{"id":44228,"date":"2015-11-29T01:57:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T05:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=44228"},"modified":"2015-11-29T03:15:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T07:15:52","slug":"singer-mathangim-i-a-arulpragasam-releases-self-directed-videoborders-on-refugee-issues-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=44228","title":{"rendered":"Singer Mathangi “M.I.A.” Arulpragasam Releases Self-directed Video “Borders” on Refugee issues in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Harriet Gibsone<\/strong><\/p>\n

M<\/strong>ost artists would be incapable of approaching a subject as serious as the refugee crisis in song. Not MIA, however, whose new album is on course to politicise pop once again. \u201cThe world I talked about 10 years ago is still the same,\u201d she recently posted on Twitter. \u201cThat\u2019s why it\u2019s hard for me to say it again on a new LP.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Today, the British artist of Sri Lankan descent premiered Borders, a track that proves she remains unique in her ability to implement ideas about pop culture and important global topics. With it comes a self-directed video, which makes a compelling statement on the continuing migration crisis, chastising the response of European politicians and lamenting the arrival of border fences to keep out migrants.
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\nThe video mimics the hazardous journeys faced by migrants, showing a flotilla of boats laden with refugees. Other scenes show individuals scaling massive fences topped with barbed wire, a reference to the series of securitised border fences erected by number of countries to keep out refugees.<\/p>\n

The track, which sonically fuses eastern and western styles, questions the fabric of modern society \u2013 politics, identities, privilege, \u201cbeing bae\u201d, \u201cbreaking the internet\u201d and smartphones \u2013 before reducing the world down to its essentials: your values, your beliefs, your families, your power.<\/p>\n

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MIA in a scene from her video for Borders. Photograph: iTunes<\/p><\/div>\n

Borders is the first track we\u2019ve heard from new album Matahdatah since Swords back in July. According to a statement from her label, both songs and videos are part of \u201ca truly global and characteristically DIY MIA project. The two pieces will ultimately come together in a larger body of work that explores the concept of Borders, an element of which will be a full-length album and film experience entitled Matahdatah.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her fifth record will be released on Interscope Records. Until then, you can watch the video below. Courtesy:The Guardian<\/em><\/p>\n