M.I.A. Calls Reaction To 'Born Free' Video 'Interesting'

People react more to 'tomato ketchup and fake blood' than to clips of real violence, M.I.A. points out.By James Montgomery, with reporting by Akshay Bhansali M.I.A. Photo: MTV News In the days following its release in April, practically everyone weighed in on M.I.A.'s "Born Free" video, calling it everything from "unflinchingly, unapologetically real" to "exploitive and hollow." It was polarizing, to be sure, but that was sort of the point: "Born Free" was clearly designed to elicit a ...

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