![]() Mendelsohn: No, it is a clever role-reversal. I will say that the Ray Davies-esque “Mother’s Little Helper” is a good bit more self-aware (and clever) than you seem to be giving them credit for. But I’m sure we’ll unpack a little bit more of that as we go along. Klinger: Not to mention how they came to draw the ire of feminists everywhere as the women’s movement started picking up speed. So I guess I can see where they album would speak to the socially inept music nerd. “Mother’s Little Helper” is an indictment of housewife drug abuse (talk about the pot calling the kettle black), “Stupid Girl” is a derisive sendoff to women with “Under My Thumb” coming in a close second, while “Lady Jane” is probably the sappiest love ballad the Stones have ever recorded. Right off the bat though, I notice that the first four songs deal strictly with the fairer sex. Aftermath, however, is a bit tamer than, say, Sticky Fingers, but I guess for a record released in 1966 it was probably as shocking as they come. don’t shy away from the nitty gritty and I like that. The Stones have been such a fixture on the Great List that you can’t spit at the Top 100 without nearly hitting one of their records. Mendelsohn: I just realized that after the Rolling Stones’ Aftermath, we won’t be talking about another Rolling Stones record for the next several years.
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