{"id":544174,"date":"2010-04-27T08:59:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T12:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=102529"},"modified":"2010-04-27T08:59:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T12:59:09","slug":"m-i-a-%e2%80%9cborn-free%e2%80%9d-music-video-banned-from-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/544174","title":{"rendered":"M.I.A. \u201cBorn Free\u201d Music VIDEO Banned From YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a case of Erykah Badu Deja Vu, M.I.A.&#8217;s new video &#8220;Born Free&#8221;  is so graphic its been pulled from YouTube. The Sri Lankan rap star&#8217;s nine-minute short film has been banned from YouTube.com due to its disturbing scenes of graphic violence.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"335\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11219730&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11219730&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-102529\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The controversial footage premiered on M.I.A.&#8217;s official website on Monday, but the hitmaker revealed shortly after that thanks to bosses at her label UMG, the video is not welcome on the world&#8217;s leading video sharing website.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;FUCK UMG WHO WONT SHOW IT ON YOUTUBE! FOR THE U.S >>>>>>WATCH HERE http:\/\/miauk.com\/,&#8221;<\/em> she Tweeted Monday.<em> &#8220;OK NOT UMG FAULT!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the &#8220;Born Free&#8221; vid, military police round up red-headed boys in a series of violent raids and beat them to death. In one particularly disturbing scene, a 10-year-old boy is shot in the head in an effort to force other children to escape the concentration camps.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZzaEMKDoA-HaeI0MInSYvi5yMVo\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZzaEMKDoA-HaeI0MInSYvi5yMVo\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZzaEMKDoA-HaeI0MInSYvi5yMVo\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZzaEMKDoA-HaeI0MInSYvi5yMVo\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a case of Erykah Badu Deja Vu, M.I.A.&#8217;s new video &#8220;Born Free&#8221; is so graphic its been pulled from YouTube. The Sri Lankan rap star&#8217;s nine-minute short film has been banned from YouTube.com due to its disturbing scenes of graphic violence. The controversial footage premiered on M.I.A.&#8217;s official website on Monday, but the hitmaker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}