Friday, September 23, 2005

I went to see M.I.A on Wednesday; I highly recommend her live show, as well as her album, Arular. She was highly energetic and worked the crowd very well, inviting up as many people as the stage would hold and then giving them hugs before she left for the evening. As for political content, besides the Tamil Tiger, people power fist, and Bush/Blair intro, her DJ worked the Kanye West quote into a number of the interludes and she performed a special ad lib for the DC audience during "Bucky Done Gone:"

FBI, quiet down, I need to make a sound,
CIA, quiet down, I need to make a sound,
George Bush, quiet down, I need to make a sound,
White House, quiet down, I need to make a sound.

This made the song especially powerful for me, bringing back memories of my interrogation.

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