During the tour, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards gave an interview to the Los Angeles Times, which addressed, among other things, why the band no longer includes the song Brown Sugar, which is their second most played.
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However, in today’s era of political correctness, the song, which speaks of “a slave ship heading for cotton plantations” and “a slave man you can hear whipping women at midnight,” can be criticized, even though it only describes slavery and seux violence. the victims were often slaves. And he certainly doesn’t promote them.
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It should be added that it was a voluntary decision of the band itself, which no one accused of racism or approving rape.
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“I do not know. I’m trying to figure out what the problem is. Doesn’t he understand that the song is about the horrors of slavery? But he’s just trying to bury her. At the moment, I don’t want to get into any conflicts with all these sr …, “Richards said with a laugh, referring to the fight for what racism is and what racism is not. “But I hope that in time we will be able to resurrect the beauty in its original glory,” he added to the song.
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| Killing An Arab |
| The British band The Cure, for example, faced a similar problem with one of its oldest songs, Killing An Arab (1979).
However, the explanation was in vain, criticism escalated, especially after the year 2000. Singer Robert Smith therefore changed several alternative names for the song, such as Kissing An Arab, Killing Another or Killing an Ahab. On the last tour, however, he ran out of patience and returned to the original text. |
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Mick Jagger was much more reserved about the question of not including the song. “We’ve been playing Brown Sugar every night since 1970, so sometimes you just say, ‘We’re just going to take this one out for now and see how it goes,'” he said, adding that it’s really hard to put together a playlist for stadium concerts. He did not rule out that Brown Sugar would return in the future.
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Jagger himself has a rather lukewarm attitude to the song. In a 1995 interview, he stated that he would no longer write something like this. The song was composed by Richards and Jagger in 1969 and was originally called Black Pussy. It was released under the name Brown Sugar in 1971. The single became number one on the American charts, and finished second in the British one.
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