Talk:Brown Sugar (song)

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"Marsha Hunt is the inspiration of the Stones' hit "Brown Sugar".

This is a sentence taken from the article on Marsha Hunt (singer and novelist). The article on "Brown Sugar" is rather long, but this fact is not mentioned anywhere. Is it true? <KF> 20:11, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Subject matter

I'm aware that this is pretty trivial, but I removed the use of "brown sugar" as a slang for heroin. Brown sugar is also slang for an attractive black woman, and that definition fits in with the rest of the stated topic matter of the song. However, I've also heard that the entire song is about heroin with slavery as a metaphor (although why would there be so much detail about the sexual aspects?). Maybe someone could clear this up and even cite a source for it...—Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.107.60.65 (talk • contribs) 6:51 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Brown sugar was slang for heroin. Jagger says this in the "Jagger Remembers" interview. Use of the term to describe an attractive black person may have been popularized by this song. / edg ☺ ☭ 13:18, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

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