bart_calendar (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} bart_calendar) wrote,@ 2008-05-18 12:41:00 |
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Madona/Whore
Watching the new Rolling Stones concert movie last night I was struck by both the way women are portrayed in their songs and by the almost casual racism of their lyrics.
The female characters are always either manipulative bitches or else written about in the most romantic terms possible. There is no middle ground.
The racism ("Black girls just wanna get fucked all night", for example) is odder, since all of the Stones' real life heroes are black.
I wonder if the sexism and racism is all just an act - a way for Mick to feel like a "bad boy" or if deep down he is an elitist xenophobic asshat.
On another note, whomever did the French subtitles was on crack.
At one point Mick says "Yo! Motherfuckers!" and the subtitle is "Bonjour, mes amis." Later, he says "You are a wonderful crowd" and the subtitle is "Vous etes terrible."
Watching the new Rolling Stones concert movie last night I was struck by both the way women are portrayed in their songs and by the almost casual racism of their lyrics.
The female characters are always either manipulative bitches or else written about in the most romantic terms possible. There is no middle ground.
The racism ("Black girls just wanna get fucked all night", for example) is odder, since all of the Stones' real life heroes are black.
I wonder if the sexism and racism is all just an act - a way for Mick to feel like a "bad boy" or if deep down he is an elitist xenophobic asshat.
On another note, whomever did the French subtitles was on crack.
At one point Mick says "Yo! Motherfuckers!" and the subtitle is "Bonjour, mes amis." Later, he says "You are a wonderful crowd" and the subtitle is "Vous etes terrible."
