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"Set to M.I.A.’s Punjabi-laced chill-banger, “Bad Girls” is a lady gangsta fantasy but one that plays off very real ingredients from life in the Middle East. There’s crumbled architecture, sustained over years of attack; smouldering oil tankards; young men in kaffiyeh, standing around dangerously bored; mysterious women covered from head to toe, with only their kohl-lined eyes flashing out. Most of us Americans have seen that existence only in bits of CNN video, left to venture our own conclusions about their daily grind.

But then “Bad Girls” is M.I.A.’s Middle East — and in her own way, she makes it everyone’s Middle East. She’s deadpanning about having sex in cars while vamping in front of those tankard fires. Women are gyrating with AK-47s, while swathed in cheetah patterns, polka dots and gold. And like Ice Cube would (or any young dude feeling futile and angry), there are old family sedans to grab and turn into drifting, racing stunt rides, whether on Crenshaw, Eight Mile or a bullet-scarred road running parallel with an oil pipe line."

Margaret Wappler on M.I.A.’s Bad Girls video

No bitch that’s just your prejudice showing.

(via somerset)

#this is what happens when white people have to process things that have no other white people in them #this person got paid to write this garbage #as in cash money #for this#and her ‘about me’ at the LA Times lists her SPIRIT ANIMAL

WHAIGOHSUAIGYU ???? LMFAO 

(via specialist-)

i dont think she even stated an opinion anywhere in this passage…

(via marsha-britney)
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  7. darling80m said: hahahah spot on. i think there’s a real critique to make of the video - i”m a bit muddled by the arabic-like typography and setting but this person is so clueless
  8. dustoffvarnya said: Non-white folk in video…cut to: Wappler in front of her computer…WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?! HOW CAN I RELATE TO THIS AS A WHITE WOMAN?!
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    Reminder that this person got PAID ACTUAL MONEY to write this shit.
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