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While “Money for Nothing” was commercially successful, it wasn’t without its share of controversy. The lyrics were deemed homophobic and so when they performed it live, Dire Straits would replace some of the words with something less vulgar.

Dire Straits wasn’t aiming the satire at slavery and white supremacy, and only incidentally at homophobia. The song’s narrator is slinging around the word “faggot” because he is a small-minded.