Video: M.I.A.'s "Born Free" is NSFW and Extremely Brutal Towards Men With Strawberry Blonde Hair

• Sorry pal. Such a heavy handed, simplistic video reduces MIA to water on a duck's back. Despite obvious intentions, no social or rebel message stuck, as it all seemed to be an angry screed from a self centered London girl. Tamil Tiger, my ass.

• Word. Social ignorance is right. Without Western culture, MIA wouldn't be selling jack. Everything about her hype: from heavy electronic music to internet fame and fortune, is all made possible by corporate R&D from big bad USA and friends.

• Video is as pretentious and intellectually bankrupt as MIA. No real point here except that Gingers are an oppressed group, make great target practice and explode perhaps more dramatically than all other ethnicities. MIA pretends to be this deep rebel voice of the underclass, but the reality is instead of her Tamil Tiger fantasy, she's just a London girl trying to shock her way to get our attention. In a nutshell this is how deep the video is: mean police state guys, round up red heads and kill them in some Apocalypto meets 1984 surface effect. Not much going on here.

• The capability to become in a position to take a step back in time to find out when you begin a new project to view wherever or when items went downhill will be useful. Which can aid those in web marketing better uncover possibilities and correct mistakes to become cutting down their visibility?

• Dang. That's isthe most jacked up post I've read today. But, I'm not certain, myself.

• durring the running of the redheads through a mine field i realized we need a new curriculum in high school civics and patriotism based on the "resistance" "how to kill your captors when you are out-gunned but not out numbered " We are still sheep, but we do not wish to be food

• A totally vacuous, intellectually bereft video, a song of no redeeming musical worth. MIA and her pretentious, culturally inept team commit the ultimate ignorant's crime of failing to historicise. Why are the people being treated badly? Who knows. There is effectively a connection drawn between 'prejudice' and genocide, the kind of knee-jerk, liberal left sophistry which devalues history, devalues the shared human experience of REAL persecution in the past, and ultimately ignores the fact that there is always an explanation for human violence; just like the Holocaust cannot and should not be placed 'outside' of history as inexplicable, repression and cultural conflict cannot be divorced from realities. The fact that the guards are wearing American uniforms, with the flag of a country which was built to escape precisely the kind of society which caused such events, is another faux-provocative move which simply highlights the ongoing myopia and sheer social ignorance of modern 'artists'. Listen to Frank Zappa instead.

• What jump are you talking about? The video was directly below the text. There is no "jump". Stop saying that.

• this song is awful. interesting video, though. although mia is extremely pretentious to me, it's nice that she tries to educate people about genocide. alas, this video--despite its graphicness--is destined for the facebook pages of ~edgy english kids to promote national kick-a-ginger day or whatever they're on about lately. i will say however that the mine explosion shot was a bit much for me, even moreso than the shooting bit. it looked like they used some sort of animal blood mixed with cgi, no?

• To Anonymous, I tend to agree that the "chunks of human meat" are a bit much. Someone in the office said that it looked like they blew up a pig to create that scene.

• Just to be a voice of a little dissent here: While the message and intention behind this is clear, frankly, its treatment is more than a bit ham-handed. The video is full of some strong imagery, but the graphic depiction of the murder of children is completely unnecessary to drive this point home. If the killing is necessary to the video's narrative, why not just imply it? Are we really so inured to violence that it takes an image of chunks of human meat flying through the air to count as an artistic "statement?" Finally, inasmuch as this functions as a "music video," it distracts from the song, which seems to work as little more than a provocative video soundtrack, anyways.

• Wow, it's good to see a video/song like this again. More politics and substance and less garbage in "culture" for fuck's sake...

• The video is a bit over the top, but I liked the song.

• FUCK yeah M.I.A is coming BACK with POWER POWER and a BIG BANG GUN in your FACE! This is REAL life for a Lot of people in this FUCKED up world...RESIST to EXIST!

• The music is reminiscent of Bj�s "Declare Independence."

• The message is not lost in this brutal depiction of what will happen in Arizona and every other state of the Union that adopts such bigoted laws against other human beings...

• holy shit!!

• Further proof that gingers are the Devil's playthings.

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