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So my FRIENDS Stephanie and Matt (who built my Djembes) for me came by to pick it up and FIX IT for me!
John Kuthe, RN, BSN...
Hey, they cancelled "Brown Sugar", John - BOO HISS ... !!!
:-((((
I find it noteworthy that the urge to cancel rock songs for their supposed licensing of
immorality was entirely a right-wing or Christian phenomenon when it got started in the
Sixties and now appears to be entirely a left-wing phenomenon.
Brown Sugarâ Gets Canceled
After hearing the record thousands of times, I was unaware that the Rolling Stonesâ classic âBrown
Sugarâ is about enslavement because I canât understand anything Mick Jagger says in the entire first
verse. All I hear is: âuh uh uh uh uh uh JUST AROUND MIDNIGHT.â Turns out the lyrics are these:
Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
Sold in the market down in New Orleans
Scarred old slaver knows heâs doing alright
Hear him whip the women just around midnight
Well, thatâs clear enough. Someone noticed that the Stones arenât playing the song on their current tour,
seemingly for the first time ever, which led to a New York Post headline saying that âRolling Stones retire
classic rock song âBrown Sugar.ââ In the body of the story, Keith Richards is less absolute, saying, âWe might
put it back in.â He seemed to be smarting about feeling pressure to dump the song when he told the LA
Times, âI donât know. Iâm trying to figure out with the sisters quite where the beef is. Didnât they understand
this was a song about the horrors of slavery? But theyâre trying to bury it.â
The chorus of the song comes from the point of view of a gleeful slave master who enjoys having sex with
or raping the women he owns, so itâs not exactly clear about the âhorrorsâ part, but I think we can assume that
the Stones, who revered black American blues musicians and got the bandâs name from a Muddy Waters LP,
are not fans of slavery. A listener might object that the upbeat, rollicking nature of the song makes it a celebration
of the acts it describes, but then again, the tune has been played on popular radio for 50 years without causing
undue uproar. Suffice it to say that the Stones enjoy visiting dark places in their songs without endorsing their
characters or their viewpoints. âSympathy for the Devilâ isnât really a celebration of Satan.
I find it noteworthy that the urge to cancel rock songs for their supposed licensing of immorality was entirely a
right-wing or Christian phenomenon when it got started in the Sixties and now appears to be entirely a left-wing phenomenon.