All posts tagged "Mick Jagger"

Marco Rubio says an awkward encounter with Mick Jagger was orchestrated by the newly appointed US ambassador to India, Sergio Gor.

The Secretary of State had made it clear to Gor not to mention his name to The Rolling Stones' frontman, who Rubio says is "not an enormous fan" of the president. But Gor mentioned Rubio to Jagger anyway, and the pair ended up meeting one another in a London restaurant during Donald Trump's state visit to the UK in September.

Rubio said, "All of a sudden this guy walks in. I'm like, 'Oh my God, that's Mick Jagger. And Sergio's like, 'I'm going go up to him. I'm going to get his picture. I go, 'Don't go up to him.' I looked it up online immediately — he's not like an enormous fan of the president."...

At the prompting of musician Mick Jagger, President Barack Obama took center stage at a White House concert on Tuesday night, seizing the mic and crooning with the best of them to the tune "Sweet Home Chicago," putting on display a singing voice that's only been heard in public once before.

Silvana has an interesting follow-up to the explosion of anger following her hilarious rant on Dude Music. As follow-ups go---especially those that address a wave of men getting angry when they experience even a sliver of what many to most women consider a normal part of our everyday lives---this one is true to form: serious, thoughtful, kind-hearted. For the men angrily demanding legalistic definitions of Dude Music, she comes closer, basically talking about the way that B and C level musical acts get taken more seriously if they're male-dominated than A level acts that center the female voice/experience. As I noted to her at the time, this is such a major issue that often fans will rewrite the artistic history male musicians/bands to discount the influence women had on them. For instance, the influence that female musicians had on singers like Joey Ramone, Kurt Cobain, or Mick Jagger is often pointedly ignored. And nothing creates more angst than a male musician of some stature who actually marries someone who does more than stand behind him smacking a tambourine.