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Bjork pisses off the Chinese
Bjork got herself into hot water with the Chinese government last week, when she shouted 'Tibet' repeatedly during a performance in Shanghai. The Goverment issued a statement claiming the singer's words 'broke Chinese law and hurt Chinese people's feelings'. Ah right, it's the people she pissed off, not the powers that be. True to form they also issued a censorship warning for future performers stating "We will further tighten controls on foreign artists performing in China to prevent similar cases from happening in the future. We shall never tolerate any attempt to separate Tibet from China and will no longer welcome any artists who deliberately do this." Bjork replied stating "I am not a politician. I am first and last a musician and as such I feel my duty to try to express the whole range of human emotions." One wonders whether this will prevent politically inspired bands like U2 from playing China in the future. One one hand the government there have very questionable policies on a whole range of issues , but on the other well, its a big market for setting records for world tours.
Bjork got herself into hot water with the Chinese government last week, when she shouted 'Tibet' repeatedly during a performance in Shanghai. The Goverment issued a statement claiming the singer's words 'broke Chinese law and hurt Chinese people's feelings'. Ah right, it's the people she pissed off, not the powers that be.
True to form they also issued a censorship warning for future performers stating "We will further tighten controls on foreign artists performing in China to prevent similar cases from happening in the future. We shall never tolerate any attempt to separate Tibet from China and will no longer welcome any artists who deliberately do this." Bjork replied stating "I am not a politician. I am first and last a musician and as such I feel my duty to try to express the whole range of human emotions."
One wonders whether this will prevent politically inspired bands like U2 from playing China in the future. One one hand the government there have very questionable policies on a whole range of issues , but on the other well, its a big market for setting records for world tours.
I seen a clip on the news a few days ago showing Tibetians rioting on the streets, wrecking bank of china buildings etc.
Haven't heard much more about it on mainstream news, dosn't seem to be any follow up on it either.
I get the impression that western governments don't really want to rattle china's cage too much, too many powerful businesses invested in them, too much money involved for honesty to survive.
Maybe there is a place for artists in the world after all, some 'artists' anyway. I wonder if that unmade bed or yer man eating his own butt fat in a pasta sauce would wow them like it does us?
Art is all subjective, or is it relative,..or some other crap that means nothing to anybody ouside the 'art world'?
We're too comfortable to need artists anymore, in the true sense anyway. We're happy with our lot, we've nothing left to fight for, our problems, geneally speaking, are mostly superficial if not just spoiled whinging.