Lyric discussion by thommy 

Cover art for Born Free lyrics by M.I.A.

Awesome song...I like it 'cause it encourages you to think for yourself. There's all these systems out there trying to tell you what to do, promising you some reward in the end if you buy their bullshit. Whether it be the money-greedy corpotocracy (manmade towers, suit-ed interviews), new-age hippie spiritualism (uptopian dogma), or cash-crazed celebrity culture (money, hoochies), the end result is all the same: do what they want, not what you feel. And the video is mind-blowing...it takes the concept to an extreme and warns what the world might be like if we all totally ascribed to mass, totaliterian fear-mongering.

I also dig the diss on hip-hop/dance lyrics when she's putting down the money/hoochies/fakeness...might just be me, but I totally thought about all the drunk, lame people grinding to Paper Planes at bars for the past few years (myself included)...it must be hard to have your tune become commodotized like that.

Thanks dude. That makes a lot of sense

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