4chan infects my music vidyas!

So MIA released her new single for 2010 just recently, and I found out about it from reading Hipster Runoff today.  And wow!  The music video is quite amazing:



M.I.A, Born Free from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.

The gore is very similar to what I've seen from Japanese and Russian films about war crimes and testing weapons on live subjects, where the gore is front and center.  It's also reminiscent of the attitude of depicting gore on 4chan's /b/.  It's just gratuitous...but what does it really mean?  It means that the internet CANNOT BE SANITIZED like the US media.  People are getting pictures from the police, and from international news sources that show that violence is real, it's disgusting, and it's fucking sociopathic to go around shooting people, chopping them up with swords, and throwing heavy objects at them...which happens all the time in the world...that is thankfully not where I live or work.

So it seems that music artists are trying to reach people, but find that traditional artistic portrayals of edgy issues, isn't enough.  Granted this technique was heralded by such directors and film makers like Gaspar Noe and the like that brought the unsanitized realism of carnag, violence and crime into the lens of the camera without regard for society's perception of taste.

Now, in what was normally reserved for underground metal videos with footage of snuff films and the like has finally made it out into artists that I respect, trying to make statements.

Justice's controversial "Stress" Video by the same director/artist as the MIA vidya, Roman Garvais.

Depicts scenes of violence of Parisian youth, not dissimilar to what happened during the 2005 civil unrest in Paris....perpetuated by youth of "ethnic-descent".

Thus the transgressivism continues...or should continue.  What are these people angry about? Like what does Chuck Palanuik mean when your colon gets sucked out by a pool aerator?

Is this movement now to show that transgression is no longer a bold, novel step forward?  Because of 4chan, ogrish and other no-taste websites desensitizing ourselves and our internet savvy youth, to where we can vicariously see scenes of violence that other peoples of less-fortunate nations are witness to every day...maybe this is what MIA was trying to say:  What if we people, had to face state-sponsored genocide on our soil.  How would that make us feel?  How would that look?  So this is actually kind of a statement for Sri Lanka, with state sponsored genocide of the Tamil......but it may be a bit to nasty to really get the message across?  Maybe it's not enough?!  Note the cover is showing executions of Tamil...

Her statement's pretty legit...and much like the comfort of my suburban dwelling, I am blissfully happy there and footage of murder and rape from afar, even if afar is in US somewhere that's not near me, is disturbing, but it's blissfully far away.  I suppose MIA, is trying to bring the violence and message a little closer to "home," and invade my comfort.  Also, fortunately for me, the only gingers in my family are cats...but I can relate.  It's genocide...but not the genocide people normally see on the news.  Probably the closest we've come the MIA video is something like what happened in the former Yugoslavia (euro-white on euro-white violence).

I'm sure a few sociopaths on the internet actually really like this, in the sense that they enjoy watching violence on others.

Ah well...it's all about the sample anyway.  Cause remember the lyrics of the proto-punk/proto-industrial kids:

"ghostrider motorcycle hero

bebebebebebebe he's a-screamin' the truth

america america is killin' its youth"

Ah, comics, music and world politics!  Suicide was so good!