Showing posts with label Money For Nothing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Money For Nothing. Show all posts

Sunday, 16 January 2011

Money for Nothing and censorship

I don't know if it made big news over the Atlantic or indeed outside Canada, but the CBSC decided to censor Money for Nothing by Dire Straits because of its use of the word "faggot". These cowardly attempts to censorsing art always get me boiling down. Thankfully the airwaves resisted. I don't know much about the group to be honest as just got aware of the scandal recently through the Quebec medias, but I happen to be quite fond of that song: it is one my Italian friend (the same one who made me discover Fabrizio de André) used to listen to quite a lot and it reminds me of many lovely evenings I spent with them. And it is the kind of classic rock song I love. So I might not be original, but to say to Hell to those cowardly PC idiots at the CBSC and to give them a virtual middle finger (because I don't mind being rude to cowards, as there is no reason to be polite), I have decided to put the song here.