Mick Jagger has a message for his fellow rockers:  Stay out of politics.  Fans don’t wanna hear it.  Mick wants them to remember that song about leaving people alone. i.e. “Hey (hey), you (you), get off of my cloud, get off of my cloud.”

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It’s refreshing, and a realistic message from a man who’s performed before, thousands of times.  Let’s check it out:

Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger says concertgoers want to escape from politics and everyday worries rather than sit through political speeches.

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Jagger made the remarks during an interview on The New York Times podcast after being asked about Bruce Springsteen, who has repeatedly used his current tour to lambast President Trump.

Host David Marchese noted that Springsteen ‘clearly sees his job as engaging in a meaningful back and forth’ with audiences before asking Jagger what his own relationship with fans means to him.

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Jagger said his priority is giving audiences a break from the outside world.

‘The bottom line of my thing really is that my job in the live music world is [for] those people that come is to [sic] have the best time they possibly can,’ Jagger said.

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‘For two hours or whatever it is, to forget all their problems and the problems of the world and their mortgages and whatever, just to give them the best time they can have.’

Forget their problems?  Yes, that’s true; fans don’t spend a lot of money to hear someone “virtue signal,” or whatever they call it.  In my case, I want politics out of musical concerts and sports.  Furthermore, I paid for a ticket to hear you sing, not hear your political views.  Who cares what Mick Jagger or Bruce Springsteen have to say anyway?

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Another big problem is going overseas and taking a shot at the American president.  Remember the (former) Dixie Chicks, who took a shot at President Bush in London over Iraq?  It didn’t work out well, especially in the country music world.

Last, but not least, the real problem with many of these artists is that they can’t control themselves.  They feel like you need to know their valuable opinion, then they can’t handle the reaction when fans say that they don’t care about their opinions.  Again, the Dixie Chicks.

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