oh america...what has happened to you?

As millions likely noticed last night, The Rolling Stones were censored during their halftime performance at the Super Bowl yesterday. In what was almost certainly the action of television executives cowering like babies in the corner after 2004's janet jackson "wardrobe malfunction" debacle, lines in the Stones' Start Me Up and Rough Justice were muted for "sexually explicit language" WHAT?

Start Me Up...
You, you, you make a grown man cry
You, you make a dead man {silence}

Rough Justice...
One time you were my baby chicken
Now you've grown into a fox
And once upon a time I was your little rooster
Am I just one of your {silence}

I remind everyone that the Rolling Stones, while certainly risque in their heyday...now are simply clever lyricists...and neither come nor cocks--referencing roosters--are filthy words. I'm amazed that these choices were made...and, frankly, horrified that more people aren't up in arms about this.

it seems that, while america is busy fighting for freedom in the middle east, we're letting it die a horrible death at home.

fix your jones for dirty, filthy Mick Jagger @ rollingstones.com and for rare coverage of last night's debacle @ Chicago Sun Times or the BBC

Posted by sarah t. at 9:45 AM