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Big Al
Same reason he changed a certain line from the song, Some Girls.
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duke richardson
i think Brown Sugar was written 50 years ago..
Well then I guess my point is completely moot.Quote
duke richardson
i think Brown Sugar was written 50 years ago..
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keefriff99Well then I guess my point is completely moot.Quote
duke richardson
i think Brown Sugar was written 50 years ago..
It is hard to believe for sure. I think Some Girls was their last major lyric controversy so I should have said 40-50 years.Quote
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keefriff99Well then I guess my point is completely moot.Quote
duke richardson
i think Brown Sugar was written 50 years ago..
please.. didnt mean to be pedantic.. just thinking "wow, that song is 50 years old"
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Big Al
Same reason he changed a certain line from the song, Some Girls.
«...how come you taste so good? Just like a young (...) should».
Why would one of the alternatives be «worse» than the other?
If you referred to the «whip the women»-line I agree, though.
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keefriff99
Yeah, it's kinda weird...if anything, changing it to boy/man makes it MORE risque by injecting gay subtext to the lyrics.
I'm all for being sensitive to racism and misogyny, but songs written 30-40 years ago need to be taken in context. I'm not even sure why that line in Some Girls is considered offensive...is it because it reinforces the "oversexed black" stereotype
I do think the Some Girls line is a tad offensive - and it certainly isn’t true.
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keefriff99It is hard to believe for sure. I think Some Girls was their last major lyric controversy so I should have said 40-50 years.Quote
duke richardsonQuote
keefriff99Well then I guess my point is completely moot.Quote
duke richardson
i think Brown Sugar was written 50 years ago..
please.. didnt mean to be pedantic.. just thinking "wow, that song is 50 years old"
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Elmo LewisQuote
keefriff99It is hard to believe for sure. I think Some Girls was their last major lyric controversy so I should have said 40-50 years.Quote
duke richardsonQuote
keefriff99Well then I guess my point is completely moot.Quote
duke richardson
i think Brown Sugar was written 50 years ago..
please.. didnt mean to be pedantic.. just thinking "wow, that song is 50 years old"
Didn't sing the fade out to SMU at the Super Bowl (you make a dead man cum..)
Was that line considered scandalous when SMU came out? I don't know 'cuz I was only 3.Quote
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keefriff99It is hard to believe for sure. I think Some Girls was their last major lyric controversy so I should have said 40-50 years.Quote
duke richardsonQuote
keefriff99Well then I guess my point is completely moot.Quote
duke richardson
i think Brown Sugar was written 50 years ago..
please.. didnt mean to be pedantic.. just thinking "wow, that song is 50 years old"
Didn't sing the fade out to SMU at the Super Bowl (you make a dead man cum..)
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DandelionPowderman
Tie You Up has worse descriptions of that subject than SMU.
By 1983, those lyrics might not have been considered as controversial as in, say, 1971.Quote
DandelionPowderman
Tie You Up has worse descriptions of that subject than SMU.
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VoodooLounge13
I had no idea that Chris Kimsey went back this far with the band!!! That's very interesting to me, and also makes me wonder why SW doesn't have a better sound than it does!!!
And is there no footage of them performing it at Altamont? I thought I'd read somewhere that it was debuted there?