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Paper planes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sei-...C813CD&index=0
This is a tune by Sri-Lankan rapper M.I.A. There's a lot of debate on whats actually wrong with the tune. On first listen one would say that it promotes violence. Most assume its about weed. Gangs hear the tune and associate the song with their lives in da hood. The song is #4 in the US charts, its the fastest climbing tune in the UK charts this week. A lot of people are looking into the lyrics and saying she's a terrorist. Quote:
Her Father belongs to a (So-called) Terrorist organization in Sri-Lanka the LTTE(Liberation Tamil Tigers of Elam). She was not permited entry into the US for about a year based on her fathers history(and present). Part of the lyrics do kind of support the Sri-Lankan (LTTE) IMO, the song is genius, tapping into the cash with this catchy tune. Despite the crack-whore-ish style of singing, I love it, whatever the true meanings behind the song are. |
There will always be terrorism and we will always be a target. And now its commercialized. Thats surreal.
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Personally, I didn't know what the fuck I was hearing at first, but after I heard it a few times, I downloaded it, and now I kick it around now and then. Good tune. Not one that my friends would say I listen to, but I tend to have the scope for it to be on my playlist.
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M.I.A. has a rep for being subversive, like many other singers before her.
Whenever I encounter brouhaha over song lyrics, I remember John Lennon, and his attitude, which was, no you berks, the lyrics don't always mean anything, and quite obsessing over it! (no doubt an extremely inaccurate paraphrase) |
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