The Hidden Meaning Of The Rolling Stones' Brown Sugar

The song's first verse depicts a slave driver whipping a group of women. By the third verse, there's a lady with a bevy of underage boyfriends. And, you know, the chorus is all about how a young girl should taste. Also, "brown sugar," as has been pointed out by basically everyone and, according to SongFacts,

The song's first verse depicts a slave driver whipping a group of women. By the third verse, there's a lady with a bevy of underage boyfriends. And, you know, the chorus is all about how a young girl should taste. Also, "brown sugar," as has been pointed out by basically everyone and, according to SongFacts, was confirmed by Keith Richards — who knows a thing or two about a thing or two — is slang for heroin. Mick Jagger stated in a Rolling Stone interview that the song works thanks to its wide array of implied themes, or "all the nasty subjects in one go," as he put it. "I never would write that song now."

For some historical perspective, "Brown Sugar" came from a weird place. Jagger recalls having written it in 1969 while he was in Australia shooting Ned Kelly, the decidedly weird story of the infamous bushranger. The production was a troubled one: Jagger's girlfriend OD'd, and accidents kept happening. There were fires and horse cart accidents. The Stones frontman was injured on set when a pistol backfired, and he claims to have written the song while sitting in a field trying to rehabilitate his hand.

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