Canadian Broadcasting Standards has banned it from Canadian airwaves!
A listener to radio station CHOZ-FM in St. John's, N.L., complained last year that the song includes the word "fa99ot" in its lyrics and is discriminatory to gays.
Back in the 80s, I remember that verse being excised from radio airplay. I don't see why the policy would have changed.
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Back in the 80s, I remember that verse being excised from radio airplay. I don't see why the policy would have changed.
They have such a double standard when they do that. I remember in the early 90s listening to the radio and they played Tom Cochrane and Alice in Chains on the same segment. Both songs had the word "sh**" in them, yet only the Alice in Chains song had in removed when it played.
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To my knowledge I've never heard them actually play that line or word in the song (at least on Calgary stations).
Just the other day I was listening to Steve Miller's 'Jet Airliner' on Q107 and the line "funky sh*t going down in the city" was played. I have heard a version that is changed to "funky kicks" as well.
Back in the 80s, I remember that verse being excised from radio airplay. I don't see why the policy would have changed.
And that's what the ruling is. I'm more surprised that this wasn't already the case.
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A CBSC panel concluded that the word "######," even if once acceptable, has evolved to become unacceptable in most circumstances.
The panel noted that "Money for Nothing" would be acceptable for broadcast if suitably edited.
It's a non-issue.
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Just wait till Big Brother gets working on all these Rap and Hip Hop songs!
Ah, they already have. Hear many uncut versions of Gold Digger on the radio? How about Cee Lo's #### You? Or the thousand of other examples. Even CP doesn't let me quote the word.
A listener to radio station CHOZ-FM in St. John's, N.L., complained last year that the song includes the word "fa99ot" in its lyrics and is discriminatory to gays.
What a moron. The song isn't talking about gays. It clearly identifies that the song is only referring to ONE person......an individual with an earring, makeup and jet airplane (He's a millionaire).
What a moron. The song isn't talking about gays. It clearly identifies that the song is only referring to ONE person......an individual with an earring, makeup and jet airplane (He's a millionaire).
It's a rip on Prince I believe.
Thank goodness I have the government to tell me what is good for me, I get so confused trying to make decisions on my own...
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The observations of the character included references to a musician "banging on the bongos like a chimpanzee" and a description of a singer as "that little ###### with the earring and the make-up", and lamenting that the artists got "money for nothing and chicks for free". These lyrics were widely criticised as sexist, racist and homophobic statements, and in some later releases of the song the lyrics were edited for airplay; "######" for example is often replaced with "mother" (itself a shortened version of another potentially offensive phrase in this context).
When the song is included in rotation as part of a music feed played in stores or restaurants, "######" is usually turned backwards.[citation needed] The entire second verse was edited out for content and length for radio and video airplay, and on the 7" single. This edited version is included in the compilation albums Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits and Money for Nothing.
In a late 1985 interview in Rolling Stone magazine, Knopfler expressed mixed feelings on the controversy:
“ I got an objection from the editor of a gay newspaper in London - he actually said it was below the belt. Apart from the fact that there are stupid gay people as well as stupid other people, it suggests that maybe you can't let it have so many meanings - you have to be direct. In fact, I'm still in two minds as to whether it's a good idea to write songs that aren't in the first person, to take on other characters.[4] ” Mötley CrüeNikki Sixx, in an interview with Blender Magazine, claimed that the song is actually about his band's excessive lifestyle, and that he heard the clerks in the store were commenting on Mötley Crüe videos shown on the in-store television sets.[5] bassist
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They already edit out "###### America" in that song on the radio.
It is important to remember that the song isn't banned - radio stations just have to play the radio edit that has existed in parallel with the unedited version for quite some time. This isn't really any different that other radio edits.
That being said, I like my music unedited, but I understand why commercial radio can't/won't play unedited songs. If the songwriter wanted there to be an f-bomb in the song, that's where it should be. I also feel that language is really just that and people need to toughen up.
I wonder if any homosexuals are offended by the word in that context, or if perhaps the complainant was a straight soccer mom who simply didn't like the word?
Personally, I'd rather hear Dylan drop the n-word in The Hurricane than hear Kanye do it in Gold Digger. When Dylan did it, it was an important descriptor in a politically charged song. When Kayne does it, it's just fluff.
It was this performance at Live Aid in 1985 (with Sting!) that turned me on to the greatness of Dire Straits.
...and if you have 11 minutes, here is Sultans of Swing from the same show:
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