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From: danb@tesla.UUCP (Dan Blumenthal)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Dire Straits: Making money for nothing
Message-ID: <604@tesla.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 00:49:40 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 23 00:49:40 1985
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In article <2999@sdcc3.UUCP> ewa@sdcc3.UUCP (Eric Anderson) writes:
>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







I'm having some trouble with the posting routines here, so I
cross my fingers that this gets thru. According to an article
in the New York Times, Knofler is quoted as getting the idea for
the song in an electronics store on the Upper West Side of Manhattan
where he overheard two appliance guys saying something like 'look at 
them yoyo's'' etc... He said that they thought that all the musicians
did was mouth the words and get chicks, and it the pointw was that it wasn't that simple.

References upon request...

Dan B. 

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