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“I was thinking about , and I felt like, you know, it was just so in your face all the time, and being a woman, you really have to use it and put it in people’s faces to get ahead. And I wondered what that was doing to - like, in Sri Lanka, sexuality is a whole other ballgame, you know what I mean? And it’s so naive and it’s so basic, and people have no outlet for meeting people and young people don’t have anywhere to hang and stuff, and so when you get on the bus, you can really feel the tension between boys and girls - that’s the only place they meet, on a transport. So I was thinking about how it’s an unsaid thing over there, and it’s in your face over here, and how people perceive it and stuff. And then I felt like if I was abducted and being held for ransom in the middle of the Amazon, I would actually try to make a go of it and try to fall in love with my hostage-taker person, and, like, set up shop! I think if you spend enough time with anyone, you can come to love anyone. There just doesn’t have to be any hate involved ‘cause it’s actually about getting to know that individual human being and why they’re doing the thing they’re doing, and trying to understand it. I felt at that point that I could be so understanding of anybody that even if somebody took me to kill me in the middle of nowhere, I’d still give it a go and try to understand him.”

“There’s a better way of making all of that make sense and I’m sure somebody else will, but I was just really frustrated and bored of it in London. I was like, this is really boring how much of it is in your face, and how do you restore some sort of mystery back into it, you know?”
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  • Miss-Kei

    Last song of the day!

    last month

  • Miss-Kei

    love at first listen. [5]

    March 2012

  • les_miserables

    Helloooo! This is M.I.A. Could you pleeese come get me? chun chunkha chunkha chun chun

    March 2012

  • ohsolucky

    I don't find this song sad at all. It's kinda cheeky, at least the story of being abducted from the streets of London and held hostage in the amazon, and over time falling in love with her captor. I guess it depends if you look at it as a narrative or a metaphor from something else.

    February 2012

  • HotHipsOfShaki

    love at first listen.[4]

    February 2012

  • Petite_Cherie

    My family's from the Amazon...

    February 2012

  • Batabid

    This song really hits a nerve. It's so illustrative and, which M.I.A. songs rarely are, is very sad. It's really about surviving, and having nothing. "I was sippin on a Rubicon, thinking 'bout where I come, It's all this for revolution. Cuttin' up the coupon, saving for a telephone. Can I go home, please can I go home?"

    June 2011

  • deannaelise

    It's okaaaaay, you forgot me.

    May 2011

  • XrustyXtoothX

    LOVE LOVE LOVE!!! <3

    April 2011

  • Jurassicprince

    "Minutes turned to hours and became our dates, then we shared raindrops that turned into lakes..." I love, love, love that line!

    April 2011

  • twewy2010

    OMG! This song is just perfection...xD

    March 2011

  • cocoflower

    love at first listen.[3]

    March 2011

  • MixedCharts

    she's perfect, this song is another proof

    December 2010

  • Rihannafreak

    love at first listen.[2] :)

    October 2010

  • RoeHappy

    love at first listen.

    October 2010

  • deannaelise

    Hypnotic! [2]

    September 2010

  • andersonbridgem

    =]]] love this

    September 2010

  • BackNDaDay90

    Hypnotic!

    August 2010

  • springplatypus

    I like the progression of hatred for her capturers then her apathy and acceptance.

    July 2010

  • sugahbush

    WHAT THE HELL'S A RUBICON.

    July 2010
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