Blink and you'd have missed it! Two weeks ago M.I.A. put a new track up on her Myspace, a collaboration with Blaqstarr in anticipation of the U.S. election. No prizes for guessing who she backed for Commander in Chief... Obama beatz detected.
Although I'm delighted that the release of new M.I.A. material of some description obviously indicates that she isn't retired or festering in a crack den, I can't help but wonder (I feel a Carrie Bradshaw moment...) why she has to make SUCH a big deal out of something so innocuous as an election.
Before you completely misinterpret what I'm saying, I should tell you that I followed the election in the States extremely closely for someone that wasn't even going to have the chance to vote. I read blogs every single day keeping me updated, I checked the polls on BBC News so frequently I feared I might have some kind of compulsive disorder, and I delighted in finding every possible opportunity to ridicule Sarah Palin. You can probably scratch the "-ed" in "delighted" there actually... (to clarify - that does not, contrary to popular belief, make me a sexist, rather observant of the fact that the woman is a complete nincompoop).
I spent a good three days celebrating when I found out Obama had won - after all, this is one of those landmark moments that you are so utterly ecstatic to witness, and that define your memories much later in life.
But John McCain really isn't that bad. He's an astute, intelligent and well-spoken politician with oodles of experience and a gift for rhetoric. He's more centric on the political spectrum than Bush. If he had won, the U.S. would still end up making far, far better choices than were made under the soon-to-be-previous administration.
I realise that Obama's victory signifies something far more important than just a return to Democrat leadership, but that does not by extension mean that John McCain is some kind of vicious hatemonger. So to say something as ill-conceived as "for you the words are Obama vs Mc Cain for me its terror vs genocide" is a tad ridiculous - as well as confusing.
OK, rant over. All hail M.I.A.! More please!
P.S. Is anybody else loving the video? Note to self: opening several Quicktime windows and playing them at various times is a perfectly acceptable and fabulously affordable music video concept.
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