Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney’s son James recently dropped his latest song and his tuneless, bare-foot performance at the bottom of his garden has been bashed.
The musician took to Instagram to showcase Cherub but followers were greeted with McCartney junior dressed in a silk shirt and sat on a wall surrounded by trees as he inexpertly strummed his guitar and croaked out the lyrics, RadarOnline.com revealed.
And trolls were quick to leave brutal reviews of the work by the 47-year-old.
One user wrote: “Just awful. Are you learning disabled or what?”
Another added: “My ears are bleeding. Just what the heck this is all about?”
A third added: “This sucks… let’s be honest if this was any one other than a McCartney this would be laughed off the screen.”
Yet another said: “Sadly the apple seems to have fallen about a million miles from the tree.”
Another follower added: “I can’t imagine the pressure of being the child of one of the greatest songwriters ever. I would become a lawyer or something.”
McCartney told his 69,000 followers: “Here’s a little acoustic rendition of my new song Cherub. You’ll find the full version on my collection of songs Beautiful Nothing.”
But he was told by another person: “The short version was enough for me. I’m out.”
The musician now has three albums to his name but no commercial success.
As a child, he taught himself to play the guitar and piano, and he began experimenting with songwriting. He played guitar alongside his father during tours and contributed to some of his father’s albums. On his dad’s solo albums, “Flaming Pie” and “Driving Rain,” he played drums and guitar on several tracks and co-wrote some of the songs with him.
But he didn’t pursue his own music career until he was in his 30s. “It’s hard to live up to The Beatles,” he said of his father’s iconic band.
He actually used a stage name for a while to avoid the comparisons. “I started out playing under an alias because I wanted to start quietly,” he told.
In 2010, the musician, whose mother Linda died in 1998, began to publicly share his music with the world, releasing his first EP, Available Light. Three years later, he put out his first full-length album, titled Me. His second album, The Blackberry Train, came out in 2016. Both LPs were co-produced by Paul. And Beautiful Nothing came out this year.
