Oh just like, just like a black girl should. Oh just like a, just like a black girl should. I said yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah, I said (a-ha) brown sugar, just like a young girl should. You should have heard me just around midnight. I bet your mama was a tent show queen, and all her boy (a-ha) brown sugar, just like a black girl should You should a heard him just around midnight. Lady of the house wondrin where it’s gonna stop. 12 Years a Slave – my post on the book, not the filmĭrums beating, cold English blood runs hot,.Probably not ill intent, as far as I can tell, but the song is still racist regardless of how he “meant” it. So he cannot possibly be racist or have ill intent. Some will excuse the song because Mick Jagger, a white man, dates black women. In America in the 1970s, music, television, film, magazines and newspapers (but not books) were all censored, which means that the powers that be saw nothing wrong with it and let it enter the White American cultural bloodstream, where it remains to this day. Not so good.Īnd, for anyone who heard all the lyrics, it is even worse, making light of slavery, of rape, the rape of Black slave women in particular, complete with whips. The first one is good in a culture that constantly puts down Black women, but when you put it with the second one, it amounts to the Jezebel stereotype. For added value, it also works as a dance song.īut even half hearing the lyrics I gathered that Mick Jagger thinks Black women are a) desirable, b) easy and c) good dancers. At that level it is a good song and that is presumably what drove it to number one. With rock songs I mainly listen to the guitar (Keith Richards, in this case). Like most people, I did not really listen to the lyrics. (a-ha) brown sugar, just like a young girl should Hear him whip the women just around midnight.Īh brown sugar how come you taste so good Scarred old slaver know he’s doin alright. Gold Coast slave ship bound for cotton fields, She won for the film “12 Years a Slave” (2013), a true story where she plays Patsey, a slave woman who was raped – not far from the time and place of this song: I am not in the habit of doing full-blown posts on songs, but I thought this was a good time to throw this song out there for comment, in the wake of Lupita Nyong’o’s Oscar win. He says he would never write anything that “raw” now and tones down the lyrics when performing it live. Both Marsha Hunt and Claudia Lennear claim Mick Jagger wrote the song with them in mind. W.Despite the lyrics, this song was played on American radio in 1971 and went to number one on the pop charts. ByArtist F to M SoloList 1 - 1000 Sololist 1001 - 2000 SoloList 2001 - 3000 SoloList 3001 - 4000 SoloList 4001-5000Solos By Artist A to E F to M N to Z Solos By Tune 1 to G H to R S to Zįela Kuti Tunde Williams Lekan Animashaun
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