Posted on 07/14/2026 4:02:43 PM PDT by Twotone
Rolling Stones frontman and rock-n-roll legend Mick Jagger says a singer should avoid politics and should simply just entertain his fans, unlike extreme left-wing scold Bruce Springsteen, who constantly lectures his fans from the stage.
Jagger, 82, delivered his opinion on a New York Times podcast last week when Times correspondent David Marchese noted that the Born in the USA singer feels that he needs to impose his politics on his audience at every concert.
Marchese claimed that Springsteen “clearly sees his job as engaging in a meaningful back and forth” with his audience. That is a curious way to frame Springsteen’s haranguing of his audience from the stage. In fact, there is little “back” from the audience. With Springsteen, as its all “forth” from the stage.
Marchese then asked Jagger how he felt about all that.
Jagger, though, was completely dismissive of Springsteen’s need to bully his fans.
“The bottom line of my thing, really, is that my job in the live music world is [for] those people that come is to have the best time they possibly can,” Jagger said.
“For two hours or whatever it is, to forget all their problems and the problems of the world and their mortgages and whatever, just to give them the best time they can have,” Jagger continued.
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“Mick Jagger Says Singers Should Avoid Politics at Shows After Bruce Springsteen Trashes Trump: ‘Don’t Lecture’ Your Fans”
To late brucy has his head so far up his A(& he can’t hear any advice, no mater how good it is.
I am agreeing with Mick. I want to listen to music not political views of brain damaged drug users...(Like Bruce Springsteen!)
Springsteen songs are trash and he cant sing.
How did this good-for-nothing become famous is beyond me.
They played Salt of the Earth at the concert for NY after 9/11 as a tribute to all the first responders...
Any fan who accepts a lecture from a musician is a true fan.
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