"Watch me! It's so simple! Give me the playback! Watch me, faggots! ..."
Posted on 01/14/2011 8:18:35 AM PST by SeekAndFind
It may be a classic rock song but 26 years after it was first released Dire Straits hit Money For Nothing has been banned from radio.
The song was ruled too offensive for the airwaves in Canada because it contains the word 'f****t' and can now no longer be played in its original form.
Any station that wants to play the song will have to edit it or disguise the word, according to ruling by the Canadian Broadcasts Standards Council.
The decision came after a listener complained that the broadcast of unedited version of the song – which mentions the word three times – was 'extremely offensive' to gay, lesbian and bisexual people.
The songs second verse contains the offensive word three times. It says: ‘The little 'f****t' with the earring and the makeup. Yeah, buddy, that’s his own hair'
‘That little 'f****t's' got his own jet airplane. That little 'f****t' he’s a millionaire'.
The entire verse is edited out of some versions of the song, or the word is simply replaced.
The council concluded that 'f****t'. when used to describe a homosexual man, is a word 'that, even if entirely or marginally acceptable in earlier days, is no longer so.'
'The societal values at issue a quarter century later have shifted and the broadcast of the song in 2010 must reflect those values, rather than those of 1985.'
Co-written in 1985 by Mark Knopfler and Sting, Money For Nothing is penned from the perspective of a working class man who spends his time watching music videos and comments on what he sees.
In an interview with Rolling Stone around the time the song was released Knopfler said: ‘I got an objection from the editor of a gay newspaper in London - he actually said it was 'below the belt.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
and Randy Newman’s Rednecks song.
Immaterial. There are certian words which now may not be uttered or printed - by certain people. They’re redacting Mark Twain, right?
Well there is the line “get your p****” near the end of MFN.
There’s a line in a Taylor Swift song that goes, “So go and tell your friends that I’m obsessive and crazy; that’s fine, I’ll tell mine that you’re gay!” One rarely hears this version on the radio. There’s a substitute line that’s more “sensitive.”
"Watch me! It's so simple! Give me the playback! Watch me, faggots! ..."
Canadian Broadcasts Standards Council - they’re a bunch of sticks.
Oh thanks. Now this song will be in my head all day
I want my, I want my, I want my MTV
You’re making the right call. Use the “N-word” one time here, and context doesn’t matter... the left will immediately see you as one of those racist Klansman Freepers over there on the FreeRepublic site tossing around racial epithets.
Sorry, Zero promised that and that is how he got elected
"Faggot" is a perfectly good word (like "gay") that has been mis-appropriated by the queers as an euphemism.
As an editor, I would say,
MTV has played (or use to play) edited versions of this video many years ago with the “faggot” reference removed.
RE: mis-appropriated by the queers as an euphemism.
Is queer still politically correct? If find it quite queer that I even have to ask the question...
Can anybody still sing the song -— Deck the Halls: “Don we now our GAY apparel” without thinking of something else?
“...VERY LIBERAL professor fired from UW for using the term “niggardly” properly...”
And the next thing you know, those insensitive cosmologists are going to start using the term “black hole” again.
PC or not, "queer" is shorter to type than the more-accurate term, "filthy r**p-humping, c**k-sucking perverts" -- and, probably far less offensive to normal folks...
Down the Orwell’s Memory Hole:
I want my MTV
(X 16)
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 faggot with the earring and the makeup
Yeah buddy that’s his own hair
That little faggot got his own jet airplane
That little faggot 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
We gotta install microwave ovens
Custom kitchens deliveries
We gotta move these refrigerators
We gotta move these color TV’s
Look a’ here
That ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it
You play the guitar on your MTV
That ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it
Money for nothin’ and your chicks for free
Money for nothin’ and chicks for free
Money for nothin’ and your chicks for free
Look at that, look at that
Money for nothin’ and your chicks for free
I want my, I want my, I want my MTV
Money for nothin’ and chicks for free
(Fade)
I want my, I want my, I want my MTV
I always thought that song was woefully out of place on “Brothers In Arms”, frankly I usually skip it when I play the album.
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