, and that voice belonged to, of all people, Sting. And then, yes, alongside Knopfler’s grumbling, working-man’s-persona anti-MTV, anti-rock-star lyrics, there was another voice singing the video network’s In which computer-animated characters disparaged MTV videos-expressing what had previously been Knopfler’s actual point of view-which won Video of the Year and helped make the song No. The cultural history and politics of the song are even more tangled up than that: “Money for Nothing” was a much bigger hit than anything that Dire Straits had done before that is, Knopfler made himself into a successful rock star by way of a song about people resenting rock stars’ success. Ha, ha! You schmucks have to move refrigerators. Stupid proles! “We got to move these refrigerators,” Knopfler complains in the refrain. The song’s narrator is slinging around the word “faggot” because he is a small-minded dope who resents the fame and riches he sees rock stars displaying “on the MTV.” That is, the song is a rock star disparaging someone for being envious of rock stars.
Dire Straits wasn’t aiming the satire at slavery and white supremacy, and only incidentally at homophobia.
That’s not to say there’s no reason to wince a little at the song. “That little faggot got his own jet airplane” is remarkably close, in function and intent, toĪbout the “free nigger there from Ohio…He had the whitest shirt on you ever see, too, and the shiniest hat and there ain`t a man in that town that`s got as fine clothes as what he had and he had a gold watch and chain, and a silver-headed cane.” “Money for Nothing” falls in the tradition of songs that offend people because the lyrics are being sung in character Mark Knopfler wasn’t calling anyone a “faggot” any more than Randy Newman was really disparaging Nowadays our right-thinking northern neighbors see the song as a civil-rights problem, which marks them as more enlightened but also more dense than the first wave of critics. Originally, it was more a question of the terrible creeping coarseness of our popular entertainment-the idea was not so much to protect gay people from a slur as to protect children from hearing it. This time, at least, the dispute is about whether the lyrics of “Money for Nothing” are hurtful to homosexuals, which was not really the principal concern back in 1985 (side note: wow, Calvin and Hobbes sure called each other “sissy” a lot). By April, people will be arguing about whether it’s appropriate to show unmarried people in bed in the movies. , and now Canada is winding the clock back a few more years to revive the argument over whetherĭire Straits can say “faggot” on the radio Tones & I also won her fourth award as Best Female Artist.Oh, hooray, first the Catholic League got all twisted up about a It won ARIA Award for Best Female Artist, Best Pop Release and Breakthrough Artist. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2019, the single was nominated for seven awards, winning three. "Dance Monkey" also holds the record for the longest time at number one in the modern rock era in Australia (1955–present), with 22 weeks. With its sixteenth week at number one, in November, it broke the record for the most weeks at number one in Australia's ARIA chart history (1983–present), previously held by Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You" (2017).
Upon reaching its tenth week at the top of the Australian Singles Chart, "Dance Monkey" broke the record for the most weeks at number one on the chart by an Australian act, previously held by Justice Crew's 2014 song "Que Sera". It is the first charting single for Tones and I in the United States, peaking at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100. Upon release, Tones and I said the song is about the expectations that are placed on musical performers."Dance Monkey" has topped the charts in over 30 countries including Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, and peaked within the top ten in many other European and Asian countries.
The song was produced and mixed by Konstantin Kersting. "Dance Monkey" is a song by Australian singer Tones and I, released on as the second single from Tones and I's debut EP The Kids Are Coming.
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