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Controversial MIA video triumphs at UK Music Video awards

Watch the winning videos, including MIA's Bad Girls, which picked up three top prizes at the ceremony in LondonIt features drag racing across a desert, burning old tankards and gun-toting Arabs in military fatigues – and it has already enjoyed a kerfuffle over whether it exploits stereotypes, and won two prizes at the MTV Video Music awards. Now Bad Girls, a video to a song by MIA, directed by Frenchman Romain Garvas, has triumphed at the UK Music Video awards. At the ceremony at the Empire Ci...

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Controversial MIA video triumphs at UK Music Video awards

Guardian Music — Watch the winning videos, including MIA's Bad Girls, which picked up three top prizes at the ceremony in LondonIt features drag racing across a desert, burning old tankar... more info