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The Rolling Stones drop popular track Brown Sugar from US tour after criticism for lyrics referring to slavery

Agence France-Presse • October 14, 2021, 10:30:44 IST
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“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,” The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger said.

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The Rolling Stones drop popular track Brown Sugar from US tour after criticism for lyrics referring to slavery

The Rolling Stones have cut their popular track ‘Brown Sugar’ from their US tour, at least for now, in the wake of criticism over its lyrics referring to slavery. “You picked up on that, huh?” Keith Richards told the Los Angeles Times in a recent interview, when asked about the absence of the song at the British band’s stadium shows. “I’m trying to figure out with the sisters quite where the beef is. Didn’t they understand this was a song about the horrors of slavery? But they’re trying to bury it. At the moment, I don’t want to get into conflicts,” the superstar told the paper. “I’m hoping that we’ll be able to resurrect the babe in her glory somewhere along the track,” Richards, 77, added. The gritty rock chart-topper officially released in 1971 opens with the lyric “Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields,” and references beating enslaved people, and sex with young enslaved women. In recent years, magazine critics and others in the industry have criticised the song as “racist,” including one writer for New York Magazine who called the track “gross, sexist, and stunningly offensive toward Black women.” “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,” frontman Mick Jagger told the LA Times. “We might put it back in,” he said, adding “the set list in a stadium show, it’s kind of a tough one.” In 1995, Jagger told Rolling Stone magazine, “I never would write that song now. I would probably censor myself. I’d think, ‘Oh God, I can’t. I’ve got to stop’. God knows what I’m on about on that song. It’s such a mishmash. All the nasty subjects in one go.” The Stones resurrected their ‘No Filter’ tour in September after a long pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. They will play a string of dates into November 2021, including in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Detroit.

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