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Mick Jagger will get it.
In a new sit-down with the New York Times, the 82-year-old gave a uncommon peek into the inside workings of being the Rolling Stones’ frontman.
He is surprisingly self-aware about his large ego, which he’s discovered to swap off when not on stage.
Jagger doesn’t let it trick him into believing that followers who pay good scratch to attend his live shows need to hear his political musings — in contrast to Bruce Springsteen who, on his unofficial No Kings tour, has been proudly fusing his best hits with Trump resistance storylines borrowed from the channel previously often known as MSNBC.
In an interview with the New York Times’ David Marchese (proper), Mick Jagger stated he doesn’t “lecture” his viewers. New York Times
As the Times’ David Marchese charitably put it to Jagger: “Bruce Springsteen clearly sees his job as engaging in a meaningful back and forth” — which is, in itself, a humorous framing.
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There’s no back and forth with Springsteen, who delivers fiery political sermons from his partisan pulpit. Fans have to splash out all that money to the gathering plate realizing what they’ll be served in between “Hungry Heart” and “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out.”
Referencing the Jersey boy’s strategy, Marchese requested Jagger, “What does your relationship to the audience mean to you? What do they represent, all those people out there?”
Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger is understood for his energetic performances on the stage. But he doesn’t plan on including politics to his stay repertoire. Getty Images
The singer gave a considerate reply, acknowledging that when he performs music festivals like Glastonbury or the New Orleans Jazz Fest, the group isn’t essentially there to see the Stones. Ultimately, he desires to put followers in a state that permits their worries to soften away.
“My job in the live music world is for those people that come to have the best time,” Jagger stated, evaluating it to a sporting occasion. “And you don’t want to lecture them.”
In a totally different period, such a sentiment would barely raise an eyebrow. It actually wouldn’t warrant a headline: “Rock legend wants to entertain the crowd, more news at 6.”
However, in 2026, Jagger’s declaration appears like a rejection of our present, poisonous state of tradition with many of our entertainers, from music to motion pictures, believing they’ve a ethical mandate to marinate their work in resistance slop.
In a regular world, Mick Jagger’s reply to the Times about maintaining his stay reveals lecture free shouldn’t raise an eyebrow. @TheChiefNerd/X
His take is refreshing. Especially coming off a wild Hollywood awards season the place the purple carpets had been a parade of anti-ICE and anti-Israel flare — and but even that didn’t fulfill legendary Spanish director Pedro Almódovar.
“There were not many protests against the war [in Gaza] or against Trump” the 76-year outdated informed the LA Times after the Oscars back in May.
Somehow the lectures from Hannah Einbinder, Mark Ruffalo and Javier Bardem all award season had been merely not enough. Maybe only one more starlet declaring “f–k ICE” would make us consider what they need us to consider.
Bruce Springsteen has all the time been a loud and proud supporter of Democrats, particularly Obama. But he has added political to the set record for his newest tour. Getty Images
These people are fully out of contact with the true world — a lot so, they don’t notice that the more now we have to hear them drone on, the more we have a tendency to merely tune out. We stop shopping for tickets to their motion pictures and stop watching their reveals.
There are seemingly fewer and fewer entertainers who perceive that. (Kevin Hart, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Duhamel and Kevin James are uncommon exceptions.)
But anytime a new star tries to say perhaps all this lecturing isn’t a great concept, out come Hollywood’s pitchforks.
Last week, Dwayne Johnson stated he was planning to keep mum on politics to deal with his screen work. “Stand by Me” actor and Kamala Harris fan Wil Wheaton known as him a “coward” for his resolution.
After the 2026 Oscars, Spanish director Pedro Almódovar complained that the awards ceremony wasn’t political enough. BACKGRID
Wheaton spun a good yarn on Lardass in that coming-of-age film, however neither he nor The Rock have any bearing on my opinions on world affairs.
We stay in a world the place politics is all the time on faucet: If you need it, yow will discover it anyplace, anytime. It dominates every part we do.
This is why we need escapism.
When leisure turns into polluted by political discourse, it not solely alienates followers. It inherently feeds division.
People stop coming collectively to benefit from the factor they’ve in common: love of the artwork.
There’s no more communion. There’s solely weird political tribes.
