...because I'm doing it as hard as I can."
I love this article. Asking when the middle finger became an offensive gesture? Really? I mean come on, the guy is British and so is M.I.A., but they know that the middle finger is obscene, or at least considered so by Americans. I mean, I am no obscenity scholar and yet somehow I know that the backward peace sign in a thrust means basically the same thing across the pond. The U.S. exports movies like no other, there is no conceivable way that you could not know that the middle finger is considered obscene unless you lived under a media rock.
So, we are left with M.I.A. in just another desperate cry for Superbowl Attention. It's sad really I don't think anyone watching the game really skipped a beat. It just like, "Oh, of course. Something offensive during the halftime show, why not. Just par for the course." And i have to wonder how complicit the network is in all this, and the kind of boost in ratings they will receive next year when people tune in to watch whatever is going to be the next horrible thing that happens during the show.
Really, we should be waiting for it to cross over into the game itself, or the announcer's booth, and certainly the commercials.
