This video is a visual feast that's stirred up a maelstrom of internet crap about Western stereotyping (when MIA is from a Sri Lankan family) . It's a three-minute video not a documentary. Anyway, I love it, and the song. It's had 8.5 million views, so you might have seen it.
Spotted at one of my favourite blogs, Two Wheels Plus. G
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I could not like this more...
WICK,WICK,WICKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I must have missed all the discussion...
The only new thing in that vid is MIA is singing in it. The 'Arabs mucking around in cars' vids have been around for years. Always dig the skiiing.
Nice to see the ginger kid at the end, a nod to the last 'controversial' MIA vid 'Born Free'- http://vimeo.com/11219730
I reckon Born Free is a better tune and is definitely more political. I love the diagetic bit at 1:19
USer. One, I didn't say there was anything new or not, but I'd argue that a major recording star, filing their nails while sat on the windscreen of a car driving at a lick while on two wheels was quite fresh. I don't see Robbie Williams or (tries to think of another famous singer...) the fella from Radiohead doing their own stunts. G
Alright, are those cars on two wheel stunts for real??? Wild!
Thanks!
-word Dr-Ogo, but you know you can't perform any of these stunts in a Ford S-Max? what the hell were you thinking selling you BM' beater!
-Gary she's not just filing her nails, it's a Swiss Army knife. Allah is in the details.
BP
that is as good as it all gets in modern pop really, and you won't see the likes of the Radiohead fella doing this because they'd want to use Prius' and those are probably a beast to get on 2 wheels.
BP, little more respect for the 'Smax My Bitch Up' please & anyway, be happy, I'm going to keep the BM as the back up bitch...
Oh yeah, props to 'The Dwarf Hearse'...
Great to see Boy George back in action.
Ben, every Swiss Army knife has a nail file, especially the small ones like MIA has in this video. G
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