SMJO wrote:
Brown Sugar is about raw heroin.
No, it is about Marsha Hunt.
SMJO wrote:
Brown Sugar is about raw heroin.
No, it is about Marsha Hunt.
mhm... wrote:
You must be retarded if you think there's anything offensive about his use of "the N word" in that song. And yes I was being purposefully, and ironically, offensive in calling you retarded. If you'd listened to the song you'd realize it's one of the most powerfully anti-racist songs in modern rock
music.
Oh come on, you know that doesn't matter. He'd be raked over the coals in today's society. Look at what happened to Gwenyth Paltrow when she tweeted the name of a song while sitting backstage with the singers wife in the city!!!!!~!~!
I digress...
Another similar song is Paul Simon's Adios Hermanos.
Elvis Costello's "Oliver's Army" even though it was meant to be satirical, would upset a lot more people today who no doubt would not "get it"
Only takes one itchy trigger.
One more widow, one less white n1gger