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Bjork Shouts ‘Tibet! Tibet!’ in Crowded Shanghai Theater
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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COMMENTSI have seen her wearing Uyghur traditional matirial-Etles on her top, and Tibetan clothes to the under part of her body. Uyghurs are also one the nations like Tibet seeking indepandance from the Communist China. The population of Uyghurs are approximately 12 million.
By on 3.4.08 at 09:47 AM
Go Björk! By Peter on 3.4.08 at 03:07 PM
Bjork is amazing!! By on 3.5.08 at 06:20 PM
So Tibet is the flavor of the day? Let’s see what she yells in a year or so when “Free Tibet” is no longer fashionable. By Jon Marks on 5.6.08 at 07:25 AM
I somehow don’t think “Free Tibet” will be going out of fashion any time soon. By Peter on 5.6.08 at 07:41 AM
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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.”
