John Lennon is one of the most influential artists in music and in the rock genre. He used his music to bring issues to light, similarly to African American artists like Jimi Hendrix and his national anthem performance. Both artists used music to express their political ideas. According to the Rolling Stones article, John Lennon “personalized the political and politicized the personal, often making the two stances interchangeable but sometimes ripping out the seams altogether.” In addition, they “not only attacked the war — any war — but questioned and confronted the very methods and structures he’d utilized in his attack.” John Lennon uses his music to address controversial issues that he cares about. In “Glass Onion” he brings up the hippie dream world. He brings up the issue of gun toting in ‘Happiness Is a Warm Gun” and “The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill.” Lennon brings up the Beatle’s short-term involvement with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in “Sexy Sadie.” John Lennon, as well as African American artists like Jimi Hendrix, uses music to promote a movement of peace and love.

A connection between John Lennon and his music and K-Pop is that they both brought music forward and influenced many people worldwide. K-Pop influenced many people and many cultures, through the genre’s ability to connect to many kinds of people all over the world. Same goes with John Lennon and his music. Through his experimental sounds in his music, his “unique sense of humor and intellectual keenness quickly revealed themselves, and his love of wordplay, puns and storybook nonsense,” and his “spontaneous playfulness to pop lyrics,” he was able to appeal to different kinds of people all over the world. As the Rolling Stone article stated in the end of the first paragraph, “Truly, the man’s stamp was everywhere.”