Mick Jagger Apologizes For The Lyrics Of The Song Some Girls In History Today, October 6, 1978
JAKARTA History today, 45 years ago, October 6, 1978, Mick Jagger through his record label, Atlantic Records apologizes for the song, Some Girls who are considered racist and harassing black women. The song was created for The Rolling Stones not with a broad meaning.
The song is a parody of someone's mind. Previously, Jagger and The Rolling Stones were the right combination. The band is like home for Jagger to explore his talent as a world famous singer.
It could be that Mick Jagger does not have any anxiety in his daily life. His father, who is a boreiris, is the estuary. The life of a high-class man bridges Jagger with many things. He was able to walk through education.
He even studied at the London School of Economics. Moreover, Jagger can hone his musical talent more deeply without thinking about how life should work.
He and his friends then formed a band. However, along with maturity and change of personnel. Jagger is hard in a band that often appears outspoken. The Rolling Stones is his name. The band started with Mick Jagger (vocal), Brian Jones (multi-instrumentalists), Keith Richards (guitar), Bill Wyman (bass), and Charlie Watts (Drums).
Their first album, which was released on the market, is the same as the band's name, The Rolling Stones (1964). The presence of the album is phenomenal in England. Even though outside England is not really a pilgrimage. The British fill is like having a new idol.
The emergence of The Rolling Stones further popularizes Jagger's way of life as a singer. The stage action is unique, fans are often waiting for. Moreover, his attitude seems to be against the standard that music must be calm and carry the contents of kindness.
Jagger managed to bring The Rolling Stone to be synonymous with dexterous attitudes. The world then got to know the band with the tongue and lips icon. Even slowly the action of the Jagger stage which was not common began to be considered common and became a trend throughout the country.
From outspoken lyrics, styles of walking, dancing, to Jagger's jumps. He was just happy with the action. The perseverance brought Jagger and The Rolling Stones to the peak of fame. There are also many new albums that exploded on the market.
"Actually they are not protesters, but rather a group of young people who use music to become rich and famous. They are not heroes, only young people who have ambitions to raise the simplicity of R&B or Rhythm and Blues - music that is rude, which is understood by a group of people - to a wider circle. According to the 1960s size of British pop music standards that were giving birth to The Beatles, Stones music is indeed urakan.."
The rhythm is fast, congested, and sharp in contrast to the rottery of the Beatles -- with a bulge in vocal appearances, guitars, and percussion tools. Mick Jagger with the look on the faces of naughty children and dower lips singing impudently. He often complains, deliberately slips, not just aiming to make it sound sexy. Stones who attended with long hair and cumal then seemed to represent freedom, "explained Putu Wijaya and Linston P. Siregar in his article in Tempo Magazine entitled Opposite Secondary Stability (1988).
Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones' popularity is increasing every year. However, the Rolling Stones road is not smooth. Jagger, for example. The Rolling Stones frontman once made a song called Some Girls which is the same as the album name, Soma Girls (1978).
Humanitarian activist from PEOPLE United to Save Humanity (PUSH), Jesse Jackson considers the song to perpetuate racist narratives and demean black women. He represents the unrest of many people protesting because there are fragments of vulgar lyrics: Black girls just want to get f****d all night.
Mick Jagger denied that the lyrics were deliberately made as racist expressions. He is of the view that the song was made in a narrow sense. As a form of parody of a person's mind. However, Jagger still apologized to those who were offended.
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Jagger's apology was represented by Atlantic Records official Ahmet Ertegun directly to Jesse Jackson on October 6, 1978. The apology ended the controversy that caused the offense of many parties to Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones.
When I first heard the song, I told Jagger that the song was not going well. Jagger assured me that it was a parody of the type of person who had this attitude. Jagger really respects black people. He owes his entire existence, his entire music career, to black people," Ertegun explained as quoted by Rolling Stone Magazine, November 16, 1978.