The song "Tik Tok," as performed by Ke$ha, was written by a guy named Blanco [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Blanco]]. Its lyrics include the line "We kick them to the curb unless they look like Mick Jagger."
That's a little bit strange, right? Mick Jagger wasn't exactly at the height of his attractiveness when the piece in question came out. Stranger still, it wasn't the only popular song to paint the man in a pleasant light: "Moves Like Jagger," performed by Maroon 5, was released at around the same time, and Blanco also had a hand in writing that one [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moves_like_Jagger]].
This is where things start to get creepy.
The song "The Time (Dirty Bit)," as performed by the Black Eyed Peas, features the following phrase: "All these girls, they like my swagger, they calling me Mick Jagger, I be rolling like a Stone." It was written by DeNicola [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_DeNicola]], who used to produce the music for a band called Kara's Flowers... although you might know them better by their current name of Maroon 5.
The song "Heart and Soul," as performed by The Jonas Brothers, contains a verse that ends with "Making mistakes, but that won’t matter, if you can swag like old Mick Jagger." Armato [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonina_Armato]] wrote the piece, and she is managed by Music Publishing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Music_Publishing]]. Care to guess who else they manage? (Here's a hint: It rhymes with "balloon hive.")
This web of connections extends all throughout the recording industry, but one thing remains unclear: What's the link back to Mick Jagger himself? There must be something, because if you have a look at Google Trends, you'll see that popularity spiked [[https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=mick%20jagger]] with the release of each song. The only time in recent memory when it has been higher is during a period in March of 2014, when his girlfriend died. Some people have suggested that the man's name is just easy to rhyme with "swagger," but popular usage of the word (in reference to something other than a walking gait) came about after the aforementioned songs had hit the airwaves.
In other words, "Jagger" prompted "swagger," not the other way around.
Why does there seem to be a cabal of artists trying to artificially inflate the performer's appeal and popularity? What benefit is there in promoting an aging rock star? Who is actually behind this odd trend?
In order to answer those questions, we need to turn to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivendi]]. This is a company which owns a lot of stuff. Their subsidiaries include DailyMotion, UbiSoft, GameLoft... and the Universal Music Group. The Rolling Stones signed to Universal Music in 2008. In 2010, all of the songs listed above were released.
at those Google trends again [[https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=mick%20jagger]]. 2008 marked Mick Jagger's lowest ever dip in popularity, and the slump continued until February of 2010 (right after "Tik Tok" became the most popular song on the radio). In September of that same year, The Rolling Stones their rare concert movie [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies_and_Gentlemen:_The_Rolling_Stones]], securing the number one spot on four different countries' charts - the US and the UK being two of them - second place on four more, and a Double Platinum certification in Canada.
Strangely enough, though, the only other place (besides the United States) where Platinum status was achieved was in France... which is where is located [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivendi]].
What if all of this was carefully planned and executed?
What if there's a shadowy organization that's intent on promoting Mick Jagger for their own profit?
What if I made all of this up on a whim, and just found whatever tenuous evidence I could to support it?
TL;DR: Mick Jagger is a puppet of the recording industry.
This is happily stolen as its becoming a bit of meme when conspiracy theories are brought up.