M.I.A.'s 'Born Free' Is A Very Serious Matter


I'm not a big M.I.A. fan, but I can appreciate some of her music that doesn't sound like noise and her videos with lots of brown and black faces. Her new song, "Born Free," and the accompanying video, however, does not fall into either aforementioned category. M.I.A. takes us on a punk rock detour with "Born Free," but the song is background music for the nine-minute long mini-movie. M.I.A. is not present in the NSFW video but in her absence there's full frontal nudity, troops rounding up red-headed white dudes, vivid scenes of people getting shot and bodies blown to bits. A far cry from the frenetic fun of "Bucky Done Gun," this video is a very serious, disturbing matter.

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