Timor

The song criticizes the media (that showed East Timor's independence case for a while and then completely forgot about that country, leaving it poor and abandoned) as shown in the phrase "It's alright, they don't show it on TV, so we won't really know it just by watching BC". "BC" are the two final letters of some television networks acronymous, such as NBC, ABC, BBC and CBC meaning "Broadcasting Company/Corporation". Notably, music reviewers describes Timor as the most danceful and protestful song on the entire album.

The song was renamed "It's Alright" in the Indonesian version of the album, because East Timorese independence is still a highly controversial issue. The album cover was also changed in many Muslim nations.

I think Lizzie's statement that East Timor is "some sort of Arabian place" serves to highlight the point of this song. No offence, since I did not know anything about East Timor till I read: John Pilger's 'The New Rulers of the World'. (A good read, highly recommended).

East Timor is actually near Indonesia (south east Asia) and is not Arabian. General Suharto, the second president of Indonesia, forcefully occupied East Timor killing 200,000 of the East Timorese people.

He was supported by the West because he was anti-communist and because he was buying weapons from many western countries, e.g. UK and Tony Blair. He also oppressed his own people, the Indonesians, by forcing them into slave labour for the western factories.

This was the reason their was little to no coverage by the "bc". Everything was considered fine over there, and General Suharto was treated like a great man ("The good guys are in power").

Until this day, no one really cares about these people and what happened to them (despite Amnesty International's efforts).

This might just be the point of the song... but where exactly is East Timor? And what's going on there that is so important? I'm guessing it's some sort of Arabian place... given Shakira's heritage... and most Middle Eastern places have a lot of problems (not meaning to offend anyone... but that's all I have ever learned about the Middle East... war, sand, and oil)

PS. This song has a great amount of sarcasm in it. It's a bitter song, and considers our "democracy" a sham since the news only provides half the truth.

east timor got seperated from indonesia somewhere in 1998 i guess, now the country is one of the most or even the poorest country in the world. theres this west timor which is still part of Indonesia, and you can see the huge difference between the living condition of these two places, i heard everyday there are probably 2000 eastern timorese illegally flew from their country to Indonesia, and what indonesian government do is just putting them all in jail coz the county(timor) doesnt have any newspaper or stuff to realize that their citized are being captured by the indonesian gvn

It's alright, it's alright خوبه، اشکالی نداره Cause the system never fails چون این نظام هرگز شکست نمی خوره The good guys are in power آدم های خوب در قدرت هستند And the bad guys are in jail آدم های بد هم تو زندان It's alright, it's alright اشکالی نداره، عیبی نداره Just as long as we can vote مادامی که بتونیم رای بدیم We live in democracy در جامعه دمکرات زندگی می کنیم And that's what we promote این چیزیه که می خوایم رواج بدیم Isn't it? Isn't it? این طور نیست؟ این طور نیست؟ Isn't it? Isn't it? این طور نیست؟ این طور نیست؟

It's alright, it's alright اشکالی نداره،هیچ عیبی نداره If the news says half the truth اگه همه حقیقت در تلویزیون نشون داده نمی شه Hearing what we want's the secret of eternal youth انگار چیزی که میخوایم بدونیم رازچگونه تا ابد جوان ماندن هست It's alright, it's alright, اشکالی نداره،هیچ عیبی نداره The planets splits in three سیاره ها به سه بخش تقسیم می شوند (اشاره به لفظ جهان سوم) Cause I'll keep selling records چون من رکورد فروش رو همچنان می زنم And you've got your MTV و شما هم "ام تی وی" تون رو دارید

If we forget about them, don't worry اگه ما اونارو فراموش کردیم، نگران نباش If they forget about us then hurry اگه اونا مارو فراموش کردن پس عجله کن

How about the people who don't matter anymore? نظرتون راجع به افرادی که دیگه برامون اهمیت ندارن چیه؟ East Timor, Timor, Timor تیمور شرقی،تیمور تیمو

It's alright, it's alright اشکالی نداره،هیچ عیبی نداره If they don't show all on TV اگه همه ی حقیقت رو از تلوزیون نمی بینیم So we won't really know it بنا بر این ما اونو نمی دونیم Just by watching *BC اگه فقط "بی سی" هارو می بینیم (اشاره به شبکه های سی بی سی، ان بی سی، بی بی سی و ...) It's alright, it's alright اشکالی نداره،هیچ عیبی نداره (کنایه) For our flag we die or kill اگه فقط به خاطر پرچممون آدم می کشیم و می میریم As long as we don't know چونکه نمی دونیم We do it just to pay the bills این کارو به خاطر پرداخت بدهی می کنیم If we forget about them, don't worry اگه ما اونارو فراموش کردیم، نگران نباش If they forget about us then hurry اگه اونا مارو فراموش کردن پس عجله کن How about the people who don't matter anymore? نظرتون راجع به افرادی که دیگه برامون اهمیت ندارن چیه؟ If we forget about them don't worry اگه ما اونارو فراموش کردیم، نگران نباش If they forget about us then hurry اگه اونا مارو فراموش کردن پس عجله کن How about our people who don't matter anymore? نظرتون راجع به افرادی که دیگه برامون مهم نیستن چیه؟ East Timor, Timor, Timor تیمور شرقی،تیمور تیمو

We'll be tanning while it's sunny ما داریم برنزه میشیم وقتی هوا افتابی They'll risk our hides just to make their money انها مجبورن زندگیشون رو به خطر بندازن تا کمی اقتصادشون بهتر شه Now don't you find that funny? فکر نمی کنه این خنده دار باشه؟

If we forget about them اگه ما اونارو فراموش کردیم، If they forget about us then hurry اگه اونا مارو فراموش کردن پس عجله کن How about our people who don't matter anymore? نظرتون راجع به افرادی که دیگه برامون مهم نیستن چیه؟ If we forget about them don't worry اگه ما انها فراموش کردیم، نگران نباش If they forget about us then hurry اگه اونا مارو فراموش کردن پس عجله کن How about those people who don't matter anymore? نظرتون راجع به افرادی که دیگه برامون مهم نیستن چیه؟ East Timor, Timor, Timor تیمور شرقی،تیمور تیمو East Timor, Timor, Timor تیمور شرقی،تیمور تیمو East Timor تیمور شرقی

(Timor-Leste جمهوری دموکراتیک تیمور شرقی (به پرتغالی کشوری است واقع در جنوب شرق آسیا ، جنوب مجموعه جزایر ملوک اندونزی و شمال غرب استرالیا و پایتخت آن دیلی است. تیمور شرقی بیش از یک میلیون جمعیت دارد که اکثر آنان مسیحی کاتولیک هستند. در جریان خشونت‌ها در سال ۱۹۹۹ بیش از یک هزار نفر کشته و عده زیادی بی خانمان شدند. بیشتر موارد نقض حقوق بشر و خونریزی‌ها در تیمور شرقی در سال ۱۹۹۹، نتیجه اقدامات شبه نظامیان مسلح بوده و ارتش اندونزی مسئول مسلح کردن و متشکل کردن این شبه نظامیان بوده‌ است تیمور شرقی تا سال ۲۰۰۲ میلادی از جمله استان‌های اندونزی بود و در پی قیام ها و شورش های استقلال طلبانه از این کشور جدا شد، سرانجام ۲۰ مه ۲۰۰۲ میلادی تیمور شرقی از اندونزی اعلام استقلال کرد مردم این کشور کوچک طی همه‌پرسی عمومی و زیر نظارت نیروهای حافظ صلح ملل متحد، در سال ۲۰۰۲ به استقلال خود از اندونزی رای دادند