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...Mick Jagger...
...SECOND SIDE opens with "Where the Boy All Go," a rock and roll paean to gay bars. Homosexuality is presented here, as it has always appeared to straights, as an act of desperation. There's really no question of Jagger's orientation; when asked by High Society magazine whether he was at least bisexual, he replied, "I don't suck cock, and I've never had my prick in any guy's ass," which would seem to answer the question. There is another reference to the Hellenic detour elsewhere, on "Let Me Go," when Jagger moans, "Maybe I'll become...
Mostly because Jagger is not only looking to get away from women but from women as metaphor. This nexus is made explicit on the next track, an acid blues number called "Down in the Hole." When you're down in the hole, there's nothing to protect you from the world of sin, sickness and insanity: "Looking for cover, you will find that there is nowhere nowhere nowaaaaargh to go." Jagger is talking about nothing less than the great primordial woman-hole'; in "Down in the Hole" he makes clear what he's been implying all along. Sex is both...
...album continues with the title track, "Emotional Rescue." Over an eerie carnival backdrop and an ingenious bass line, Jagger sings of the psychic strategies necessary to life with women, which is, as I have said, identical to life in general. It moves from a return to adolescence and ideal love (matched in from by the carnival figures and the unnatural falsetto) to a life of chronic depression ("And I was crying, baby, crying like a child," in a pain-wracked natural voice) to a vision of sexual redemption worthy of Lawrence, sung in the dread/voodoo accents of a Jamaican deejay...
...unacceptable these days, in light of the feminist revolution and the general ideological relativism of the 20th Century. But it is by no means a ridiculous or indefensible position. It is, in fact, a fundamentally religious position, which sees a world of the Many distracting man from the One; Jagger only goes further by equating women with the world. This is not an album about women, but an album about physics, as the thermographic pictures on the sleeve would indicate. Jagger resents women as agents of entropy who threaten to dissipate the energy that is the essence...