It resumed in September, and they'll play Detroit's Ford Field on Nov. The Stones’ “No Filter” tour kicked-off in 2017, but was interrupted by the pandemic. “We’ve played ‘Brown Sugar’ every night since 1970, so sometimes you think, We’ll take that one out for now and see how it goes,” according to Jagger. Singer Mick Jagger agreed “Brown Sugar” is out of the mix for now, but it hasn’t been retired. “I’m hoping that we’ll be able to resurrect the babe in her glory somewhere along the track,” Richard told the Times. It’s Richards’ hope that this isn’t the end for the “Sticky Fingers” single, but with the band members in their late 70s now and having recently lost drummer Charlie Watts at 80, time is no longer on the Stones’ side. “At the moment I don’t want to get into conflicts with all of this s–.” “Didn’t they understand this was a song about the horrors of slavery? But they’re trying to bury it,” he said. Richards said he’s not completely sure why the tune is suddenly a problem, but he does appreciate sensibilities have changed in the half-century since “Brown Sugar” was released. There are sexual implications in lyrics about a subject who looks, and tastes, “so good” – “Just like a Black girl should.” But they work like hell, and it’s only rock n’ roll.“Brown Sugar” starts aboard a slave ship headed to New Orleans to provide workers for the cotton fields. “But they’re trying to bury it.”Ĭ’mon Keith. “Didn’t they understand this was a song about the horrors of slavery?” he asked. No, the only reason to have a public struggle session with a 50 year-old song is to advertise your virtue and burnish your woke credentials.įor his part, Richards is puzzled. Rolling Stones have removed Brown Sugar from the setlist of their US tour Came under fire from woke critics over lyrics about slavery and sexual violence Now fans are fighting back and urging band to reintroduce the song to shows Their are flooding a fan vote with requests for Brown Sugar at upcoming shows. The Stones do sex, drugs and rock n’ roll, and they may do them better than anybody else.
Anybody - especially anybody at this late date - that looks to Jagger/Richards for historical elucidation or moral clarity really needs to rethink things. “I am simply saying the atrocity of the slave trade, rape and the unimaginable suffering therein should not be adorned with gyrating, glib lyrics, guitar solos and no redeeming features in the way of discerned appraisal.”ĭiscerned appraisal is a lot to ask from a rock n’ roll song. ” He’s just much more moral and finely attuned to history than you are. Taylor assures readers “I am not my clutching pearls over the innocuous here.
A month ago, Tom Taylor wrote at Far Out that the song has “some of the most stunningly crude and offensive lyrics that have ever been written.” Related: Smearing Slowhand: Rolling Stone’s Sleazy Hit on Anti-Vax Guitar Heroīut it’s suddenly sending good progressives to the fainting couch. “Brown Sugar” is about slavery, violence, rape and maybe heroin - just as it has been since it was recorded in 1971. Heightened sensitivity is one way of characterizing the sudden moral panic about a rock n’ roll song that’s been a radio and concert staple for 50 years.
“You picked up on that, huh?,” Keith Richards, 77, responded to the LA Times when asked if the Stones had cut the second-most-performed tune in their catalog amid a climate of heightened cultural sensitivity. So the Stones quietly dropped the classic from the set list of their “No Filter” tour (how’s that for irony?)īut people noticed, according to The New York Post: The song is too politically incorrect, too rude, too much of a kick-ass good time to be left alone. It was only a matter of time before the Jacobin left got around to The Stones and "Brown Sugar" in particular. I'm trying to figure out with the sisters quite where the beef is. Asked why by the LA Times, Keith Richards said, 'I don't know. Losing Charlie Watts and "Brown Sugar" during a single tour is hard. 'Brown Sugar' was a staple of Rolling Stones setlists until 2021, when they dropped the song.
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