Asia Blog: China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam

Bjork screams “Free Tibet” in Shanghai

Posted in China, Human Rights, Music by Elliott Back on March 8th, 2008.

This just seems like the wrong thing to do. Our favorite Sinablog Shanghaiist has the scoop about how Iceland’s famous singer embarrassed herself:

Björk closed out the set with the anthemic ‘Declare Independence,’ chanting the name of a huge piece of real estate west of Sichuan and Yunnan amongst a hail of streamers. [Bjork] shouted “Tibet, Tibet!” followed by “Raise your flag!” towards the end of her final song, “Declare independence.”

bjork.jpg

This entry was posted on Saturday, March 8th, 2008 at 1:35 am and is tagged with free tibet, famous singer, anthemic, shanghaiist, sichuan, björk, yunnan, bjork, hail, shanghai, scoop, real estate. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback.

One Response to “Bjork screams “Free Tibet” in Shanghai”

  1. r2 says:

    ooo gosh – i liked her, but better for her to stay in ‘detached arty world’ , than start doing politics. I think, that she gives a damn about tibet, really – pathetic..

Leave a Reply

Powered by WP Hashcash