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M.I.A’s “Bad Girls”: Social commentary, I think? →

I’m not sure if you’ve read Samia’s writing before, but she’s brilliant.  Anyways.

She did a great piece on M.I.A. and her new single (“Bad Girls”) and the Middle East, and well, here’s how she starts:

Most of us have seen it. I accidentally came across it during my daily Morocco news search. The desert landscape, Arabic writing on walls, men in thobes and shemaghs, veiled women in gold–I thought, this is either orientalism on steroids or a legit social commentary. As someone who’s listened to M.I.A. for several years, the gratuitous political and social commentary is always pleasantly juxtaposed with sick beats and dope lyrics. It’s what she does.  Watching “Bad Girls,” I was looking for it. What was it?

Read the rest of it here.

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