Mick Jagger has released a new – and entertaining – solo single, Eazy Sleazy, which faces the annoyance of locks during the coronavirus pandemic.
Dave Grohl plays drums, bass and guitar on the track, released while fans wait for the next album from the Rolling Stones studio, which was teased in 2020.
Since Jagger is still a bigger rock star at 77, he seems to have an amazing kind and boring experience than ordinary people. The lyrics refer to him teaching TikTok dances, complaining about fake noise from football fans and without clean clothes.
One lyric reads: ‘Try to write a tune / You better adapt me to zoom in / See my pony books / Teach myself to cook / Too much TV / It makes me lobotomize / Think I’m putting on weight / I will drink another drink / then I clean the kitchen. ‘
He also complains that he was ‘beaten up by stimuli’, presumably with regard to the conditions of lockdown, but admits: ‘We took it to heart / the numbers were so grim.’ Tongue, presumably in the jaw, he shrugs: “The shot of the vaccine / Bill Gates is in my bloodstream / it’s mind control.”
Jagger gets brighter in the second half of the song and predicts a garden of earthly pleasures in the aftermath of the pandemic – fits in perfectly with the reopening of pub gardens in the UK – when ‘everything’s going to get really freaky … it’s going be smooth and greasy ”.
This is Jagger’s first solo single since 2017’s double A side, Gotta Get a Grip / England Lost.
In April 2020, the Rolling Stones released their first original music since 2012, the single Living in a Ghost Town. It was written before the coronavirus crisis, but it seems to be advancing, with the rules: ‘Life was so beautiful / Then we all locked up … Please let it be over / stuck in an endless world.’ Keith Richards said the group recorded it as part of a new album, with sessions interrupted by the pandemic.
Grohl said the recording with Jagger “came true outside of a dream – just when I thought life could not go crazy”. Last week, the frontman of Foo Fighters announced his first memoir, The Storyteller.