![]() ![]() ![]() It's the dad from Footloose's worst nightmare. The Rolling Stones are a few dates into their current No Filter US tour, but fans have noticed. Hard enough that you don't notice the overt themes of racial exploitation, sexual depravity, and delicious Mexican heroin until you've already started dancing. The Rolling Stones Explain Why They’ve Dropped ‘Brown Sugar’ from Their Setlist After 50 Years. The defining difference that most critics have come up with is that "Brown Sugar" claps pretty hard. It's a piece of music with lyrics that somehow place it ahead of other Stones bangers like "Schoolboy Blues" and "Star Star" on the moral outrage scale. ![]() For one, was John Lennon's "Imagine" secretly a love letter to the Communist Manifesto? Two, was "Summer of '69" all about doing the nasty? And three, was "Mary Jane's Last Dance" actually a celebration of the demon reefer? The answers are (1) yes, (2) oh, big time, and (3) Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers didn't care what you thought, as long as you bought the album, respectively.Īnd then there's "Brown Sugar," the Rolling Stones' 1971 classic that asks not "What is this about?" skewing instead towards the question "What isn't this about?" It's a great rabbit hole to fall down, trying to figure out the hidden meanings behind your favorite songs. ![]()
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