \u00ab A soap impression of his wife which he ate and donated to the National Trust \u00bb est du pur esprit Goon Show. Lennon d\u00e9tourna le slogan publicitaire en lui faisant faire un petit d\u00e9tour par la drogue et le sexe. Les initi\u00e9s savaient que le \u00ab gun \u00bb en question \u00e9tait une seringue. La phrase \u00ab I need a fix \u2019cause I’m going down, down to the bits that I left uptown \u00bb \u00e9tait tellement explicite que la chanson fut interdite sur toutes les ondes. Accessoirement, le \u00ab gun \u00bb figurait l’attribut viril, en \u00e9rection (\u00ab warm \u00bb) du chanteur. D’o\u00f9 le vers \u00ab Mother Superior jump the gun \u00bb. Mother Superior \u00e9tait le surnom que John donnait affectueusement \u00e0 sa compagne Yoko Ono. Mais il pouvait aussi s’entendre \u2014 Lennon \u00e9tait d\u00e9cid\u00e9ment tr\u00e8s en verve \u2014 comme le sexe de la femme : \u00ab Happiness is a warm gun\/cunt \u00bb.
\nUne chanson aux paroles aussi ambigu\u00ebs, aux images aussi d\u00e9cal\u00e9es m\u00e9ritait bien cinq changements de cl\u00e9 en 2 minutes 43. En si peu de temps, le chanteur alternait d\u00e9prime, ironie, d\u00e9sespoir, angoisse et espoir. En alliant certains mani\u00e9rismes du rock innocent des ann\u00e9es cinquante \u00e0 une critique f\u00e9roce de la violence de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 am\u00e9ricaine, Lennon se moquait de la l\u00e9g\u00e8ret\u00e9 de la musique populaire de la d\u00e9cennie pr\u00e9c\u00e9dente et jetait un regard ironique sur les chansons \u00e0 message de la deuxi\u00e8me moiti\u00e9 des ann\u00e9es soixante. Mais on peut se demander si la forme ne l\u2019emportait pas sur le fond, si le message ultime de la chanson n\u2019\u00e9tait pas que la fragmentation est inh\u00e9rente au monde, donc aux discours, en d\u2019autres termes qu\u2019une vision coh\u00e9rente, englobante de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 est utopique.<\/p>\n

R\u00e9f\u00e9rence \u00e9lectronique<\/p>\n

Bernard Gensane, \u00ab Pourquoi le \u00ab Disque Blanc \u00bb des Beatles est-il Blanc ? \u00bb, Les Cahiers du MIMMOC [En ligne], 1 | 2006, mis en ligne le 15 f\u00e9vrier 2006, consult\u00e9 le 23 f\u00e9vrier 2018. URL : http:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/mimmoc\/196<\/a> ; DOI : 10.4000\/mimmoc.196<\/p>\n

Christian Loverde
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