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Subscene.Com
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PEN SCRATCHING
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BARKING
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CLICKING AS CAMERA IS SET UP
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- WOMAN: Maya?
- MAYA: Hm?
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WOMAN: Can you film on this?
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FOOTSTEPS, CLICKING AND WHIRRING
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MAYA: You have to give it, erm,
time for the camera to adjust focus.
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That looks good.
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J‘ Gravity's my enemy
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J“ It grabs at me like I'm on E
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J“ The stars are banging close to me
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J“ As I'm floating in the life odyssey
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I My lines are down
You can't call me
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J‘ As I float around in space odyssey
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I My lines are down
You can't call me
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J‘ As I float around in space odyssey
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I Ooh, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah... I
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(CONVERSATION IN TAMIL)
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Yuli!
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Where is Yuli with Raj Kamal's boat?
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STEVE: Why are you a problematic
pop star? Why don't you just...
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Shut up? Why don't you just
shut up and get a hit?
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Yeah. Why don’t you?
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MAYA: IfI shut up and get a hit,
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I would have to become a drug addict
and overdose
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or, like, meet a very bad ending
to the story, because that’s what happens
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when you don ’t express
the shit you need to express.
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I came to music as a medium,
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but the need to express myself
through anything existed before.
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CAMERA CLICKS
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I Growin' up, brewin' up
Guerrilla gettin' trained up
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I Look out, look out
From over the rooftop
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I Growin‘ up, brewin' up
Guerrilla gettin‘... I
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I wanted to be a documentary film-maker.
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I felt like I had, like,
a million stories to put on film.
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I Row da boat straight to da ocean
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I Give him a run a run at his own game
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I Signal the plane
An' I landed on the runway
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I A survivor, independent foreigner
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I First your beats had me running
To the running man... I
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STEVE: I met Maya in 1996
when we were at art school together.
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After a while we made friends
and we started working together,
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helping each other out
on our film projects.
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Oh, dear, let's first do a video project!
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Central Saint Martins
wasn 't very diverse.
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There were no black people
or brown people in our year at all.
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So, she kind of stood out.
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Action!
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She made films about the friends she grew
up with, the kids on her council estate.
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But the thing that really fascinated me
was her own story.
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(CONVERSATION IN TAMIL)
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MAYA: You know,
there are loads of people here
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who can empathise with
what it's like to have a dad
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who became a banker, a lawyer,
a judge, a fucking whatever.
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And this is what happened to a kid
whose dad went off and became a terrorist.
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And this is how it fucked up the family.
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And this is how it fucked up the people.
This is how it fucked up the country.
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TANK RUMBLES
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For the ten years we lived in Sri Lanka
we were surrounded by civil war.
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My dad was the founder
of the Tamil Resistance Movement
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and my family was in danger all the time.
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We came to England as refugees -
myself, my mum, my sister, my brother -
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in May 1985.
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My dad stayed in Sri Lanka
to fight the war.
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REPORTER: For many years there
have been about 30,000 Tamils in Britain.
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But in the last ten days alone, at least
100 refugees have arrived in South London
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and are being placed with Tamil families
already here.
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Now, the government say
there are too many of them,
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placing an enormous strain
on the system.
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DANCE MUSIC ON PLAYER
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MA YA: Music was my medicine.
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I had to deal with the fact
that I was something else
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and I was different
and I was an immigrant.
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In Sri Lanka I was getting shot at
for being a Tamil
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then I came to England and was
getting spat at for being a Paki.
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We had this second-hand radio.
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I'd put my headphones on
and sleep to it every night
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listening to...Madonna and Taylor Dean
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or whatever that was, like,
a hit at the time.
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One day, I was coming home from school
and all my neighbours
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were stood in, like, a line
passing all this stuff out of our house.
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I was, like, you can keep everything.
I know you did it cos I saw you.
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But can I have my radio back?
And they were, like, "No".
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And, erm, so that night I went to sleep
without headphones
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and without pop music.
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And then I heard the bass line
come from the other neighbour's house
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which was, you know,
he was listening to hip hop.
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And it was, like, the first time
I heard Public Enemy
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and all these, erm, hip—hop songs.
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And... and the bass line was so insane
and I was like, “What is that?"
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HIP HOP PLAYS
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The first bit of Western identity
I embraced was through music.
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MAN: As we are watching
the nine o’clock news, as you can see,
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Maya ls, erm, reading some mash-up book,
which is... What is it?
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MA YA: It's called Black Skin, White Mask.
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And it's about black power
and black supremacy.
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It's about the supremacy
oppressing black equality.
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This sheet tells you who took it out when.
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And the first date on here is 1986
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and the last date is what I took out, '96.
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That‘s ten years,
but it‘s still on this page.
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That's how much people read it.
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HIP HOP PLAYS
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Hey, Mika, what‘s up?
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Hey, Mika, what's...
SCREAM
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Ama! Ama! Ama, let me see you do
the butterfly in your butterfly dress.
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Do the butterfly!
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Do the butterfly!
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Do the butterfly!
LAUGHTER
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CLUNK
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DOOR SHUTS
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ENGINE HUMS
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Out of the blue we got a phone call
from my dad and he’s like,
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"This is your dad speaking.
I'm going to be in London tomorrow".
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And we went to pick him up
at the airport.
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Say something!
(LAUGHTER)
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I hadn't seen him since I was...
11 or something.
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In Sri Lanka I remember seeing you twice,
and once you gave us apples.
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And that’s the first time
I'd had an apple.
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And then, I remember the other time
you came at 3am
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and you gave me two rupees
to go and buy ice cream.
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And we still didn't know who you were.
We thought you were our uncle.
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We didn’t know you were our dad.
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But tell me about the wooden duck.
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And? What happened?
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MAYA: You're one of the founders of...
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When did you found...?
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Man, I'm 23.
He was something like 29
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or 35 or whatever, when he was in the war.
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He could've turned round and said, "Look,
man, this is shit. Why are we doing this?"
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But they didn‘t do that, man.
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There's no point in sitting here
when he's 50, and he‘s got no...
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His whole life is like, at a dead end,
sort of thing. He doesn't know what to do.
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So, now, he's talking about peace
because he can't do anything else.
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He can't fight now.
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He could have sent a birthday card
or a Thank You card or a Valentine's card
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or Well Done card. Come on!
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You know, a Christmas card.
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Just one card between the whole family.
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Just anything.
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I'm glad for everything
he's made us out to be.
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He's made us so strong
for what he's put us through.
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He's made us damn interesting.
He's given us a bloody background.
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I‘m glad he's notjust a
9 to 5 petrol-station owner.
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You know? I'm glad he‘s notjust a doctor
or whatever.
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OK, we didn't have wealth
and the richness and security,
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but that's made us so strong.
We‘re so independent.
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I actually feel sorry for him
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cos he sacrificed everything for, like,
how many years
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and went to fight for the country.
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And he hasn't succeeded yet, or anything.
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Are you interested in what's happening
in Sri Lanka?
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Not just Sri Lanka, man. The whole world.
Africa and all them countries.
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But you’ve got a direct link
to Sri Lanka.
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No, I haven‘t. So what if I'm born there?
I'm Tamil, so who gives a shit, man.
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There‘s kids dying.
I care about all of that.
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Right, I’m gonna play you a video.
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It's just at 15-minute film...
that the Tamil Tiger women made.
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MALE REPORTER: this is the northern
frontier of the country’s civil war.
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The Sri Lankan security forces have been
fighting Tamil separatists
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and the Tamil Tigers have gained
a reputation as fearless fighters.
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FEMALE REPORTER: Anhibir is a member
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of the Tamil people '5 pro-independence
movement,
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the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam,
the LITE.
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MAYA: When I first saw this tape
of women my age,
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you know, they cut their hair off
and they're in uniform,
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I realised that would have been
my reality.
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Like, what are they eating and like, what
do they do when they’re on their period?
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How do they survive in the jungle?
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Why was it me that got away?
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FOOTSTEPS
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HINGE CREAKS, THUD
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ROCK MUSIC INTRO
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I didn’t go to concerts a lot,
but somebody gave me a free ticket
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then we got invited backstage
and then I met Justine.
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And we just hit it off.
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Britpop was at, like, the forefront
of British culture at the time.
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But I didn’t know Elastica
and their music wasn’t my music.
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Break a leg!
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Break a leg!
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CHEERING
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MUSIC: ELASTICA - CONNECTION
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I Riding on any wave
That is the luck you crave
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I They don‘t believe it now
They just think it‘s stupid... I
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MAYA: We came from
a different set of people.
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She had no idea about the urban culture
and stuff that I'd grew up on
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and I’d never been inside a house
in Notting Hill.
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Urgh!
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- JUSTINE: Seems a bit dark.
- Yeah.
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JUSTINE SINGS
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I Boy, you're turning me inside out
And round... I
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Why is it like this?
Yesterday, it was really nice.
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JUSTINE: You look like you just
walked out of seeing a James Bond film.
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- You look so great. Honestly.
— I look like Mowgli.
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- You always look like Mowgli, but...
— It‘s just the fringe...
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MA YA: She offered to let me do her video
called Mad Dog
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and she gave me £100 to make it.
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And I just wanted to bring the world
I was in into the world she was in.
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MAD DOG MUSIC VIDEO
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I got some girls that I'd met in a club
the night before and we just, like,
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shot in the morning under the Westway
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and then it was, like, the first
indie music with some dancers in it.
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I Don‘t need no credit card
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I To make my charge complete
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I Don‘t want you on your back
Ijust got on my feet
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I Don‘t want the same boy
Another time... I
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She asked me to come on tour and film and
I was interested in making documentaries
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so I was, like, 'Yeah, cool'.
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MUSIC PLAYS - ELASTICA: GENERATOR
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I I'm a sonic generator
It's as far as I can take it
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I Aren‘t you glad that I can make it
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I Oh, oh, in the money
Baby put your arms around me
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I Aren't you glad
That you have found me... I
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MUSIC FADES
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MAYA: I hated it.
I was there because I liked Justine.
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And I was, like, 'You've got access to a
microphone and 1,000 people every night.
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’Please use it to say something.’
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Her band didn’t like the fact
me and her were so close.
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And they were pissed off at me
and theyjust shut me out all the time.
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TEARFULLY: Ijust wish I had someone
to talk to right now.
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I guess that's why I‘m talking to
the camera
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cos Ijust need to get this shit
out of the way
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so I could just go to sleep.
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You know, I‘m so pissed... off...
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at people not really taking me seriously.
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And...
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not really caring about what's going on.
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And... I don‘t even know if this
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is what I should be doing right now.
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You're just fucked off
cos you didn‘t get enough attention.
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- That's not it at all.
- It totally is.
233
00:19:42,264 --> 00:19:44,676
I've gone through life without having it.
234
00:19:44,767 --> 00:19:49,602
You've never had this little attention,
obviously and your ego can‘t deal with it.
235
00:19:49,689 --> 00:19:51,975
- Please!
— All right, whatever.
236
00:19:52,066 --> 00:19:54,603
- D'you know what I mean?
- Whatever!
237
00:19:54,694 --> 00:19:59,313
Too many days have gone by with you
thinking shit and not saying it to people.
238
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BOTH TALK AT ONCE
239
00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:05,401
Iknow ou're ver sensitive.
, Y Y
240
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Instead of me going home,
241
00:20:08,124 --> 00:20:12,493
I'm just sitting there going, 'No, I‘m
bigger than that. I don't need this shit‘.
242
00:20:12,586 --> 00:20:18,331
I know. You‘re bigger than I am.
I know you are.
243
00:20:18,426 --> 00:20:20,633
WATER POU RS
244
00:20:27,309 --> 00:20:32,019
Come on, Maya, let‘s not talk about this
now. Let's talk about it when we get home.
245
00:20:32,106 --> 00:20:35,849
Going home. I'm taking you home.
I'm taking you home.
246
00:20:45,202 --> 00:20:48,945
MA YA: You know what? Fuck talking about
youth culture in Britain,
247
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fuck talking about fucking fashion,
248
00:20:51,208 --> 00:20:55,326
fuck talking about all this
pretentious cliquey bullshit.
249
00:20:55,421 --> 00:21:02,714
After 25 years, I 'm ready to go and
fucking put all the pieces together.
250
00:21:02,803 --> 00:21:07,888
All this time I 've been denying
the life that I had in Sri Lanka.
251
00:21:10,186 --> 00:21:15,397
I'm now living in London and sort of
caught up in a superficial lifestyle.
252
00:21:15,483 --> 00:21:18,850
And a lot of people I know,
including myself,
253
00:21:18,944 --> 00:21:22,277
were just constantly going around
and searching for meaning.
254
00:21:22,364 --> 00:21:24,025
And Ijust began to wonder
255
00:21:24,116 --> 00:21:27,654
what the alternative would have been
ifI lived in Sri Lanka.
256
00:21:27,745 --> 00:21:32,739
Ijust wondered if you had, like, spare
camera batteries, that would be great.
257
00:21:32,833 --> 00:21:39,295
But if you don't, then I'll just have
to... get round that problem.
258
00:21:39,340 --> 00:21:40,580
GASPS
259
00:21:40,674 --> 00:21:42,414
N0!
260
00:21:42,510 --> 00:21:46,219
Fucking "journalist" it says,
my occupation.
261
00:21:46,305 --> 00:21:48,796
A journalist! I told them I was a...
262
00:21:48,891 --> 00:21:53,055
just a stupid ten-minute
experimental film-maker.
263
00:21:53,145 --> 00:21:55,602
Well, I said I do fine-art film and video.
264
00:21:56,482 --> 00:21:59,474
They do shoot journalists.
265
00:21:59,568 --> 00:22:01,809
I can apply for a different one.
266
00:22:01,862 --> 00:22:04,695
I suppose ifI do it tomorrow morning...
267
00:22:04,740 --> 00:22:06,480
Maybe it peels off.
268
00:22:09,161 --> 00:22:11,152
OK, let's go.
269
00:22:11,247 --> 00:22:14,535
I'm gonna go back to my school
that I went to
270
00:22:14,625 --> 00:22:17,788
and go back to the fucking girls
that I hung out with.
271
00:22:17,878 --> 00:22:19,288
Bye!
272
00:22:20,381 --> 00:22:23,839
I’m gonna go and film
that 21-year-old in Sri Lanka
273
00:22:23,926 --> 00:22:27,510
because that so could have been
my reality.
274
00:22:27,596 --> 00:22:31,384
Oh, you wanna hear my story?
I 'm gonna fucking show you my story.
275
00:22:31,475 --> 00:22:34,137
I will show you my fucking story.
276
00:22:34,228 --> 00:22:39,689
JUSTINE: Wait! Maya!
You’ve forgotten the camera!
277
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That's a good one.
You nearly left without your camera.
278
00:22:52,413 --> 00:22:54,495
- MAYA: See you later.
- Yeah.
279
00:22:59,962 --> 00:23:02,999
MUSIC: M.I.A. - BIRD FLU
280
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HORN TOOTS
281
00:23:19,148 --> 00:23:22,982
I Big on the underground
What's the point of knocking me down
282
00:23:25,404 --> 00:23:29,317
I Everyone knows
I'm already good on the ground
283
00:23:31,785 --> 00:23:34,117
I Most of us stay strong... I
284
00:23:37,041 --> 00:23:39,032
MAYA: Yeah.
285
00:24:07,863 --> 00:24:11,151
Halin is my dad's cousin.
286
00:24:11,408 --> 00:24:15,242
She takes care of all the young kids
that come to Colombo
287
00:24:15,329 --> 00:24:19,698
as refugees from the North.
You know, my relations.
288
00:24:19,792 --> 00:24:21,498
Hold this.
289
00:24:26,590 --> 00:24:30,549
When I was your age
I used to live in this room.
290
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:19,097
(SPEAKS TAMIL)
291
00:25:19,601 --> 00:25:22,308
You know, I haven't seen my family
for 16 years
292
00:25:22,396 --> 00:25:26,059
and I'm having to spend a lot of time
with them off camera
293
00:25:26,150 --> 00:25:31,270
and get them to be comfortable with me and
understand what my personality is like.
294
00:25:31,363 --> 00:25:34,196
Because when they see me,
they straight away assume
295
00:25:34,283 --> 00:25:38,617
that I’m a Tamil girl and I’m into
the same things as everybody else.
296
00:25:38,704 --> 00:25:44,415
And they sort of suggest
taking me out to the shopping mall.
297
00:25:45,210 --> 00:25:47,201
And it’s really difficult for me
298
00:25:47,296 --> 00:25:51,289
to get across the point
that I 'm not interested in those things.
299
00:25:51,341 --> 00:25:53,753
That’s not why I’m here.
300
00:25:53,844 --> 00:25:56,335
KENNY ROGERS ON RADIO: LUCILLE
301
00:26:00,059 --> 00:26:04,143
SINGING: ...time to leave me, Lucille.
302
00:26:05,522 --> 00:26:08,639
...a fine time to leave me, Lucille.
303
00:26:10,402 --> 00:26:12,393
What are we gonna do?
304
00:26:26,460 --> 00:26:28,451
What do you mean, a night check—up?
305
00:26:32,466 --> 00:26:33,876
When ?
306
00:26:42,601 --> 00:26:48,517
Everybody is scared to talk to the camera,
basically, about anything.
307
00:26:48,607 --> 00:26:52,566
They let me know that whatever they say
308
00:26:52,653 --> 00:26:56,191
might get in the hands of police officers.
309
00:27:30,899 --> 00:27:36,690
No, but the experience I had when I was
like, six, seven, eight, nine, ten
310
00:27:36,780 --> 00:27:38,736
was intense, ’cos. ..
311
00:27:56,550 --> 00:27:58,711
So, that cancels that...
312
00:28:09,396 --> 00:28:11,603
- That’s you.
- KOLIAN: Mm-hm.
313
00:28:11,690 --> 00:28:14,727
And that’s my little brother,
and that’s me.
314
00:28:17,988 --> 00:28:20,525
So, that’s two out of six boys are dead.
315
00:28:24,203 --> 00:28:27,946
Wil/sy, he died in 1993
316
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,577
aged 22.
317
00:28:37,216 --> 00:28:41,255
He was at medical school
and he was coming to visit his mum
318
00:28:41,345 --> 00:28:45,634
and while he was waiting for the boat
he got killed.
319
00:28:49,186 --> 00:28:52,474
I 'm just beginning to get close to
320
00:28:53,607 --> 00:28:56,770
the things that I wanted to find out.
321
00:28:56,860 --> 00:29:00,978
So, I’m gonna extend my stay
and stay for a little longer.
322
00:29:02,699 --> 00:29:09,616
And spend two months as opposed to one
and see what happens.
323
00:29:09,706 --> 00:29:12,948
BACKG ROUN D CHAT
324
00:29:13,043 --> 00:29:15,910
BOB DYLAN ON RADIO: MOZAMBIQUE
325
00:29:28,016 --> 00:29:30,223
(SPEAKS TAMIL)
326
00:29:36,817 --> 00:29:39,058
SINGING: ...aqua blue
327
00:29:39,152 --> 00:29:42,565
SONG CONTINUES
328
00:29:50,414 --> 00:29:53,781
(CONVERSATION IN TAMIL)
329
00:30:01,383 --> 00:30:04,375
AMBIENT STREET SOUNDS
330
00:30:23,697 --> 00:30:25,688
FOOTSTEPS
331
00:30:31,204 --> 00:30:32,569
SPEAKERS CLATI'ER
332
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:48,009
- STEVE: What is all this?
— This is a 505. I've got five of them.
333
00:30:48,096 --> 00:30:49,461
STEVE CHUCKLES
334
00:30:49,556 --> 00:30:51,137
I've got four of the 5055
335
00:30:51,224 --> 00:30:55,718
and then I've got a four-track,
which is the little machine...
336
00:30:55,812 --> 00:30:58,053
that I recorded on.
337
00:30:59,608 --> 00:31:02,190
I never thought I was writing songs
for myself.
338
00:31:02,277 --> 00:31:05,690
CLATTER
I thought I was writing songs for Justine.
339
00:31:05,781 --> 00:31:07,362
You know.
340
00:31:10,410 --> 00:31:13,823
I'll play you the first tape of songs
we used to make.
341
00:31:13,914 --> 00:31:17,577
CASSETTE CLICKS
AND PLAYS ELEVATOR SONG
342
00:31:22,798 --> 00:31:25,631
I think we were really
into the word "elevator".
343
00:31:25,717 --> 00:31:27,002
STEVE CHUCKLES
344
00:31:27,094 --> 00:31:30,757
Then I wrote this beat, here.
It's called Chicken Choker.
345
00:31:30,847 --> 00:31:32,963
This was the first beat I wrote.
346
00:31:33,058 --> 00:31:35,674
PLAYS BEAT
347
00:31:44,403 --> 00:31:49,989
At this point we were just writing, like,
any old songs about random things.
348
00:31:50,075 --> 00:31:52,566
And then, when I got back to London
349
00:31:52,661 --> 00:31:57,325
I actually started writing about
the things that I wanted to write about.
350
00:31:57,416 --> 00:31:59,407
You know?
RA‘I‘I’LING
351
00:31:59,459 --> 00:32:02,451
My lyrics were just
things that was in my head
352
00:32:02,546 --> 00:32:08,917
combined with me being obsessed
with dance, you know, urban music.
353
00:32:09,010 --> 00:32:10,875
BEEPING
354
00:32:15,559 --> 00:32:18,676
I I mashed up a coconut
Outside by the back door
355
00:32:18,770 --> 00:32:20,886
I Should be closed
I'm eating up my mango
356
00:32:20,981 --> 00:32:23,222
I Daddy was home
Huntin' up a wild boar
357
00:32:23,316 --> 00:32:25,602
I Get your mum now
Cook up the whole lot
358
00:32:25,694 --> 00:32:28,606
I We had no idea
We were cooking for commandos
359
00:32:28,697 --> 00:32:31,609
I Our camp had videos made by Arsenio
360
00:32:31,700 --> 00:32:34,032
I Show the films like Rocky & Rambo
361
00:32:34,119 --> 00:32:36,280
I Role models from Hollywood to jungle
362
00:32:36,371 --> 00:32:38,612
I We learned to fight using our heroes
363
00:32:38,707 --> 00:32:40,993
I Aviator shades, gold rims
With the grenades
364
00:32:41,084 --> 00:32:43,621
I Home-made tin weapons that ricochet
365
00:32:43,712 --> 00:32:45,953
I When it's hot we all made lemonade
366
00:32:46,047 --> 00:32:51,633
I Now we, we, we rock like we're macho
Like that's what we wanted... I
367
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:55,804
MA YA: I knew how to tell the story
because it was all there in front of me.
368
00:32:55,891 --> 00:33:00,555
Like, when you walked into my room
there was photographs I 'd just taken,
369
00:33:00,645 --> 00:33:02,727
tapes of the Tigers.
370
00:33:02,814 --> 00:33:06,102
I found something
that I knew how to put together
371
00:33:06,193 --> 00:33:11,733
and whatever I did, it was gonna pop
just because I was desperate.
372
00:33:11,781 --> 00:33:14,523
I Oh, oh, oh, ho I
373
00:33:16,786 --> 00:33:20,028
Let's see what's on...
BEAT PLAYS
374
00:33:22,584 --> 00:33:28,079
The best song I’ve got today
has got to be... this.
375
00:33:36,515 --> 00:33:38,471
I My hips do the flicks
As I walk, yeah
376
00:33:38,558 --> 00:33:42,016
I With the good hair
I can do what I can
377
00:33:42,062 --> 00:33:43,848
I Did your mama tell you about me?
378
00:33:43,939 --> 00:33:45,804
I What did she say?
Don't go play there
379
00:33:45,899 --> 00:33:49,733
I Gonna make that hot boy want me
Gonna make that hot boy... I
380
00:33:49,819 --> 00:33:54,688
I 'd recorded four songs for Arular
and I took it to XL Recordings
381
00:33:54,741 --> 00:33:56,277
and knocked on the door.
382
00:33:56,368 --> 00:33:58,780
She tells it like
she knocked on the door and said,
383
00:33:58,870 --> 00:34:02,988
” I hear you've been looking for me".
It was a little bit like that.
384
00:34:03,083 --> 00:34:06,416
She did just turn up at the office
one day with this demo, this CD
385
00:34:06,503 --> 00:34:09,870
with, like, hand-made artwork.
386
00:34:09,965 --> 00:34:12,297
She seemed to have
a very strong vision.
387
00:34:12,384 --> 00:34:15,000
That’s one of the things
I always look for
388
00:34:15,095 --> 00:34:18,007
when I 'm meeting artists:
vision and ambition.
389
00:34:18,098 --> 00:34:21,215
I'm gonna move all this shit
out of the way.
390
00:34:21,309 --> 00:34:24,847
She kinda had both of those things
in bucket loads, really.
391
00:34:24,938 --> 00:34:27,304
- We didn't take the reverb off.
- Yeah...
392
00:34:27,399 --> 00:34:30,641
When I heard the first song,
I wasn't that blown away.
393
00:34:30,735 --> 00:34:33,602
She’s like, ”I'll come back tomorrow
and play another song”.
394
00:34:33,697 --> 00:34:36,359
She came back and played me Galang.
395
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,412
I London calling
Speak the slang now
396
00:34:47,460 --> 00:34:49,872
I Boys say wha’, wha’
And girls say wha', wha'
397
00:34:49,963 --> 00:34:52,170
I London calling
Speak the slang now
398
00:34:52,257 --> 00:34:54,589
I Boys say wha’, wha’
And girls say wha', wha'
399
00:34:54,676 --> 00:34:59,545
I Slam, galang galang galang
Gala gala galang galang gala
400
00:34:59,639 --> 00:35:02,676
I Shotgun, get down
Get down, get down, get down... I
401
00:35:02,767 --> 00:35:05,099
CLEARS THROAT
402
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:15,645
It was really home-made,
but it's not about production value
403
00:35:15,739 --> 00:35:20,199
or, you know, how much money you have
to make it shiny.
404
00:35:21,870 --> 00:35:24,156
Itjust has to come from a real place.
405
00:35:25,206 --> 00:35:26,912
Voila!
406
00:35:27,500 --> 00:35:28,990
BEATS
407
00:35:34,924 --> 00:35:39,588
I had really strong ideas about what
music I liked and what made me dance
408
00:35:39,679 --> 00:35:41,761
and what I wanted to say.
409
00:35:41,848 --> 00:35:45,466
All of these things became Arular.
410
00:35:46,519 --> 00:35:50,853
I want to tell you about another singer,
Maya Arulpragasm, born in Sri Lanka.
411
00:35:50,940 --> 00:35:53,306
Her father
part of the Tamil Tiger guerrillas.
412
00:35:53,401 --> 00:35:57,019
Her mom fled with her to England,
where Maya grew up in a refugee ghetto.
413
00:35:57,113 --> 00:36:00,071
She's an up-and-coming hip-hop artist
and goes by the name, M.I.A.
414
00:36:00,158 --> 00:36:02,399
I Blaze a blaze
Galang alang alang lang
415
00:36:02,494 --> 00:36:04,576
I Purple haze
Galang alang alang lang I
416
00:36:04,621 --> 00:36:07,078
I Blaze a blaze
Galang alang alang lang
417
00:36:07,165 --> 00:36:09,622
I Purple haze
Galang alang alang lang I
418
00:36:09,709 --> 00:36:11,745
I London calling
Speak the slang now
419
00:36:11,836 --> 00:36:13,952
I Boys say wha', wha'
And girls say wha', wha'
420
00:36:14,047 --> 00:36:16,538
I London calling
Speak the slang now
421
00:36:16,633 --> 00:36:18,715
I Boys say wha', wha'
I And girls say wha', wha'
422
00:36:18,802 --> 00:36:23,341
I Slam, galang galang gala
Gala gala galang galang gala
423
00:36:23,431 --> 00:36:27,515
I Shotgun, get down
Get down, get down, get down
424
00:36:27,602 --> 00:36:29,433
I Get a, get a, get a down get down
425
00:36:29,979 --> 00:36:33,221
I Too late, you down
Dan dan da dan, da da
426
00:36:33,316 --> 00:36:36,308
I Dana dana dana
Da na da na da I
427
00:36:36,403 --> 00:36:39,736
NEWS REPORTER: She’s made
a debut record on a $300 keyboard
428
00:36:39,781 --> 00:36:42,397
and the assistance of some producers
in London.
429
00:36:42,492 --> 00:36:45,950
Sold over 100,000 copies,
got picked up by Interscope Records.
430
00:36:46,037 --> 00:36:50,201
REPORTER: She was creating a buzz
long before her debut CD was released
431
00:36:50,291 --> 00:36:55,081
and that is in part because of the work of
a Philadelphia producer named Dip/o.
432
00:36:56,798 --> 00:36:59,835
I wonder who paid for this
remote control?
433
00:36:59,926 --> 00:37:01,416
This makes the shit hot.
434
00:37:03,012 --> 00:37:05,128
It's the crunk button.
435
00:37:06,182 --> 00:37:09,049
- MAYA: Where’s the crunk button?
- This one.
436
00:37:10,395 --> 00:37:14,729
This one just has this really
amazing sound. Just the snares.
437
00:37:14,816 --> 00:37:16,807
DREAM-LIKE MUSIC
438
00:37:16,860 --> 00:37:21,024
- MAYA: I like the last one too, though.
— Kind of space—love song...
439
00:37:21,114 --> 00:37:22,229
Ahh!
440
00:37:30,123 --> 00:37:34,708
M.I.A. is in the house,
so M.I.A., come on down!
441
00:37:34,794 --> 00:37:37,251
CHEERING
442
00:37:39,716 --> 00:37:41,126
MAYA: Oh, my God!
443
00:37:41,217 --> 00:37:43,378
- How are you?
- They're loud!
444
00:37:43,470 --> 00:37:46,837
Thank you so much.
You wanna come and stand over here?
445
00:37:46,931 --> 00:37:49,297
- How are you doing?
— I'm good.
446
00:37:49,392 --> 00:37:51,758
- It's a pleasure to meet you.
- Good to meet you, too.
447
00:37:51,853 --> 00:37:56,438
- Thank you so much!
- Look, my boyfriend‘s out there!
448
00:37:56,524 --> 00:37:58,810
- What one? Is he the one jumping up?
- Yeah, yeah.
449
00:37:58,860 --> 00:37:59,940
HOST LAUGHS
450
00:38:00,028 --> 00:38:03,441
That's true love, man. He's jumping up
outside. He should come in.
451
00:38:03,531 --> 00:38:05,817
- We'll have him come in.
- Come in!
452
00:38:05,909 --> 00:38:10,653
What does it feel like now that you're
getting recognition with the press?
453
00:38:10,747 --> 00:38:13,454
Does it mean something to you,
or do you not really care?
454
00:38:13,500 --> 00:38:17,368
Personally, I try not to think about it
too much.
455
00:38:17,420 --> 00:38:22,084
But I think it's really great for, like,
being a Tamil, Sri Lankan, whatever.
456
00:38:22,175 --> 00:38:23,335
CHEERING
457
00:38:23,426 --> 00:38:26,918
It matters to them.
The Tamil girls are screaming.
458
00:38:27,013 --> 00:38:28,594
They love it!
459
00:38:36,397 --> 00:38:40,140
- It's gonna kick arse, the whole shebang!
- STEVE: Uh-huh?
460
00:38:40,860 --> 00:38:43,602
HAMMERING, WORKERS TALKING
461
00:38:46,407 --> 00:38:50,491
- STEVE: Look at all this! Oh, my God!
- MAYA: That's the props. Walkie-ta/kies.
462
00:38:50,578 --> 00:38:52,364
- That's the radio.
- Perfect!
463
00:38:52,455 --> 00:38:55,447
(WORKERS TALKING IN TAMIL)
464
00:39:03,007 --> 00:39:05,419
STEVE: Hey! Go, Maya!
465
00:39:06,636 --> 00:39:09,093
(LAUGHS)
He's mad!
466
00:39:10,473 --> 00:39:12,509
SMOKE MACHINE DRONES
467
00:39:16,437 --> 00:39:19,474
MA YA: There 's a lot of
cookie-cutter videos.
468
00:39:19,566 --> 00:39:24,606
Pretty girls, clubs, cars, guys.
People are scared to experiment.
469
00:39:24,696 --> 00:39:29,281
Your video should be a tool
to... bring to people
470
00:39:29,367 --> 00:39:33,485
scenes and sights and images
that they’ve not seen before.
471
00:39:33,997 --> 00:39:35,533
I I bongo with my lingo
472
00:39:35,582 --> 00:39:38,119
I And beat it like a wing, yo
473
00:39:38,209 --> 00:39:39,870
I To combo, to Colombo
474
00:39:39,961 --> 00:39:42,293
I Can't stereotype my thing, yo
475
00:39:42,380 --> 00:39:46,339
I I salt and pepper my mango
Shoot spit out the window
476
00:39:46,426 --> 00:39:48,883
I Bingo, got them in the thing, yo
477
00:39:48,970 --> 00:39:50,426
I Now what? I'm doing my thing, yo
478
00:39:50,513 --> 00:39:54,381
I The sun showers that
fall on my troubles
479
00:39:54,475 --> 00:39:58,013
I Are over you, my baby
480
00:39:59,272 --> 00:40:02,309
I And sun showers
I'll be aiming at you
481
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,391
I Cos I'm watching you, my baby I
482
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,942
VOCAL WARM-UP
483
00:40:17,415 --> 00:40:20,122
We're here at Coachella 2005.
484
00:40:23,004 --> 00:40:25,541
That’s the main stage.
485
00:40:26,382 --> 00:40:29,749
I Ah, that's how I write... I
486
00:40:31,179 --> 00:40:35,969
When Arular came out in 2005,
Napster was happening
487
00:40:36,059 --> 00:40:40,678
and a million copies got downloaded
for free.
488
00:40:41,981 --> 00:40:44,893
Itjust blew up so quickly.
489
00:40:44,984 --> 00:40:47,600
Like, so fast.
490
00:40:47,695 --> 00:40:50,528
CROWD CHANTS: M.I.A., M.I.A
491
00:40:53,493 --> 00:40:56,030
CHEERING
492
00:41:07,632 --> 00:41:10,214
I I'm a fighter, fighter god
493
00:41:10,259 --> 00:41:12,250
I I'm a soldier on that road
494
00:41:12,345 --> 00:41:14,961
I I'm a fighter, a nice nice fighter
495
00:41:15,056 --> 00:41:17,138
I I'm a soldier on that road
496
00:41:17,225 --> 00:41:19,511
I Bring me the reaper
Bring me a lawyer
497
00:41:19,602 --> 00:41:21,388
I I'll fight, I'll take them on
498
00:41:21,479 --> 00:41:23,936
I You treat me like a killer
I never hate ya
499
00:41:24,023 --> 00:41:26,139
I I'm a soldier on that road
500
00:41:26,234 --> 00:41:28,816
I I'm a fighter, fighter god
501
00:41:28,861 --> 00:41:30,522
I I'm a soldier on that road
502
00:41:31,489 --> 00:41:34,231
I Slang tang
That's the M.I.A. thang
503
00:41:34,325 --> 00:41:36,816
I I got the bombs to make you blow
504
00:41:36,911 --> 00:41:39,072
I I got the beats to make you bang I
505
00:41:39,872 --> 00:41:43,706
Ho! Make some noise.
CHEERING
506
00:41:44,460 --> 00:41:47,827
Coachella! Thank you for having me.
507
00:41:47,922 --> 00:41:51,961
It's my first festival in America
and I loved it.
508
00:41:58,766 --> 00:42:01,724
WOMAN: One more!
509
00:42:03,604 --> 00:42:08,974
- Congratulations! Wasn't that amazing?
— I know. A fucking encore! What do I do?
510
00:42:09,068 --> 00:42:10,933
CHEERING
511
00:42:29,213 --> 00:42:32,000
I I fly like paper, get high like planes
512
00:42:32,091 --> 00:42:34,924
I If you catch me at the border
I got visas in my name
513
00:42:35,011 --> 00:42:37,798
I If you come around here
I make 'em all day
514
00:42:37,889 --> 00:42:40,676
I I get one down in a second
If you wait
515
00:42:40,767 --> 00:42:41,756
I I fly like... I
516
00:42:43,186 --> 00:42:47,270
You should repeat that,
so we know the length of it.
517
00:42:47,356 --> 00:42:49,972
MUSIC CONTINUES
518
00:42:51,986 --> 00:42:54,352
I All I wanna do
Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom
519
00:42:54,447 --> 00:42:57,405
I And the boom, boom, boom
And take your money
520
00:42:57,492 --> 00:42:59,904
I All I wanna do
Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom
521
00:42:59,994 --> 00:43:02,986
I And boom, boom, boom
And take your money
522
00:43:03,081 --> 00:43:05,493
I All I wanna do
Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom
523
00:43:05,541 --> 00:43:08,499
I And the boom, boom, boom
And take your money
524
00:43:08,586 --> 00:43:11,328
I All I wanna do
Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom... I
525
00:43:11,380 --> 00:43:14,167
MUSIC FADES
526
00:43:21,224 --> 00:43:22,634
HANDBRAKE PULLED
527
00:43:22,725 --> 00:43:26,468
All right. So, I'll see you in a minute.
528
00:43:27,855 --> 00:43:30,346
I I fly like paper, get high like planes
529
00:43:30,441 --> 00:43:32,807
I If you catch me on the border
I got visas in my name I
530
00:43:32,860 --> 00:43:34,350
SPIKE: What's that song about?
531
00:43:34,445 --> 00:43:38,654
The stereotype that‘s attached to, like,
immigrants and stuff like that.
532
00:43:38,699 --> 00:43:41,941
That they come and take the jobs,
the money and everything.
533
00:43:42,036 --> 00:43:44,994
So, it was like a funny...
like a spoofy song about that.
534
00:43:45,081 --> 00:43:47,572
It's like, all I wanna do is...
(IMITATES GUNFIRE)
535
00:43:47,667 --> 00:43:51,535
and then, ka—ching, and take your money.
536
00:43:51,629 --> 00:43:56,498
- So, what should I say?
— OK, one two, three. I don 't know.
537
00:43:56,592 --> 00:43:59,675
- Tell me...
- You’re the Hollywood one! Shit!
538
00:43:59,762 --> 00:44:01,343
THEY LAUGH
539
00:44:01,430 --> 00:44:04,092
— Um...
- Hi, this is Spike Jonze
540
00:44:04,142 --> 00:44:05,723
recording for PBS.
541
00:44:07,019 --> 00:44:12,104
Uh, all right. Hi, this is Spike Jonze for
PBS and we are spending the day with Maya
542
00:44:12,191 --> 00:44:15,058
and she‘s gonna take us out
to meet her friend, Afrikan Boy.
543
00:44:15,153 --> 00:44:17,314
And she‘s gonna tell about the new record
544
00:44:17,405 --> 00:44:21,068
she's been working on for the last year
that she named after her mom.
545
00:44:21,159 --> 00:44:25,027
I Ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh I
546
00:44:25,121 --> 00:44:28,204
Hey! How are you?
547
00:44:43,389 --> 00:44:48,725
Like, all these new immigrant cultures
and stuff, that have settled in the West.
548
00:44:48,811 --> 00:44:50,927
It's so deep and strong
549
00:44:50,980 --> 00:44:55,815
and it's part of, like, the fabric of,
I don't know, any city.
550
00:44:55,860 --> 00:44:59,978
But people feel threatened and scared
about it, or it‘s like a dirty word.
551
00:45:00,072 --> 00:45:03,690
Yeah. A lot of people are, like,
scared to go against the grain.
552
00:45:03,784 --> 00:45:06,776
Yeah, you can't rap about
being an immigrant.
553
00:45:06,871 --> 00:45:08,987
It's too embarrassing for people.
554
00:45:09,081 --> 00:45:11,993
- SPIKE: And how did you meet this one?
- Um, Myspace.
555
00:45:12,084 --> 00:45:16,418
- Myspace?
- Yeah, she just found me. She found me.
556
00:45:16,505 --> 00:45:18,962
MUSIC PLAYING: LIDL BY AFRIKAN BOY
557
00:45:21,636 --> 00:45:25,094
I One day I went to Lidl
I was really, really hungry
558
00:45:25,181 --> 00:45:28,639
I I went to shoplift in Lidl
Cos I had no money, money... I
559
00:45:28,726 --> 00:45:29,932
THEY LAUGH
560
00:45:30,019 --> 00:45:32,977
MA YA: There ’5 always gonna be
something different about us
561
00:45:33,064 --> 00:45:36,727
that isn’t gonna relate to a white
experience or a black experience.
562
00:45:36,817 --> 00:45:39,433
There’s always something extra that's...
563
00:45:39,528 --> 00:45:46,445
Something else that you have to go and do,
which is connect with, you know...
564
00:45:46,535 --> 00:45:50,244
your, sort of, back-homeness.
565
00:45:50,331 --> 00:45:54,165
Whereas Arular was like coming from there
and taking it over here.
566
00:45:54,252 --> 00:45:56,459
Kala was definitely
the send-money-home record,
567
00:45:56,545 --> 00:46:00,288
where you're sending the DVD box
back home.
568
00:46:00,383 --> 00:46:04,342
Colour TV box and the microwave,
d’you know what I mean?
569
00:46:04,428 --> 00:46:08,262
I was able to go back with some stuff
this time.
570
00:46:08,933 --> 00:46:10,719
TYRES SCREECH
571
00:46:10,810 --> 00:46:15,304
This is M, this is I, this is A.
572
00:46:15,398 --> 00:46:17,389
Yeah, Maya, MIA.
573
00:46:21,445 --> 00:46:23,436
MA YA: Making Kala was really fun.
574
00:46:23,531 --> 00:46:25,192
Everybody went on the record.
575
00:46:25,283 --> 00:46:26,693
KID BLEATS
576
00:46:26,742 --> 00:46:30,985
Even animals! The dogs and the chickens
and the flies.
577
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:33,287
The kids that were playing in the yard.
578
00:46:33,374 --> 00:46:35,456
One, two, three.
579
00:46:36,043 --> 00:46:38,204
(TAMIL CLAPPING RHYME)
580
00:46:46,304 --> 00:46:50,968
It was just like going back to meet the
kid I was when I was, like, six years old
581
00:46:51,058 --> 00:46:52,923
and be, like, what would I want?
582
00:46:53,019 --> 00:46:56,511
I would have wanted this person
to come and give me free key rings,
583
00:46:56,605 --> 00:46:58,812
like the ones I had.
584
00:46:58,899 --> 00:47:02,858
And buy me some candy,
throw the best party
585
00:47:02,945 --> 00:47:06,437
and give me some money at the end ofit.
586
00:47:08,534 --> 00:47:11,241
MUSIC AND BEATS PLAY
587
00:47:19,837 --> 00:47:24,206
It was like doing a little Rubik’s Cube
and I just kind of, like,
588
00:47:24,300 --> 00:47:28,418
started throwing more and more colours
onto the side of this cube.
589
00:47:28,512 --> 00:47:30,673
I think you should play loud.
590
00:47:30,765 --> 00:47:34,053
MUSIC: EXTRACTS FROM ‘BOYZ'
591
00:47:43,194 --> 00:47:47,358
I went to practically every continent.
592
00:47:49,408 --> 00:47:54,573
We kept working on the same song
in every country.
593
00:47:54,622 --> 00:47:56,988
I started recording music in Trinidad.
594
00:47:57,083 --> 00:48:02,999
You had to make it make sense to the
Trinidad/ans so, it would change slightly.
595
00:48:03,089 --> 00:48:06,422
And then record some stuff in Jamaica.
596
00:48:06,509 --> 00:48:08,921
'BOYZ' CONTINUES TO PLAY
597
00:48:10,012 --> 00:48:14,722
We would have to adjust it again
when you bring him to Brooklyn.
598
00:48:19,313 --> 00:48:22,555
I Can we go riding up a dirty track
Up in Laventille
599
00:48:22,650 --> 00:48:25,107
I Will you show me before I make it back
600
00:48:25,194 --> 00:48:26,809
I Somewhere I can chill I
601
00:48:26,862 --> 00:48:31,822
The kid in the village
where we shot the 'Bird Flu’ video
602
00:48:31,909 --> 00:48:34,867
and the kid in Liberia
playing on that playground
603
00:48:34,954 --> 00:48:37,195
is exactly the same.
604
00:48:37,289 --> 00:48:40,406
And they have nursery rhymes
and they play games.
605
00:48:40,459 --> 00:48:43,792
They have an opinion about
what kind of hairstyle they want
606
00:48:43,879 --> 00:48:46,370
and what T-shirt they're gonna put on
in the morning.
607
00:48:46,465 --> 00:48:52,335
And they have dreams and they have, like,
an idea of what they wanna be.
608
00:48:54,932 --> 00:48:57,639
Can you turn my mic up, please.
609
00:49:01,397 --> 00:49:04,810
I Road runner, road runner
610
00:49:04,900 --> 00:49:07,312
I Going hundred miles per hour
611
00:49:08,863 --> 00:49:11,195
I Road runner, road runner
612
00:49:12,741 --> 00:49:14,948
I Going hundred miles per hour
613
00:49:16,412 --> 00:49:18,698
I With your radio on
614
00:49:20,624 --> 00:49:22,535
I With your radio on
615
00:49:24,003 --> 00:49:27,120
I Road runner, road runner
616
00:49:27,923 --> 00:49:31,381
I Going hundred miles per hour
617
00:49:31,469 --> 00:49:34,552
I With your radio on
618
00:49:35,014 --> 00:49:38,723
I With your radio on
619
00:49:39,602 --> 00:49:42,560
I Somalia, Angola,
Ghana, Ghana, Ghana
620
00:49:42,646 --> 00:49:45,433
I Hey
India, Sri Lanka, Burma
621
00:49:45,524 --> 00:49:47,105
I Bamboo banga
Hey
622
00:49:47,193 --> 00:49:49,058
I This the bamboo banga
Whoo hoo
623
00:49:49,153 --> 00:49:50,984
I I said bamboo banga
Whoo
624
00:49:51,071 --> 00:49:52,936
I This the bamboo banga
Whoo hoo
625
00:49:53,032 --> 00:49:54,988
I I said bamboo banga
Whoo
626
00:49:55,075 --> 00:50:06,327
I Yeah, I‘m knocking on the doors
Of your hummer hummer
627
00:50:06,420 --> 00:50:10,208
I Yeah, we‘re hungry like the wolves
Hunting dinner dinner
628
00:50:10,299 --> 00:50:13,416
I And we're moving with the packs
Like hyena ena
629
00:50:13,511 --> 00:50:15,672
I I'm a road runner
630
00:50:15,888 --> 00:50:17,503
I I'm a world runner
631
00:50:17,598 --> 00:50:19,259
I I'm a road runner
632
00:50:19,350 --> 00:50:21,386
I I'm a world runner
633
00:50:21,477 --> 00:50:23,013
I I'm big timer
634
00:50:23,103 --> 00:50:25,515
I It‘s the bamboo banga
Bamboo banga
635
00:50:25,689 --> 00:50:27,020
I I'm big timer
636
00:50:27,107 --> 00:50:29,189
I It‘s the bamboo banga
Bamboo banga
637
00:50:29,276 --> 00:50:30,766
I I'm big timer
638
00:50:30,819 --> 00:50:33,231
I It‘s the bamboo banga
Bamboo banga
639
00:50:33,322 --> 00:50:34,687
I I'm big timer
640
00:50:34,740 --> 00:50:36,776
I It‘s the bamboo banga
Bamboo banga
641
00:50:36,867 --> 00:50:38,357
I I'm big timer
642
00:50:38,452 --> 00:50:40,784
I It‘s the bamboo banga
Bamboo banga
643
00:50:40,871 --> 00:50:42,577
I I'm big timer
644
00:50:42,665 --> 00:50:45,828
I It‘s the bamboo banga
Bamboo banga I
645
00:50:46,877 --> 00:50:50,586
REPORTER: Rolling Stone put out
its annual list of the top 50 albums
646
00:50:50,673 --> 00:50:53,005
and it shows the diversity
of modern music.
647
00:50:53,092 --> 00:50:56,835
The number one album,
according to Rolling Stone magazine,
648
00:50:56,929 --> 00:51:01,639
is notAmy Winehouse's 'Back to Black’,
it's ’Ka/a’ from M.I.A.
649
00:51:01,725 --> 00:51:04,091
who’s British by way of Sri Lanka.
650
00:51:08,607 --> 00:51:11,098
Popular.
LIGHTER CLICKS
651
00:51:13,404 --> 00:51:15,395
Fucking popular.
652
00:51:15,489 --> 00:51:18,526
MAN: CHUCKLES
Fucking popular! That's wicked.
653
00:51:18,617 --> 00:51:23,156
- Fucking popular!
— Fucking popular!
654
00:51:23,247 --> 00:51:27,707
I I go to the club and I‘m popular
I stay at home and I'm popular
655
00:51:27,793 --> 00:51:30,455
I I get phone calls and I'm popular... I
MAN LAUGHS
656
00:51:30,546 --> 00:51:33,333
- I On Myspace, you know I'm popular I
- MAN: Fucking popular!
657
00:51:33,382 --> 00:51:39,343
I Popular, I'm fucking really popular
Popular, I'm really, really popular
658
00:51:39,430 --> 00:51:43,639
I It's hard, it‘s hard
It's really, really hard
659
00:51:43,726 --> 00:51:45,091
I I'm popularI
660
00:51:49,732 --> 00:51:52,018
MUSIC PLAYS
661
00:51:52,109 --> 00:51:54,225
Stay!
662
00:51:56,822 --> 00:51:59,029
TURNS MUSIC OFF
663
00:52:15,883 --> 00:52:17,874
SEWING MACHINE CLACKS
664
00:52:27,811 --> 00:52:30,348
RAIN POUNDS
665
00:52:34,026 --> 00:52:36,733
TV IN BACKGROUND
666
00:52:46,789 --> 00:52:53,536
Basically, Tamil Tiger boys entered
Colombo and they’ve bombed the airport.
667
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:05,884
This is Colombo. This is meant to be
the government—controlled safe zone.
668
00:53:07,935 --> 00:53:08,924
GUNSHOT
669
00:53:09,019 --> 00:53:14,013
I really felt as though
this is gonna be the end of the war.
670
00:53:14,108 --> 00:53:16,975
It's in fact stuck in the middle.
671
00:53:47,975 --> 00:53:50,307
The army and police
are scared of the Tigers
672
00:53:50,394 --> 00:53:52,726
so they're allowed to shoot who they want.
673
00:53:52,813 --> 00:53:57,807
And, because it's a war zone...
they‘ve got...
674
00:53:57,860 --> 00:53:59,851
they've got the right to do anything.
675
00:54:02,531 --> 00:54:08,401
"The most gruesome, that of Koneswari, was
a grenade was exploded inside her vagina
676
00:54:08,495 --> 00:54:15,708
after being raped and killed, to remove
all traces of the sexual offences."
677
00:54:15,794 --> 00:54:18,831
Hm? Terrible, uh?
678
00:54:20,215 --> 00:54:22,376
Terrible is not the word.
679
00:54:22,468 --> 00:54:27,178
And what this... bloody world is looking
at this and reading, I don‘t understand.
680
00:54:27,222 --> 00:54:28,678
Nobody's interested.
681
00:54:28,766 --> 00:54:33,180
The Americans are not interested.
The whole world is not interested.
682
00:54:37,399 --> 00:54:39,731
The more I learn about things
683
00:54:39,818 --> 00:54:42,935
the more I feel
I have absolutely no control
684
00:54:43,030 --> 00:54:47,364
because it's happening in the masses.
That's the only reason.
685
00:54:47,451 --> 00:54:50,363
It's happening in the masses.
686
00:54:51,413 --> 00:54:54,325
I've got a feeling
someone's at my windowsill.
687
00:54:54,416 --> 00:54:57,328
I'm gonna just go and investigate.
688
00:55:04,551 --> 00:55:08,260
So, while I was in the room taping myself,
this boy...
689
00:55:08,347 --> 00:55:11,805
This guy had been standing there
and watching, maybe 45 minutes.
690
00:55:15,020 --> 00:55:19,764
Watching through the window you,
and also watching me through this thing.
691
00:55:19,858 --> 00:55:23,771
And he got panic. He thought there is
something is going on behind his back.
692
00:55:23,821 --> 00:55:26,733
And he wanted to...
He came and he asked me,
693
00:55:26,824 --> 00:55:32,444
‘Do you know you're supposed to tell me
what's going on in this house', you know.
694
00:55:38,585 --> 00:55:44,296
Today, I got on the bus with my mum and I
completely got surrounded by soldiers.
695
00:55:47,386 --> 00:55:53,222
And they came in to the seat
and stood in front of my mum and me.
696
00:55:53,308 --> 00:55:56,425
And every time
when the bus was, like, bumpy
697
00:55:56,520 --> 00:56:00,638
they would fall on top of me
and, like, grope me.
698
00:56:02,192 --> 00:56:06,777
And so, I started crying. And my mum
was like, ’If you open your mouth,
699
00:56:06,822 --> 00:56:10,189
they will stop the bus.
They will drag you into the jungle '.
700
00:56:10,284 --> 00:56:15,495
'And then, they’re gonna kill us both in
the jungle and no—one’s even gonna care.’
701
00:56:16,790 --> 00:56:21,409
And I was looking around and I’m like,
’Who do I ask for help?’
702
00:56:21,503 --> 00:56:25,667
Like, 'Who is that person ?'
And there’s nobody else.
703
00:56:25,757 --> 00:56:28,624
So then, you start
looking out the window, going,
704
00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:34,510
’Somewhere in that fucking jungle,
there's somebody who's fighting for me'.
705
00:56:41,982 --> 00:56:47,227
I'm not gonna forget...
what I'm hearing over here.
706
00:56:47,321 --> 00:56:51,155
It's becoming a part of me
and it's becoming a part of my life.
707
00:56:51,241 --> 00:56:54,233
And I kind of feel like I‘ve opened
a can of worms
708
00:56:54,328 --> 00:56:56,694
and I don‘t really know how to control it
709
00:56:56,788 --> 00:57:00,872
and how it's gonna manifest
inside my head.
710
00:57:03,420 --> 00:57:04,705
CLICK
711
00:57:09,009 --> 00:57:11,170
BIRDSONG
712
00:57:17,601 --> 00:57:20,718
I miss home.
WHIRRING
713
00:57:20,812 --> 00:57:23,519
And I miss making curtains.
714
00:57:26,026 --> 00:57:30,019
There's Steve, who's had his first day
at Interscope (GIGGLES)
715
00:57:39,039 --> 00:57:41,280
You're on camera!
716
00:57:47,381 --> 00:57:50,714
Whoa! Seriously, this is ten seconds?
717
00:57:50,801 --> 00:57:52,086
LAUGHTER
718
00:57:52,177 --> 00:57:54,168
Holy shit! That's crazy.
719
00:57:54,221 --> 00:57:57,054
And you know, you do 20 minutes
and basically,
720
00:57:57,140 --> 00:58:00,052
it‘s the equivalent of doing
an hour and a half in the gym.
721
00:58:00,143 --> 00:58:03,806
How much does one of these cost?
LAUGHTER
722
00:58:03,897 --> 00:58:06,639
And you come out so pumped, you know?
GROWLS
723
00:58:06,733 --> 00:58:09,019
I I'm a Shake it to the ground
Bring it back up
724
00:58:09,111 --> 00:58:10,817
I Twirl it all around
Yeah, you know what's up
725
00:58:10,904 --> 00:58:13,020
I I'm a Shake it to the ground
And bring it back up
726
00:58:13,115 --> 00:58:15,071
I Twirl it all around
Yeah, you know what's up
727
00:58:15,158 --> 00:58:16,648
I Shake it to the ground I
728
00:58:16,702 --> 00:58:19,910
In 2009, the biggest contradiction
in my life
729
00:58:19,997 --> 00:58:24,366
was being a mum
who’s about to give birth...
730
00:58:24,459 --> 00:58:26,541
CHEERING
731
00:58:26,628 --> 00:58:32,294
...versus a famous person who's been
nominated for an Oscar and a Grammy.
732
00:58:32,384 --> 00:58:34,921
And I thought that was the predicament.
733
00:58:35,012 --> 00:58:37,469
I I fly like paper, get high like... I
734
00:58:37,556 --> 00:58:39,638
EXPLOSION
735
00:58:40,892 --> 00:58:46,228
But then, the war in Sri Lanka
began to escalate.
736
00:58:46,314 --> 00:58:50,899
An aid worker says nearly 400 people
were killed by government shelling
737
00:58:50,986 --> 00:58:53,898
in what is supposed to be a no-fire zone.
738
00:58:53,989 --> 00:58:59,655
A no-fire zone, an area to keep civilians
safe as war rages around them.
739
00:58:59,745 --> 00:59:02,157
These pictures,
purported/y from that zone,
740
00:59:02,247 --> 00:59:05,910
show that innocent people
are still being caught in shelling.
741
00:59:06,001 --> 00:59:09,459
The United Nations has been critical
of the Sri Lankan government
742
00:59:09,546 --> 00:59:13,255
and the Tamil Tigers
for putting civilians in harm ’5 way.
743
00:59:13,300 --> 00:59:17,589
The outside world has little knowledge
of what civilians are up against.
744
00:59:17,679 --> 00:59:20,762
It's like the Tamil people are invisible.
745
00:59:22,768 --> 00:59:26,056
M.I.A. is a talented singer, songwriter
and hip-hop artist
746
00:59:26,146 --> 00:59:29,183
who has the rare honour
of being nominated, get this,
747
00:59:29,274 --> 00:59:31,640
for an Oscar and a Grammy
in the same year!
748
00:59:31,735 --> 00:59:34,647
Grammy, Oscar, same... That's huge!
749
00:59:34,738 --> 00:59:38,947
Being the only Tamil, you know,
in the western media
750
00:59:39,034 --> 00:59:43,403
I have a really great opportunity
to, sort of, bring forward
751
00:59:43,497 --> 00:59:45,533
what‘s going on in Sri Lanka.
752
00:59:45,582 --> 00:59:47,573
The more successful I'm getting,
753
00:59:47,667 --> 00:59:50,579
the direr the situation
in Sri Lanka‘s getting.
754
00:59:51,630 --> 00:59:58,377
I think the simple thing to explain it as,
is, under the guise of fighting terrorism,
755
00:59:58,470 --> 01:00:00,961
there's a genocide going on.
756
01:00:01,056 --> 01:00:04,469
REPORTER: A naked man,
blindfolded and bound.
757
01:00:04,559 --> 01:00:07,517
His last human contact,
a kick in the head.
758
01:00:07,604 --> 01:00:08,764
GUNSHOT
759
01:00:08,855 --> 01:00:12,894
Extrajudicial killings by government
soldiers and paramilitaries
760
01:00:12,984 --> 01:00:15,475
have been documented in Sri Lanka
for years.
761
01:00:15,570 --> 01:00:18,357
But there’s never been evidence like this.
762
01:00:20,075 --> 01:00:24,284
IS the government of Sri Lanka
engaged in genocide?
763
01:00:24,371 --> 01:00:29,866
M.I.A. is a great artist.
But, sorry, I think she is misinformed.
764
01:00:29,960 --> 01:00:34,954
And it‘s best that she stay with
what she is good at, which is music.
765
01:00:35,048 --> 01:00:37,289
CROWD CHANTS
766
01:00:39,427 --> 01:00:43,796
REPORTER: There is no doubt she
infuriated many Sinhalese Sri Lankans
767
01:00:43,890 --> 01:00:48,179
when she reported/y accused the army there
of committing ethnic cleansing
768
01:00:48,270 --> 01:00:52,309
and systematic genocide
against the Tami/s.
769
01:00:52,399 --> 01:00:54,685
Anyone who's against the government
770
01:00:54,776 --> 01:00:58,360
is getting assassinated, killed, jailed,
whatever - kicked out.
771
01:00:58,446 --> 01:01:03,156
So, it's really difficult to get
that information, you know,
772
01:01:03,243 --> 01:01:08,363
that you can share with the American
public, to go, 'This is what‘s going on‘.
773
01:01:08,456 --> 01:01:10,617
And tell the American public why,
774
01:01:10,709 --> 01:01:14,042
if you're from this island nation,
you sound like Mick Jagger.
775
01:01:14,129 --> 01:01:15,494
LAUGHTER
776
01:01:15,589 --> 01:01:17,580
Well, I'm just one of them! Like...
777
01:01:17,674 --> 01:01:20,541
But that's not
what they all sound like, right?
778
01:01:20,635 --> 01:01:24,002
No, but we'll never know,
cos they keep killing them all.
779
01:01:24,097 --> 01:01:28,215
Really? They could all have Cockney
accents in Sri Lanka? That's interesting!
780
01:01:28,310 --> 01:01:29,766
MA YA: They dismissed me.
781
01:01:29,853 --> 01:01:32,595
M.I.A., everybody.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
782
01:01:32,689 --> 01:01:36,181
Good luck with that.
I know it‘s a difficult situation.
783
01:01:36,276 --> 01:01:39,063
Like, go home, little girl!
They shut me down.
784
01:01:40,155 --> 01:01:42,146
GENERAL CLAMOUR
785
01:01:51,541 --> 01:01:55,910
REPORTER: Tell us what you were
frustrated about with the CNN piece.
786
01:01:56,004 --> 01:01:59,337
I wanna be, like,
checking the fact that...
787
01:01:59,424 --> 01:02:02,257
Ijust wanna know why I was edited out
788
01:02:02,302 --> 01:02:06,591
when I said there's a genocide going on
in Sri Lanka.
789
01:02:06,681 --> 01:02:09,343
We talked for 45 minutes
and they edited it out,
790
01:02:09,434 --> 01:02:11,675
made it about me and my song, and...
791
01:02:11,770 --> 01:02:15,228
You're the first person
that we’ve interviewed that says,
792
01:02:15,315 --> 01:02:18,853
’The piece was too much about me’.
People mostly want it about them.
793
01:02:18,944 --> 01:02:21,560
I know. It‘s not about me because...
794
01:02:21,655 --> 01:02:26,319
MAYA: People were just like, ’This is ugly
news. We don’t wanna talk about death.’
795
01:02:26,409 --> 01:02:31,529
’We don’t wanna see blown-up babies.’
You know, ’Talk about Beverly Hills.’
796
01:02:31,581 --> 01:02:34,414
It was very hard being two things at once.
797
01:02:36,711 --> 01:02:39,623
I tried to do it
the way they wanted me to do it,
798
01:02:41,675 --> 01:02:44,087
which is, learn the script,
799
01:02:44,177 --> 01:02:48,170
learn the five sentences
you wanted to repeat in the news.
800
01:02:48,265 --> 01:02:52,474
Go on the news and be successful.
801
01:02:52,560 --> 01:02:56,018
But... I couldn’t.
802
01:02:56,106 --> 01:02:59,314
I literally felt like I was exploding.
803
01:02:59,401 --> 01:03:00,811
GUNFIRE
804
01:03:00,860 --> 01:03:03,442
So, I did it my way.
805
01:03:04,489 --> 01:03:06,525
EXPLOSION
806
01:03:31,391 --> 01:03:32,631
Boo!
807
01:03:41,401 --> 01:03:44,063
Sit down and shut the fuck up!
808
01:03:57,208 --> 01:03:58,744
Get off this bus trip!
809
01:03:59,210 --> 01:04:03,249
Let‘s go! Go! Go!
Go! Move!
810
01:04:06,009 --> 01:04:08,546
Move! Go! Go!
811
01:04:09,054 --> 01:04:10,760
GUNSHOT
812
01:04:11,181 --> 01:04:13,172
EX PLOSIONS
813
01:04:24,402 --> 01:04:25,391
GUNSHOT
814
01:04:29,366 --> 01:04:32,529
RADIO HOST: M.I.A. on KROQ, 106.7.
815
01:04:32,619 --> 01:04:36,111
Every time we call that,
we get frantic emails from people
816
01:04:36,206 --> 01:04:40,540
who say M.I.A. is a terrorist and KROQ
are bad people for supporting her.
817
01:04:40,627 --> 01:04:43,414
Maybe there’s a connection,
maybe she’s sending money.
818
01:04:43,505 --> 01:04:46,042
I don ’t think that’s a bad question
to ask.
819
01:04:46,132 --> 01:04:47,372
CALLER: I agree.
820
01:04:47,467 --> 01:04:52,006
MA YA: What they’re doing is dragging me
into it and associating my name
821
01:04:52,097 --> 01:04:55,180
and my achievement and my career
and whateverI do
822
01:04:55,266 --> 01:05:00,056
to, again, the same words:
M.I.A., Tamil, Terrorist.
823
01:05:00,146 --> 01:05:05,561
Like, respectable news outlets are...
doing lazy journalism.
824
01:05:05,652 --> 01:05:08,018
But when you put out Born Free,
that video,
825
01:05:08,113 --> 01:05:12,652
you don't put that out without knowing
that it's gonna cause a stir
826
01:05:12,700 --> 01:05:15,112
and a lot of people are not gonna like it.
827
01:05:17,205 --> 01:05:19,867
Uh, what part of that didn't they like,
by the way?
828
01:05:19,958 --> 01:05:23,450
- It was just ketchup and fake blood.
— Too gratuitous.
829
01:05:23,545 --> 01:05:25,627
That was what blew my mind.
830
01:05:25,713 --> 01:05:30,548
It was like the real execution video
I Twittered two months beforehand.
831
01:05:30,635 --> 01:05:33,217
No one gave a shit.
No one even talked about it.
832
01:05:33,304 --> 01:05:35,636
The real thing.
Yet when you make a video...
833
01:05:35,723 --> 01:05:39,011
Two months later,
I refilmed that with some ginger people
834
01:05:39,060 --> 01:05:43,929
with fake blood and it‘s the most
horrific thing people had ever seen.
835
01:05:43,982 --> 01:05:47,850
- You think you're a victim of censorship?
— Yeah, of course!
836
01:05:53,408 --> 01:05:57,196
What experience are we allowed to share
from these places
837
01:05:57,287 --> 01:06:01,200
that makes you comfortable
and makes it easy for you to digest?
838
01:06:01,291 --> 01:06:05,409
If you come from the struggle, how
the fuck do you talk about the struggle
839
01:06:05,503 --> 01:06:07,915
without talking about the struggle?
840
01:06:19,184 --> 01:06:22,551
PEOPLE TALKING AT ONCE
STEVE: If she can get Maya on the cover,
841
01:06:22,645 --> 01:06:25,933
why hasn’t she stopped them slandering
Maya before?
842
01:06:25,982 --> 01:06:28,849
You have to see it like this.
If we do get the cover,
843
01:06:28,902 --> 01:06:31,985
it’d be the first time
a Tamil's been on the cover.
844
01:06:32,071 --> 01:06:34,528
We can be so blind.
845
01:06:34,616 --> 01:06:35,947
Are they gonna do a smiley
846
01:06:36,034 --> 01:06:39,026
when they get a dude representing
the Sri Lankan government
847
01:06:39,120 --> 01:06:42,829
to come on TV the next week and say,
”Oh, M.I.A. She should stick to music”.
848
01:06:42,916 --> 01:06:44,656
We need to know these moves.
849
01:06:44,751 --> 01:06:47,618
They're not gonna give you
what they’re gonna do after.
850
01:06:47,712 --> 01:06:50,954
You just have to be prepared for
the worst-case scenario.
851
01:06:51,049 --> 01:06:54,462
If they're gonna fuck you over,
the worst thing they could do
852
01:06:54,552 --> 01:06:59,421
is make you irrelevant
with your, like, political position.
853
01:06:59,516 --> 01:07:03,350
And just go, 'This doesn't mean anything.
Yeah, whatever.’
854
01:07:03,436 --> 01:07:07,304
'You're just another artist coming out
on Interscope this month
855
01:07:07,398 --> 01:07:11,016
and we wanted a story on the musician.’
856
01:07:11,110 --> 01:07:13,101
GENERAL CHATTER
857
01:07:17,075 --> 01:07:19,612
MAYA: We were just saying
you don ’t like technology.
858
01:07:19,661 --> 01:07:22,198
- I don’t.
- It's a bit loud and it's nine minutes.
859
01:07:22,288 --> 01:07:24,870
OK, good! All the better.
860
01:07:25,583 --> 01:07:27,824
I like loud. I like nine minutes.
861
01:07:35,593 --> 01:07:38,585
Oh, my God! Did you hear me screaming?
862
01:07:38,680 --> 01:07:43,094
MAYA: No, I wanted to just leave you
in your element, there.
863
01:07:43,142 --> 01:07:46,885
Really amazing!
Very upsetting, but very amazing.
864
01:07:46,980 --> 01:07:49,096
ROMAN: You can say if you don’t like it.
865
01:07:49,190 --> 01:07:53,559
I would say ifI didn't like it.
I think it's actually quite brilliant.
866
01:07:53,653 --> 01:07:55,234
I really do.
867
01:07:55,321 --> 01:07:57,482
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
868
01:07:57,574 --> 01:08:01,783
- MAYA: Did you like the song?
— You know I love the song. (LAUGHS)
869
01:08:01,869 --> 01:08:05,908
REPORTER: The scathing profile in
the New York Times Sunday magazine
870
01:08:05,999 --> 01:08:09,833
in which the writer Lynn Hirschberg
pointed out some inconsistencies.
871
01:08:09,919 --> 01:08:12,911
REPORTER: M.I.A. comes off as a woman
trapped by a need to make
872
01:08:13,006 --> 01:08:15,998
politically-charged
pseudo-important statements
873
01:08:16,092 --> 01:08:19,755
but who comes off as little more
than an airhead and a hypocrite.
874
01:08:19,846 --> 01:08:22,508
She’s about to marry
an heir of the Seagram’s fortune.
875
01:08:22,599 --> 01:08:26,968
She’s living a pretty high-level,
cushy existence,
876
01:08:27,020 --> 01:08:30,729
yet here she is, singing about
these rebel causes on her record.
877
01:08:30,815 --> 01:08:33,773
REPORTER: The kind of symbolic object
the piece seizes upon is,
878
01:08:33,860 --> 01:08:37,273
M.I.A eats a truffle fry as she says:
879
01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:43,984
WOMAN: ”If people call me a terrorist,
let them. ” Something like that.
880
01:08:44,078 --> 01:08:47,411
MAN: Right. As she crunches
into a truffle fry which, as it turns out,
881
01:08:47,498 --> 01:08:49,489
Lynn Hirschberg ordered.
882
01:08:52,003 --> 01:08:54,244
I Yo, what's up everybody
883
01:08:54,339 --> 01:08:56,330
I This is M.I.A.
884
01:08:56,424 --> 01:08:58,289
I I moved to Brentwood
885
01:08:58,343 --> 01:09:00,334
I I got a baby now
886
01:09:00,428 --> 01:09:03,386
I This one goes out to all the ladies
Whose values have changed
887
01:09:03,473 --> 01:09:06,590
I And are looking for some stability
Love
888
01:09:06,684 --> 01:09:08,640
I And pilates on the beach
889
01:09:08,728 --> 01:09:12,016
I All I wanna do is...
And a...
890
01:09:12,106 --> 01:09:13,846
I Invest my money
891
01:09:13,900 --> 01:09:15,765
I All I wanna do is...
And a...
892
01:09:17,820 --> 01:09:19,651
I Check out my Monet
893
01:09:19,739 --> 01:09:23,903
I M.I.A. investing in
Third-world democracy
894
01:09:23,993 --> 01:09:26,029
I These shades
Were made in Sri Lanka
895
01:09:26,120 --> 01:09:29,362
I Don‘t you dare
Write anything else funny about me I
896
01:09:35,129 --> 01:09:37,586
They want to go,
’It doesn’t mean anything.‘
897
01:09:37,674 --> 01:09:41,258
'This girl, everything she says is shit.
None of it‘s authentic.‘
898
01:09:41,302 --> 01:09:45,796
'Her experiences are not authentic because
she’s a musician, or she lives here.’
899
01:09:45,890 --> 01:09:49,929
You know, this shit. They feel that I have
way more responsibility
900
01:09:50,019 --> 01:09:54,433
to be this, like, global
world poster child who's just like,
901
01:09:54,524 --> 01:09:58,813
'Hi, I‘m the starving child
from the mud hut that made it,
902
01:09:58,903 --> 01:10:02,737
and I’m always going to stay that way,
just for you.‘
903
01:10:02,824 --> 01:10:05,315
You know, ’Just so you get the message‘.
904
01:10:06,160 --> 01:10:08,401
This is from... I have to link this.
905
01:10:08,496 --> 01:10:13,456
This is from New York Times
three days ago, on 8th January.
906
01:10:17,338 --> 01:10:21,547
This is from New York Times... today.
907
01:10:21,634 --> 01:10:24,376
31 places to go in 2010.
908
01:10:24,470 --> 01:10:27,086
STEVE: So, what?
They’re saying now the war’s over
909
01:10:27,140 --> 01:10:29,472
it’s OK to go back there
on honeymoon again?
910
01:10:29,559 --> 01:10:31,641
MA YA: It’s fucked up.
911
01:10:53,499 --> 01:10:55,956
MUSIC: M.I.A. - BORN FREE
912
01:11:03,384 --> 01:11:05,966
I Yeah, man made power
Stood like a tower
913
01:11:06,053 --> 01:11:07,964
I Higher, higher, hello
914
01:11:10,808 --> 01:11:13,925
I And the higher you go
You feel lower
915
01:11:14,437 --> 01:11:15,517
IOh
916
01:11:15,605 --> 01:11:20,520
I I was close to the ants
Staying under cover
917
01:11:20,610 --> 01:11:22,441
I With the nose to the ground
918
01:11:22,528 --> 01:11:24,735
I I found my sound
919
01:11:25,990 --> 01:11:28,106
I Got myself an interview tomorrow
920
01:11:28,201 --> 01:11:30,783
I I got myself a jacket for a dollar
921
01:11:30,870 --> 01:11:33,282
I And my nails are chipped but I'm eager
922
01:11:33,372 --> 01:11:36,034
I And the car doesn‘t work
So I'm stuck here
923
01:11:36,667 --> 01:11:39,124
I Born free
924
01:11:39,462 --> 01:11:41,919
I Born free
925
01:11:42,006 --> 01:11:44,292
I Born free I
926
01:11:49,305 --> 01:11:51,387
CHEERING
927
01:12:01,818 --> 01:12:03,809
I loved America.
928
01:12:03,861 --> 01:12:08,104
Even the footage you have
coming up to 2001,
929
01:12:08,199 --> 01:12:12,192
got, like, a pair of American Converse on
and an American jumper.
930
01:12:12,286 --> 01:12:14,493
There's an American poster behind me.
931
01:12:14,580 --> 01:12:18,619
I didn‘t have issues with America.
I loved America.
932
01:12:18,709 --> 01:12:21,371
Yeah, and since then...
933
01:12:26,801 --> 01:12:31,044
you know, they've been
chiselling away at me, bit by bit.
934
01:12:34,433 --> 01:12:37,049
HAMMERING IN BACKGROUND
935
01:12:44,402 --> 01:12:47,394
How do you manage an artist
who’s unmanageable?
936
01:12:49,115 --> 01:12:50,525
LAUGHTER
937
01:12:50,616 --> 01:12:58,204
I‘m opening this question out to the
board, which consists of me and you.
938
01:12:58,291 --> 01:13:01,624
- DYANA: Jesus fucking Christ!
— What are we gonna do?
939
01:13:01,711 --> 01:13:05,704
I mean, Maya, you’ve gotta give a little.
You’ve gotta trust a little.
940
01:13:05,798 --> 01:13:10,542
- You’ve got to communicate.
— Dyana, can you manage me?
941
01:13:10,636 --> 01:13:13,093
LAUGHTER
942
01:13:14,891 --> 01:13:18,133
- Can we get a song on the radio?
— DYANA EXHALES
943
01:13:18,227 --> 01:13:21,139
Can we get Double Bubble Trouble
on the radio
944
01:13:21,230 --> 01:13:25,314
cos it's the most radio-friendly song?
Can I have any of them on the radio?
945
01:13:25,401 --> 01:13:30,862
You need drivers. It all adds up.
That’s how we get there these days.
946
01:13:31,741 --> 01:13:35,404
Especially when it’s not, you know,
Katy Perry. You know?
947
01:13:41,792 --> 01:13:45,376
Yeah, I'm gonna go back to school.
That's what I wanna do.
948
01:13:46,339 --> 01:13:48,330
STEVE: What kind of school?
949
01:13:54,805 --> 01:13:58,297
Maybe I need to be, like,
a nautical engineer
950
01:13:58,392 --> 01:14:00,883
and design boats.
951
01:14:00,978 --> 01:14:07,269
Or maybe Ijust need to work in the
capacity of rescuing refugees on the sea.
952
01:14:15,660 --> 01:14:18,572
- Madonna rang.
- STEVE: So, you're in Whole Foods.
953
01:14:18,621 --> 01:14:20,327
CHILD GIGGLING
954
01:14:20,414 --> 01:14:24,783
I'm in Whole Foods cos I was
in West London. I get a phone call.
955
01:14:24,877 --> 01:14:26,538
GIGGLING AND CHAT IN BACKGROUND
956
01:14:26,629 --> 01:14:29,291
- STEVE: People!
- And it was Scott.
957
01:14:29,340 --> 01:14:33,629
Basically, Madonna wants to do a track
with me and Nicki Minaj
958
01:14:33,719 --> 01:14:37,803
and she's gonna sing at the Super Bowl
in January and she wants me to do it.
959
01:14:37,890 --> 01:14:40,347
WOMAN: Oh, my God!
960
01:14:40,434 --> 01:14:45,144
With Nicki Minaj, too?
Oh, my God! That’s crazy.
961
01:14:45,231 --> 01:14:50,771
Italian, Sri Lankan and African American.
Wow, that’s real crazy!
962
01:14:58,202 --> 01:15:00,864
STEVE: So, what’s Madonna’s video about?
963
01:15:00,955 --> 01:15:03,867
Everything American.
964
01:15:03,958 --> 01:15:09,919
Haven‘t you realised? The candles
in this room are called Yankee Candles.
965
01:15:10,006 --> 01:15:14,591
I'm dressed as a cheerleader
in a Madonna video
966
01:15:14,677 --> 01:15:17,384
and it's sponsored by Coca-Cola.
967
01:15:17,471 --> 01:15:19,883
- Is it?
- And it's about NFL.
968
01:15:21,809 --> 01:15:24,596
I was scheduled to appear
in Madonna's video.
969
01:15:24,687 --> 01:15:27,349
But I was already working on my own video.
970
01:15:27,440 --> 01:15:32,525
And itjust so happened they both came out
the same day, within ten minutes apart.
971
01:15:36,615 --> 01:15:39,857
Hey, America!
972
01:15:41,495 --> 01:15:44,737
I L... U... V... Madonna
973
01:15:44,832 --> 01:15:47,790
I Y... O... U... You wanna
974
01:15:48,586 --> 01:15:51,794
I I see you coming
And I don't wanna know your name
975
01:15:51,881 --> 01:15:54,623
I L... U... V... Madonna
976
01:15:55,301 --> 01:15:58,043
I I see you coming
And you‘re gonna have to change the game
977
01:15:58,137 --> 01:15:59,798
I Y... O... U... You wanna I
978
01:16:01,515 --> 01:16:14,690
I Live fast, die young
Bad girls do it well
979
01:16:14,779 --> 01:16:17,771
I My chain hits my chest
When I’m banging on the dashboard
980
01:16:17,865 --> 01:16:21,107
I My chain hits my chest
When I'm banging on the radio
981
01:16:21,202 --> 01:16:24,569
I Get back
Get down
982
01:16:24,622 --> 01:16:27,455
I Pull me closer
If you think you can hang
983
01:16:28,292 --> 01:16:38,133
I Live fast, die young
Bad girls do it well
984
01:16:38,219 --> 01:16:41,677
I Live fast, die young
Bad girls do it well I
985
01:17:04,870 --> 01:17:07,486
AMBIENT STADIUM SOUNDS
986
01:17:16,549 --> 01:17:19,165
BACKGROUND CHATTER
987
01:17:26,475 --> 01:17:28,636
CHEERING
988
01:17:36,402 --> 01:17:39,769
This is like being at school.
Back of the class. Back of the school.
989
01:17:39,864 --> 01:17:43,573
Back of the line. Always the last one.
Really late. Still getting dressed.
990
01:18:09,185 --> 01:18:12,097
I L... U... V... Madonna
991
01:18:12,188 --> 01:18:15,055
I Y... O... U... You wanna
992
01:18:15,733 --> 01:18:18,850
I Sw sw swag Shh
No one gives you this
993
01:18:18,903 --> 01:18:21,940
I It‘s supersonic, bionic, uranium
994
01:18:22,031 --> 01:18:23,942
I So, I break 'em off tricks
995
01:18:24,033 --> 01:18:25,739
I I pray that it sticks
996
01:18:25,826 --> 01:18:28,693
I I'ma say this once, yeah
I don't give a shit
997
01:18:29,330 --> 01:18:35,542
I Don't play that stupid game
Cos I‘m a different kind of girl... I
998
01:18:42,259 --> 01:18:44,796
The New York Giants just won
the Super Bowl,
999
01:18:44,887 --> 01:18:47,924
but it was rapper M.I.A.
who has a lot of people talking.
1000
01:18:48,015 --> 01:18:51,428
She flipped off the audience during her
Super Bowl performance with Madonna.
1001
01:18:51,685 --> 01:18:55,894
That's why she got me in,
cos I can say the shit she can’t.
1002
01:18:55,940 --> 01:19:00,400
Exactly, it’s true! I'm the fucked-up
part of her brain.
1003
01:19:00,486 --> 01:19:02,602
LAUGHTER
1004
01:19:04,406 --> 01:19:06,271
Everyone give the finger.
1005
01:19:08,994 --> 01:19:14,205
WOMAN: I Every record sounds the same
You’ve got to step into my world
1006
01:19:14,291 --> 01:19:17,704
I Give me all your luvin'
Give me your love I
1007
01:19:17,795 --> 01:19:19,626
— Hi!
— Hi, we’re with the NFL.
1008
01:19:19,713 --> 01:19:21,294
- Hello.
- Hi!
1009
01:19:21,340 --> 01:19:24,047
We just needed to talk about that.
1010
01:19:27,054 --> 01:19:27,918
MA YA : Yes?
1011
01:19:28,013 --> 01:19:30,379
MAN: It means everyone’s
gonna be talking about it.
1012
01:19:30,474 --> 01:19:34,433
MAYA: Can Ijust get...?
We 're still getting dressed.
1013
01:19:34,520 --> 01:19:39,139
- Can we get just like five minutes?
— We're just waiting for my manager.
1014
01:19:39,233 --> 01:19:42,725
She's still changing her clothes.
1015
01:19:42,820 --> 01:19:45,732
TV AND COMMENTS IN BACKGROUND
1016
01:19:52,413 --> 01:19:54,825
LAUGHTER
1017
01:19:55,708 --> 01:19:57,539
We just ran out.
1018
01:19:57,626 --> 01:20:00,584
WOMAN IN BACKGROUND: Let me...
I need to put you on to her.
1019
01:20:00,671 --> 01:20:06,758
Sugu, you don‘t understand how fast
we dashed there, with bodyguards.
1020
01:20:06,844 --> 01:20:08,926
We got all the bodyguards to cover us.
1021
01:20:09,013 --> 01:20:11,379
WOMAN: Maya, Dyana wants to talk to you.
1022
01:20:11,473 --> 01:20:12,883
— Dyana!
— DYANA: Hi!
1023
01:20:12,975 --> 01:20:17,059
- Come here! Did you see me?
- No.
1024
01:20:17,146 --> 01:20:20,138
Did you see me on the stage, dancing?
1025
01:20:20,232 --> 01:20:22,097
- No?
- No.
1026
01:20:22,192 --> 01:20:26,105
BEN: What? We said, ’There’s Mommy,
there’s Mommy, there's Mommy! ’
1027
01:20:26,196 --> 01:20:27,732
I was crying.
1028
01:20:27,781 --> 01:20:30,773
You just wanted to leave and see Mummy?
1029
01:20:30,868 --> 01:20:33,735
Yeah, I don’t like the Super Bowl.
1030
01:20:33,829 --> 01:20:36,320
- You didn't like the Super Bowl?
- No.
1031
01:20:36,415 --> 01:20:39,873
(CHUCKLES) That's my boy!
Come here and give me a hug.
1032
01:20:39,960 --> 01:20:43,544
Well, the Super Bowl doesn‘t like me now.
ALL TALK AT ONCE
1033
01:20:44,173 --> 01:20:47,461
They just stood in our dressing room.
They went, ’We're here to talk'.
1034
01:20:47,551 --> 01:20:51,169
We were like, 'What about?’
And they go, 'This‘.
1035
01:20:51,221 --> 01:20:53,337
BEN: People liked it.
SON BABBLES
1036
01:20:55,684 --> 01:20:57,925
It was pretty epic.
1037
01:21:02,733 --> 01:21:05,691
- What have I done?
- I think it’s cool.
1038
01:21:05,778 --> 01:21:09,737
That's what I do. I have a song out
this week called Bad Girls.
1039
01:21:09,782 --> 01:21:12,148
I think it’s appropriate.
1040
01:21:12,242 --> 01:21:16,030
Oh, my God! All right.
So, we‘ve done that.
1041
01:21:16,121 --> 01:21:22,287
WOMAN: Hold that down. Put your foot out.
Good boy! High five!
1042
01:21:22,378 --> 01:21:27,714
Dyana just gave me a bollocking.
She was like, ’Don't talk to no one‘.
1043
01:21:27,800 --> 01:21:28,915
SIGHS
1044
01:21:29,009 --> 01:21:32,922
Are people just gonna freak out at me
in the street?
1045
01:21:33,013 --> 01:21:36,926
STEVE: No, I think what Dyana was saying
is, this is a really special thing.
1046
01:21:37,017 --> 01:21:39,975
Which... as she was talking,
it kinda surprised me.
1047
01:21:46,819 --> 01:21:48,730
But apparently, yeah, it is.
1048
01:21:51,782 --> 01:21:55,195
REPORTER: What motivated her
to do such a thing? Who was she mad at?
1049
01:21:55,285 --> 01:21:58,777
Why don‘t you wave?
Just wave at everybody. Or wink.
1050
01:21:58,872 --> 01:22:02,865
FEMALE REPORTER: Where do you lay
the blame? Is it NBC, the NFL or... ?
1051
01:22:02,960 --> 01:22:05,542
- Or anybody else.
— Orjust flat on M.I.A.
1052
01:22:05,629 --> 01:22:10,248
Joining us to discuss this and other
topics, pro bowler, Josh Blanchard.
1053
01:22:10,300 --> 01:22:12,666
- Thanks for being with us.
— Thank you for having me.
1054
01:22:12,761 --> 01:22:14,376
- Did you see the show?
- I did.
1055
01:22:14,471 --> 01:22:17,383
- What did you think?
— A little shocking. It was blatant.
1056
01:22:17,474 --> 01:22:20,307
Everybody could see it,
like she did it on purpose.
1057
01:22:20,394 --> 01:22:22,635
It was disturbing to me and my wife.
1058
01:22:22,729 --> 01:22:26,347
Madonna has this opportunity
to be in front of the world again.
1059
01:22:26,442 --> 01:22:30,651
She looks amazing, she is an amazing
performer. We all love those songs.
1060
01:22:30,737 --> 01:22:34,525
And she chooses M.I.A.?
Not even an American.
1061
01:22:34,616 --> 01:22:38,950
Give me a break! Did you see
Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert?
1062
01:22:39,037 --> 01:22:43,406
They were fantastic! Why can ’t we have
some America in our football?
1063
01:22:47,796 --> 01:22:52,290
MA YA: I was centre screen
for approximately 15 seconds.
1064
01:22:52,384 --> 01:22:55,421
And they want 15 million for it.
1065
01:22:56,472 --> 01:22:59,134
It‘s worse than being a murderer.
1066
01:23:01,018 --> 01:23:03,009
A brown person...
1067
01:23:04,480 --> 01:23:08,974
standing up there,
who is not sucking dick
1068
01:23:09,067 --> 01:23:14,903
is more offensive...
than murdering someone.
1069
01:23:14,990 --> 01:23:20,530
They want me like Aziz Ansari. Like...
MIMICS AZIZ ANSARI: Love it!
1070
01:23:24,791 --> 01:23:30,377
STEVE: What’s the official...
line from you on why you did it?
1071
01:23:31,006 --> 01:23:36,592
There isn‘t one.
I was like, ‘It‘s a spiritual gesture‘.
1072
01:23:36,678 --> 01:23:39,465
(CLEARS THROAT) And was it?
1073
01:23:44,811 --> 01:23:47,143
It was a bit insane, you know.
1074
01:23:47,231 --> 01:23:53,602
Seeing Madonna,
who I grew up looking at as, like,
1075
01:23:53,695 --> 01:23:56,437
this person who is supposed to be
a strong female,
1076
01:23:56,532 --> 01:23:59,365
be like bossed around by these cowboys.
1077
01:23:59,451 --> 01:24:07,449
You know. And like, 'spin around, bend
over, spin around, change your shoes‘.
1078
01:24:07,501 --> 01:24:10,538
You know,
'I‘m not sure about that outflt'.
1079
01:24:10,629 --> 01:24:16,875
They were sexist, misogynist, racist.
You know, they were all of these things
1080
01:24:16,969 --> 01:24:21,133
and I thought, 'Wow, if no one else
is gonna fucking do it‘. You know.
1081
01:24:21,181 --> 01:24:24,298
And be like... And own it...
1082
01:24:27,437 --> 01:24:30,304
And be like, ‘What is going on?‘
1083
01:24:35,195 --> 01:24:38,312
Then fuck all this shit, I wanna go home.
1084
01:25:10,022 --> 01:25:14,436
Yeah, when Mummy was your size,
Mummy drank this all the time.
1085
01:25:14,526 --> 01:25:19,316
— I want one.
- No, that‘s how I lost all my teeth.
1086
01:25:19,406 --> 01:25:26,073
- What does it taste like?
— It tastes like... It‘s just too sweet.
1087
01:25:27,414 --> 01:25:30,906
- What does it taste like?
- It tastes like medicine, actually.
1088
01:25:31,001 --> 01:25:35,335
If you eat it now,
you‘d think it tastes like medicine.
1089
01:25:35,380 --> 01:25:37,541
Ooh, look! Food!
1090
01:25:41,595 --> 01:25:43,210
Yum!
1091
01:25:45,474 --> 01:25:46,463
Yum!
1092
01:25:46,558 --> 01:25:48,139
- For me and you?
— Mm.
1093
01:25:57,861 --> 01:25:59,271
My dad.
1094
01:25:59,363 --> 01:26:02,196
PRESENTER: The United Nations
has said the death toll
1095
01:26:02,282 --> 01:26:08,198
in those final months of war in Sri Lanka
could reach 40 to 70,000 Tamil civilians.
1096
01:26:08,288 --> 01:26:12,372
A staggering number,
considering the size of the terrain.
1097
01:26:12,459 --> 01:26:17,544
Our first reading is by the British Tamil
artist, M.I.A., who speaks on behalf
1098
01:26:24,429 --> 01:26:26,920
“I was returning alone from shopping.“
1099
01:26:27,015 --> 01:26:30,052
"My husband was at home
looking after the child."
1100
01:26:30,102 --> 01:26:33,435
"I saw a white van parked in a lane
by my house.“
1101
01:26:33,522 --> 01:26:36,104
"Though I thought it‘s odd
a white van was there,
1102
01:26:36,191 --> 01:26:38,853
it didn‘t cause me any concern
at that point."
1103
01:26:38,902 --> 01:26:44,067
“As I passed the van, four, five men
got out and demanded to know my name."
1104
01:26:44,157 --> 01:26:48,321
"I started to scream,
but they put a cloth over my mouth
1105
01:26:48,412 --> 01:26:50,619
to silence the noise."
1106
01:26:51,707 --> 01:26:56,417
“I started to scream and yelled,
'You can't take me. I have a child‘."
1107
01:26:56,503 --> 01:27:00,212
"When I got to the UK,
I called my relative here
1108
01:27:00,298 --> 01:27:03,711
and she came to see me
within two days of my arrival.“
1109
01:27:05,011 --> 01:27:09,345
"I told her, in general terms,
some of the things that had happened."
1110
01:27:09,433 --> 01:27:11,264
SHE BECOMES TEARFUL
1111
01:27:13,019 --> 01:27:15,305
"And...“
(CLEARS THROAT)
1112
01:27:15,397 --> 01:27:20,517
"We started with my war experiences
and I was confronted by her response."
1113
01:27:20,610 --> 01:27:25,229
"And I told her that I‘d been kidnapped,
burned by cigarettes."
1114
01:27:25,323 --> 01:27:27,314
"She could see scars on my arms."
1115
01:27:27,409 --> 01:27:32,028
"And I told her that I was raped,
hit with a wire, head shoved in the water
1116
01:27:32,122 --> 01:27:36,536
and a plastic bag with petrol
put over my head, and kicked with boots."
1117
01:27:38,003 --> 01:27:42,667
"I actually didn‘t tell her everything
because she was already crying."
1118
01:27:48,430 --> 01:27:50,591
(WHISPERS) Thank you.
1119
01:27:58,315 --> 01:28:01,603
This is my first time
at something like this.
1120
01:28:01,693 --> 01:28:04,435
- So, that's why I wasn‘t really...
- WOMAN: An activist?
1121
01:28:04,529 --> 01:28:08,442
- I don’t know this world at all, so...
- You don ’t know the world of...?
1122
01:28:08,533 --> 01:28:13,448
- The world of behind-the—scenes activism.
— You did a goodjob.
1123
01:28:13,538 --> 01:28:17,781
I‘m the one that goes out and shouts
loads of stuff and gets in trouble.
1124
01:28:17,876 --> 01:28:23,917
It was very real and it was very human
and that’s what matters.
1125
01:28:24,007 --> 01:28:25,463
Thank you.
1126
01:28:25,550 --> 01:28:29,293
As a first-generation person
that lived through a war
1127
01:28:29,387 --> 01:28:35,929
came as a refugee, that is now a pop star,
what are the goalposts?
1128
01:28:42,192 --> 01:28:49,439
It’s amazing that in one lifetime you have
to come and figure out so many things.
1129
01:28:52,494 --> 01:28:57,033
But... I’ve made it all fit together.
1130
01:29:00,418 --> 01:29:02,534
HORNS TOOT
1131
01:29:15,016 --> 01:29:18,679
The whole video is planned for one song
called What’s Up With That.
1132
01:29:18,770 --> 01:29:21,512
It’s all about refugees.
1133
01:29:21,606 --> 01:29:26,100
So, first verse, second verse... ending.
Right?
1134
01:29:27,404 --> 01:29:32,319
All the pictures you see are real,
of them actually trying to cross.
1135
01:29:32,409 --> 01:29:35,196
Everybody about them
like they don’t have a face
1136
01:29:35,287 --> 01:29:38,154
but there is millions of them.
1137
01:29:39,082 --> 01:29:41,289
GENERAL CHAT
1138
01:29:43,336 --> 01:29:47,329
Yeah, Jerry? We're just getting
all the green ones over there.
1139
01:29:47,382 --> 01:29:49,839
- All the...?
- Green ones. Those ones.
1140
01:29:59,019 --> 01:30:03,058
I need to keep the immigrant story
in all my work.
1141
01:30:03,148 --> 01:30:08,688
Always. Because that is
what I ’m trying to make sense of.
1142
01:30:13,450 --> 01:30:19,411
We’re used as a scapegoat for Brexit.
We ’re used as a scapegoat to build a wall.
1143
01:30:19,497 --> 01:30:23,991
But people have always mixed
and mingled and moved
1144
01:30:24,085 --> 01:30:27,703
and interesting things happen
because of it.
1145
01:30:32,594 --> 01:30:36,678
You don’t know. That kid could access
a 505 machine and a microphone
1146
01:30:36,765 --> 01:30:39,598
and become Michael Jackson.
You don’t know.
1147
01:30:42,812 --> 01:30:44,803
WORKERS TALKING
1148
01:30:47,776 --> 01:30:49,767
(SPEAKS TAMIL)
1149
01:31:02,999 --> 01:31:05,866
We ’re leaving. Back to London.
1150
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And I feel really nervous.
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Kinda don't wanna go to the land
of The Spice Girls. I’m just not ready.
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(SINGS IN TAMIL)
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