M.I.A. Quotes About Culture
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With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.
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Instead of going to war, we should put the money into arts and culture and let creative people define what Britain is.
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If right now, culture's so divisive, it just leaves these millions of people like me out.
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I don't have a community like a black community to belong to [with] a musical platform that's been built for years and years and years, or the film-making culture, and I don't have the white one to belong to.
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Now, [hip-hop/grime artists] Stormzy, Skepta, or the Section Boyz have to be validated by Drake, Rihanna or Beyoncé. They're rolled into this one urban culture bubble; it's not really to do with, "I'm specifically f - ked off about my country and what's going on in my town." We're very much only showing success to artists who impress American artists, and I'm one of them.
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It could be the sort of declining grip of the American MTV-nation culture-the fact that MTV doesn't play so much music anymore.
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