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"Under My Thumb" is a song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards for The Rolling Stones. Its first appearance was as an album track on 1966's ''Aftermath''. Although it was never released as a single in English-speaking countries, it is one of the band's more popular songs from the period, appearing frequently on best-of compilations. In 1968, it was released as a single in Japan. It was during a performance of this song at the infamous 1969 Altamont Free Concert that the Hells Angels, who were acting as security for the band, stabbed gunman Meredith Hunter to death. It is a common misconception that Hunter was stabbed while the band was playing "Sympathy for the Devil." The events appear in the ''Gimme Shelter'' movie.〔(Gimme Shelter – The Rolling Stones – The Guardian – September 6, 2009 )〕 "Under My Thumb" was featured prominently by the band on their 1981 US Tour and 1982 European tour as the opening number at each concert. The Stones have played the song sporadically on subsequent tours in 1997–98 and 2006. ==Lyrics and music== The song's lyrics are an examination of a sexual power struggle, in which Jagger's lyrics celebrate the success of finally having controlled and gained leverage over a previously pushy, dominating woman. Jagger later reflected on the track in a 1995 interview: "It's a bit of a jokey number, really. It's not really an anti-feminist song any more than any of the others... Yes, it's a caricature, and it's in reply to a girl who was a very pushy woman".〔(The Rolling Stone Interview ). Rolling Stone. Accessed 2 April 2007.〕 For many years starting with the 1981 tour, Jagger changed the references of "girl" in the lyric to "woman". Like many of the songs from the ''Aftermath'' period, "Under My Thumb" uses more novel instrumentation than that featured on previous Stones records, including fuzz bass lines (played by Bill Wyman〔(Under My Thumb ) ''Time is On Our Side''〕), and marimba riffs played by Brian Jones, which provide the song's most prominent hook. The lyrics, which savour the successful 'taming of the shrew' and compare the woman in question to a "pet", a "Siamese cat" and a "squirming dog" provoked some negative reactions, especially amongst feminists, who objected to what they took as the suppressive sexual politics of the male narrator. American humanities professor Camille Paglia, for example, reports that her admiration and defence of "Under My Thumb" marked the beginning of a rift between her and the radical feminists of the late 1960s.〔Paglia, Camille. (1992) ''Sex, Art and American Culture: New Essays'', New York, Vintage, 1992, ISBN 978-0-679-74101-5〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Under My Thumb」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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