Stones drop Brown Sugar from US tour set list

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The Rolling Stones have dropped Brown Sugar from their set list, amidst accusations that the lyrics glorify slavery and misogyny.

Long-overdue retirement of a song with dubious lyrics, or overwrought clutching of pearls?

Rolling Stones drop Brown Sugar from US tour set list https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58896241
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  • Well I'm still gonna play it.
    'Vot eva happened to the Transylvanian Tvist?'
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  • SRichSRich Frets: 762
    I knew they would come to grief in changing the title from "Black Pussy"...... ;)

    "There's things I want, there's things I think I want 
    There's things I've had, there's things I wanna have" 
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  • I know a few people who have humorous  songs that come from a time when comedy was a bit edgier. The way one of them put it was that if you're up there singing it, if you know that for a few of the audience an offhand joke is going to be actively hurtful, even if it is funny, when you see that bit coming up, you feel like a bit of a cunt and don't want to do the song any more. At some point you get old enough that it's not much fun being a cunt. 
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  • HootsmonHootsmon Frets: 15923
    Anyone ever see Stepford Wives? That's where we are all headed
    tae be or not tae be
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  • tone1tone1 Frets: 5111
    Ah well, you can’t always get what you want....
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  • mrkbmrkb Frets: 6635
    That song is full of micro aggressions.

    I don’t think Stiff Little Fingers will be able to play White Noise for much longer either.
    Karma......
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  • maharg101maharg101 Frets: 684
    New drummer can't play it ? Seriously though, the lyric always felt a bit cack.
    This one goes to eleven

    Trading feedback here
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  • EricTheWearyEricTheWeary Frets: 16253
    This shows how much I listen to lyrics. Incredibly famous song that I’ve heard hundreds of times and I’ve no idea what it’s about. 
    Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 
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  • jdgmjdgm Frets: 850
    edited October 2021
    Claudia Lennear.

    Bowie apparently wrote a song about her too.
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  • S56035S56035 Frets: 1104
    Read the lyrics for the first time today. Can be read two ways but in general it doesn't have much of a negative vibe to me.
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  • FastEddieFastEddie Frets: 523
    Woke makes weak. Why not stand up for your right (to party) to play your own songs. Who cares if it causes the looney left to pee themselves.
    If I had talent, I'd be talented.
    Red meat and functional mushrooms.
    Persistent and inconsistent guitar player.
    A lefty, hence a fog of permanent frustration

    Not enough guitars, pedals, and cricket bats.
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    FX Plex - Cornell Romany
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  • RedlesterRedlester Frets: 1072
    They could always play it as an instrumental, and Jagger could just make noises like a fox with piles over the top. I think as performance art I would pay to see that. 

    Boring old song with crap words. They have plenty more where that came from so it won't be missed. 
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  • KittyfriskKittyfrisk Frets: 18374
    I wonder how Ram Jam are feeling at the moment ?
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  • I’ve been Playing sticky fingers today ,love hearing brown sugar. What a load of old bollocks 
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  • KittyfriskKittyfrisk Frets: 18374
    Well, it was the '70's wasn't it?

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  • JalapenoJalapeno Frets: 6378
    S56035 said:
    Read the lyrics for the first time today. Can be read two ways but in general it doesn't have much of a negative vibe to me.
    Always thought it was about Heroin :/

    Imagine something sharp and witty here ......

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  • Philly_QPhilly_Q Frets: 22515
    edited October 2021
    I had no idea what the lyrics were about either, generally I don't really listen to lyrics and even when I actually know them I don't give them much thought.

    However, if someone - or an army of someones - sat down to analyse the lyrics of every pop and rock song of the last 60+ years, a very high percentage of them would be considered offensive or inappropriate by today's standards. 

    Nobody's going to do that, so most of those songs will continue to be played and no-one will think twice about it.  But on the other hand, once a song does get "found out" like it has here, it's pretty difficult to make a case for its defence.

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  • octatonicoctatonic Frets: 33725
    Makes sense to actually quote the contentious lyrics:

    Gold Coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
    Sold in the market down in New Orleans
    Skydog slaver knows he's doin' all right
    Hear him whip the women just around midnight
    Brown Sugar, how come you taste so good
    Brown Sugar, just like a young girl should
    Drums beatin' cold, English blood runs hot
    Lady of the house wonderin' when it's gonna stop
    House boy knows that he's doin' all right
    You should have heard him just around midnight
    Brown Sugar, how come you taste so good?
    Brown Sugar, just like a young girl should
    Brown Sugar, how come you dance so good?
    Brown Sugar, just like a black girl should
    I bet your mama was a tent show queen
    And all her boyfriends were sweet 16
    I'm no school boy but I know what I like
    You should have heard them just around midnight
    Brown Sugar, how come you taste so good
    Brown Sugar, just like a young girl should
    I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, wooo!
    How come you, how come you dance so good
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, wooo!
    Just like a, just like a black girl should
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, wooo!


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  • octatonicoctatonic Frets: 33725
    They are a *bit* dodgy.
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  • munckeemunckee Frets: 12253
    octatonic said:
    They are a *bit* dodgy.
    Yep don’t read so well really. 
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