Conservatives likely won't find tune so sweet
The Rolling Stones are taking aim at elements of the American right with a new song on their upcoming album.
The track, "Sweet Neo Con," boasts the line, "You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite/You call yourself a patriot, well I think you're full of ..." Newsweek reports.
"It is direct," Mick Jagger was quoted as saying, adding that bandmate Keith Richards was "a bit worried" about a backlash because the guitarist lives in the United States and Jagger does not.
The song also includes the line: "It's liberty for all, democracy's our style/Unless you are against us, then it's prison without trial."
"It is certainly very critical of certain policies of the [Bush] administration, but so what! Lots of people are critical," Jagger told TV's "Extra" on Wednesday.
"Sweet Neo Con" is one of 16 tracks featured on the Stones' new album, "A Bigger Bang," which drops in the United States on Sept. 6.
Stones 'slate Bush' in album song
The Rolling Stones are currently rehearsing in Toronto for their 40-date world tour, which begins in Boston on 21 August.
I won’t be attending this year.
Perhaps, we should have a politics section.
