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From: krossen@bbncca.ARPA (Ken Rossen)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: Keeping the beat (Gay themes in pop music)
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Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 16:18:32 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  6 16:18:32 1985
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In article <1270@decwrl.UUCP> fisher@dssdev.DEC (Gerry --- Hopelessly Obscure) 
writes (concerning "Money for Nothing"):

>     Mark Knopfler, has removed the lyrics [about "the little faggot"] from
>     his concert performance because of the mass-misinterpretation. (He has
>     stated in many interviews that the lyrics to the song are direct
>     quotes from an appliance store worker whom he overhead in New York.)  

Well, this song was discussed to death in net.music, but I want to make one
comment on this -- Knopfler did (as I understand it) write most of the
lyrics himself, though the song was inspired by an appliance store worker
whose comments directly constitute some number of the lines in the song
(anybody know which ones?)  Nonetheless I agree that the knee-jerk reaction
to "faggot" is unwarranted and short-sighted.

>     Just after the narrator rants and raves about fagots, a picture of
>     Dire Straits appears on the TV, the narrator pointing at the band
>     while ranting and raving.

It's not Dire Straits who appear at this point in the video.  The three bands
in the video are imaginary, tho' people in net.music have said that they
correspond to real-life performers.  Anybody know WHO?

While on this theme, I'd like to know if anybody has any idea what Bronski
Beat is doing.  I understand that they lost one (more?) members (the lead
singer?), and I'm wondering if they're continuing to record.

Also, if anyone has head some of the Smiths' new album and would like to
comment on its content, I'd love to hear about it (I haven't heard the
album, but the raw emotion of their songs has certainly been striking in
the past).

Lastly (on this topic) has anybody else noticed the lines "For those of you
who've gone the other way / Girls are more fun" in Ray Parker, Jr.'s new
single?  Do you find this as obnoxious as I do?  Or is this sort of Top-40
schlock just to boring for anyone to care?
-- 
Ken Rossen	...!{decvax,ihnp4,ima,linus,harvard,seismo}!bbncca!krossen
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