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From: ewa@sdcc3.UUCP (Eric Anderson)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Dire Straits: Making money for nothing
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Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 17:13:11 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 18 17:13:11 1985
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In article <1719@pyuxd.UUCP> rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) writes:
>Mark Knopfler claims the song is not anti-MTV.  When I first heard it,
>though, it sure sounded like it.  I interpreted him as saying the purpose
>of videos was to "move" (i.e., sell) refrigerators and color TV's (referring
>back to my favorite term for Manilow/Rodgers/Ritchie pap - refrigerator music).
>					Rich Rosen    ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr

Mark Knopfler has to make this claim or they would throw him off MTV forever.
But in an interview (on MTV, no less) he said that when he wrote the song he
did so from the viewpoint of an 'ignoramus'.. implying that only a fool would
be duped by the 'I want my MTV' slogan. I guess only fools work at MTV (if the
V.J.'s are any indication) and they are all so stary-eyed that they don't
realize what fun Knopfler is making of them.

Eric Anderson, UC San Diego {elsewhere}!ihnp4!ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdcc3!ewa


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