Mick Jagger Auctions NFT of ‘Eazy Sleazy’ To Benefit NIVA, UK Venue Organizations

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Mick Jagger will donate all proceeds from an NFT based on “Eazy Sleazy,” his just-released song with Foo Fighter Dave Grohl, to independent music venues in the U.S. and UK. The audio-visual NFT, featuring a loop of the song developed with 3D artist Olver Latt (aka Extraweg) is now live as a 24-hour auction, according to an announcement reported by Variety.

The auction, which went live at 1 p.m. EDT today through Nifty Gateway, is a 1-1 piece and 100% of the proceeds will go to charity with the lion’s share divided between the UK’s Music Venue Trust, Back-up, and U.S.-based NIVA. A portion of proceeds will also go to environmental causes. 

The effort comes just as American independent venues, already suffering from massive losses thanks to the COVID pandemic, are hamstrung by last week’s crash of the Small Business Administration’s website that continues to delay some $16 billion worth of relief they’ve waited on since it was approved in December.

According to the announcement, the 30-second audio-visual piece “evokes a surreal essence of breaking through the barriers of the human mind and pushing forward on the brink of social collapse to provide a much needed moment of artistic relief as the world slowly transitions out of lockdown.”


“It’s a song that I wrote about coming out of lockdown, with some much needed optimism,” Jagger said in a statement Tuesday. “Thanks to Dave Grohl for jumping on drums, bass and guitar. It was a lot of fun working with him.”

The duo recorded the song and video in different studio locations — Jagger at home and Grohl in the Foo Fighters studio — and the lyrics mention “prison walls,” “virtual premieres,” numbers that are “grim” and Zoom calls. Jagger complains: “I’ve got nothing left to wear.”

The song also name-checks Bill Gates, lampoons conspiracy theories and those who deny climate change and gleefully reveals “There’s aliens in the deep state.”

But there seems to be hope. Jagger looks ahead and sees a “garden of earthly delights” when vaccines are administered and lockdown ends.

“Everything’s gonna get really freaky/Alright on the night/Soon it’ll be a memory/You’re trying to remember to forget.”