‘Brown Sugar’ Gets Canceled

[Man of Ethics]

Lyric 1: "Scarred old slaver knows he’s doing alright
Hear him whip the women just around midnight"

Count Dankula joked about gassing the Jews.

Both are beyond offensive.

Sadly, Cancel Culture persecutes people for much less including legitimate criticism of Progressive ideology.

 

[DrLove]

It is about the horrors of slavery.

“I don’t know. I’m trying to figure out with the sisters quite where the beef is. Didn’t they understand this was a song about the horrors of slavery? But they’re trying to bury it.”​

Partly yes, partly no.
Please stop making music political. Dylan/ Baez/ and other protest singers yes ... Stones NO.
STOP IT!!

 

[occupied]

Partly yes, partly no.
Please stop making music political. Dylan/ Baez/ and other protest singers yes ... Stones NO.
STOP IT!!

The Stones were about getting laid and having a good time usually in New York somewhere.

 

[Godboy]

Bullshit. There are very few American black people without a white ancestor.

Guys fuck fat girls too. That doesnt mean many people are into them. Maybe you ought to go look up the number of white men who marry black women before you continue this conversation and embarrass yourself any further. I think you will be absolutely shocked by the number you find.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Led Zeppelin probably won't play "Traveling Riverside Blues" at their next show either

Asked sweet mama, Let me be her kid
She said, "You might get hurt if you don't keep it hid"
Well I know my baby, If I see her in the dark
I said I know my rider, If I see her in the dark
Now, I goin' to Rosedale, Take my rider by my side
Still barrelhouse, If it's on the riverside, yeah
I know my baby, Lord, I said, is really sloppy drunk
I know my mama, Lord, a brownskin, but she ain't no plum
See my baby, tell her, Tell her hurry home
Had no lovin', since my baby been gone
See my baby, Tell hurry on home
I ain't had, Lord, my right mind, Since my rider's been gone
Hey, she promises, She's my rider
I wanna tell you, She's my rider
I know you're mine, She's my rider
She ain't but sixteen, But she's my rider
I'm goin' to Rosedale, Take my rider by side
Anybody argue with me man, I'll keep them satisfied
Well, see my baby, tell her, Tell her the shape I'm in
Ain't had no lovin', Lord, since you know when
Spoken: Why don't you come into my kitchen
She's a kindhearted lady. She studies evil all the time
She's a kindhearted woman. She studies evil all the time
Squeeze my lemon 'til the juice runs down my leg
Squeeze it so hard, I'll fall right out of bed
Squeeze my lemon, 'til the juice runs down my leg
Spoken: I wonder if you know what I'm talkin' about
Oh, but the way that you squeeze it girl
I swear I'm gonna fall right out of bed
She's a good rider
She's my kindhearted lady
I'm gonna take my rider by my side
I said her front teeth are lined with gold
She's gotta mortgage on my body, got a lien on my soul
She's my brownskin sugar plum
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Robert Leroy Johnson (protecte D Shares)

 

[occupied]

Guys fuck fat girls too. That doesnt mean many people are into them. Maybe you ought to go look up the number of white men who marry black women before you continue this conversation and embarrass yourself any further. I think you will be absolutely shocked by the number you find.

I'll talk about practically anything but your sexual hangups is a place I'm not willing to go. Speaking of which I just checked the most viewed categories by state on pornhub. Turns out the south seems to really like the "ebony" category. It's probably against the rules to post a link but it's easily searchable.

 

[Godboy]

I'll talk about practically anything but your sexual hangups is a place I'm not willing to go. Speaking of which I just checked the most viewed categories by state on pornhub. Turns out the south seems to really like the "ebony" category. It's probably against the rules to post a link but it's easily searchable.

Youre avoiding the facts. Have you looked up how enormously rare it is to have a white husband with a black wife yet? Its a shocking statistic that will remedy your current confusion on this topic.

 

[Fang]

The problem isn't the Stones. The issue is society. I knew exactly what the lyrics were in 1979 when I started listening to the Stones. Even at 10 years old I knew they weren't glorifying slavery. The lyrics are set to one of the greatest guitar riffs of all time.

"Didn’t they understand this was a song about the horrors of slavery?" - Keith Richards

 

[JOSweetHeart]

The music and the way that the song is done is my reason for not hating the song and I still love it.

God bless you and the Stones who are still here always!!!

Holly

P.S. "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Whoo!!!"

 

[Dana7360]

It is past time to cancel the 'cancel culture'.

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After hearing the record thousands of times, I was unaware that the Rolling Stones’ classic “Brown Sugar” is about enslavement because I can’t understand anything Mick Jagger says in the entire first verse. All I hear is: “uh uh uh uh uh uh JUST AROUND MIDNIGHT.” Turns out the lyrics are these:​

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Well, that’s clear enough. Someone noticed that the Stones aren’t playing the song on their current tour, seemingly for the first time ever, which led to a New York Post headline saying that “Rolling Stones retire classic rock song ‘Brown Sugar.’” In the body of the story, Keith Richards is less absolute, saying, “We might put it back in.” He seemed to be smarting about feeling pressure to dump the song when he told the LA Times, “I don’t know. I’m trying to figure out with the sisters quite where the beef is. Didn’t they understand this was a song about the horrors of slavery? But they’re trying to bury it.”​

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The chorus of the song comes from the point of view of a gleeful slave master who enjoys having sex with or raping the women he owns, so it’s not exactly clear about the “horrors” part, but I think we can assume that the Stones, who revered black American blues musicians and got the band’s name from a Muddy Waters LP, are not fans of slavery. A listener might object that the upbeat, rollicking nature of the song makes it a celebration of the acts it describes, but then again, the tune has been played on popular radio for 50 years without causing undue uproar. Suffice it to say that the Stones enjoy visiting dark places in their songs without endorsing their characters or their viewpoints. “Sympathy for the Devil” isn’t really a celebration of Satan.​

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I find it noteworthy that the urge to cancel rock songs for their supposed licensing of immorality was entirely a right-wing or Christian phenomenon when it got started in the Sixties and now appears to be entirely a left-wing phenomenon.​

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P.S. I won’t miss “Brown Sugar” because I don’t really like it in the first place. I’m more of an “Emotional Rescue”/”Miss You” guy. And the ballads! Sue me.​

‘Brown Sugar’ Gets Canceled | National Review

The Stones pull a quintessential song for the first time in their touring history.

www.nationalreview.com

The fact that it does depict the fact that old white slave owners loved to rape their young slaves is the reason why they should play that song.

I understand why they won't for now. They just don't want the controversy though I agree with Keith Richards, people are just now understanding it's about the horrors of slavery?

Wow. People of my generation have been singing along with and dancing to that song for decades.

They played it the one time I saw them perform in 1981.

I don't give a damn if people don't like the fact that old white men loved to rape their young black slaves are brought into a song. It's meant to make people think and not forget what honestly happened for hundreds of years here in the the land of the free and home of the brave.

This song is written by the band. It's their words and their song.

If they want to choose to not play it, that is their choice to freely make and I support their freedom to make that choice.

So here is the song. Enjoy!

 

[Dana7360]

No its not. That isnt a thing.

It's about white men loving to rape and beat their young black slaves.

 

[Dana7360]

Perhaps overtly racist material should be cancelled. Jokes about Slavery and Holocaust are indeed beyond offensive.

But Cancel Culture targets many people who have nothing to do with Racism or even Misogyny. For example those who advocate for male victims of Domestic Violence are cancelled.

It is not racist to write a song about white slave men who rape and beat their slaves.

That song was written to open people's eyes about what happened in the United States for hundreds of years.

It wasn't condoning or praising what happened.

It was telling people what happened.

Talking about it and telling people about it isn't racist.

 

[Godboy]

It's about white men loving to rape and beat their young black slaves.

No its not. Its about a fictitious slave owner. Quit confusing fact with fiction.

 

[sartre play]

Is there no bottom to this insanity? its music with lyrics. Don't like the Stones don't buy there records or go to there concerts.

 

[Dana7360]

Is there no bottom to this insanity? its music with lyrics. Don't like the Stones don't buy there records or go to there concerts.

The owners of a song have the right to decide if they want to sing it or not.

In fact, even if they didn't own the song they still have the right to sing it or not.

I support freedom.

People are free to decide what they perform or not. They are free to have any reason they want.

I happen to like the song and will not stop listening to it.

White slave owners raped and beat their slaves. They enjoyed raping the young ones.

That is a fact.

People can avoid the reality all they want but that won't make the reality go away.

 

[Whodatsaywhodat.]

Just about all their songs are about screwing or getting ready to screw or just getting done screwing or not having anyone to screw.

Band Should be named " the democrats " they been screwing everyone for decades.

 

[Whodatsaywhodat.]

The owners of a song have the right to decide if they want to sing it or not.

In fact, even if they didn't own the song they still have the right to sing it or not.

I support freedom.

People are free to decide what they perform or not. They are free to have any reason they want.

I happen to like the song and will not stop listening to it.

White slave owners raped and beat their slaves. They enjoyed raping the young ones.

That is a fact.

People can avoid the reality all they want but that won't make the reality go away.

You support freedom. Now thats fuckin funny.

 

[Fang]

Laughing at all the people who sang Brown Sugar for years and years and never knew the lyrics and are now horrified. LMAO! With that said, THIS is hilarious. Cancel Pepsi?

 

[Man of Ethics]

It's about white men loving to rape and beat their young black slaves.

Most male slave owners sexually abused/exploited their slaves.

Many female slave owners were distinguished by physical cruelty such as torture.

 

[Man of Ethics]

Of course sometimes cancel culture is right.

Sometimes the police in a Totalitarian state is right.

But very often people get cancelled just for disagreeing with Progressives.