The Knights of Lovalot

You've heard M.I.A. new record haven't you? Good because today's lesson is on Lovalot.

You don't have to read the Independent everyday to realise there are some fierce politics and ideologies being passed about these days. Some people take the view that 'you can never understand another culture, so you can never change or influence' and there's others that speak there mind, think out loud, sometimes if its done wrong, it can deeply offend. But if its done right, a middle ground, an understanding can be built.

I say all this at a time when US pastor, Terry Jones, is going to burn 200 Koran on the anniversary of 9/11. Small town US 'folk' have never ever tried to understand other cultures, as their culture seems to be to attack and criminalise those who are different. To kill a mocking bird ring a bell "you can't truly understand someone until you climb in to their skin".

Back to the music, this is what maya achieved, or at least tries to achieve with Lovalot, terrorism is probably one of the most used terms in the news since 2001. And the terrorists mind will probably be studied for centuries to come. The 'in the mind of a terrorist' lyrics are hard, and gritty, but simple in the idea of freedom, and the fight for it. The melody set in the dark, bass sounding out like a jungle war dance. The terrorist shuffle.

Sorry to get so deep today, but Maya has a good point here, and a better point for reflection than the flames from a relic that 1.57billion people turn to for guidance.

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