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SNL: Mick Jagger Performs Presidential Election-Themed Blues Song
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Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger hosted the season finale of Saturday Night Live, which unsurprisingly featured no shortage of rock and roll.
One such musical number was a blues song Jagger wrote about the presidential election, accompanied by legendary guitarist Jeff Beck.
It featured a small jab at GOP candidate Mitt Romney — “don’t ever let him cut your hair” — but otherwise didn’t offer any prediction about who will win in November.
The song contained one swearword, “sh-t,” which the Los Angeles Times reported led to some NBC affiliates cutting away early for commercials.
Watch the performance below, via NBC:
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Comments (93)
FedUpAlready
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 1:21pmMick is getting to long in the tooth, to be performing like a young Rock Star. Time to start writing songs, and, leaving the stage to others. Those stones stopped rolling long ago!
Report Post »realistic_01
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 4:24pmJagger’s stones have been dragging on the ground for some time now.
Report Post »pennsychica
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 12:15pmHe should change his name to Mick Sagger… Yuck.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 12:18pmWatched SNL with my grown kids, it was so enjoyable to see their reactions to Mick Jagger…
Am I the only who realized they did not put Romney down at all that evening, while they poked good fun at Sharpton and other DemonRats!
This strange little “blues” song seemed to my family to be leaning to Romney (if not exactly anti-Obama). But, as my oldest remarked, “the guy’s not American, so who cares?”
We need to be vigilant when someone like Rupert Murdock renounces his birth citizenship just to take control of American radio and TV stations, and then become embroiled in political mischief. Should we trust any expatriate who tells us what we need to be thinking? Just Saying!
TEA – pay now or pay with interest.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 12:24pmHello, FED, off topic question?
I am just curious where you were located during the war. Did you serve overseas? Or were you an MP in an administrative role in the states? Also, could it be a stateside MP would probably be more likely to be involved with military problem makers and the anti patriot fringe elements?
THANK YOU for your service.
TEA
Report Post »reaper42
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 1:19pmSymphony for the devil, best stones song ever! He doesn’t vote so who cares what he says about our elections, As for his taxes , he pays taxes in both the UK and the US.Didn’t gain much by moving here did he!
Report Post »elation
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 5:07pmActually, it’s “Sympathy for the Devil.”
Report Post »UglyObamaWartNose
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 1:18pmUgly,Skinny, Arthritic Monkey!
Report Post »reaper42
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 1:42pmHey, you forgot Rich, which is why Obama likes him. LOL!
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 1:13pmPs. No Romney. Daniels or better. Someone who has less than forty nervous breakdowns per day.
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 1:12pmMY GOODNESS!!!
My screen just went blank except for the message “You are posting comments too quickly. Slow down.” TOO QUICKLY FOR WHAT?
It’s over for you, demonic forces! Now all you can do is whine!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 1:47pmI’m getting the same thing .. had to go do something else after typing and then come back and post it … how stupid is that!
Report Post »nobull14
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 1:09pmis Mick about 75 years old now ?
Report Post »Dr. Joel Fleischman
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 11:21amI thought he was pushing 96.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 1:07pmJust want I like to see some British zombie inputting some thoughts on MY election…….Mick rhymes with another word……….
Report Post »yiddishlion
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 1:05pmHell‘s Angels’ for security!……..Mick! You’re a genius!
Report Post »Ballot_Box_Revolution
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 3:39pmIf you watch that clip twice you have watched a total time of 6:66….
lol
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 1:02pmBREAKING NEWS: Mick Jagger is still alive! Seriously – who knew?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 1:08pmThat’s what alive looks like? Don’t think so .. reanimated perhaps.
Report Post »possom
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 12:41pmThe crypt keeper return’s.
Report Post »leftcoastslut
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 12:41pmi kinda like the image of Romney down on his knees every night praying…
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 12:40pmWhat is surprising about a Socialist from a Socialist Country supporting a Socialist American President?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 1:02pmThat he doesn’t give him a more “ringing” endorsement ;-)
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/02/jagger-at-the-white-house-a-gig-is-a-gig/1
I think we can safely say that he is not a Romney (or any conservative) supporter.
Report Post »David in OKC
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 12:36pmAnd the Steel Weelchair Tour keeps rolling along. He should’ve written a rap song. It takes about the same amount of talent. Just take any nursery rhyme, put a beat behind it, throw in a few cuss words and references to B*tches and Ho’s and wa la, you have a #1 single that’s suitable for any progressive audience or drive-by shooting.
Report Post »Same with the blues. Just learn how to play the same 3 chords over and over again, write some lyrics about, a cheating woman,shooting someone or a presidential election, get an over the hill has been singer to sing it along with a great guitar player to play some killer lead and your progressive audience will scream with delight.
(You‘d think that after all these years Jagger could’ve at least payed someone enough money to teach him how to dance so he doesn‘t keep looking like he’s got something stuck up his a$$.)
saranda
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 1:29pm“wa la”? Are you trying to say “voila”? I know ow we don’t like the French on this site, but when we steal a word let’s at least spell it right. Or at least phonetically close.
Report Post »David in OKC
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 11:03pmSaranda…
Report Post »No, I wrote exactly what I intended to write. If I wanted to use french words I would have used them but since I don’t live in France I chose to use words that some magicians use when they pull a rabbit out of a hat.
Maybe you could practice reading what is actually written instead of injecting your own interpretations as to what someone “really” means and then getting all bent out of shape when your overactive imagination informs you that a word was typed incorrectly We don’t get points on here for pretending to be the spelling police.
(By the way. The word “How” is spelled H-O-W not O-W.)
Twobyfour
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 3:29pmI, for instance, like using viola! instead of voila!, due to my affinity to musical instruments and practically no affinity to French. I also tend to shift the context so it contains inferences to both meanings of voila! and playing more than a little violin, hence my use is entirely appropriate. The use of wa-la (wa la) has it’s place too, as the context dictates.
The objections are, Saranda, pardon my Italian, bologna.
Report Post »Zurich
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 12:35pmThe British Brotherhood (McCartney, Morgan and Jagger) is driving me nuts! Maybe they have some kind of post-colonial nostalgia for the American/Kenyan/UK son.
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 12:32pmMick Jagger is one of our saviors? Just how it should be. Where is Marianne Faithfull? I‘ve long felt like I’m kind of a clone of Marianne Faithfull. Make her one of the next SNL guests!
Report Post »BeingThere
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 12:30pmI don‘t watch SNL and I don’t watch SNL clips!!!!
Report Post »majasdad
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 4:35amYour loss.
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 3:39pmmajasdad, SNL pales in comparison with The Onion.
Report Post »Watchyer6
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 12:15pmJeff Beck rocks!
Report Post »DearDonkey
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 12:56pmYes! Jeff Beck is one of the greatest. I’m a huge fan. Huge fan! I saw him in concert about a year ago. It was incredible. I’m happy to see Jeff is starting to get the respect he has deserved for years.
Report Post »yiddishlion
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 1:07pmThe second greatest guitarist of all time. Hendrix being the first of course
Report Post »VinnieSquawker
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 1:47pmHe does, indeed, but that SONG was lame, a non-event. Beck was great.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 3:33pmJourney’s, Neal Schon, lead guitar & vocals is not too shabby either.
Report Post »This evening May 20th reminds me of Journey’s song: The wheel in the sky keeps on turning. I don’t know where I will be tomorrow. Once a week do my home exercise program to the Journey’s Greatest Hits DVD..1978-1997. Randy Jackson on the programs of “Girl Can’t Help It” (poke-a-dot-guitar) a hoot..Be Good To Yourself & I’ll Be All Right. Randy sure rocked out with his vocals & guitar playing. To me, one of the greatest love songs written & vocal by Steve Perry (greatest vocals & pretty darn cute).. Open Arms. Great band..and great songs. Mitt & his band is ok with some songs but I am amazed he is still around & still rocking out.
Be of good cheer!
donewithnews
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 11:38pmGuitar styles are hard to quantify for objective comparison, so let’s apply equality-minded solutions.
Let’s see… Jimi Hendrix was 1/4 Cherokee, and also black. Beck is a known descendant of English blood, making his minority status null. Knowingly or not, Beck was constantly repressing Hendrix. And as Hendrix’s fellow Native American Elizabeth Warren points out, Beck moved his guitar playing goods to market on roads the rest of us paid for. Advantage: Hendrix.
And then there’s healthcare. In 1969 Beck fractured his skull in a car wreck. Nearly a year later Hendrix had a sip of beer. Hendrix died in the ambulance… Beck lives today. If this isn’t an indictment of our capitalist healthcare system, then what is? Advantage: Beck. But for all the wrong reasons.
I think we need to have hearings in Congress to really get at the truth here. We can’t wait any longer.
Report Post »b.mclane
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 12:07pmmmm….uh….. Welllll……Mick Jagger is a British citizen so whatever he or “lemon mouth” Piers Morgan say about US politics is meaningless. Even if Mick did just get through Jammin with the current Pres. Lame lyrics. Have no idea what they mean and the melody is ripped off……but it sort of made me sad. All my concert memories of the Rollin’ Stones just were instantly fossilized. Some greats know when to quit.
Report Post »BlesstheJews
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 12:04pmDid Mick mention he is a 1% and moved here from England to avoid the high taxes there? No? How odd……
Report Post »b.mclane
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 12:03pmmmmm…………….uh……………Well, for one thing Jagger is a British citizen so whatever he or “lemon mouth” Piers Morgan say about US politics doesn’t matter. Even if one just got through jammin with the current Prez. Two: sort made me sad, not the song , but the fact that all my Rollin’ Stone concert memories were just fossilized. Some greats know when to quit.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 12:02pmMy bet is Mick is not an Obama fan; I heard the song; though rough and written badly, it was by no means anti-Romney.
Mick was very funny last night!
Report Post »b.mclane
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 12:09pmJust was jammin with the President in the WHITE HOUSE. I can only assume the “cut your hair” lame lyric was a reference to the current Obama strategy that Romney is old fashioned and out of touch. As in cut your hair in the 60′s.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 12:59pmI bet he just couldn’t help himself …
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/02/jagger-at-the-white-house-a-gig-is-a-gig/1
Personally .. a gig is not a gig .. and I would not go near Obama with a ten foot pole .. Mick should understand that old saying.
Report Post »Max jones
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 7:42pmtroninthemorning……..I agree with you. Jagger is one smart fellow. I think the romney themed lyric was a slam at the potus..I could listen to jeff beck any time and LIIIIKE it.
Report Post »vickivick
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 11:10pmI Agree and these Liberals are delusional!! In fact micks song sounded like he endorsed Romney and he also said Obama better raise 100 million dollars if he wants to keep his private bowling alley.
Report Post »The liberals have always tried to pass Mick off as a far left but he’s not…my guess is Mick (who attended London School of economics) Has a very conservative side. He knows Mitt could handle this country better and he knows Obama is a fool.
Laus Deo
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 12:02pmNothin’ but a bony azz, big-mouthed, dirty hippy.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 11:59amIf a duck had lips… it would look like Mick Jagger.
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 3:41pmDucks are far more aesthetically pleasing to look at.
Report Post »pilgrim249
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 9:54amIn the end, I see Mick as the thief on the cross—it will be his decision which one.
He has always had a sense of spirituality about him, even if it was a dark sense. But all it takes is “Lord, remember me” and the darkness turns to light.
Report Post »vickivick
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 11:17pmYou are so right on about Mick. I’m a huge fan and Mick is not as Liberal as some people TRY to make him out to be.
Report Post »pilgrim249
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 9:02amIf Mick wanted to sing about the Obama Administration, he should have stuck with the old songs:
“Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name
Report Post »What’s confusing you is the nature of my game
Every cop is a criminal, all the sinners are saints
Heads is tails, just call me Lucifer, I’m in need of some restraint.”
TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 1:44pmLol…. good point and song reference!
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