Money For Nothing, is being banned for radio in Canada. Read the comments after the article, but please, if you have a reply, no political comments or biggotry.
  http://ca.news.yahoo.com/dire-straits-money-nothing-censored-broadcast-panel-rul...

The comments below the article are coming in so fast that the one I read is pages in the background so I copy/paste it below..
The point of the use of the word "@#$%" in the song was to be offensive, in a working class way. It is used to ironically reveal and deplore the stupdity of the speaker for using the word in the first place. It is a not a word used to deplore homosexuality, but to deplore biggotry and ignorance.

Are you trying to tell me Sting, one of the most public and left wing leaning recording artists in the hostory of the UK was willingly involved in the recording of a song that was **intended to be offensive to Lesbians and gays?** Or is it just possible that the entire point of the song lyrics was the self-evident use of irony?

If you actually care to listne to the entire song, it's all ABOUT the misplaced values of the ignorant blue collar workman who narrates the song and demonstrates his ignorance. The song is all about the fact that the narrator has **no clue** as to the real work that goes into be a recording artist. That's the entire *point* of the song.

The lyrics are from a 25 year old song, released before s. 15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in Canada was used to recognize protection form discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The positive attitude in Canada towards LGBT and same-sex marriage does not FLY in the face of the lyrics of the song; to the contrary, the positive attitude was SHAPED and ENCOURAGED by the irony in the lyrics of this song. This is PRO gay song by belittling biggotry; it is not a negative song.

The generation that hummed along to this song when it was released is the SAME generation that supported same-sex marriage and changed the world.

I am utterly stunned, STUNNED, that this is not self-evident to the CBSC.

Read the Lyrics you morons!

"Now look at them yo-yo's that's the way you do it
You play the guitar on the MTV
That ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Money for nothin' and your chicks for free

Now that ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Lemme tell ya them guys ain't dumb
Maybe get a blister on your little finger
Maybe get a blister on your thumb

We gotta install microwave ovens
Custom kitchen deliveries
We gotta move these refrigerators
We gotta move these color TV's

See the little @#$% with the earring and the makeup
Yeah buddy that's his own hair
That little @#$% got his own jet airplane
That little @#$% he's a millionaire

Gotta install microwave ovens
Custom kitchen deliveries
We gotta move these refrigerators
Gotta move these color TV's

I shoulda learned to play the guitar
I shoulda learned to play them drums
Look at that mama, she got it stickin' in the camera
Man we could have some

And he's up there, what's that? Hawaiian noises?
Bangin' on the bongos like a chimpanzee
That ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Get your money for nothin' get your chicks for free"



 

patchz wrote on Jan 13^th, 2011 at 6:17pm:


Yes Rap, HipHop and other genre far worse than this song exsist here. I have all of Dire Straights music and love it. I am as stunned as the author of the comment I posted. Now, I'm sliding my headphones on and going to listen to some Dire Straights.     

Webb wrote on Jan 13^th, 2011 at 6:37pm:


Well said! If Bob and Doug were in charge we'd get a free beer every time we play the song, ehh.

There is already an edited version of Money for Nothing, I have the CD, they take out the entire verse in question, matter of fact I didn't even know that verse was in the song until several years later when I heard it on XM...

The political correctness brigade on the warpath again
Mind you in certain Nordic countries you can only name your child from an approved list

Hagar wrote on Jan 14^th, 2011 at 2:39pm:

patchz wrote on Jan 14^th, 2011 at 2:43pm:


We seem to be on course to rewrite history due to a small narrow minded few. History cannot be changed, only glossified to make it sound nicer. I would rather hear or read the unglorified truth and realize that in that day, that is the way things were.