Rolling Stones Drop Every Song From Setlist For Inappropriate References
In a shocking move, The Rolling Stones have removed all songs off their setlist for the current US tour.
Earlier in the week, The Rolling Stones dropped “Brown Sugar” from their setlist because it discusses slavery. The Stones performed Brown Sugar every night of every tour since 1970. The song went to #1 and is beloved by millions.
Guitarist Keith Richards was confused by people who wanted to “bury” the track. “Didn’t they understand this is a song about the horrors of slavery?” he said. “This is not a pro slavery song, how dumb can people get?”
As The Stones were going over the setlist to replace Brown Sugar they realized every one of their songs has some questionable references. Mick Jagger laughed when he was discussing the subject matter of the band’s songs. “Yeah we were known to be rebels in our time.”
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Mick continued, “As we were going over the list, we started scratching songs. We took ‘Street Fighting Man’, ‘Sympathy For The Devil and ‘Gimme Shelter’ off, too violent. Then we have to remove all our sexist songs, ‘Honky Tonk Women’, ‘Under My Thumb’, ‘Miss You’ and like 100 others. Of course then we have the drug references, ‘Dead Flowers’, ‘Sister Morphine’ and every other song, bam gone. We also have the random songs like ‘Paint it Black’, you can’t say that anymore. By the end of the night our setlist was empty.”
“What are we supposed to do” questioned Ronnie Wood. “We have no songs left. I guess we can do a puppet show or just talk. Maybe we can play that song ‘WAP’, no one seems to have a problem with that.”
Former rebellious youth and reformed rock music fan, Michael Maccioli applauded the gutsy move. “Drugs, sex, violence, women, anti-establishment sentiments, questioning authority, these are all dangerous subjects and should be avoided at all costs” said Maccioli. “We need more state approved music. Don’t you boys know any nice songs?”
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