Posted on 04/13/2021 1:53:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Mick Jagger minced no words when sharing his thoughts on anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists in a new interview. The Rolling Stones singer just released a new solo single, the raucous, Dave Grohl-assisted “Eazy Sleazy.” Jagger rails against the difficulties and tragedies of the COVID-19 pandemic, including canceled tours, virtual-songwriting sessions and steadily rising infection numbers.
He also pokes fun at vaccine skeptics and flat-earthers in one tongue-in-cheek verse: "Shooting the vaccine / Bill Gates is in my bloodstream / It’s mind control / The earth is flat and cold."
"It just seems to be that even people you know that are relatively sensible about a lot of things have one thing that they just don’t kind of get," Jagger told Rolling Stone in a new interview. "Of course, there’s no point in speaking to people about it. They don’t get it. They got what they believe in and they believe in that. And it doesn’t matter what you say, they’re gonna believe in it. And rational thought doesn’t work."
Jagger said that over the past year, he's discovered through casual phone conversations that a fair share of his friends and relatives are opposed to getting vaccinated. (Thankfully, the frontman didn't have these revelations while arguing with people on Facebook.) "It’s just saying to people, 'When are you getting your vaccine?' Just passing the time of day, 'Oh, I’m not getting it.' 'Okay. Why not? Are you in the queue?' 'Oh no, because I don’t agree with it.' I started to realize that there really were quite a few people like that."
The singer found that while some of these people were open to learning new information and having their minds changed, others — especially those of a certain political persuasion — were set in their ways and not even worth singing about. "After a while, some people maybe change their minds on this," he said. "But all these other ones like, 'Trump won the election' and all these things, I didn’t bother putting them in [the song]."
Despite the dire circumstances of the pandemic and the rampant disinformation that infected some of his friends, Jagger remains optimistic about humanity's prospects in "Eazy Sleazy.” He assures listeners in the chorus that "we're all headed back to paradise" and says that soon, the pandemic will be "a memory you're trying to remember to forget." You can listen to the new song below.
Wouldn’t it be messed up if a covid vax were to do Keith Richard’s in?
“If he did, he will be dead in 3-6 months.”
You know this...how?
Who cares?????
Gee Mick, will you give me a donut 🍩 with the vaccine?
When you look at the people hawking mandatory vaccines, you can’t help but think of the 1950’s movie, Invaders from Mars”.
Everytime a celebrity comes out telling me to get the jab, I become more and more convinced that it would be a terrible mistake.
I’m in the Placebo Group.
We are supposed to obey our celebrity overlords. Get with the program.
I'm simply observing the ongoing, large scale human trials to determine both the efficacy and safety of the various non-vaccine vaccines.
I think I would value the opinion on medical issues of Web MD, which is pretty much quackery, than an old failed junkie.
You are an idiot. How’s the millions you made?
I took a listen. Dave Groehl has this opportunity to write a song with Mick Jagger and offers some of the crappiest music I have heard in a while.
This song will be quickly forgotten. Later Mick will wonder why he heck he put his name on such a load of garbage.
Accomplishing what a mountain of coke and smack couldn’t.
BSE type illness might take longer.
What part of your family should we send the sympathy card?
The Stones played Denver in their 2019 tour. By all accounts Mick was a personable gentlemen who took care of his people and the staff at the restaurants he patronized.
Neo pagan Western culture not only worships uneducated, crass celebrities, but seeks them out for medical advice. Wonder if Mick ever gave health advice to the strung out druggies he has met over the years.
Maybe he’s have a 19th Nervous Breakdown...
Back to the hole or cave from whence you crawled JaggerIdiot.
“When you look at the people hawking mandatory vaccines”
Other than China, there is no mandatory Covid vaccine.
Hey micky baby. This is a trial version of the vaccine. You want to be a test subject then go for it. But don’t get mad at people that don’t want to get it. Next thing is getting mad at people that have caught it. It’s my fault that I caught it. I was breathing through my mask.
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