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FIRST!!!1!
What the f*ck does this mean? Oo
lol, don’t vote it 0 stars just because you don’t get it
I mostly just don’t get the “for nothing”. Did they mean “good for nothing”?
no and you obviously didn’t get any of the other references, otherwise you wouldn’t ask but just google it.
Anything you have to Google to understand is un-funny.
agree
i dont think a graph can be used to represent song references
That was actually the original purpose of the website.
Look at all the older graphs.
You know the official title of this web page is ” GraphJam: Music and Pop Culture in Charts and Graphs. Let us explain them.™”, right? Music is right there, and the people who operatate this site expect music and song references.
Just because you are too dumb to get them does not make the references bad or the graphs un-funny. It just means you don’t get it. Now, for all the idiots and under 19 crowd for forget music has been around a while:
Money, that’s what I want: The Beatles
Money can’t buy me love: also The Beatles
Money, it’s a gas: Pink Floyd
Money for nothing: Dire Straights
Mo money, mo problems: Notorious B.I.G
Money, that’s what I want was originally for Barrett Strong.
Note I said, for because he didn’t write it.
i thought mo money mo problems was by chiddy bang- the opposite of adults
and chicks for free
And your chicks for free.
You must be in some dire straits if you don’t get that.
WIN!
Dire Straits song: Money For Nothing
Uhh, Straits
“Money For Nothing” by Dire Straights
I did get some of it but I would like more explanation.
huh, if you get even one of it you should be able to figure the other ones out, wouldn’t you?
readership here is probably too young to get it, I suppose :/
And that’s pretty sad.
Here it is for those of you who don’t understand, which will ruin the joke, and make it be not funny for you.
1963: Money (That’s What I Want), by The Beatles.
1964: Can’t Buy Me Love, by The Beatles (the line is “Money can’t buy me love.”)
1973: Money, by Pink Floyd (the line is “Money, it’s a gas.”)
1986: Money for Nothin, by Dire Straits (Most people who didn’t live through that time know this as “I Want my MTV”)
1997: Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems, by some rapper. Horrible song. Speaks for itself.
Money, that’s what I want was originally for Barrett Strong.
Note I said, for because he didn’t write it.
Yes, I had thought it had 1963 listed for that one, which would’ve been The Beatles version.
But the Beatles’ version is far more rockin.
Or the presentation is so terrible that even if you get the reference it just doesn’t make sense. Maybe it’d work better in a different format?
Yep. Basically. shouldn’t have been a line graph.
what’s the best presentation?
a bar graph?
It shouldn’t have been a graph at all.
The only way this could have been a graph is if the statements on the y-axis were some sort of quantity or units. But they aren’t – and that’s why the OP just put “Y-Axis” instead of a unit.
This is a fail.
i forsee a huge string of graphs in the near future where x is an item (i.e., money) and the y-axis is a bunch of song references
yup, and the references are just kinda randomly placed
no they are placed on the year of their release.
I find it hard to believe that this graph only got 2.5 so far and “When my mom decides to vacuum” got over 4.5. At least this one required some thought to make? And no it’s not mine.
amen
It’s because the kids who frequent this site, in general, have no knowledge of any song prior to 1995, and one’s mother vacuuming is a much more well known thing.
This graph finally fit in the description of what a graph on graphjam should be. Just because you are musically ignorant does not mean this is not funny, you are just lame.
Thank you for making me laugh, oh graph creator.
^ OP
What about those of us who did get it, but found it unfunny?
thank you
I **HOPE** you’re not disrespecting The Knopfler. That man is a GOD. A GOD!!
This is cute.
Lets see… Its a gas… Thats pink floyd… Can’t Buy me love is the Beatles, For nothing, is dire straits… I dont know the other two
i realise i forgot to label the axes. fail.
but i can’t think of another graph format that would make more sense… and i’m not sure that graphs on this site are really required t be mathematically viable. just funny (which is pretty subjective, admittedly) and have some element of truth to them.
thanks for your comments, RJ
i was born in 85 so most of these are before my time, but CLASSICS!!
and i forgot abba.
So if you don’t find this funny you’re dumb, under 19, and musically unaware? Explain what’s so funny and intelligent that people can’t grasp.
If one has to explain a joke, it has lost all humor. It is understood by those who get it, and find it funny. That’s all that matters.
nubs don’t get musical allusions.
I love this. The first graph in who knows how long that actually pertains to the purpose of the website, and half the readers don’t get it!
That the readership of this site skews young is no excuse for so many people not getting the joke. If Santayana was right and those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, it follows that forgetting pop culture history dooms us to recycle the same fashions and trends. Do we really want parachute pants to come back in style?
Well, it would have been more funny, if “that’s what I want” from 1959 would have been covered 1969 and 1977 and “mo problems” would have originally been sung 1981 before 1997.
But I guess, the Y-Axis is meant to represent the positiveness of the depiction of money in music.
you sir, are a genius with the song references
Brilliant! Subtle until you can’t get the songs out of your head.
instant epic win for any pink floyd reference. by the way, wtf is with my name?
Am I the only one who tried to highlight it to reveal the white text?
Totally left out and that!!! is a CRIME!! –
“Meeeeaann, meaaaaannn… MEAN GREEN” (the O’Jays, 1973)
(song is called “For the Love of Money”)
aw, thanks everyone. except maybe ilolzattehnubcakes for gender-assumption fail but it’s the thought that counts
Silly young people – music + exlnt graph =
I got all of these references. I don’t understand how some can’t. Kids these days…
It’s perfect.
Actually, I’m 14 years old and I understood all of the references. Don’t say that people are too young to understand.