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M.I.A.’s Newest Controversy – Ginger Genocide in “Born Free”
M.I.A. sent out dozens of tweets to Pitchfork’s almost 1.5 million followers throughout the day, but nothing had quite as much of an impact as the release of the ten-minute long video for “Born Free”. I won’t get into much commentary in case you haven’t seen it, but I’m telling you that it is nothing short of classic. Controversial, bloody, gory – essentially the movie The Hurt Locker plus redheaded young men plus genocide. Consider this sentence my disclaimer though: you will be disturbed! I would advise against watching the video at work and against watching it at all if you do not respond well to gore.
Live Music – the Future of the Industry
Because of this change in music and the way listeners consume music, the music industry is now at a crossroads. They are now forced into deciding whether it should give up on trying to make any money off of recorded music, or crusade against illegal downloads and fight a war that is seemingly as endless and useless as the war on drugs or the War on Terror. I believe that if illegal downloading isn’t stopped soon, music will become entirely free, and bands will become a thing of the past, replaced by machines reproducing sampled sounds.
