Comments on: “Puff the Magic Dragon” Controversy

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 06 May 2012 17:19:50 +0000

I think it was a dream that children who have few friends in there real lifes find friends in the make believe life and as Jackie grew older his immaginarry friend went away as he either got friends or matured.

By: Brianna

Brianna — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:41:47 +0000

I’ve heard many thoughts about “Puff” the magic dragon.I don’t know wich to believe but I will try to do the best I can to defend each argument.As you see Jackie Paper is the name of weed smokers,and puff is the thing that comes out of it.But the only way to know is to get the creature of Puff the Magic Dragon to admit it.And anyways does it matter if he made it because of drugs!?A good kids song is a good kids song!So who cares.

By: Heather Doll

Heather Doll — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:53:16 +0000

i would just like to claify,
that lucy in the sky with diamonds was also not a drug reference.
it was based on a drawing you can find online that john lennon’s son, julian, made of his kindergarten schoolmate lucy.

By: Angus

Angus — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:36:06 +0000

Whether there are hidden references to drugs or not, the song is a better song when interpreted as being about a boy’s growing up/loss of innocence.

When interpreted as a drug song, it’s pretty boring.

By: Steaksauce

Steaksauce — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:05:21 +0000

We all find hidden meanings in things, don’t we? When someone “discovers” one – or latches onto one – are they not simply spinning it to the way they perceive it? Whether you think it’s about smoking or something other than the way it was originally intended, you find a way to embrace what meaning you have placed it to be, which still returns songs back to why we love them in the first place. You identify with it.

Reading what others have written: Losing the love in your life; your children moving on; getting stoned; abandonment… and yet isn’t the song about losing one’s innocence? Isn’t that what each one places in its meaning? So it rings true, but only if you embrace your own meaning, rather than applying it to everyone. Drug use is still innocence lost. Which is still the root meaning of this beautiful song.

By: lisa

lisa — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:32:03 +0000

Lisa Out!

By: lisa

lisa — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:30:51 +0000

Wow. I am a kid and you guys sicken me with the drug thing!

By: drive10117

drive10117 — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:37:41 +0000

I think that Puff is a kite.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:05:29 +0000

I believe that songs are a way for use to interpret the way we want o relate to them. Depending on the person whether you relate to smoking up or whether you you relate to losing an Imagination/ innocents. I can see why people would believe its about smoking up and I can see why others would believe its about innocents.

Just keep in mind that whatever the song means to you it can mean something totally different to another. That’s the power of true music.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:19:18 +0000

Lucy in the sky with Diamonds is not necessarily about a drug trip either. In an interview with John Lennon he stated that the song was written because his son brought home a picture he drew of a girl in his class named Lucy. In this picture she was in the sky, with diamond like things around her. I like it how you defend the innocence of one song by shooting down another that you didn’t even research about. These songs have the same innocence to them; so don’t go making assumptions about a song like you criticize people for doing with Puff.