With Sting’s inclusion his background vocals state ‘I want my MTV’ referring to the industry. The lyrics of the song are important because it is from the view of working-class men watching MTV and making comments. “Trudy said to me ‘you know, that’s going to be such a huge hit.’ I said ‘umm… I don’t know, that’s okay.’ Of course, it was the biggest hit of that year and so I was very proud to be on that but, it is a pure function of being in the right place at the right time.“ He stated that he thought the song was ‘okay’ but he stated that later, he was very proud of being included and regarded the situation as ‘being in the right place at the right time.’ Sting didn’t think that the song would be a hit. Sting came up to the studio, we already had the track in place.
“I’d seen on MTV The Police doing an ad for it, and I thought ‘well if I stick that to ‘Don’t Stand So Close to Me’ those notes, that would fit.’ We were recording ‘Money For Nothing,’ and I said to somebody ‘I wish Sting was here’ and somebody said ‘Well he is here, he is on holiday’ and I said that’s great I told him ‘great, get him up here’ Cause I can hear him singing on this thing.
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