Sunday, 12 February 2012

M.I.A. Bad Girls

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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11 comments:

  1. Dr-Ogo12 February 2012 at 17:55

    I could not like this more...

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  2. Nick12 February 2012 at 18:29

    WICK,WICK,WICKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  3. User.One12 February 2012 at 18:30

    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

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  4. Sideburn Magazine12 February 2012 at 20:02

    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

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  5. Hairy Larry12 February 2012 at 21:39

    Alright, are those cars on two wheel stunts for real??? Wild!

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  6. Anders12 February 2012 at 22:22

    Thanks!

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  7. Sideburn Magazine12 February 2012 at 22:47

    -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

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  8. Kirk12 February 2012 at 23:00

    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.

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  9. Dr-Ogo12 February 2012 at 23:32

    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'...

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  10. Mick P13 February 2012 at 08:04

    Great to see Boy George back in action.

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  11. Sideburn Magazine13 February 2012 at 08:10

    Ben, every Swiss Army knife has a nail file, especially the small ones like MIA has in this video. G

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