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I'm still having fun with Mick Jagger's sexuality on Google. I'm going through a lot of pages and I am tempted to click on the little suggestion on the bottom that say s 'Mick Jagger bi sexual' and I happened to not click on it. So I am searching for a nice little passage and I found this. It was on a post graduate student's journal and I read through it. Headlines such as "He's a good b***h": Mick, Keith and the rock marriage"and "Dude Looks Like A Lady: The enduring legacy of Led Zeppelin" got my attention. The Stones one got me before the Zeppelin ones.
So, I happen to be looking through and I had been looking through the feminine qualities that person uses to describe Mick and Keith's relationship.
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Alongside this undervaluing of their musical skill the singer usually places themselves in the position of frontman. They become the visual focus of the group, offering themselves as a subject of the gaze in a way more commonly associated with a feminine mode of performance. These characterizations can be clearly seen in the press' treatment of The Rolling Stones. In one recent interview in Q Magazine the interviewer's second question to Keith Richards was "How's the marriage?" to which Keith answers, "Who's the wife? That's what you want to know - who's the b***h? He's a good b***h" (Odell, 56). Once again we see how the complex interplay of gender roles in the world of rock serves to both reinforce and to complicate gender roles. In the case of The Rolling Stones, perhaps the earliest archetype of the classic 'rock marriage,' Mick and Keith provide fairly distinct roles. Keith is viewed as the authentic, masculine voice of the music; while Mick's performative physicality figures him as the feminine. For adolescent boys seeking role models for masculinity The Stones, at first glance, seem to offer it all; the harsh, misogynistic, powerful masculinity of their music, the authentic, skillful cool of Keith Richards and the glamorous androgyny of Jagger. What they do not offer, however, is any place for women. While Mick's ambiguous camp may pay lip service to the shifting gender roles of the 1960s, it also serves to makes women redundant. By assuming feminine glamor, and combining it with harsh misogyny, The Rolling Stones reassert the dominance of their masculinity by demonstrating that men can provide a feminine function. Thus The Stones helped to shape rock music into a cultural form, and a social world, that benefited from new sexual freedoms, while simultaneously remaining a virtual stronghold of dominant masculinity.
That caught my attention. Upon viewing those two parts in that article I said "Damn right Mick is the girl." and I had really liked how they described it. I think I have too much fun with this too much.
I like it when Mick is the girl. Its just my preference. It doesn't matter what people say, I will always have Mick as the more feminine role.
Listening to "Emotional Rescue" by The Rolling Stones. Who care, this song is GREAT.
