Posted on 07/11/2023 5:48:42 PM PDT by DallasBiff
You may have been singing along to them for years, but have you ever really thought about their lyrics? If not, it's definitely time.
“Brown Sugar” by The Rolling Stones
Some things don’t deserve to be sung about, like slavery—especially when the song uses whipping imagery as it attempts to demonstrate the sexual prowess of Black women. But yet that’s precisely what Mick Jagger did in The Rolling Stones’ 1971 smash “Brown Sugar.” The title was offensive enough, but in the first verse, Jagger travels back to the plantation to peek in on the slave owners who used to make it hurt so good as he sings, “Hear him whip the women just around midnight.”
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Don’t take the bait…
Colonel Flagg was right about Reader’s Digest.
Racism is racist.
Ahab the A-rab. Good times. Okay. But I am willing to bet you a bag of Walnettos that there are ‘popular’ Arab songs deriding Europeans and Jews that didn’t make the list. Maybe I am wrong, but the wager stands...
I read the entire slide show. And laughed the entire time. This moron journalist needs to find more interesting things (maybe something not involving his hatred of the white man) to write about.
What about “In the ghetto”?
I’m surprised Rod Stewart’s “Every Picture Tells A Story” isn’t there.
https://genius.com/Ice-cube-cave-bitch-lyrics
Nope, no racism there, no sirreeee. Of course if Metallica or Guns and Roses had made a song denigrating black girls, they'd be ineligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, they'd be blacklisted from the music industry, their music would have been boycotted, etc. Not Cube. Not only is he in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
https://genius.com/Ice-cube-cave-bitch-lyrics
Nope, no racism there, no sirreeee. Of course if Metallica or Guns and Roses had made a song denigrating black girls, they'd be ineligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, they'd be blacklisted from the music industry, their music would have been boycotted, etc. Not Cube. Not only is he in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The Negroes in the forest brightly feathered
They are saying, “forget the night
Live with us in forests of azure
Out here on the perimeter there are no stars
Out here we is stoned, immaculate
The bastards are intent to rewrite history.
Play that funky music, white boy
Play that funky music right
Play that funky music, white boy
Lay down that boogie
And play that funky music ‘til you die.”
Eenie,meenie, mienie, moe…
I submit for your listening pleasure.....
Language Warning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0itOCgJtNVU
What?! No “Speedy Gonzales”?
Also, when he says Bowie should have left out the colonial references . . . why? That song made #1? Bowie didn’t have a lot of #1s. (Fame, Let’s Dance, what else?)
“No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.”
That guy must be ignorant. The line was not about black slaves, it was a dig at the British.
11?
Hell, the Rolling Stones have 15. At least.
https://www.insidehook.com/article/music/most-controversial-rolling-stones-songs
I also knew the that the writer of the song, “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” was Canadian and I still like it.
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