It’s been a bit over a year since Gal Gadot cursed us with her star-studded and deeply cringey cover of John Lennon’s “Imagine.” You’d think that the backlash to that video would’ve made celebrities think twice about making more corny COVID-19 pandemic-related music, but Mick Jagger and Dave Grohl (they’re friends, apparently) collaborated on a song, “Eazy Sleazy,” about how tough it’s been to sit through quarantine—never mind that they’re both super rich guys who managed to stay healthy throughout the whole thing.
“Eazy Sleazy” sounds like a fake Rolling Stones track; the whole thing feels like an SNL parody of a Stones song that had to be cut for time. But hey, at least they’re having fun.
“It’s a song that I wrote about coming out of lockdown, with some much needed optimism. Thanks to Dave Grohl for jumping on drums, bass and guitar, it was a lot of fun working with him,” Jagger says in a statement. “It’s hard to put into words what recording this song with Sir Mick means to me,”adds Grohl. “It’s beyond a dream come true. Just when I thought life couldn’t get any crazier……and it’s the song of the summer, without a doubt!!” [Like the song’s rhythm section, the punctuation is all Grohl.—Ed.]
You can say the lyrics are tongue-in-cheek, but these are unfortunately real words Mick Jagger is singing about the pandemic:
- “Cancel all the tours/Football’s fake applause”
- “No more travel brochures/Virtual premieres, I’ve got nothing left to wear”
- “Looking out from these prison walls/You got to rob Peter if you’re paying Paul”
- “That’s a pretty mask/But never take a chance/TikTok stupid dance/Took a samba class”
- “I landed on my ass/Trying to write a tune/You better hook me up to Zoom”
- “Way too much TV/ It’s lobotomizing me”
- “We’ll escape from these prison walls/Open the windows and open the doors”
- “Shooting the vaccine/ Bill Gates is in my bloodstream/It’s mind control/The Earth is flat and cold”
Okay, so that last one is obviously facetious, but enough is enough. We’re near the finish line, guys! Please spare us from further embarrassment.
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“never mind that they’re both super rich guys who managed to stay healthy throughout the whole thing.”
Imagine whining like a douchy asshole about this when, instead, you could seriously go fuck yourself.
Seriously. Fuck you and anyone who feels the need to be pissed off that celebrities aren’t all dying of covid. Fuck you and fuck off. Die please.
At some point, you hit a level of wealth/age where writing rock songs is just pointless. Someday, Mick Jagger will reach that level.
But not yet. He’s back baby!!
Will y’all get over here and give this more stars?!
FWIW, the conservatives are taking this personally, so this is less “Imagine 2.0″ and more “we’re not snowflakes, but this is still triggering us for some reason.”
Do they have anything left to listen to besides Kid Rock and Ted Nugent?
The current Skynyrd lineup is full MAGAt.
Lil Wayne
“we’re not snowflakes, but this is still triggering us for some reason.”The Trump 2024 campaign slogan
Yeah, over at Drudge the song is described as a “send-up of anti-vaxxers”, so apparently they didn’t get the memo that Jagger and Grohl are just being whiny, rich brats about quarantine.
Never been impressed with Mick without the Stones or Bowie
This video makes me wonder if he came out the womb looking like an old man that had lived a rough life.
Pictures of him as a young man/teen/kid basically confirm this.
whaddya think?
hey at least it wasn’t “I can’t get no … vaccination”
Oh, come on. This is nothing like the Imagine thing. They’re having fun with a throwaway song, not trying to do anything meaningful. Sure, it’s kind of dumb, but I enjoyed it. And unlike other late-70s rock stars, Mick Jagger still sounds like Mick Jagger.
To be fair, Mick was a star for 15 years already by the late 70s. He sounds even better compared to many of his actual contemporaries (on records, at least – on many recent live recordings he just sounds like a parody of himself).
Sorry, I meant he is in his late 70s. (77 years old.)
Ah, that makes more sense. Yeah, he does sound great for his age.
Agreed, this is just blatant, unnecessary cynicism. They’re not Clapton and Van Morrison whining about having to wear a facemask in 7/11, this is a guy peforming a goofy, throwaway rock song with a hero of his.Also, I’m no fan of the super wealthy, but the idea that “you’re rich, you shouldn’t have mental health issues” seems like an oddly backwards one.
Still, hearing multimillionaires grouse about their “prison walls” kind of chafes.
They’re not Clapton and Van Morrison whining about having to wear a facemask in 7/11Are you sure they’re not?Cause “Bossed around by pricks” gave me that vibe.
My reading of the lyrics, which is hard because this is objectively not a very good song, is that he’s referencing Boris Johnson and how he was telling people the crisis was a time for good old British resiliency despite the fact that BoJo’s botched handling was the reason why things were so bad.
It’s not that the rich don’t have or *shouldn’t* have mental health issues “What do YOU have to be unhappy about?” is not a helpful sentiment. Mental illness is something ANYONE can have. What the wealthy DO have that many people don’t is the time and resources to GET HELP. They have insurance, or can afford individualized therapy. They can carve out time to get said therapy. They have the options of taking time off work to reduce stress, to hire folks to help them with personal care. A masseuse, a gym membership.Listening to the obscenely wealthy cry about their depression is one thing. Most people can empathize with someone being sad. Asking the unwashed masses to *sympathize* with the rich as if their suffering with no recourse, “just like us!” is what rubs folks the wrong way. Sure, Mick’s been locked up for a year. Mick’s had a few hundred million pounds worth of resources to entertain him and keep him healthy and sane. I have had Netflix, D+, and my friend’s Amazon Prime password and health insurance that DOESN’T cover therapy. . So, yeah. It’s not that the railroad CEO should never sing “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”. But he probably shouldn’t sing it in an effort to convince the actual workers he’s ‘one of them’.
this right here. When a rich person complains about “mental health”, my sympathy is low. A rich person can afford to get help. the rest of us, not so much. I struggle every day with thoughts of suicide, but I can’t afford to get help even with the health insurance I have (it does cover mental health, but seems to only grudgingly). If I was rich, I would have a better chance, but since I’m not…eh
“Agreed, this is just blatant, unnecessary cynicism.”Wait, which reaction to which song are we talking about?
I’m not having fun with this song. Its so dour and actually makes me feel more helpless than before.
Sorry to go all deGrasse Tyson on you but by the late 70’s Mick Jagger had been a rockstar for like 15 years
I meant he is in his late 70s, as in 77 years old.
Seems I’m also not the first to point it out; but I was in an all-fired hurry to be ‘that guy kicking knowledge’.
I agree, the ‘Imagine’ fiasco was so cringy. This is just ok it’s not offensive like that was; I’m not reading to much into it, anyway. On an aside, The Stones were supposed to play here last year, just before COVID hit big time, they had billboards across Vancouver. That would have been something. I don’t know if they will ever tour again…
Agreed. This article should be filed under “COMPLETELY Missed The Point”. It takes a very hard heart to try and shit on two of music’s most jovial gents.
Mick Jagger and Dave Grohl as a duo are kind of like Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, only less charismatic.
At least they both appear to be wearing pants.
That may be important if you have dick&balls down there that need concealing, but as a cartoon duck (or mouse, although Mickey usually wears pants), I don’t think the same rules need apply.
Clearly not on brand for the pandemic.
Meh. I liked it. I’m also old enough to be one of Mick’s kids so that might explain it.
This will be a priceless document for future generations wondering what the covid pandemic was like. “Well, Mick Jagger and Dave Grohl got so bored they made this ridiculous song. And I was so bored I watched the video on the internet. That kind of sum it up.”“Who’s Mick Jagger?”“He was the Dave Grohl of my parents’ generation.”
I’m also old enough to be one of Mick’s kidsSo, somewhere between the ages of 4 and 50?His great-granddaughter is a couple years older than his youngest child.
Nope. Sorry. It’s a nice piece of work. It’s fun and catchy. (And I say that as someone who finds the Foo Fighters incredibly banal although I am quite charmed by Grohl becoming the rock and roll version of Tom Hanks.)
If you think Mick Jagger will still be out there trying to be a rock star at age fifty, then you are sadly, sadly mistaken.
Even on the Tattoo You tour people were asking “How much longer can they do this?”
As someone who spent $17.99 on a copy of Bridges to Babylon when I only had like 10 CDs… I wish they’d stopped in the 80s.
I was in a Stones tribute so I had to learn a couple things off that one. They weren’t too bad, but it’s pretty much “Ok guys, get to Brown Sugar!”
I wish they’d stopped in the 80s.5 favorite Stones songs after 1990:
Saint Of MeMoon Is UpRain Fall DownDon’t StopToo TightLast year I watched (on HBO maybe?) a concert they did in Havana, from 2016. Seeing that, I really admired them. They were 70+ yrs old, they were fitter than I am (Mick’s cardio is freakin ridiculous), they put a ton of effort into making a good show, and they seem to really, profoundly enjoy performing music. The moments that struck me were things like when Keef & Ronnie would start interweaving their guitar lines, and just grin at each other; or when one of the backup singers would just nail a part, with gusto & passion, and the band members would whoop and nod their appreciation.
We see them as “The Rolling Stones”; but it might be worth bearing in mind that when they were teenagers, what they most wanted to be when they grew up were those thousand-year-old American blues singers who performed standards and played gigs right up until they dropped dead. Mega-zillionaires or not, I think they see themselves as part of that tradition. I can’t help but respect that.
This kind of reminds me of when comedians get too rich and famous and their material starts becoming all about how much it sucks paying property taxes.
Cocaine is God’s way of telling you you’re making too much money.And what’s the deal with tax shelters?! Is it a shelter from the taxes? Is it a shelter for the taxes? Do the taxes go into the shelter when the weather’s bad? WHO ARE THESE TAXES?!
Oo-oooo the IRS is threatnin’
Mah very wealth today.
If Ah don’t get some tax shelters
Ooo yeah, my wealth is gonna fade away.Tax! Burden!
It’s just a shot away, it’s just a shot away.
Mr. Scorsese would like to speak with you about putting that in his next film.
if it weren’t for the goofy handheld camera zooms it might seem a TAD bit less like an SNL parody XD
This might be a shock, but I don’t think old white celebrities always have the best takes on current events. See: Eric Clapton and Van Morrison writing anti-lockdown songs, Ringo saying he was in favor of Brexit (though he didn’t vote on it), John Cleese in general, and so on.
The nice thing is you can still enjoy their work and write off any bad takes as the onset of dementia.
This song confirms that he is really just the singer in Charlie Watts’ band.
Stone. Cold. Truth.
Just the singer, yeah, but it’s Keef’s band.
according to Keef, there is no Rolling Stones without Charlie Watts. He’s the engine.
Sure.
Folks, you don’t need to be an anti vax/masker to be tired of the lockdowns. People are allowed to goof around about this shitty sitch
Dave Grohl is the good-time rock and roll king. Everything he touches is magic.Not only that, the Gail Gadot song was sweet and heartfelt, and did not deserve a fraction of the hate it got.
Gotta say, I salute the banal shtick you’ve cultivated here. Trolling: 9/10 (you’d get the straggler point if you could work some humor in there)
Not a bit of trolling here. If you cannot recognise the fact that Dave Grohl brings joy, that’s a defect in you.
Not the first part. I have no beef with Dave Grohl.
The second bit? That, plus the adoration of modern Simpsons, would be the shtick. That or you’re just REALLY down with super-middle-America entertainment, which isn’t unheard of, I suppose. Chuck Lorre continues to have a career, after all.
Every episode of The Big Bang Theory is a master class in comedy acting. The reactions and facial expressions of Parsons, Cuoco, Galecki, Nayyar, and Helberg were consistently exquisite.Still, if you wish to comport yourself like a grunting savage by sneering at beautiful art, that is certainly your prerogative.
“Still, if you wish to comport yourself like a grunting savage”Yep. Definitely a troll. Still pathetic, as all trolling is, but at least you’ve carved out a niche for yourself. ;-*
Where the hell is Nandi Bushell???
Song sounds alright to me.
I’m a huge Rolling Stones fan, and Dave Grohl is awesome, but I have to say this song is not very good. I’m really hoping Mick and the rest of the band can hold on just a little longer. I made a ridiculous splurge on decent tickets to see them for what I assumed would be the last time. The show is currently “postponed” with no new date (understandably) forthcoming.
All I can think of in relation to this “article” is “fuck off, this song is bitching”.