Вооот. Добрались. КОНТЕКСТ. Читаем интервью Джаггера: "I think that was taken from an old idea of Baudelaire's, I think, but I could be wrong. Sometimes when I look at my Baudelaire books, I can't see it in there. But it was an idea I got from French writing. And I just took a couple of lines and expanded on it [...] it's a very long historical figure -- the figures of evil and figures of good -- so it is a tremendously long trail he's made as personified in this piece[...] It has a very hypnotic groove, a samba, which has a tremendous hypnotic power, rather like good dance music. It doesn't speed up or slow down. It keeps this constant groove. Plus, the actual samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it is also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive -- because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm (candomble). So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it. But forgetting the cultural colors, it is a very good vehicle for producing a powerful piece. It becomes less pretentious because it is a very unpretentious groove. If it had been done as a ballad, it wouldn't have been as good." В другом его интервью: “When people started taking us as devil worshippers, I thought it was a really odd thing, because it was only one song, after all. It wasn't like it was a whole album, with lots of occult signs on the back. People seemed to embrace the image so readily, [and] it has carried all the way over into heavy metal bands today.” А вот что говорит Ричардс (хотя его подпись в credits песни тоже есть, он в ёё написании участия не принимал, кроме того, что предложил ритм самбы (точнее, имитацию настоящей "батукады") и басовую партию, которую сам и сыграл - Уайман в этой записи играет только на конгах): "Before, we were just innocent kids out for a good time, they're saying, 'They're evil, they're evil.' Oh, I'm evil, really? So that makes you start thinking about evil... What is evil? Half of it, I don't know how much people think of Mick as the devil or as just a good rock performer or what? There are black magicians who think we are acting as unknown agents of Lucifer and others who think we are Lucifer. Everybody's Lucifer."
Сказать, короче говоря, что песня сугубо христианская - это сильно преувеличить, безусловно. Но она наполнена христианскими культурными кодами, которые выросшей в христианском культурном поле публикой считываются безошибочно - как осуждение зла, а не прославление его. Символично, что савецкая пропаганда в своё время подхватила основанное именно на этой песне обвинение в сатанизме, напрямую от баптистских ультрафундаменталистов на Юге США :)
Да, безусловно, Джаггер заигрывается, слишком глубоко заворачивается в тропы. Но при этом он впрямую утверждает, что это нечистый - с одобрения молчаливого равнодушного большинства ("I shouted out,/Who killed the Kennedys? /When after all/ It was you and me") - стоит за "знаковыми" (терпеть не могу это слово:)) проявлениями инфернального зла в человеческой истории. Станем ли мы это опровергать?
Re: Мик Джаггер
Читаем интервью Джаггера:
"I think that was taken from an old idea of Baudelaire's, I think, but I could be wrong. Sometimes when I look at my Baudelaire books, I can't see it in there. But it was an idea I got from French writing. And I just took a couple of lines and expanded on it [...] it's a very long historical figure -- the figures of evil and figures of good -- so it is a tremendously long trail he's made as personified in this piece[...] It has a very hypnotic groove, a samba, which has a tremendous hypnotic power, rather like good dance music. It doesn't speed up or slow down. It keeps this constant groove. Plus, the actual samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it is also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive -- because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm (candomble). So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it. But forgetting the cultural colors, it is a very good vehicle for producing a powerful piece. It becomes less pretentious because it is a very unpretentious groove. If it had been done as a ballad, it wouldn't have been as good."
В другом его интервью:
“When people started taking us as devil worshippers, I thought it was a really odd thing, because it was only one song, after all. It wasn't like it was a whole album, with lots of occult signs on the back. People seemed to embrace the image so readily, [and] it has carried all the way over into heavy metal bands today.”
А вот что говорит Ричардс (хотя его подпись в credits песни тоже есть, он в ёё написании участия не принимал, кроме того, что предложил ритм самбы (точнее, имитацию настоящей "батукады") и басовую партию, которую сам и сыграл - Уайман в этой записи играет только на конгах):
"Before, we were just innocent kids out for a good time, they're saying, 'They're evil, they're evil.' Oh, I'm evil, really? So that makes you start thinking about evil... What is evil? Half of it, I don't know how much people think of Mick as the devil or as just a good rock performer or what? There are black magicians who think we are acting as unknown agents of Lucifer and others who think we are Lucifer. Everybody's Lucifer."
Сказать, короче говоря, что песня сугубо христианская - это сильно преувеличить, безусловно. Но она наполнена христианскими культурными кодами, которые выросшей в христианском культурном поле публикой считываются безошибочно - как осуждение зла, а не прославление его. Символично, что савецкая пропаганда в своё время подхватила основанное именно на этой песне обвинение в сатанизме, напрямую от баптистских ультрафундаменталистов на Юге США :)
Да, безусловно, Джаггер заигрывается, слишком глубоко заворачивается в тропы. Но при этом он впрямую утверждает, что это нечистый - с одобрения молчаливого равнодушного большинства ("I shouted out,/Who killed the Kennedys? /When after all/ It was you and me") - стоит за "знаковыми" (терпеть не могу это слово:)) проявлениями инфернального зла в человеческой истории. Станем ли мы это опровергать?