What's the matter with Paul McCartney?

As soon as his opinionated statement made the rounds that it was not him but John Lennon who was to blame for the end of the Beatles, his next broadside followed in an interview with New Yorker magazine: The Rolling Stones are something of a "blues cover band".

The Beatles, on the other hand, would have “thrown their net a little further” - also in the direction of Schlager, could the Rolling Stones now counter (“Come on, give me your hand”)?

But the Stones have other problems right now that could perhaps be taken more seriously.

After they had started their tour, now for the first time without the late Charlie Watts, it was noticed that the hit "Brown Sugar" was no longer on the setlist.

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were interviewed about this.

The singer said it had only to do with a balanced program and no particular reason;

the guitarist, however, told the Los Angeles Times that certain "sisters" wanted to "bury the song".

What is the song about?

In fact, the 1971 song has drawn criticism many times. In his chorus, a slaveholder in New Orleans sings: “Brown Sugar, how come you taste so good? / Brown Sugar, just like a young girl should ". Especially since it is known that Jagger initially called the song "Black Pussy", it is probably unmistakable what it is about (even if some think it is about heroin addiction). The only question is, with rock music like gangsta rap: is there affirmation or distancing in the role lyric?

Keith Richards says it is obviously "a song about the horrors of slavery". Does it go well with it when an entire stadium euphorically sings along and dances to it (maybe you can't do otherwise with this rhythmically almost compelling rock song)? This is evidence of artistic freedom and freedom of reception, but for some it may still be strange. While the Stones, if they had only remained a blues cover band, could have saved a lot of trouble, they are also defended. Even by women who find their lyrics and those of other rock musicians to be misogynous and still love them, as the anthology "Under My Thumb" by Rhian E. Jones and Eli Davies shows. Her subtitle is: "Songs that hate women and the women who love them".

But once again about "Brown Sugar": Could the song, by dramatically staging the male gaze of underage slaves, not also be understood as a bitter accusation that says nothing else than John Lennon's protest song "Woman is the Nigger of the World"? just less direct?

As far as we know, Paul McCartney has not yet commented on this.