It is actually just delightful to hear a 23-year-old Mick Jagger sing about “what a drag it is getting old.” Because in this regard he was less than prescient - at least in his own case, since the Rolling Stones managed to party uninterrupted for five decades and continue to sell out stadiums into their 70s.īut the part about things being different today and needing a mother’s little helper, that actually ended up being spot on. The first has nothing to do with payments or commerce.
The song, incidentally, makes an absolutely terrible choice for an addition to a Mother’s Day playlist in almost any imaginable circumstance – so do not include it and certainly don’t tell your mother it reminds you of her.īut even though you should absolutely not include this on your Mother’s Day playlist, it absolutely deserves a pre-Mother’s Day listen for two reasons. If one had the bright idea to make your mother a playlist (or a mix CD for the particularly old-school) for her to listen to on Mother’s Day and searched Google for songs about motherhood, you might (as we actually did) stumble onto the Rolling Stone’s classic “Mother’s Little Helper." The Rolling Stones, "Mother’s Little Helper," 1966.“Things are different today, I hear every mother say …”
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