M.I.A. Uses Questionable Lyrics and Artwork?

(via Billboard )


Ceylon Records' artist Delon, well known in the Sri Lanka for his human rights work, has made a remix of M.I.A.'s song, "Paper Planes".


The remix itself isn't the focus of attention, its how its presented. Delon, uses the backing tracks from Paper Planes and pairs it up with photo clips of M.I.A. and Sri Lankan "terrorist" group LTTE victims and soldiers. Delon claims that M.I.A. supports the afore mentiond group through her music and visually through her albums, clothing and set design. (The tiger seen on many a M.I.A merchandise is the symbol of the LTTE.) What's happening over in Sri Lanka is what I would call a zero sum gain. The LTTE, called terrorist by some and freedom fighters by others has been waging guerilla warfare against the government for almost a quater of a century. Specifically in Tamil populated cities, [LTTE] citing injustice for the Tamil People by the Sri Lanken government. Its sort of like Darfur in many ways but remember its been going on for much longer and dare I say much more violent?


I'm not here to point fingers at anyone...I just thought that it was an interesting piece of news...


You can watch the Delon video here


and there is a very informative video about Sri Lanka on Google below...It's insane all this shit isn't it?