Bjork Shouts ‘Tibet! Tibet!’ in Crowded Shanghai Theater
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 03.04.08 | 10:43 AM ET
The Icelandic singer’s bold public show of support for the “Tibet Autonomous Region”—she shouted “Tibet! Tibet!”—came at the end of a concert in Shanghai Sunday, capping her performance of the song “Declare Indedependence.”
It “drew rare public attention inside China” to the Tibet issue, the AP reports.
Foreign Policy observed, “Björk appears to use the song as a neo-Wilsonian Mad-Lib. Last month, she dedicated it to Kosovo, and in the video for it, she wears an outfit bearing the flags of Greenland and the Faroe Islands, both Danish territory.”
Shanghai concert-goers reportedly left the show quickly, and the incident has draw criticism of Björk online from within China.
Here’s Bjork’s video for the song:
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