After Trump kept using “Start Me Up” as his walk-out music at rallies and victory celebrations, I was starting to think, I really hope the Stones aren’t okay with this. And now they’re asking him to stop. Thank God.
I would note though that “Sympathy for the Devil” has a certain element of appropriateness and “Brown Sugar” might represent either some very consistent race messaging or perhaps some subversive counter-programming from someone in the AV team. The song operates on a few levels.
