video: M.I.A. – “Bad Girls”

That’s badass. Glad she’s back.

really wanted to hate on this, but this is dope.

This is great.

Now, if she just takes a moment to apologize for /\/\ /\ Y /\, we’ll be in business.

there’s actually severall revolution going on.. but only one in the middle east (syria).
This was shot in morroco, wich has around the same GDP as Israel or Ireland. Not a suffering culture, a fairly rich one and full of history.
This clip is controversial yes, but not because it feeds on US overwhelming judgment bias toward arabic/muslim countries, it is controversial because she’s is cynical about this aprehension, she glamorize herself as a kind of mixted arabic/us ghetto – she-warrior/pimp with a vengence. And she does it probably to harness shock-value, because she knows that for her audience this will prove that she’s open minded and don’t give a fuck about those misconception or islamist belligerent bullshit, that she’s promoting love and unity… I guess she just wish to embrace her sri lankan roots, but in the doing she is instrumentalizing and degrading with consumerist values a whole civilization to the benefit of her cool/marginal profile.
This is either too cynical, or misguided in its intent, but it was done, and in its form it is an original and well realised idea. Wich in itself raise the question: Even if something had never been done, should it be done just because it can be done?