LONDON — Mick Jagger stunned the entertainment world this week after reportedly telling singers to stop lecturing fans about politics during concerts, causing Bruce Springsteen to briefly pause his latest Trump sermon, blink twice, and ask a roadie what year it was, sources have confirmed.
Jagger, 82, reportedly said artists should avoid turning concerts into political rallies, especially when the audience has already survived Ticketmaster fees, parking prices, warm stadium beer, and the emotional strain of watching a 76-year-old millionaire explain working-class suffering while being gently misted by a personal hydration assistant.
“Just sing the damn songs,” Jagger allegedly told younger stars like Springsteen, who is only younger in the same way a fossil is younger than a museum.
“They didn’t pay $900 to hear you read MSNBC subtitles with a guitar and a flashlight under your chin.”
Sources say Springsteen was confused, having assumed fans wanted three hits, two encores, and a 19-minute lecture about democracy delivered from a rotating platform shaped like the Constitution.
Jagger reportedly continued, “You used to be alright. Now it’s just blah blah Trump, blah blah fascism, blah blah where did I leave my hips, blah blah here’s a song from 1978.”
Progressive critics accused Jagger of silencing artists, while regular fans accused Springsteen of forgetting concerts are supposed to contain music, or at least fewer TED Talks.
As of press time, Springsteen had promised to respect fans by limiting his political lecture to only the first 45 minutes, the encore, every moment between songs, and a brief interpretive dance about democracy performed by backup saxophones.
Every entertainer needs to do just that! Entertain. I don’t need, want or care for their opinions. If you feel you must pontificate, do it in the green room where someone might give a crap. Where do they come off thinking we care who they voted for or donate to.
Thank you Mick.
Right on thank you for posting.
Nobody paid to hear your political viewpoints.
Do what you do best or maybe it’s not your best any longer which is why you’re filling time with crap.
Mick as a Brit living in US. THANK YOU!!
Mick nailed it. Shut the fuck up and sing
RIGHT ON BROTHER!!!!!
bs HAS BEEN FULL OF BS FOR DECADES!!!!!
LOVE YA MICK!!!!!
LOVE KEITH & THE WINOS TOO!!!!!
Didn’t Keith speak out against our 250th Birthday….
Yesseri Jagger nailed it. Springsteen and other artists need to shut up about politics. They don’t know how regular normal Americans feel. They just want to be entertained and relax and enjoy. Dzvinka
My sentiments exactly!
YES!!!! More of this!!!
According to Google, the following amounts are the net worths you need in order to be in the following percentiles of wealth…
Top 10% ; $2,000,000
5% ; $4,000,000
1% ; $14,000,000
1/2 of 1% ; $20,000,000
1/10 of 1% ; $62,000,000
Let those numbers sink in…
Now, think about where your proud to be an American,🇺🇸 blessed to have the opportunity at the American dream, willing to work your ass off for it, self fits in…
Now think about where not only musicians, but every other actor, athlete, television or radio personality , who’s names you can recite by heart fits in…
I’ll give you a hint…
Many of these people, all in entertainment fields of one sort of another, earn annual salaries in excess of the net worths of the top 5 to 1% of all Americans ! ALL have, or are on their way to have net worths that put them well exceeding the net worths of the top 1/10 of 1% of all Americans ! All have multiple mansions in multiple states or countries, multiple personal assistants who serve their every need, and enjoy a celebrity status that affords them the benefit of instant recognition complimentary services from almost anyone they meet anywhere in the world !
There simply is NO other group of people who have SO profited, So prospered, SO benefited and been so blessed to have the opportunity to pursue, and be SO successful at achieving the “ American dream ! “
Now, look in the mirror and see the person who gave them that success !!!
That’s right… It’s YOU !
It’s the ticket buyer, the fans the listeners, the viewers…
It’s the rest of us proud to be an American,🇺🇸 blessed to have the opportunity at the American dream, willing to work our asses off selves who gave these people their great, incredibly successful American dreams !
Now, they expect us to continue to blindly support them ? While they presuppose a right to lecture us ? To snipe at us ? To look down on us ? To impose their self centered, self serving, convoluted anti-American, anti-America views and agendas on us !
NO ! ABSOLUTELY NOT !
My hats off to Mick Jagger for calling Bruce Springsteen out on his narcissism, his insensitivity to his fans, and his absolute gall to presuppose that we want to waste our hard earned money listening to him spew nonsense about the people and country who we are and that we love !
Perfect. loved every word!
Thanks, Lin…
Don’t know if it’s perfect, but after rereading it I’m even more pissed off at Springsteen and the rest of these spoiled, pompous, obnoxious assholes ! 👍🤣🤷♂️
You are boring.
Thanks, MS…
But telling me that is already my wife’s job ! 👍😎
Rather like the shut up and dribble.
Way to go Mick! Bruce, all self aggrandized celebrities, and opinionated collage professors. You only have a one man’s right to your opinion, not the right to tell other individuals how to think!
MICK Jagger is right. If I pay to attend a Concert is because I need to give myself a break from the daily crappie collection of dirt we are exposed by these politicians.
He’s from North Jersey. He can’t help being an asshole.
Bruce is from Rumson, a wealthy neighborhood in South Jersey.
I used to really like Bruce Springsteen. Then he lost his mind. He is not smart enough to resist peer pressure and think for himself. Now I don’t really like Bruce Springsteen at all.
Mick still has his good sense, but the so called “Boss” has definitely blown a head gasket 🇺🇸
Mick, thank you! Bruce and many others need to hear that!
I have been a Bruce fan for many years but his political ranting has completely turned me off!
For the price of tickets, I don’t need anyone rehashing CNN talking points, I need the music that I am paying to hear!
Thank you Mick! You rock!! I stopped going to concerts for this reason…sick of it!!!
I agree with these posts. That’s why I unfortunately will not pay their prices for a ticket to be lectured. They have succeeded because of their greed and narcissistic views, thinking they have the right to tell people how to behave when they haven’t a clue how the real world survived. Plus, I don’t have a problem with having your own opinion, but don’t tell me when I’m part of a captive audience at your concert, sports event, show, or whatever …. Just entertain me and leave the important issues to people who have a brain.
We used to hear some of this garbage in the 70s. I served, bands didn’t.
Bruce is a draft dodger.
Springsteen is nothing but a worthless , washed up , liberal knee pad wearing DICK !!!! Nobody pays any attention to him so he thinks if he bashes President Trump people might like him !!! I lay urine on Springsteens forehead !!
Bob,
That might already be Springsteen’s wife’s job ! 👍😎
I saw the Stones three times starting with the sun girls tour in 1978!! In Chicago eat your heart out it was amazing and I’ve seen Bruce seven times because I had some crazy friends who were obsessed starting with the River tour.
Both were great entertainers, but just the sound of Bruce Springsteen‘s voice today. I can’t turn it off fast enough and I’d like full refunds for all the previous shows!
Bruce – you sound worse than Rachel Maddow actually, I would go watch the praying mantis herself before listening to you.
Stop whining about how weak Americans are and how shitty our lives are because your daddy didn’t love you right. Puke.
Go Mick! You just put that candy ass, New Jersey boy between a Rock and a Hard Place!
Thank you!
Kyle
As always, I enjoy your intelligent thoughtful posts! Way to go Joe Modarots! And U2 Kyle Charles & a few others 👍🏻 👍🏻! In fact there are quite a few who are bright articulate intelligent intellectuals posting here on the dailyskrape.com! That is encouraging! Mel Foote, Ret.TSgt, USAF
“ Intellectual “ may be flying just a little bit outside of the envelope in describing
my capabilities ! But, Thankyou very much, Sergeant, for the compliment ! 👍😉
As always, I enjoy your intelligent thoughtful posts! Way to go Joe Modarots! And U2 Kyle Charles & a few others 👍🏻 👍🏻! In fact there are quite a few who are bright articulate intelligent intellectuals posting here on the dailyskrape.com! That is encouraging! Mel Foote, Ret.TSgt, USAF
👌OK, dailyskrape.com., just why are you messaging me stating that I need to slow down, that I am posting too quickly? This is like the third time now that you folks have sent me this type of message over the last couple of weeks. What is my penalty going to be??? Isn’t this the point? Or should I only post every other day? Just what is your criteria for making posts on this site of your’s? Maybe you should just start charging people to post? That will definitely slow things down for you folks! I wonder if you will even post this one??? Mel Foote, Ret.TSgt, USAF
Mel,
I noticed your last post appeared twice ? I don’t know if this is why your getting the
“ slow down “ messages for sure, but…
The SKRAPE used to post us instantaneously. Then a short while ago they put about a five minute lag into their posting process . Maybe so AI can compare our posts to some company standards algorithm before it posts ? I really don’t know. I didn’t know about the lag, so for a while when my post didn’t appear, I would repost them.Then, in a few minutes they would both appear. This may be what they mean by “slow down.”
Im hoping so, because I would really be disappointed in them if it has anything to do with their algorithm passing judgement on your views, positions, faith or quantity of posts !
Thanks Joe, I hear you, idk either man? One would think that since they’ve slowed down the process of posting comments here, that they would at least ensure that no identical posts would be allowed to go through and be reposted? That should be a simple thing to do, especially now days with all this AI technical advancements! Like you said on your last point about them maybe, how disappointing it would be if they were passing judgement about my views, positions, faith? Now that I think a little more about it here, if that were the case then SKRAPE just wouldn’t post my comments, like the main stream media would do! I’ve questioned them about this very thing a month ago? Of course they never respond. Think about this, if we all were all posting on a democrat controlled platform and they didn’t like yours or my posts they’d just not allow our comments to be posted for sure! And even scarier then that, they’d most likely leak our emails and other personal info about us out there for their dominions out their to have? But, I have to say, they are honest in posting my comments! So they are definitely not anything like the demonrat controlled mainstream media! PTL, there’s an honest thread out there for now! Praise GOD, as He is on the side of Truth & Justice! Shalom & GOD Bless! Mel Foote, Ret. TSgt, USAF
Thank you Mel, Shalom and God Bless to you and yours as well !
I think you’re right. If they had an issue with your content there was a time I think they would just sensor it !
About a year ago, I had an issue on another site . Someone had posted, “ You all are just a bunch of Repubicans ! “ I retorted, “ Spoken like a true Dumocrat !”
My post was not published and I received a “ First warning “ about “hate speech” and that after three I would be banished ! I asked for clarification on why my post was unacceptable but the first, which called people “pubics “ was ok ? They replied, strike two ! I told them I still didn’t understand the double standard of their algorithm and asked if there was one standard for posters who were perceived to be Democrat and another standard for those perceived to be Republican ? They never replied, but apparently that was strike three, because the sight would not accept any of my regular posts after that ! I think the double standard has been mostly erased in the last year or so. I think outright censorship is finally in the past ! Let’s hope so !