[JoSixChip]

The Rolling Stones are now four shows into their 2021 No Filter Tour

Well it appears there is a filter after all.

[Carriage Hill]

Good song; too bad they folded and dumped it.

[Red Badger]

The Rolling Stones
“Brown Sugar”

Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
Sold in a market down in New Orleans
Scarred old slaver knows he’s doing alright
Hear him whip the women just around midnight

Brown sugar how come you taste so good?
Brown sugar just like a young girl should

Drums beating, cold English blood runs hot
Lady of the house wonderin’ where it’s gonna stop
House boy knows that he’s doing alright
You shoulda heard him just around midnight

Brown sugar how come you taste so good, now?
Brown sugar just like a young girl should, now

Ah, get along, brown sugar how come you taste so good, baby?
Ah, got me feelin’ now, brown sugar just like a black girl should

I bet your mama was a tent show queen
And all her boyfriends were sweet sixteen
I’m no schoolboy but I know what I like
You shoulda heard me just around midnight

Brown sugar how come you taste so good, baby?
Ah, brown sugar just like a young girl should, yeah

I said yeah, yeah, yeah, woo
How come you... how come you taste so good?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, woo
Just like a... just like a black girl should
Yeah, yeah, yeah, woo

[Brookhaven]

I doubt many people have listened to the lyrics. They song opens with a reference to slave owners having sex with their female slaves. Honestly, I'm surprised it hasn't be cancelled before now.

Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
Sold in a market down in New Orleans
Scarred old slaver knows he's doing alright
Hear him whip the women just around midnight

[bankwalker]

OK on Brown Sugar ... but just keep playing Honky Tonk Woman ...

[Yo-Yo]

https://www.insidehook.com/article/music/most-controversial-rolling-stones-songs

Revisiting the 15 Most Controversial Rolling Stones Songs

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of "Sticky Fingers" by looking back at "Brown Sugar" and their other contentious songs

BY BONNIE STIERNBERG @AAHREALBONSTERS

If, for some reason, you weren’t able to pick up on the, uh … imagery behind its title, Sticky Fingers hits you over the head with it with its Andy Warhol-designed cover featuring a close-up of a man’s bulge and a working zipper that could be pulled down to reveal an image of cotton briefs. The Rolling Stones’ 1971 classic — which celebrates its 50th anniversary today — lets you know what the vibe is before you even pull it out of the sleeve, so in many ways it makes sense that it’s also the record that houses the band’s most controversial track, “Brown Sugar.”

What’s fascinating about “Brown Sugar” is that despite its clumsy lyrics and blatant fetishization of Black women, it remains one of the band’s most beloved tracks, a staple in their live shows. Fans who know better dance to it in spite of themselves. Maybe they laugh nervously at its lyrics, but they don’t turn it off. Like a lot of the Stones’ catalog, it’s a relic from another time, full of racism, sexism and other questionable lyrics that have aged poorly. But like the Stones themselves, it has endured.

Half a century later, Sticky Fingers stands as a microcosm of the Stones’ complicated legacy. On the one hand, it’s got some extremely regrettable moments like “Brown Sugar” and “You Gotta Move,” a blues number on which Mick Jagger puts on an embarrassing accent that has been described as “aural blackface.” But it also came smack dab in the middle of the group’s unparalleled run from 1968 to 1972 which saw them release Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main St. in quick succession, and while its low points are extremely low, it’s also full of undeniable classics like “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking,” “Wild Horses,” “Dead Flowers” and “Moonlight Mile.”

-Excerpt

[Hyman Roth]

Stones go woke.......

[Flick Lives]

This is truly a mirthless, soulless age.

[SaxxonWoods]

The Rolling Stone have been wimps since the Ed Sullivan show. Pretend bad boys.

[Mozilla]

I read about this several days ago. They want to play the song but decided after getting some feedback that they might have protests. Mick doesn’t understand why people find it offensive especially since it was played for 50 years. However Keith was against the decision to not play it. But they stopped it anyways. Also the song is about slavery which is something I never knew about. I just figured it was about a man who fell in love with a black woman. That said some publication asked Mick about it because it was not being played anymore.

[subterfuge]

Also cancelling Under My Thumb and Paint it Black? I never realized how racist and misogynistic the Stones were.

[doug from upland]

MISS YOU- We’re gonna come around at twelve
With some Puerto Rican girls thats just dying to meet you
We’re gonna bring a case of wine
Hey, let’s go mess and fool around
You know, like we used to

[doug from upland]

SATISFACTION - Baby, better come back maybe next week
‘Cause you see I’m on a losing streak

DOWN HOME GIRL-
I can tell by your giant step
You been walkin’ through the cotton fields

Singing about wrong time of the month

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

I'll admit that I'm not much of a lyric reader or analyzer, but I always figured that Brown Sugar was a compliment to black women- that they were sweet and desirable.

Now that I know the full story, I Won't Get Fooled Again.

[JimRed]

OK, let’s see...they’ve cancelled injuns, now they’re working on ridding the culture of hot black gals...

[M Kehoe]

So I’ve got two different tracks of “Brown Sugar,” I think I’ll go out and burn them.

LOL.

5.56mm

[Big Brother Go to Hell]

They would protest a *current* and *genuine* vestige of slavery if they were sincere: muzzle mandates.