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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: upthebracket on September 22, 2005, 06:21:00 pm

Title: Making out with MIA
Post by: upthebracket on September 22, 2005, 06:21:00 pm
To those who attended the MIA show,
 I apologize if you think she cut the show short after I almost knocked her over. I apologized to her after the show and she didn't seem to mind at all. Here is a segment of my virtual note to her, which I would rather have communicated to her if the setting was more appropriate. By the way, I'm not washing my mouth for a month.
 
 But ultimately, like all great art, M.I.A.??s musical soul packs more punch than the actual event or the three-minute single. For every Galang-led car commercial, there??s a 13-year-old in Melbourne googling the word ??Tamil Tiger? after class. A legion of young coloured girls whose eyes light up at the sight of a brown-skinned Asian on MTV instead of endless carbon-copy Kylies. A generation of fellow culture-hopping 20-somethings who hold the catharsis of childhood discrimination and assimilatory afterthoughts about our cousins back home in Malaysia clutched against our hearts. Countless young women throughout Sub-Saharan Africa contracting monogamous HIV from polygamous partners whose deaths may not be in vain. Because, M.I.A., future ??Queen of pop music? or whatever hype-laced headline you want to call her, is not really all that futuristic. Our world as a whole has been consistently raping and oppressing young coloured people for a handful of centuries at the very least by this point.
 
 As Maya herself says: ??I'm chipping away! You ready for something new, hurry up.? Well keep chipping, M.I.A., knowing how many of us are behind you.
 
 A raw, sexy, angry, cataclysmically beautiful voice is being unleashed upon an unsuspecting mass audience. And she is shouting into a microphone, over and over again, with a chorus of hundreds of passionate converts surrounding her:
 
 ??Pull up the People! Pull up the Poor!?          
 
 In it's entirety here: itslateagain.blogspot.com
Title: Re: Making out with MIA
Post by: millard on September 23, 2005, 02:39:00 pm
I was right there helping her up. That took balls dude. Next time make a better exit.
Title: Re: Making out with MIA
Post by: definitivedoodle on September 23, 2005, 03:41:00 pm
whoa, what did i miss...
Title: Re: Making out with MIA
Post by: Sage 703 on September 23, 2005, 04:10:00 pm
yeah, somebody explain what happened?
Title: Re: Making out with MIA
Post by: millard on September 23, 2005, 10:53:00 pm
MIA encored and brought folks on stage. Once the song was done, folks are getting off the stage and loverboy plants on her while she's at the front of stage right. I'm standing in the baricade trying to keep folks from leving the stage that way.
 So, after he kisses her, he kind of dives into the audience, and ends up taking her down into the baricade. Me and some other folks helped her up. No damage.
Title: Re: Making out with MIA
Post by: duderino on September 24, 2005, 02:23:00 am
wow, smooth.
Title: Re: Making out with MIA
Post by: gil_men on September 25, 2005, 10:31:00 am
that was so tired...come on grow up!
Title: Re: Making out with MIA
Post by: flawd101 on September 25, 2005, 04:20:00 pm
i have ot applaude that guy...but only if MIA is hot...
Title: Re: Making out with MIA
Post by: beetsnotbeats on September 25, 2005, 07:13:00 pm
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Originally posted by flawd101:
  i have ot applaude that guy...but only if MIA is hot...
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 Yes.