New Prince Video Rocks Terrorism (with links to view)

[Paragon]

http://launch.yahoo.com/artist/videos.asp?artistID=1021580

Prince, now a Jehovah's witness, has toned down his mojo, but the Purple One can still pack a political punch. His new music video, "Cinnamon Girl," is a big-budget production that follows the hardships and confusions of a teenage Arab-American girl in a post 9-11 America.

It stars Keisha Castle-Hughes ("Whale Rider") who concludes the video by imagining herself detonating a bomb in a crowded airport terminal.

...Disillusioned and angered, Castle-Hughes' character detonates a bomb in an airport terminal, exploding herself and others. However, a reverse motion immediately following the explosion reveals that it is only a thought of hers.

...Seeds of controversy are already beginning to grow, even though the video — the first from Prince's new "Musicology" — will not begin running on MTV until next week. It is currently viewable on Yahoo (http://launch.yahoo.com/artist/videos.asp?artistID=1021580) and on Prince's pay fan club site, www.npgmusicclub.com.

[DrWeird]

1. Prince is now a Jehovah's witness?

Well, I guess if Madonna's into Kabbalah...

[rkc3]

2. Can you imagine him at your front door this Saturday morning?

[DrWeird]

4. Shit, I'd invite him in.

We'd have pancakes.

[rkc3]

6. Pancakes, but no basketball.

[jukes]

3. like the vid

hope MTV develops some social consciousness...

[lightbulb]

5. Bravo

It's important for people to be exposed to art which challenges the black-and-white war-happy crowd's simplistic "they hate our freedom" mantra. It's essential to see terrorists as human beings that have been pushed over a deplorable, destructive brink by complex social and religious factors. We'll never get anywhere in our "war on terror" if we continue to look upon all of them as purely evil, two-dimensional cartoon villains with no thoughts or feelings apart from violence.

Before you flame: I'm not forgiving anyone who in any way chooses to use violence against innocent people as a form of political expression. Only saying that it's necessary to get inside the hearts and heads of such people if we truly wish to make it stop.

[rkc3]

7. Bill Maher pointed out bush's ethno-centric view on politics.

Maybe if not-so-curious george understood that most terrorists have chosen their path because of the regimes they live under and these regimes only have power because America provides them the wealth to hold down millions of people - it might change his policies and America's perspective on the Middle East.

But telling Americans their freedoms and excesses promote slavery and poverty in oil rich nations is too nuanced a position for most.