He’s a narcissistic star and it’s worked out for him perfectly! It might not be your idea of happiness and it certainly ain’t mine, but to expect Mick to get that ole time religion while still chasing the broads is, to me, a worthless waste of time. Plus, people expect him to be a horndog and that helps bring in the dollars to support his polygamous life style.
When I was a kid I was disappointed that Julie Andrews, who played a nun in a movie, was really a divorced actress with a potty mouth. Then I grew up.
Good thing you weren't a kid watching Hannah Montana. LOL.
Look, I have no problem with viewing things as art. I enjoyed Frank Sinatra's music, for instance. Mick will do whatever he wants. I posted about how it felt to me, a member of the general public, to hear those lyrics again just last night, knowing what we now know.
I first saw Mick live when he was 21 and again close enough to touch him when he was 25, and enjoyed the Stones' music. It's always been about good time memories. I think many men and women took his bad-boy antics as par for the 60s course. Certainly I did, more or less along the same lines of Camille Paglia, whom you mentioned. That's why it surprised me so much when I felt appalled by the lyrics last night.