{"id":234,"date":"2007-02-06T22:50:41","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T03:50:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-12-10T15:20:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T15:20:27","slug":"please-explain-m-i-a-bird-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/please-explain-m-i-a-bird-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Explain: M.I.A., &#8220;Bird Flu&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VDSnLcu2HTI?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><em>On repeated listens\/views<\/em> &#8211; this is crucial: please try to watch this video at least 3 times &#8211; <strong>please explain M.I.A.&#8217;s video<\/strong> for her new single, &#8220;Bird Flu&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working on it, and it makes me think of the &#8220;exotic&#8221; opening scene of a <strong>James Bond<\/strong> or <strong>Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/strong> flick. I&#8217;m drawn to rhythm and obsessive vocal approach, but then I find my mind wandering to thoughts of <strong>Adam and the Ants<\/strong> and, eventually, Sofia Coppola&#8217;s crap movie <em>Marie Antoinette<\/em>. Then, it all falls apart as I feel teased by the promised but not consumated <strong>cockfight<\/strong> and cobra action. This video is badly in need of a mongoose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On repeated listens\/views &#8211; this is crucial: please try to watch this video at least 3 times &#8211; please explain M.I.A.&#8217;s video for her new single, &#8220;Bird Flu&#8221;. I&#8217;ve been working on it, and it makes me think of the &#8220;exotic&#8221; opening scene of a James Bond or Raiders of the Lost Ark flick. I&#8217;m <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/please-explain-m-i-a-bird-flu\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}