When Dire Straits decided that censoring their Song Money For Nothing by eliminating an entire Verse was the thing to do , nothing surprises me anymore. So much for Artistic integrity.
Do you have a citation for that? I heard the orginal version on Sirius or over the air recently.
I saw video of Knoffler singing the lyric as “That little maggot....”
That’s only happened in the last few years. Amazes me that the song went over 3 decades without being censored.
The song was portraying someone: “The little faggot with the earring and the makeup...”—that’s being said by someone the singer is portraying. Just like Short People—Randy Newman wasn’t making fun of short people, he was making fun of bigotry. “Short people are just the same as you and I”,
the background singers go.
“The fools such as I,” sings Randy. Bing.
But I guess that went over people’s heads.
Watched an old SNL last night—host Buck Henry, musical guest Bette Midler. Garrett Morris posed as an intellectual commenting on the song Some Girls and he slightly cleaned up the line about black girls wanting to get f-—ed all night. He takes off his glasses and says, in a more guy-next-door
tone: “So..where ARE these girls, man?”
Could that be done? Maybe.
I do know Eddie Murphy’s bit as Mr Robinson a few years ago was like the good old days. Bits about liberal whites spending big bucks to live in his old building. How can
he afford it? Squatters’ rights, boys and girls. He angrily denounces them for even insinuating he took the TV set they ordered.
Then he teaches the kids an important word: RACISM
# When Dire Straits decided that censoring their Song Money For Nothing by eliminating an entire Verse was the thing to do , nothing surprises me anymore. So much for Artistic integrity.
LOL. I hadn’t heard about that but am not surprised at all.
The little faggot with the earring and the makeup,
Yeah buddy, that’s his own hair!
The little faggot got his own jet airplane!
The little faggot, he’s a millionaire!