Girly Action

This is an addendum to my earlier comments about understanding others intimate experiences. There is a hilarious video below of the Rolling Stones lipsynching and miming there way through a recording of Satisfaction. Watch it but listen to the lyrics carefully and ask yourself, is Mick describing a male experience or a female one? Whoops, doesn't make sense. It is obviously meant to be male but I mean is it convincingly male? Did men in 1965 worry how white their shirts could be? The ads at the time about white shirts were aimed at women not men. I think that whatever the surface meaning, the song really comes off more convincing as a description of a woman's experience. I think that is why only the Rolling Stones could have had a hit with this in 1965. A male singer whose sexuality was less ambiguous than Mick's would have come off sounding like a loser.

PS: The Serpentine one just leaned over and said, "Do they ever look wholesome". And they do, Mick looks preppy.

PPS: Why is it hilarious? Watch the bits where the camera cuts to Charlie and compare how soft he is playing with the actual drum sound. By the way, I love that the person who posted this on You Tube labels it as rare as it is just the band lypsynching the single. There must be hundreds of similar videos floating around. It's about as rare as salt in the ocean.