Posted on 01/13/2011 9:30:34 AM PST by mkleesma
The 1980s song Money for Nothing by the British rock band Dire Straits has been deemed unacceptable for play on Canadian radio.
In a ruling released Wednesday, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council says the song contravenes the human rights clauses of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ Code of Ethics and Equitable Portrayal Code. A listener to radio station CHOZ-FM in St. John's complained last year that the song includes the word “faggot” in its lyrics and is discriminatory to gays.
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Perhaps Mark Knopfler and the band were doing a bit of role playing. They imagined themselves as the average joe looking at rock celebs and imagining themselves saying things like
“the little faggot got his own jet airplane” and then saying
“I should have learned to play a guitar”
In a famous Randy Newman song, he wasn’t making fun of
“short people”, he was making fun of bigots and fools:
RANDY: Short people ain’t got no reason to live...
BACKING CHORUS: Short people are just the same as you or I
RANDY: The fools such as I
There it is—Randy is making fun of bigots, he’s “playing a character” and in that last line his “character” is admitting he is a fool.
Robin Hood: You are entering the territory of Robin Hood and his Merry Men.
Rabbi Tuckman: Faygeles?
[clears their throats, trying to act macho]
Robin Hood: No, no. We're straight. Just... merry.
Rabbi Tuckman: As I. And who are you, with the exceptionally long feather in your hat?
Robin Hood: I am Robin of Locksley.
The lyrics for A Well Respected Man contain “And he likes his fags the best”, referring to cigarettes. Ray Davies had a little fun with that line during some concerts in the US. And in one song intro, he talked about an effeminate sounding cop who went up to him and asked “excuse me...is your name Ray Davies?”
Davies, he continues, said ‘yeh, what’s yours’. “L-O-L-A, Lola...”
On their live album, they sing (if I recall correctly) “the little mother’s got his own jet airplane, that mother-trucker he’s a millionaire!”
How about Blazing Saddles?
Now Watch Me FAGGOTS
we were listening to it on the radio recently, and that part had been deleted...
I just watched “The Producers” on TCM last Sunday. Made in 1968, it was openly making fun of homo stereotypes of those days. I don’t imagine such a film could be made today. The TCM commentator afterward said the studio (Goldwyn?) would not allow it to be released when it was first finished. He said it was “in bad taste”!Over time it got in circulation anyway and became very popular, especially on TV.
In the new version of "The Producers" the guy who played Hitler was gay. A lot more gay undertones in the update than in the original.
that was one line...
btw they use the same dialog in the recent broadway musical and subsequent movie...
“the verse in question refers to George Michael, who in fact IS gay”
I think George Michael was still in the closet at that time, but I don’t think anyone back then thought he preferred women.
Oddly enough, my mother LOVED Wham!.
Yeah, George Michael’s “coming out” was about as big a shock as Liberace, Clay Aiken, and Freddy Mercury.
Everybody knew he was a poofter after they saw the "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" video.
I wonder if his wife and two ex-wives are aware of that "fact"!
Faggot faggot faggot faggot
Sorry...missed your earlier reply.
Damn. Even MTV played that song unedited (before it became GayTV).
John Lennon is dead.The smelly hippies need to get over it!
Mark Knopfler isn't gay.
That's probably right.
I think the official explanation of the song was that of a working class New Yorker at an appliance store who watches MTV and describes what he sees. Knopfler overheard some of it and wrote a song about it. He wanted to use the real language they used.
And of course the PC police got to The Cure’s “Killing An Arab” decades ago.
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