Dire Strait- Money For Nothing

Dire Strait starts off slow and progresses, in Money for Nothing, into faster pace and louder sound coming from the background. The active sounds of rock and roll begin to form around the two minute mark and crescendos into the lyrics of the song. After hearing the first verse and the first chorus of the song, the familiar sound started to play in my head, because of previous exposure to the song. I never actually knew what the lyrics in the song were saying for the chorus, but after reading them on a screen for the first time, it honestly just seemed like a bunch of random words that were put together with a catchy beat. Come later to learn, that this song was one of the first songs to air on MTV Europe, and was also one of the first music videos produced that involved the use of a CGI (Computer-generated imagery) human character who helped push Dire Strait's music video to win the Video of the Year in 1986 at the MTV Video Awards. The ending of the song, however, ends with the continuous saying of, "Money for nothing, and your chicks for free. Money for nothing, and chicks for free.", and these lines repeat for almost thirty seconds towards the end, but these particular lyrics suggest that being a "rock star" you earn a great deal of money to perform on stage, but that the girls that are for free, are adoring fans wanting to be with this famous musician. Things come and go are we progress though life, but nothing ever stays the same.







References

• (1985, June 24). Dire Straits (Ft. Sting) – Money for Nothing. Retrieved from https://genius.com/Dire-straits-money-for-nothing-lyrics