The Rolling Stones have chosen to remove the controversial song from the setlist for their upcoming tour. The decision by the Rolling Stones to remove their song Brown Sugar from the set list for their upcoming US tour has drawn both praise and criticism. Read by some as a surrender to the " woke brigade " and by others as a reasonable response to the accusation the lyrics glorify " slavery, rape, torture and paedophilia ", the decision highlights the changing ethical considerations musicians must navigate in order to maintain a social licence.
The song is emblematic of the Stones' energetic rhythm and blues sound and has been a mainstay of their set list for decades. The lyrics explore the sexual exploitation of a black woman by slave traders and slave owners in America's south, presenting a sexualised view of a marginalised group. Contemporary and informed audiences would also recognise "brown sugar" as a reference to heroin.
Through the course of the song the singer moves from observer to an agent of this sexualisation. 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.
While some interpretations of the song would like to see it primarily as a celebration of a drug counterculture, any pretence the phrase "Brown Sugar" is other than a reference to a black woman falls away in the final lyric of the studio album. This combination of sexual imagery and illicit drug references in the song's lyrics contributes to the culturally transgressive place the Rolling Stones occupy in popular music history.
Some have little to say about matters of race in the Stone's music. A recent essay in the Cambridge Companion to the Rolling Stones examines the contribution of non-band members to Brown Sugar, notably pianist Ian Stewart and saxophonist Bobby Keys, and interprets the lyrics as nothing more than "famously bawdy".
But for many race is central to any consideration of the Stones' output from this period. Patrick Burke, in Rock, Race and Radicalism in the s sees the Stones as wallowing in racist stereotypes.
I was trying to rehabilitate my hand and had this new kind of electric guitar, and I was playing in the middle of the outback and wrote this tune. Do you remember this? The identity of the woman who inspired the song has been debated for years. Singer and novelist Marsha Hunt, mother of Jagger's first child Karis, claims in her autobiography Real Life that she is the inspiration for "Brown Sugar.
Listen to the Rolling Stones' 'Brown Sugar'. Jagger sat down with one of those green steno pads and filled up three pages. It took him 45 minutes. Then he stood up and sang. Nonetheless, he mentioned, "We might put it back in. The Rolling Stones have not performed "Brown Sugar" at any of the stops on their current "No Filter Tour," which has dates scheduled until November This tour marks the first time that the group is performing together since the death of bandmate Charlie Watts.
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