Next time you listen to it, imagine the situation that is being presented. The singer said that all the words are literally what the guy at the department store was saying without knowing who Mark Knopfler (the singer) was. Add in the video (in a time when computer graphics were very primitive) and it’s really one of those great stories.
Not sure this is the cause in these cases, but it’s all too common in design by committee. Keeping the creative direction and vision in a single person is so damn important.
This is exactly how I feel about Money for nothing by Dire Straits…
One of the best intro riffs of all time, then it sounds like something from a BBC kids show.
Yup. It’s a linedancing song just like “AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long”.
I went to some discos in Brazil in the 80s. People were frantically dancing to this song.
Edit: most of the time, the song that followed was “beds are burning” by midnight oil.
Next time you listen to it, imagine the situation that is being presented. The singer said that all the words are literally what the guy at the department store was saying without knowing who Mark Knopfler (the singer) was. Add in the video (in a time when computer graphics were very primitive) and it’s really one of those great stories.
Not sure this is the cause in these cases, but it’s all too common in design by committee. Keeping the creative direction and vision in a single person is so damn important.