{"id":25550,"date":"2011-03-15T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/money-for-nothing-was-a-much-bigger-hit-than\/"},"modified":"2011-03-15T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T12:00:08","slug":"money-for-nothing-was-a-much-bigger-hit-than","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/money-for-nothing-was-a-much-bigger-hit-than\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&lsquo;Money for Nothing&rsquo; was a much bigger hit than anything that Dire Straits had done before; that is, Knopfler made himself into a successful rock star by way of a song about people resenting rock stars&rsquo; success. He also abandoned his own opposition to making music videos, so the song was marketed with an MTV video in which computer-animated characters disparaged MTV videos\u2014expressing what had previously been Knopfler&rsquo;s actual point of view\u2014which won Video of the Year and helped make the song No. 1. And then, yes, alongside Knopfler&rsquo;s grumbling, working-man&rsquo;s-persona anti-MTV, anti-rock-star lyrics, there was another voice singing the video network&rsquo;s actual marketing slogan, and that voice belonged to, of all people, Sting. So. If you&rsquo;re looking for some moment when art and commerce, integrity and &#8216;selling out,&rsquo; class solidarity and class envy, performer and spectator, content and advertisement, and assorted other tensions all collapsed into a lucrative and critic-proof singularity*, you could do worse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2011\/01\/the-continuous-multiplicities-of-money-for-nothing\">The Continuous Multiplicities Of &ldquo;Money For Nothing&rdquo; | The Awl<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lsquo;Money for Nothing&rsquo; was a much bigger hit than anything that Dire Straits had done before; that is, Knopfler made himself into a successful rock star by way of a song about people resenting rock stars&rsquo; success. He also abandoned his own opposition to making music videos, so the song was marketed with an MTV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6E6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}