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03-04-2008, 02:48 PM
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| | Bjork Shouts Out To Tibet During Shanghai Show billboard: Bjork Shouts Out To Tibet During Shanghai Show Bjork Shouts Out To Tibet During Shanghai Show Bjork  March 04, 2008, 1:50 PM ET 
Berwin Song, Beijing
Icelandic singer Bjork's first concert in mainland China Sunday (March 2) may have been her last, after she chanted "Tibet" several times during "Declare Independence," the closing song in her set at the Shanghai International Gymnastic Center.
By appearing to come out in favor of independence for Tibet, which China claims is an integral part of the People's Republic, Bjork violated a key Chinese political taboo.
As reports and videos of the incident began circulating on the Internet, Chinese Web sites featured a flood of angry reactions such as "Call the relevant authorities!" and "Away with her!"
For those at the show, however, it was a different story. "It was a very brave thing to do," says Alex Pasternack, an American who lives in Beijing. "I was thinking of Tibet already, because the lyrics of that song are so explicitly about declaring independence."
Pasternack says there wasn't much of a reaction from the audience to Bjork's remarks. "I looked around for guards or security, but didn't see any -- and (then) the show was over," he says. "My first thought was, 'She's never going to be invited back here again.'"
The show's promoter, Shanghai-based Emma Entertainment, had no comment on the incident. Shanghai was Bjork's only scheduled China show.
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03-04-2008, 02:51 PM
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| | | Bjork management: Kosovo WAS behind Exit festival row nme: Bjork management: Kosovo WAS behind Exit festival row | News | NME.COM Bjork management: Kosovo WAS behind Exit festival row
Representatives of Bjork have insisted that the singer was forced out of Serbian festival EXIT due to her views on Kosovo.
The singer claimed she was dropped from the July event because of what she said onstage recently in Tokyo in support of the region gaining its impendence. EXIT’s organiser Bojan Boscovic then issued a statement denying that the singer had been not dropped for her views, or that Bjork had ever been cancelled.
However Bjork’s management have issued to following statement to NME.COM claiming that they were told politics was the reason she would not be allowed to play, and said that the festival had cancelled her performance.
The statement reads as follows:
“ Bojan Boscovic, General Manager of the Exit Festival in Serbia, said in an email to 's representatives, that, quote: ‘We hope Bjork does not relate to Kosovo on other concerts here in Europe, nor in her interviews, because if she does we need to cancel the concert; if this happens, we may as well look for some other artist, or see what is available’.”
Her management added: “The coverage of dedicating her song ’Declare Independence’ to Kosovo at two recent shows in Japan was so widely covered in print and online media that the festival had no option but to cancel her performance. We will replace this event with another show in due course.”
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03-04-2008, 05:02 PM
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| | | I read about this in The Guardian. Good on her I say.
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03-04-2008, 08:24 PM
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| | | Tibet is annoying and Bjork sucks, but I like it when people anger the Chinese. | 
03-05-2008, 12:41 AM
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| | | Good on her. I think that's superb. | 
03-05-2008, 02:51 AM
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| | | has her entire audience been sent to prison? | 
03-05-2008, 04:40 AM
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Originally Posted by kesh has her entire audience been sent to prison? | Apparently so.
I want Tibetans to be happy, but I am as appalled by the idea of a slave-owning Buddhist theocracy as I am by nasty Communists giving people education and healthcare, but ordering them around a lot.
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03-05-2008, 05:14 PM
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| | | I hate it when artists deliberately try to cause controversy and try to pass it off as creative freedom. But you gotta admire the lengths this woman goes to. | 
03-05-2008, 09:18 PM
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| | | i think the next journalist bjork decides to beat the piss out of should go all tiananmen square on her ass and not even flinch.
even with the element of surprise factored in, it was disgusting how fast that one bitch went down.
bjork is a big bully. | 
03-05-2008, 09:21 PM
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| | | She can fucking stick her independence song up her pretentious ass. | 
03-05-2008, 11:33 PM
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Originally Posted by desdemona I hate it when artists deliberately try to cause controversy and try to pass it off as creative freedom. But you gotta admire the lengths this woman goes to. | She goes the whole hog. The whole hog. Maybe she should off a pig on stage, and roll around in its blood, as a statement against animal cruelty. Quote:
Originally Posted by GirlBlondieVol2 She can fucking stick her independence song up her pretentious ass. | What Would Zimbanerijorian Throat Whistlers Do?
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03-06-2008, 02:21 AM
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| | here is a rather amazing mp3 of "declare independence" from one of the tokyo shows.
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03-06-2008, 02:31 AM
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| | | i love that song. it sounds so, volatile.
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03-06-2008, 04:15 AM
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| | | I can't stand the song, it sounds like horrible noise to me. At least she's trying to do something to make it worthy of existence since sonically it clearly should never have been recorded. | 
03-06-2008, 02:08 PM
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| | The song is unaffecting and pretentious
She's losing it  | 
03-06-2008, 04:25 PM
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| | | I kind of liked it... | 
03-07-2008, 05:13 AM
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Originally Posted by GirlBlondieVol2 She can fucking stick her independence song up her pretentious ass. | yr just a bitter serbian bitch, right? | 
03-07-2008, 11:48 PM
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Originally Posted by sick of you yr just a bitter serbian bitch, right? | haha who are you? It's Serbian with a capital S, ya betta recognize slut.
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