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CindyC
No one who has ever listened to Back to Zero can disagree with him.
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Green Lady
Somewhere deep inside Mick Jagger there is still the echo of that voice telling him to Get A Proper Job...
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camper88
Can't remember who said, "Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards" but he said it best.
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Green Lady
Somewhere deep inside Mick Jagger there is still the echo of that voice telling him to Get A Proper Job...
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CindyC
No one who has ever listened to Back to Zero can disagree with him.
No stupid man wrote Sympathy for the devil or Rocks off.
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Green Lady
Somewhere deep inside Mick Jagger there is still the echo of that voice telling him to Get A Proper Job...
Yes...lol
He can't help it - that's the stock he comes from.
I see his point, because Mick was always interested in so many other kinds of things: he seemed to genuinely love study, history etc...
This is what always made Mick different than other rock stars.
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CindyC
No one who has ever listened to Back to Zero can disagree with him.
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71Tele
Unfortunately the fact that he believes this now is completely supported by most of the appalling songwriting and lyrics he has offered up in the past couple of decades. This wouldn't be so disappointing if it weren't from the same artist who gave us SFTD, Let It Loose, and Sway (among many others). I think his approach now is "it's just pop music, this is good enough" whereas he used to express actual feeling and emotion. Remember that?
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71Tele
Unfortunately the fact that he believes this now is completely supported by most of the appalling songwriting and lyrics he has offered up in the past couple of decades. This wouldn't be so disappointing if it weren't from the same artist who gave us SFTD, Let It Loose, and Sway (among many others). I think his approach now is "it's just pop music, this is good enough" whereas he used to express actual feeling and emotion. Remember that?
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Green Lady
Somewhere deep inside Mick Jagger there is still the echo of that voice telling him to Get A Proper Job...
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71Tele
Unfortunately the fact that he believes this now is completely supported by most of the appalling songwriting and lyrics he has offered up in the past couple of decades. This wouldn't be so disappointing if it weren't from the same artist who gave us SFTD, Let It Loose, and Sway (among many others). I think his approach now is "it's just pop music, this is good enough" whereas he used to express actual feeling and emotion. Remember that?
THIS is what I was trying to say, just couldn't get the words out. Thanks for being able to read my thoughts and translate. :-)
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71Tele
Unfortunately the fact that he believes this now is completely supported by most of the appalling songwriting and lyrics he has offered up in the past couple of decades. This wouldn't be so disappointing if it weren't from the same artist who gave us SFTD, Let It Loose, and Sway (among many others). I think his approach now is "it's just pop music, this is good enough" whereas he used to express actual feeling and emotion. Remember that?
Agree with a lot of what you say but not everything. "Smarter" songs are to be found in his solo work and he has amidst some dismal songwriting and lyrical output, also found ways to convey both emotional depth, personal longing, maturity, and self reflection.
On the other hand with the Stones, Jagger descends even more into the campy - I have always blamed the superlative success of the "kitchy" Some Girls for Jagger's "levity" towards pop music. As Ron Rosenbaum pointed out in the article the New York Observer in 2001, the quest for this high-low aesthete defines Jagger. To me the high-low aesthetic also defines the music of the Rolling Stones and is also why I think the legacy of the band is not understood by many rock / rock-n-roll fans.
Jagger was the first and only serious rocker to recognize the need for a "low" aesthetic in pop. That alone, for me, defines Jagger as the single most "authentic" rock musician. Jagger writes music the way he lives life. To most others, it conveys just the opposite and this "quest" for aristocracy is deemed by many to be fake.
Jagger is still a serious man who doesnt take pop music too seriously. IMO, a key factor that led to this is the success of Some Girls - for Jagger, kitchy became cool. And for better or for worse, the "low" aesthetic" has become the norm in pop music. But that is much bigger topic for another day...