October 15, 2004
Cinnamon Girl
Cinammon Girl is a new Prince video featuring an Arab-American teenager who murders people at an airport because of, like, racism (via the jawa report).
Never knew the meaning of color lines
911 turned that all around
When she got accused of this crime
So began the mass illusion, war on terror alibi
What's the use when the god of confusion keeps on telling the same lie?
Because in Prince's worldview the only response to hypothetical bullying are fantasies of mass murder. Because in Prince's worldview the only discrimination is racial and the maniacal religious prejudice of the UFO cultists is to be passed over in silence. Let us be clear on this point: the video does not represent the fantasies of Arab-Americans but is the vision of a sad little man whose last moments of genius take us back to the world of the mid 1980s. Far be for me to suggest that it is Prince's depiction of an Arab-American carrying out an airport atrocity that is in fact racist (that should be obvious both in itself and from the fact he had to fly an actress in from New Zealand to play the part). You see, according to Prince, people claimed the massacres of September 11, 2001 were carried out by terrorists who happened to be Arabs. Get it? What's the use when people keep on telling the same lie? Time to go murder some more air travellers... that will show them! After all, the high school nastiness portrayed in the video explains everything from the chess club fanatics whose despair lead them to behead football jocks through the late 1980s to the moustache-twirling evil of the VRWC (they called us mean... so now we can't help it!). The video’s director, Phil Harder, quotes Prince's rationale.
Because Prince believes people who fly families into office buildings, saw off heads for religious snuff films and gun down fleeing children act badly because we call them "terrorists". Howard Becker has a lot to answer for. But then he had been labeled as a sociologist so one cannot expect much from him.
Posted by the Flea at October 15, 2004 09:04 AM | TrackBackI wish, I wish, I wish that pop stars would stay away from politics. You're right about poor Prince - the '80s were the last time he was really a genius, and it's where his worldview obviously still resides.
Posted by: rick mcginnis at October 15, 2004 10:10 AMThis is not politics its pure marketing...ie make a contraversial video and get it talked about.
Posted by: Andrew Ian Dodge at October 15, 2004 11:34 AMYou're an idiot. This video shows how hate and discrimination forced on someone (because of how they look) can lead to more violence. It's a powerful message.
It's a powerful message only if you believe that being falsely accused of (or associated with) a crime is a license to go and commit retaliatory crime. I tend to disagree with that theorem.
I'm of Japanese descent and I wouldn't freak out if people started blaming me for Pearl Harbor or the Rape of Nanking. I would consider it absurd. But I also don't attempt to whitewash the vileness of those acts, nor do I hesitate to shine the spotlight on them.
Freaking out and killing people because one doesn't have the fortitude to take inaccurate and unjustified insults tells me the killer has a very thin skin and a profound lack of maturity, grace, and insight.
Posted by: Chris Taylor at October 22, 2004 03:26 PMNormally I would have just deleted Lou's message out of hand but I am experimentally leaving stuff up at the moment. Also, he said "you're an idiot" instead of the usual moonbat spelling of "your an idiot". Good spelling is to be encouraged.
Posted by: Flea at October 22, 2004 04:51 PMI believe you all of have it wrong. Prince's video has nothing to do with putting the blame of terrorism on the Arabs, or watering down the fact that Terrorism has caused the death of thousands, nor is it a mean to sell records. It is his attempt to inform people that the wars and other atrocities that exist in the world is because this world is under the power of Satan the Devil. The "god of this system of things". Check out your bibles folks, its in there. 2 Cor. 4:4 speaks of him as "blinding the eyes of the unbelievers". He transforms himself into an "angel of light". These events are all part of a composite sign the Jesus Christ discussed in the books of Matthew, Mark & Luke. They mark the last days of this system where such events as terrorism, crime, violence even death will be removed. Prince is just trying to inform you all.....and hip you to some real knowledge....knowledge about the almighty God Jehovah.
Posted by: Clarity at October 31, 2004 01:01 AMClarity, while you may be right in what you say, you do not offer any argument drawn from the video or song lyrics that support your contention this is the case Prince is trying to make.
Here is my new theory: Prince is using the video to try and inform people that wars and other atrocities are the work of Great Cthulhu through his messenger Nyarlathotep (cf. Al-Azif, British Library MS No. 663fx93). The video's protaganist has been driven made by visions that were seared - seared - into her brain following her unwise involvement in a New York based Tcho Tcho cult. The cyclopean vistas that opened before her left her reeling with the certain knowledge that humanity will be swept aside as the Great Old Ones, this world's true owners, return to claim their own (De Kultis Mysteriis, "Prague" edition). Her deranged self-immolation may in this light be seen as the philanthropic gesture of her remaining humanity attempting to flee into death. Of course, death is no escape. Prince is not trying to "harsh" our "buzz".. only make us hip to the yawning chaos that is the end of all hope.
Posted by: Flea at October 31, 2004 07:42 AM