Friday 15 October 2021

Sitting in an empty coffee shop … wondering about our loss of irony

Customers come in from outside where they have been masked, in strong breezes
Sit down, take off their masks and sit amongst dividers that reduce airflow.
If there is a definition of “anti science” this is it
Bitter, bitter irony. The Stones’ latest tour is called “No Filter” but cancels their “Brown Sugar”.

At first I thought Oh, no, Stones what have you done!? But it turns out it’s not them wot dunnit. Keith tells the LA Times:

“You picked up on that, huh?” Richards told the outlet after he was asked why the band has refrained from playing it on the US tour. He added that he doesn’t understand the controversy.

“I’m trying to figure out with the sisters quite where the beef is,” Richards said. “Didn’t they understand this was a song about the horrors of slavery? But they’re trying to bury it. At the moment I don’t want to get into conflicts with all of this shit.”