Millie Jackson was a bit of a soul-funk phenomenon of the 1970s and 1980s. She had an incredibly successful career as a singer, placing well over 30 singles on the R&B charts, and she had hits with collaborators as diverse as Elton John (”Act of War”), Isaac Hayes (”Do You Wanna Make Love”), and Whodini (”Be Yourself”).  One of her biggest hits was a cover of Merle Haggard’s “If You’re Not Back In Love By Monday.” 

But Jackson’s truly distinctive skill was outrageous and humorous stage banter. Styling herself as the kind of black woman who takes no shit, she made profanity one of her defining skills, releasing albums with titles like Live & Uncensored, Back to the S..t!, Live and Outrageous (Rated XXX), and—her final album actually—Not for Church Folk!
 

 
It was on 1979’s Live & Uncensored (recorded at the Roxy in Los Angeles) that Jackson introduced her record-buying audiences to a number she’d been doing on stage for a while, listed on the record sleeve as “Phuck U Symphony.” It’s a short song in which the only lyrics are the words “Fuck You” and the music is a pastiche of classical music melodies.

The song added to Jackson’s reputation as a figure of fun. For instance, in 1981 the Black Music & Jazz Review wrote that “For her live show and subsequent live album she composed the ‘Phuck U Symphony,’ a piece which I doubt we’ll hear the Boston Pops perform.”

Listen to it. It’s what we’ve all wanted to say to this fucked year of 2016 for a few months now.