Money for Nothing banned in Canada

I am a gay man and I was in my early teens when this song was popular. Thanks to inescapable airplay on radio and  MTV it was difficult to avoid.  I don't remember the F word being censored then (on "liberal"-minded MTV this seems incredulous now.) I loved this song, enough so that I purchased the entire cassette (Brothers In Arms) and became a fan of the band (at least for that one album).

In my early teens I wasn't fully cognizant of what being gay meant, just knew I was a bit different than the other boys my age. I knew that f***** meant something bad, but because of my own lack of full awareness about myself it didn't register on a personal level. Hearing those lyrics now, with full acceptance of who I am, sounds so much different than they did as a kid.  Offensive? Sure. I don't like being called a f*****, even if its by another gay person. In the context of "Money for Nothing" it drains some of the enjoyment I used to get out of the song. I know the lyrics are based on the kind of "good-ol'-boy" conversations shared between like-minded individuals without indoctrination into "political correctness", but even still it feels like a direct sting. (Sting? Pun intended!)

Should it be banned? No, and neither should ""Huckleberry Finn".  These works are what they are, warts and all. Let's use these examples as touchstones to discuss bigger issues. 

stonebeard wrote: Canada needs it's controversy too, eh?

Doesn't that happen whenever they let Michael Moore into the country?

I guess Canada's also gonna have to ban all that hip-hop that treats women like thrash...

Apparently, they treat their women with fast riffs and extremely loud guitars...

The T wrote: What the hell does the opening post mean?

Whats a problem? Just curious.

Funny thing, ridiculous deicsion.

I know at least one song of King Crimson with fa*** in it. Does it get banned too?

Are Brownies still not banned in the USA?

RoyFairbank wrote: As someone said, this is steeped in hypocrisy when the country is still engaged in overseas wars. You can't have a song that slips a little opinion on a group of people offhand, but you can pulverize innocents in third world countries? Identity politics is the scourge of the earth

Snow Dog wrote: RoyFairbank wrote: As someone said, this is steeped in hypocrisy when the country is still engaged in overseas wars. You can't have a song that slips a little opinion on a group of people offhand, but you can pulverize innocents in third world countries? Identity politics is the scourge of the earth How can it be hypocracy? The radio stations aren't engaged in overseas wars.

why would you clamp down on money for nothing when you should clamp on predator drones?

*how could you ignore the wars but clamp down on stupid things moralistically...?

Hypocrisy.


Edited by RoyFairbank - January 20 2011 at 11:34