Let me start by saying I'm not a fan of M.I.A. I think her songs, even though they incorporate disparate parts of different musical styles from different cultures does not sound cohesive to me; instead of sounding like she is in control of what she releases as her pieces of art, it seems more like she is a victim who is not allowed to blend her materials in the way, say, a Beck would.
When she turns more instrumental, more hard/techno, I'm even less of a fan. And it's what she does in this song.
But it's the Song Of The Week because it's the most talked-about video of the week, seeing as even a ''free'' platform like YouTube (owned by free-speech merchants Google) have pulled it for its ''excessive and suggestive violence''. What. The. Fuck.
2010. In a world, in a time-space continuum that is going forward, not backwards, in a world where the rationale for going to war is that the other country is ''backwards-thinking'' and ''so-14th-century'', we still censor music? Fuck that shit. That's the first step in reverting back to the 1800s, re-installing slavery, taking away women's right to vote (and equal pay, obviously), it's the Middle Ages with nukes, no more, no less.
It's music. Art. It expresses an opinion, and in this case, the opinion was a metaphor for where we're going as a Civilization, that if you separate people by religion, skin colour, hair colour - or any other way - it is wrong; that we must not let it happen. It is expertly filmed, too, almost reminiscent of this year's Academy Award winner, The Hurt Locker.
It's important to help this video reach as many people as it can.
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