M.I.A.- Born Free
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It's not safe for you either by the looks of things..
Saw this yesterday, fecking brilliant work by Gavras, also look at Justice - Stress video for a similar feel.
Saw this yesterday, fecking brilliant work by Gavras, also look at Justice - Stress video for a similar feel.
I think I saw PJ on that bus.
class
Does anybody else think she's as shite as I do?
I agree with this guy.
Tis a bit fecked up alright. Which one were you?
That was shit. I mean, the video was nothing particularly special, and the song was appallingly awful.
The videos a lot better than the song.
I thinks she's sexy.
The video's alright. Definitely original.
The video's alright. Definitely original.
Thats probably why her music gets more coverage than it deserves, that and he interesting family background.
Sounds like Ghost Rider by Suicide.
really?
really.
Fair enough. I heard about some men finding other men attractive, but I assumed it was slander.
feck off biscuit, she may not be a scene girl but she is attractive.
I like it.
It's a simple (too obvious?) concept on paper. But it's angry and has a really unsettling edge about it (even before the graphic scenes at the end). I like the song too.
M.I.A. is hot.
Edit: The Punishment Park comments are spot on. Clearly influenced/deliberate homage.
It's a simple (too obvious?) concept on paper. But it's angry and has a really unsettling edge about it (even before the graphic scenes at the end). I like the song too.
M.I.A. is hot.
Edit: The Punishment Park comments are spot on. Clearly influenced/deliberate homage.
She would get the beef injector
She looks like a man. An ugly man at that.
No idea how they expected that not to be banned to be honest.
Strange video to a backing of noise. Not my cup of tea.
Strange video to a backing of noise. Not my cup of tea.
Nah, you're just used to women who look like anorexic 12 year olds.
You need to broaden your horizons mate.
No - I think she's a bit shiter than you do. Don't know how people can listen to her without being irritated to death.
I don't only like 'scene girls'. Misa Campo isn't too shabby either. I just don't find women with mono brows, slanted foreheads and wooden chins that attractive.
The fact that you do find 'Scene Girls' attractive immedietely renders your opinion on looks null and void.
Thinking about it, having your video banned is more likely to increase the number of people watching it and in turn increase the number of people listening to the song. It's good marketing, sometimes.
Have a little look at Misa Campo and get back to me.
Now that was/is a bit of music I can relate to. fecking love them - I once bumped into Martin Rev in London, running an afro-comb through his hair.
Edit: I've only just listened to the MIA track and it bloody IS Ghost Rider. feck off MIA, you unoriginal twat.
Suicide were making groundbreaking music 30 odd years ago and you are nothing more than a lazy musical thief.
Edit: I've only just listened to the MIA track and it bloody IS Ghost Rider. feck off MIA, you unoriginal twat.
Suicide were making groundbreaking music 30 odd years ago and you are nothing more than a lazy musical thief.That's vicious and nonsensical. I'm not her biggest fan but she's fecking excellent at her best:
It's safe for work if you have the mute button on, the music? is definately offensive
A great video - wish other video directors could try and do something a bit different like that.
The song is alright - fits the video perfectly anyway.
I do find MIA to be a bit hit and miss in general - she does have some great tracks but the clash of musical styles often doesnt work at all.
Yes - it is the sample used in the track....
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Almost immediately after M.I.A.'s graphic new video for "Born Free" arrived this morning, it was yanked from YouTube for its stark violence, which includes a child being shot in the head at point-blank range and another youngster being obliterated by a land mine. The explicit version of the clip, which is still streaming on M.I.A.'s MIAUK.com website, is likely the most disturbing video you'll see all year: a nearly nine-minute-long comment on military violence, discrimination and how the media depicts shocking imagery. The song is slated to appear on the singer-rapper's as-yet-untitled June album.
As "Born Free" — M.I.A.'s take on Suicide's classic "Ghost Rider" — pounds in the background like an aural assault, the video depicts a SWAT unit tearing apart an apartment complex and beating its tenants in search of an unknown perpetrator, who turns out to be a redheaded young man. Masked, heavily armed military men force him into a truck holding more redheads and drive them to a remote desert holding station, where they proceed to murder the outcasts.
"Born Free" was directed by filmmaker Romain Gavras, who previously helmed the ultraviolent video for Justice's "Stress." Gavras is also the son of Costa-Gavras, the acclaimed director of films including Z and Missing, which were controversial for their scathing and allegorical look into the politics of the late Sixties and early Eighties, respectively. "Any resemblance to real events, to persons living or dead, is not accidental. It is DELIBERATE," read the opening credits of Costa-Gavras' Z, and Gavras' vision in "Born Free" aligns itself heavily with that mantra. By presenting an unflinching account of the U.S.' shakedown of one group, Gavras and M.I.A. draw potent comparisons to many of the U.S. government's questionable decisions in the past decade, from the treatment of terror suspects to our role in the wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan to the recent immigration laws passed in Arizona.
After announcing the premiere of the "Born Free" video earlier today via a tweet, the Sri Lankan MC took over Pitchfork's Twitter, where she has revealed the potential 10-song track list for her upcoming album.
The song is alright - fits the video perfectly anyway.
I do find MIA to be a bit hit and miss in general - she does have some great tracks but the clash of musical styles often doesnt work at all.
Yes - it is the sample used in the track....
]
Almost immediately after M.I.A.'s graphic new video for "Born Free" arrived this morning, it was yanked from YouTube for its stark violence, which includes a child being shot in the head at point-blank range and another youngster being obliterated by a land mine. The explicit version of the clip, which is still streaming on M.I.A.'s MIAUK.com website, is likely the most disturbing video you'll see all year: a nearly nine-minute-long comment on military violence, discrimination and how the media depicts shocking imagery. The song is slated to appear on the singer-rapper's as-yet-untitled June album.
As "Born Free" — M.I.A.'s take on Suicide's classic "Ghost Rider" — pounds in the background like an aural assault, the video depicts a SWAT unit tearing apart an apartment complex and beating its tenants in search of an unknown perpetrator, who turns out to be a redheaded young man. Masked, heavily armed military men force him into a truck holding more redheads and drive them to a remote desert holding station, where they proceed to murder the outcasts.
"Born Free" was directed by filmmaker Romain Gavras, who previously helmed the ultraviolent video for Justice's "Stress." Gavras is also the son of Costa-Gavras, the acclaimed director of films including Z and Missing, which were controversial for their scathing and allegorical look into the politics of the late Sixties and early Eighties, respectively. "Any resemblance to real events, to persons living or dead, is not accidental. It is DELIBERATE," read the opening credits of Costa-Gavras' Z, and Gavras' vision in "Born Free" aligns itself heavily with that mantra. By presenting an unflinching account of the U.S.' shakedown of one group, Gavras and M.I.A. draw potent comparisons to many of the U.S. government's questionable decisions in the past decade, from the treatment of terror suspects to our role in the wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan to the recent immigration laws passed in Arizona.
After announcing the premiere of the "Born Free" video earlier today via a tweet, the Sri Lankan MC took over Pitchfork's Twitter, where she has revealed the potential 10-song track list for her upcoming album.
There was a "song" in that video?
It was gory as hell at the end.
It was gory as hell at the end.
Those are all rubbish, don't get me wrong though i'd still feck her right in her shit hole.