MIA 'Born Free'

[Pidge]

MIA's new video has been pulled from Youtube (by UMG apparently) for being too violent. I think it's a great video. Anyway, I'll let you see for yourselves (not work safe).

 

M.I.A. Born Free

 

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M.I.A, Born Free on Vimeo

 

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M.I.A.'s 'Born Free' music video is pulled from YouTube for graphic violence

[TheBitch]

Quite rightly pulled IMO, good vid, good tune but you wouldn't want a young kid stumbling across it.

[Captain]

MIA's new video has been pulled from Youtube (by UMG apparently) for being too violent. I think it's a great video. Anyway, I'll let you see for yourselves (not work safe).

 

If it's NSFW it's probably not suitable for youtube.com either.

[loadsoftrophies]

Mental! I'm a big fan of M.I.A, she's a very cool Woman and her music is great.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

MIA is cool and quite tidy too.....especially in the Galang video.

 

I'm not easily offended or shocked but can fully appreciate why that video has been banned/pulled. It's a bit too much to be readily show in the public domain.

 

I appreciate that not watching/turning over is the best form of censorship, but the video was quite intriguing to follow and then next minute, without any real sense of what is coming, you see people getting shot in the head and blown up!

[Pidge]

you didn't get a sense of what was coming?

 

Actually to be fair if I'd never seen Peter Watkins' Punishment Park I probably wouldn't have realised where it was going.

 

edit: completely agree regarding Galang, I really have to get into MIA more, I only really know the big songs. Even then I prefer the Diplo remix of Paper planes to the original... actually I prefer that African cover.

 

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yeaaah that's the stuff.

Edited April 27, 2010 by Pidge

[Trumo]

The video is will certainly raise a few eyebrows, and get the Daily Mail in a tizz, but the track itself is much ado about nothing I think.

[RED.DUB]

song is trash,or maybe its needs to be listened to without the video.

[Pidge]

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a raw version of the song, which was manipulated for the video (seems like the song is promoting the short film more than the other way around). I like the song in it's original version, but the mix is a bit crap.

[Red Dawn]

Zero tolerance to Gingers!! WTF? Too graphic for a music video but way to go to stir up publicity. Top marks.

[The Robot Tank]

Too graphic for a music video but way to go to stir up publicity. Top marks.

 

Damn right, 500k views yesterday on the vimeo site alone! Must have taken twitter by storm..

 

I thought the mix was bollocks to be fair, great vid though. Was it me or was the analogy meant to be:

 

Ginger lads in vid = Palestinians?

[Stu Monty]

Damn right, 500k views yesterday on the vimeo site alone! Must have taken twitter by storm..

 

I thought the mix was bollocks to be fair, great vid though. Was it me or was the analogy meant to be:

 

Ginger lads in vid = Palestinians?

 

Just Arabs I reckon. No need to be specific, just Arabs in general.

[Newport]

Brilliant video to be honest. Anyone who doesn't get it shouldn't even have it explained to them.

 

Could have warned us about the ugly naked people, though ...

[Pidge]

Just Arabs I reckon. No need to be specific, just Arabs in general.

 

I thought it was even less specific, I thought it was a general anti-authoritarian and anti-prejudice. It could easily be the Kosovans or the Jews or any victims of genocide and ethnic cleansing.

[Stu Monty]

I thought it was even less specific, I thought it was a general anti-authoritarian and anti-prejudice. It could easily be the Kosovans or the Jews or any victims of genocide and ethnic cleansing.

 

I thought the fact that the oppressors were wearing the stars and stripes made it a more direct attack on the current situation with arabs, but it stands as a general point anyway.

[Pidge]

Yeah that was definitely in there, but I think it was the filmmaker trying to allude to as many things as possible. Like I said earlier Punishment Park is a clear influence as well, PunishmentPark_PeterWatkins a great film, much more controversial and much more powerful. Genuinely shocking, even now.

[Karl_b]

Never really paid much attention to M.I.A. but that's a top video and track.

[Juniper]

Stunning song. It's Hit me for six. Very intense.