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Have The Rolling Stones killed...but sir, those aren't-- Do as I SAY!!
Dear Superbowl guys:
Aside from the fact that I despise everything having to do with the Superbowl (the drinking, rowdy men, rampant spousal abuse, ridiculous amounts of money spent, shoddy dismissive treatment of the homeless, the general stupidity of sports-related hysteria, etc) I must ask: Why censor the Rolling Stones?
Really, are there actually people out there who don't know the words to Rolling Stones songs by now?
Children rarely can even understand song lyrics let alone interpret them.
I estimate that 80% of all songs from the 60's and 70's (non disco, of course) is unsuitable for family listening if you really listen to the words. They are all about fucking, boozing, drugging, killing, or fighting the establishment. And Jesus is Just Alright?? Don't get me started ;-}
This yahoo! news description of the offending lyrics did crack me up, though:
In "Start Me Up," the show's editors silenced one word
close to the song's end, a reference to a woman so sexy she could
arouse a dead man. The lyrics for "Rough Justice" included a
synonym for rooster that was removed.
Synonym for Rooster? You mean, boy-chicken?
That's filthy. I'm sure all the drunks watching the Superbowl would have been totally offended.
That said, the commercials (as usual) were Sexy as They Wanna Be and no one turned the mic down on them. Also, last year they had a guy from a boy-band perform with the sweetest, most sane Jackson there is--and shit got crazy and the boobs went flying. So to clean their act up, they got The Rolling Stones?!? Hate to break it to you, Superbowl, but the Stones are the original Bad-Boy Band.
And as I recall from the old Sullivan show, Mick Jagger always rolls his eyes when he knows he's being censored.
Aside from the fact that I despise everything having to do with the Superbowl (the drinking, rowdy men, rampant spousal abuse, ridiculous amounts of money spent, shoddy dismissive treatment of the homeless, the general stupidity of sports-related hysteria, etc) I must ask: Why censor the Rolling Stones?
Really, are there actually people out there who don't know the words to Rolling Stones songs by now?
Children rarely can even understand song lyrics let alone interpret them.
I estimate that 80% of all songs from the 60's and 70's (non disco, of course) is unsuitable for family listening if you really listen to the words. They are all about fucking, boozing, drugging, killing, or fighting the establishment. And Jesus is Just Alright?? Don't get me started ;-}
This yahoo! news description of the offending lyrics did crack me up, though:
close to the song's end, a reference to a woman so sexy she could
arouse a dead man. The lyrics for "Rough Justice" included a
synonym for rooster that was removed.
Synonym for Rooster? You mean, boy-chicken?
That's filthy. I'm sure all the drunks watching the Superbowl would have been totally offended.
That said, the commercials (as usual) were Sexy as They Wanna Be and no one turned the mic down on them. Also, last year they had a guy from a boy-band perform with the sweetest, most sane Jackson there is--and shit got crazy and the boobs went flying. So to clean their act up, they got The Rolling Stones?!? Hate to break it to you, Superbowl, but the Stones are the original Bad-Boy Band.
And as I recall from the old Sullivan show, Mick Jagger always rolls his eyes when he knows he's being censored.