Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Do MIA's gingers stand for Malcolm McLaren?

Is Nabeel right? Do the gingers in MIA's 'Born Free' video really stand for the late (and seriously ginger) Malcolm McLaren? That reading would actually make MIA's vid a little more comprehensible: as both a tribute to the recently departed punkmaster and Situationist, and as a kind of allegory about the threat posed by McLaren style punkers.

Waddya think?

A ginger from MIA's vid:


Mr. McLaren (RIP, ginger):


Not to mention that Johnny Rotten of Sex Pistol fame was (often) a ginger:



Previous post on the MIA vid is here.

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