Truly a great read about the entire BS controversy, tbh he sums up there what I've been thinking all along! I've always assumed that Mick was maybe kinda a bit influenced by cancel culture in his decision to not play BS anymore but I also thought his main motivation to drop it is because of Karis and her kids, I mean they're at an age now where they'd probably question that (influenced by not only being part black themselves but also cancel culture and Black Lives Matter) and in return make Mick question it as well, even if I also agree with what Keith said about the song in that 2021 interview, but more recently Keith also has pointed out multiple times that he just let's Mick decide on setlist because as Bill German also so correctly pointed out, Mick is the one who has to sing the songs, so yeah...it's quite obvious tbh...if you don't listen to the lyrics it's a very fun song to hear live but well, Mick has to sing them

Funnily enough when getting to hear BS in 2018 (for some reason I don't remember it from my first show in 2017) I listened to the lyrics too closely amd didn't like it and the morning after the show even had a random chat about it with some other Stones fan at the hotel while checking out xD but last year when seeing some Stones cover band, I really enjoyed listening to BS because it's just such a nice dance song and really fun, I even recorded them play it here

But when during the upcoming tour they hopefully play WWW and Mess it Up and that's enough dance songs and we don't need BS then to tick that box on the setlist 

Whereas in 'Sympathy for the Devil' and 'Midnight Rambler' they're not remotely pointing out any horrors of glorifying Satan, rape or murder.....

Gazza wrote on Apr 18^th, 2024 at 3:40pm:

You say “glorifying Satan” like it’s a bad thing.

Freya Gin wrote on Apr 21^st, 2024 at 9:01am:


If you listen to Did Everybody Pay Their Dues, you can hear that MJ was out to launch a piss-take on race issues in America.

At about the same time, McCartney satirized both US and UK race problems in abandoned songs like White Power and Oh, Enoch Powell, and in the original Get Back lyrics.  MJ just hit on the most danceable, radio-friendly formula in what was always going to be a borderline acceptable endeavor.  The message now seemed to be that slavery brought us hot black chicks, set to musical mannerisms out of Jackie Brenston or early Ike Turner.

With Trevor Lawrence on sax on playback ing  track live jagger vocal

I wondered back when they stopped playing it whether Mick could just twist and change the lyrics a bit like he did for Under My Thumb in the 90s but I guess if he ever would have considered to do so, then it would have had to be decades ago already and not now, so that train has left...