Bad Girls by M.I.A.

sol1d gh0st

4w

@Leire like for u

kane wheast

5w↑2

@Blobfish you deserve a medal

Sharon Ruiz

10w↑2K

Saudi women on the first day of being able to drive.

Alina Gabrial

1w

😆😆

Jamal Lkouatli

1w

mr whipple you ´re welcome man 🙏

mr whipple

1w↑1

@Jamal Lkouatli I really didn't know thank you

Jamal Lkouatli

1w

mr whipple not really

mr whipple

1w

Is that's what this song is about? I really didn't know

chisala chewe

15w↑1.1K

This song is legendary, I get adrenaline when I listen to it...

4TEEN jelo

2w

based inner child 🤓

based inner child

2w↑1

ME TOO SISSSS!

rani jha

2w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7JvCj3NEmw

4TEEN jelo

2w

I have a crush on u

Mounir Yamout

2w

Arab effect

Taquitosdesuadero168

10w↑2.4K

10%:bad girls
90%:GTA V RADIO

Guillem ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨

1w

ERES UN GRANDE

Sen Fontijn

1w

@skskskSKZ SAME

skskskSKZ

1w↑1

Thats where I came from 😂

Paulo secreto

2w↑2

YEAH!!!?!?!

R A

2w

Fax

cherry pies

45w↑4.3K

8 years after this song was released and now we're finally allowed to drive💚💚💚 #womanpower

Francesca Buonanno

1w

@Aleem :)

Aleem

1w

@Francesca Buonanno i think 1 of my comments got deleted and idk wat i said cuz i said it at night :/

Francesca Buonanno

1w

@Aleem the thing is, that this thing in Europe happened in the past.
We involved and now we have laws based on human rights.

Aleem

1w

@Francesca Buonanno also everything uve said happened in the country ur from a couple decades ago. the countries uve mentioned are in the same stage as ur country was a few decades ago.

Alexander Oskar Omon 4

9w

@RAGING PEPE
What? Theyre totally controlled by their husbands according to the western media

Dae Baby B.A.P

7w↑583

It's a crime how underappreciated she is as an artist. This video is 'till this day the most badass video ever

Cornchipgirl

2w

It won video of the year in Ontario 🙈

lumaverick6 *

3w

@BlueTheRobloxian big stretch

The BahamianPrincess

4w

I really wish she continued making music but she had a baby. Congrats to her but her music was really good

BlueTheRobloxian

5w↑7

+hello dude hush you sexist mouth and take a seat as women continue to rule the world 😘

EAT THIS

6w↑5

@hello dude not really. I just can't stand sexism. So don't worry about me. That's exactly what your comment seemed to mean

Khalid Dixter

9w↑722

just to let you guys know the video was made in the moroccan desert not saudi arabia they would never allow such a video to be filmed in their country

Noura Alafaliq

2w

No actually you can film videos like this in saudi arabia, and you can find drifting like this and more in saudi, who says you can't film anything and that saudi doesn't allow anything??

MR. skylight

3w↑1

it's in Sandy Shores for sure

fknxo

3w

@Troff L

Padraig Ohalloran

4w

@Troff nooo... there sweetz

Windex Guzzler

4w

@Kertina Papadopoulou yup

jennifer estevez

9w↑843

If this song would have been released now it would totally break the internet I mean, the vibe of the vid, the make up, the costumes, the aesthetic of the video is basically incredible, plus the whole message of empowering women, OMG I wish she would do more songs like this one nowadays:(((

MellC

6w

Agreeee

GlitterHorses

7w↑7

Dont worry m.i.a is always ahead of her time music will sound like this in a few years

KarateAngriff

8w

@Yond3r Playz haha damn nice

Yond3r Playz

8w↑3

@KarateAngriff dude I have a gang/crew in gta5 online and I'm they're leader and on the cars that's all I'm listening 2

KarateAngriff

9w↑24

and the nights we had in gta with this song just amazing

Jirka Filípek

2w↑18

Middle east in american movies: Desert, oil and terrorists
Middle East in real life:

Charbel Zeayter

1w

NO

Abdo Peekaboo

1w

Oh yeah. The way they dress this "Arabian dress" is totally real :P

Benni9ton

1w

Yeah, it's people at first

Maple Syrup

15w↑584

Somewhere in Saudi Arabia
Husband : Honey wanna go shopping
Wife : I’m so tired how ‘bout tomorr...
Husband : U driving
Wife :

Elite F40

2w↑1

Underrated 😂

Mert please enter a soyad

12w

i think she dont have a change to choice ^^

Black screen

12w↑4

0:58

eggs are coming

12w↑5

As if she'd get a choice

lemon .X

14w

Lol

Urvashi Pathak

16w↑763

Listening to this while in quarantine...

Trakos Sukatiq

6w↑1

Vroom vroom

Trakos Sukatiq

6w

Am in moms car

El Liono

6w

Its filmed in Morocco you are welcome in my country after quarantine 🇲🇦

hello dude

6w

Who care's bro

INCOGNITO SHHH

6w

@fish flaps yet ur still here

Evandro Bomfim

15w↑316

Western female singers think themselves so revolutionary but are so far of what MIA does

from the 46

4w↑6

MIA is from the UK

Valdus Oswald

7w↑4

Those famous singers could & would neverrrrr

Valdus Oswald

7w

Thank you 😂

isabella

6w↑102

this song was a cultural reset and MIA is one of the most iconic feminists out there.

band ersnatch

4w↑1

BlackJannik well those people shouldn’t call themselves a feminist if they do. we’re all equal have a nice day

Neonraider

4w

@band ersnatch also its interesting that you directly have to assume that I am dumb

Neonraider

4w

@band ersnatch womens and men are equal, anyway most feminist think they are better then men

band ersnatch

4w↑3

BlackJannik also idk if ur too dumb to understand but feminism literally stands for EQUALITY but ok

Marwan Manowar

5w↑2

life is the best saudi and eimarati women have better life than the average western women، while western girls doing bestiality porn and standing naked for 10 hours entertaining drunk men in sports events just to cover their studies...and what studies ? "gender studies"
meanwhile in my hometown women petting albinos tigers and owning supercars with a personal driver and guess what they are number one in STEM field high profile jobs. if u dont believe me just type in google "western women and STEM field paradox" and u will see that women from conservative countries like eimarate,algeria,qatar,tunisia ,saudia,morocco,pakistan,Jordan... are number one and they are the majority among women in the complex field of science and spacial engineering .
and let me tell you that the only woman ever won a fieldz medal of mathematics was an iranian woman,"Miryam mirzkhani" R.I.P she is the inspiration and idol for my daughters and not MIA or beyonce or nicki minaj

so thank you America (not adressing u) our women dont need your Twerking lessons and LGBT philosophy or ur nude and body expression
we are living in peace and we have enough money and fortune and limitless family time while ur society is drowning in violence racism rape and mass shooting
from a proud father of two non feminist engineer daughters 🙏🏼

one random gator

35w↑5.1K

Saudi Arabia: Allows women to drive
M.I.A: Oh, yeah. It’s all coming together

Jamal Lkouatli

2w

you are completely off the mark, the filming was done in Morocco near the village of my parents. I reassure you women can drive my mother and my grandmother for a long time prove it to you haha, ignorance kills know it

kdaniela sanchez

2w

This song reminds me to the strippers of the game lol

Yan 11000

3w

Exactly as i plan

Devin Brux

3w

lmaooooooooooo howkuna matata thou arent

Will Waldschmit

7w

Its because of the ak 45's so yhea let them drive or take a bullet

Ninja Joe

6w↑187

After listening to this song a million times on GTA’s non-stop pop i can safely say this is not how i pictured the band or video.

Misterloco120 follow meh on Roblox as Misterloco120

1w

Bruh I also just lol cuz all the comments are from 2020 when this song came out 8 yrs ago

Misterloco120 follow meh on Roblox as Misterloco120

1w

I know right I always hear this on non stop pop in gta and pictured the artist being from the UK

Barb 6204

1w

Aravind Ajit ?

Zebrasgrave

2w

Aravind Ajit Same lmao

Chris Carpenter

3w

@Aravind Ajit nope not even close

Kaushal Das

12w↑248

she looks so young,like when this came out she was already 35 and i thought she was not even 30

Jerry4050

2w

Chris Carpenter she’s in her 40s now she’s born in 1975

Miichaeng

2w

@Chris Carpenter *was in her 30's

Chris Carpenter

3w

she's in her 30s?

Ma Le

5w↑2

SHES WHAT

niamh x

10w↑13

Guess she isnt dying young then

Rahat Pişik

4w↑64

1. Open GTA
2. Switch to Trevor
3. Go to vanilla unicorn
4. LiVe faSt diE y0unG bAd gIrLs do iT wELL

alice /

14w↑292

Italy: creates ferrari/creates lamborghini/creates maserati

Saudi Arabia: flexing hold my ‘90 sedans and my skills

Serena Barsanti

9w

@Butt Head unluckily it's not easy to find a place where fake news doesn't exist and, also, not easy to check if it's true or false 😔 I'd really like to learn more and more but, of course, it's not easy!

Serena Barsanti

9w↑1

@Butt Head yeah, I perfectly know it. I'm a rally driver and codriver, I want the right feeling with cars.
Remaining in the video theme, I feel also very lucky to be what I want to be, without laws made by religions, superstitions or stereotypes. Everybody should be what they want to be. Everybody should be free.

Butt Head

9w

@Serena Barsanti You sure do know your suspension on alfa's lady. I had a 156 that thing goes where ever you point it. Special rear suspension set up, like a natural rear wheel steering.

p2187 B

9w↑3

this in morocco not ksa

walter peixoto

12w

@Serena Barsanti That´s it,my mom used to say to say she felt as if she was driving an airplane haha.The problem is that those cars aren´t very common in Brazil,and we would eventually end buying them in Argentina.But back then my father didn´t find the model´s original and has to replace it with a similar one...and the result was the accident...My mom almost died

RobieFIG

3w↑87

Me and the homies listening to this while escaping the cops after the Casino Heist

Coinwolfeee

1w

Use the furia

Slaven Mitar

1w

I use sentinel classic

RobieFIG

3w

Chris Carpenter We use the helicopter

Chris Carpenter

3w

in the sultan classic? that's what me and one guy used

sahool

15w↑274

this has lived to be the most badass song I've ever seen, there needs to be a movie based on this song

Jose Lira Casas

8w

There's an MIA documentary u could watch.

Erase Life

10w↑1

They made a docu on the production...

Hshs Hsjsbd

5w↑16

When u finish the casino heist and spawn in the strip club😂

Zebrasgrave

2w↑1

Hshs Hsjsbd Sorry to break it to you but you always respawn back in the arcade after you finish the casino heist 😂

The Guy Who Asked

14w↑128

“Bad Girls”, driving through Los Santos with Franklin, Trevor, and Michael listening to this couldn’t be more fitting.

The Guy Who Asked

9w

Gaming Snowy Hold on... what?

Gaming Snowy

9w

Despite its occasional use in spoken monologue, the Very Long Literary Sentence properly exists in the mind (hence "stream-of-consciousness"), since the most wordy of literary exhalations would exhaust the lungs’ capacity. Molly Bloom’s 36-page, two-sentence run-on soliloquy at the close of Joyce’s Ulysses takes place entirely in her thoughts. Faulkner’s longest sentence---smack in the middle of Absalom, Absalom! —unspools in Quentin Compson’s tortured, silent ruminations. According to a 1983 Guinness Book of Records, this monster once qualified as literature’s longest at 1,288 words, but that record has long been surpassed, in English at least, by Jonathan Coe’s The Rotter’s Club, which ends with a 33-page-long, 13,955 word sentence. Czech and Polish novelists have written book-length sentences since the sixties, and French writer Mathias Énard puts them all to shame with a one-sentence novel 517 pages long, though its status is “compromised by 23 chapter breaks that alleviate eye strain,” writes Ed Park in the New York Times. Like Faulkner’s glorious run-ons, Jacob Silverman describes Énard’s one-sentence Zone as transmuting "the horrific into something sublime.”

Are these literary stunts kin to Philippe Petit’s highwire challenges—undertaken for the thrill and just to show they can be done? Park sees the “The Very Long Sentence” in more philosophical terms, as “a futile hedge against separation, an unwillingness to part from loved ones, the world, life itself.” Perhaps this is why the very long sentence seems most expressive of life at its fullest and most expansive. Below, we bring you five long literary sentences culled from various sources on the subject. These are, of course, not the “5 longest,” nor the “5 best,” nor any other superlative. They are simply five fine examples of The Very Long Sentence in literature. Enjoy reading and re-reading them, and please leave your favorite Very Long Sentence in the comments.

At The New Yorker's "Book Club," Jon Michaud points us toward this long sentence, from Samuel Beckett’s Watt. We find the title character, “an obsessively rational servant,” attempting to “see a pattern in how his master, Mr. Knott, rearranges the furniture.”

Thus it was not rare to find, on the Sunday, the tallboy on its feet by the fire, and the dressing table on its head by the bed, and the night-stool on its face by the door, and the washand-stand on its back by the window; and, on the Monday, the tallboy on its back by the bed, and the dressing table on its face by the door, and the night-stool on its back by the window and the washand-stand on its feet by the fire; and on the Tuesday…

Here, writes Michaud, the long sentence conveys “a desperate attempt to nail down all the possibilities in a given situation, to keep the world under control by enumerating it.”

The next example, from Poynter, achieves a very different effect. Instead of listing concrete objects, the sentence below from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby opens up into a series of abstract phrases.

Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

Chosen by The American Scholar editors as one of the “ten best sentences,” the passage, writes Roy Peter Clark, achieves quite a feat: “Long sentences don’t usually hold together under the weight of abstractions, but this one sets a clear path to the most important phrase, planted firmly at the end, ‘his capacity for wonder.’”

Jane Wong at Tin House’s blog “The Open Bar” quotes the hypnotic sentence below from Jamaica Kincaid’s “The Letter from Home.”

I milked the cows, I churned the butter, I stored the cheese, I baked the bread, I brewed the tea, I washed the clothes, I dressed the children; the cat meowed, the dog barked, the horse neighed, the mouse squeaked, the fly buzzed, the goldfish living in a bowl stretched its jaws; the door banged shut, the stairs creaked, the fridge hummed, the curtains billowed up, the pot boiled, the gas hissed through the stove, the tree branches heavy with snow crashed against the roof; my heart beat loudly thud! thud!, tiny beads of water grew folds, I shed my skin…

Kincaid’s sentences, Wong writes, “have the ability to simultaneously suspend and propel the reader. We trust her semi-colons and follow until we are surprised to find the period. We stand on that rock of a period---with water all around us, and ask: how did we get here?”

The blog Paperback Writer brings us the “puzzle” below from notorious long-sentence-writer Virginia Woolf’s essay “On Being Ill”:

Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undiscovered countries that are then disclosed, what wastes and deserts of the soul a slight attack of influenza brings to view, what precipices and lawns sprinkled with bright flowers a little rise of temperature reveals, what ancient and obdurate oaks are uprooted in us by the act of sickness, how we go down into the pit of death and feel the water of annihilation close above our heads and wake thinking to find ourselves in the presence of the angels and harpers when we have a tooth out and come to the surface in the dentist’s arm-chair and confuse his “Rinse the Mouth —- rinse the mouth” with the greeting of the Deity stooping from the floor of Heaven to welcome us – when we think of this, as we are frequently forced to think of it, it becomes strange indeed that illness has not taken its place with love and battle and jealousy among the prime themes of literature.

Blogger Rebecca quotes Woolf as a challenge to her readers to become better writers. “This sentence is not something to be feared,” she writes, “it is something to be embraced.”

Finally, from The Barnes & Noble Book Blog, we have the very Molly Bloom-like sentence below from John Updike’s Rabbit, Run:

But then they were married (she felt awful about being pregnant before but Harry had been talking about marriage for a while and anyway laughed when she told him in early February about missing her period and said Great she was terribly frightened and he said Great and lifted her put his arms around under her bottom and lifted her like you would a child he could be so wonderful when you didn’t expect it in a way it seemed important that you didn’t expect it there was so much nice in him she couldn’t explain to anybody she had been so frightened about being pregnant and he made her be proud) they were married after her missing her second period in March and she was still little clumsy dark-complected Janice Springer and her husband was a conceited lunk who wasn’t good for anything in the world Daddy said and the feeling of being alone would melt a little with a little drink.

Sentences like these, writes Barnes & Noble blogger Hanna McGrath, “demand something from the reader: patience.” That may be so, but they reward that patience with delight for those who love language too rich for the pinched limitations of workaday grammar and syntax.

The Aviator

12w

I then blew up the car while the instrumental played like a badass

Holobeam 19

14w

Lumbago Man Ikr I only know this song because of gta

Vall U

5w↑55

This song deserves to be on a bad-ass women empowering movie, like this song could play in the background while a high-speed police chase is happening

Square Tom Memes

2w↑3

They first of all need to make a good women-empowering movie. Not some bullshit like Charlie's Angel and the horrendous Ghostbusters reboot.

Kimyra A

2w

It’s in a movie call Vampire Academy

Evie Kay

4w↑2

Should of had in Harley Quinn it would have been fire

Intro Cancer

4w↑66

Bad girls: hard beat, badass, not trending.
Bad guy: simple beat, emo, trending for some fricking reason.

I prefer this one.

Flo

5w↑23

How tf is 8 years ago the qaulity is so good

Alba Fernandez Consuegra

4w↑33

Has anyone noticed how majestic the horse and the rider are?

Ajowan

5w↑28

M.I.A is probably one of most revolutionary artists of this generation

motmus mom

7w↑26

This is the most gangster music video of all time and they haven’t even shown their bazookas yet

Enes Aydın

3w

@Bruce Wayne lol

Bruce Wayne

3w↑1

I don't think they have any bazookas

_SoLaRiS_

6w↑14

NON-STOP-POP RADIO IN GTA V

Celestia Ludenburg

7w↑34

I’m Arab this makes me wanna go outside and drift even though I don’t have a drivers license and I don’t wanna get in trouble XD

Daddy Alex

4w↑2

deepak62456 especially MK 😳

deepak62456

4w↑2

@Hiba Bouchouareb without a shadow of doubt..they are incredibly beautiful

Hiba Bouchouareb

4w↑2

Arab women are in the top when talking about the most beautiful girls in the world

deepak62456

6w↑2

Contrary to popular belief i personally admire hijab clad arab women..they look surreal in it

Celestia Ludenburg

6w

deepak62456 - Kinda true ngl but I look like mashed potato

TheMandoCruz

37w↑5.2K

This is one of the hardest beats ever made.

Meg

3w

YES

Spectrum UK

4w

DIPLO

Corinna Runyan

4w

Right I'm just waiting for the car to crash in her head to Splatter everywhere it breaks my heart especially when I know what happened to her mom

Peter von Feldt

4w

And one of the best. I call this real dance music. Among the few good things that came from Tokyo Drift just saying.

The Detour On CrystalSwimTV

7w

agreed

Jirka Filípek

2w↑1

Middle east in american movies: Desert, oil and terrorists
Middle East in real life:

WolferDogzz

7w↑20

I remember how the world blew up when GTA V was out.

slehc yo

11w↑24

1:50 I want to go through a McDonald's drive thru like this.

Razorblade

3w

looks up
Can I get a number 9?

Hagar Mahmoud

1w

Listening to this while playing need for speed on my phone.

Sandor

5y↑2.9K

Saudi Arabia rollin harder than the USA.

Devin Brux

3w

lololololololololol cause a reach is a toothbrush my nigguh ;)

HOMELAND

4w↑1

Is every Muslim country Saudi Arabia? You definitely need a ticket to travel the world and I'm here to make sure it happens 😊

Anonymous

5w

And I'm from the USA hahaha

Nouha K

8w

it's Morocco, not Saudi Arabia

kevin still

12w

I have my friend from Algeria, he showed me a drift from Algeria, it was very very scary and dangerous. I have never seen people here in LA. driving as Algeria. well I feel badly for our Country US.

Hagar Mahmoud

1w

Listening to this while playing need for speed on my phone.

Emersyn Eats

9w↑29

I swear I’m not the only one from gta 5

Josh

9w↑1

Hey gurl

Æ'sap Jack

5w↑16

Who else listen to this song on gta5

Who else listening to this in 2020

Chris Carpenter

3w↑1

me

Stark Madhesh Gaming

8w↑31

Who are here after listening to GTA V non stop pop radio station??

Stark Madhesh Gaming

6w

@XxxAlexzitoxxX yea

XxxAlexzitoxxX

6w↑1

Or in vanilla unicorn

Stuart Hawkly

41w↑3.6K

good thing they finally legalized woman drivers in Saudi Arabia

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

8w

@George, you know, THE George, yeah that's me. ?

George, you know, THE George, yeah that's me.

8w

Actually I take that back I drive my cesna on the highway everyday to work, Everytime there is traffic I literally just fly over them. You know if everybody drove planes there would be less traffic cause we'd jsut fly over eachother

George, you know, THE George, yeah that's me.

8w

@Mustafa Kemal Atatürk you don't drive a plane you fly it, lol

Angie Gotopo

11w

@scanner stubborn @oleg kovac M.I.A was born in Sri Lanka raised in England. The video was filmed in Morroco. MIA has explained that this song is exactly about women not allow to drive in Saudi Arabia, this is why people will comment SA all the time. If I remember well, before this came out there was all over the news that a group of young girls in SA were arrested because they were caught driving a car... that triggered this song and video

Ancient Dummy

12w

Yeah I with him good thing they did

Nami

7w↑39

This music from GTA 5

AmeL MesiX

3w

Oh hi cj

Nami

5w

@Dhuc Jacket me too

Dhuc Jacket

7w

Yes hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I Love this song

muhammad awais

3w↑2

motherfreak,best song ever,at least for now,she looks mesmerizing when she dances

Red

1w

There's nothing I love more then going at high speeds in GTAV while bumping to this

EmOcean Flaw

9w↑21

May 5 2020....yup this is still a hit.

Just John

18w↑2.5K

How did they make 90s sedans look cooler than a Lambo!?

Teepfriedewoks

4w

because they are

Suipig

4w

yo they did it

Jo Lane

4w

Only if my 97 honda would do that

NUKE

5w

Low budget. Lol

lolaslatt

5w

because they are.

Dr. Owen Harper

6w↑72

These are the right kind of feminists, protesting for rights rather than just assuming all men are sex offenders.

Respect 100.

Ann P

5w↑2

Yup! Finally someone gets it always thought this. Fighting for “actual” rights.

Johnlock has to become Canon

5w↑3

Or giving a tv interview about how office air conditioning is sexist

R A

1w↑1

Car crashes and road rage have entered the chat

ii_ MXK

14w↑2

This song doesn’t have the same feeling unlike when your driving fast down the motor way in gta

Patryk Janus

6w↑10

Who came from gta V?

Lord of Lords

1y↑5.5K

This makes me want to be a bad girl, but I’m a boy.

Angel Baby 101 love

12w

bad boy

Jae Yeol Jang

12w

Ahhahahahah

Acid

13w

Samantha Martinez you single?

Moona A

13w

Vroom vroom

stayOnTheBike

13w

😆😆😆😆

I'm Deimo

3w↑3

When I always heard this in gta 5, I genuinely never knew it was from Saudi Arabia!, the thing that is weird is that I'm from Iraq and this is the only Arabic song I actually like

Dio Brando

2w↑1

It's not

Zebrasgrave

2w

Im_ Deimo I thought it was gonna be Nicki Minaj or cardi b stuff lmao

Jamie Davidson poston

8w↑4

I love this song, still listening to this in 2020

Elite Games

3w↑3

Funny how the quality is 4k in 2020 lol it was made 8years ago thay got some og cameras

IKSDE XD

3w

What are you even saying?

Nimmy Elavanal

11w↑12

Gta ,5 bought me here...

Vj. P

26w↑1.8K

M.i.a isn't famouse like other pop singers. But her song get picked up in great Hollywood movies.

Xiao City

6w

It was intro song in Vampire Academy.

Rahul Rai

8w↑1

Also, in the video games like Far Cry 3.

msaimee2012

8w

Which probably pays more honestly

Vj. P

9w

@Albert Always my first comment to reach 1k likes. Nothing special going on. Nd Idk why some people literally beg for likes. 🙄

Albert Always

9w

Vj. P oof

Davey Sinclair

2w↑2

Dragging the dagger on the ground on 2 wheels is the most gangster thing I’ve ever seen

asma kha

15w↑17

2020 who's still in love with M.I.A

F.B.I.

2w

I thought it was “lift that stallion bad girls do it well”...

Free.As.A.Beast

1w

I’m a guy And I slap this so hard...
Dope song

Icantmakethisup Podcast

32w↑1.5K

I feel like this is the one of the dopest videos I ever seen. 7 years later too

Simbarashe Mashave

5w

8 years later where is the time guys.

Skilikx

14w↑1

i was a part of the production stuff amazing experience tho

《Phoebe》我喜欢你

14w↑1

Hell yeah

Ryan Muhs

14w

She's. Real bad ass I so much respect for her )

Boesko 04

15w

Nah.

Jim

2w↑1

girls will drive like this and be like “haha oops”

Adam Ryan

3w↑1

The cars with the lights look like when a low level puts lights on their street car in gta

Aura Buensuceso

2w↑3

I misheard it as “Live fast die young bag girls stupid world” 😂😂😂😂

Roll Royce

1w

Lol 😂

Corey Kelly

3w↑2

I WOULD LOVE TO PARTY WITH M.I.A AND THESE GUYS AND GIRLS , THEY KNOW HOW TO HAVE FUN....

EltaMDMA

5y↑2.4K

I wanna try hanging outside my car with my feet on the ground, if I dont reply to this comment in a few days im dead

brody moritzelli.

6w↑1

r u dead? It's been a moment 💅🤷‍♂️

Gaming Snowy

9w

Despite its occasional use in spoken monologue, the Very Long Literary Sentence properly exists in the mind (hence "stream-of-consciousness"), since the most wordy of literary exhalations would exhaust the lungs’ capacity. Molly Bloom’s 36-page, two-sentence run-on soliloquy at the close of Joyce’s Ulysses takes place entirely in her thoughts. Faulkner’s longest sentence---smack in the middle of Absalom, Absalom! —unspools in Quentin Compson’s tortured, silent ruminations. According to a 1983 Guinness Book of Records, this monster once qualified as literature’s longest at 1,288 words, but that record has long been surpassed, in English at least, by Jonathan Coe’s The Rotter’s Club, which ends with a 33-page-long, 13,955 word sentence. Czech and Polish novelists have written book-length sentences since the sixties, and French writer Mathias Énard puts them all to shame with a one-sentence novel 517 pages long, though its status is “compromised by 23 chapter breaks that alleviate eye strain,” writes Ed Park in the New York Times. Like Faulkner’s glorious run-ons, Jacob Silverman describes Énard’s one-sentence Zone as transmuting "the horrific into something sublime.”

Are these literary stunts kin to Philippe Petit’s highwire challenges—undertaken for the thrill and just to show they can be done? Park sees the “The Very Long Sentence” in more philosophical terms, as “a futile hedge against separation, an unwillingness to part from loved ones, the world, life itself.” Perhaps this is why the very long sentence seems most expressive of life at its fullest and most expansive. Below, we bring you five long literary sentences culled from various sources on the subject. These are, of course, not the “5 longest,” nor the “5 best,” nor any other superlative. They are simply five fine examples of The Very Long Sentence in literature. Enjoy reading and re-reading them, and please leave your favorite Very Long Sentence in the comments.

At The New Yorker's "Book Club," Jon Michaud points us toward this long sentence, from Samuel Beckett’s Watt. We find the title character, “an obsessively rational servant,” attempting to “see a pattern in how his master, Mr. Knott, rearranges the furniture.”

Thus it was not rare to find, on the Sunday, the tallboy on its feet by the fire, and the dressing table on its head by the bed, and the night-stool on its face by the door, and the washand-stand on its back by the window; and, on the Monday, the tallboy on its back by the bed, and the dressing table on its face by the door, and the night-stool on its back by the window and the washand-stand on its feet by the fire; and on the Tuesday…

Here, writes Michaud, the long sentence conveys “a desperate attempt to nail down all the possibilities in a given situation, to keep the world under control by enumerating it.”

The next example, from Poynter, achieves a very different effect. Instead of listing concrete objects, the sentence below from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby opens up into a series of abstract phrases.

Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

Chosen by The American Scholar editors as one of the “ten best sentences,” the passage, writes Roy Peter Clark, achieves quite a feat: “Long sentences don’t usually hold together under the weight of abstractions, but this one sets a clear path to the most important phrase, planted firmly at the end, ‘his capacity for wonder.’”

Jane Wong at Tin House’s blog “The Open Bar” quotes the hypnotic sentence below from Jamaica Kincaid’s “The Letter from Home.”

I milked the cows, I churned the butter, I stored the cheese, I baked the bread, I brewed the tea, I washed the clothes, I dressed the children; the cat meowed, the dog barked, the horse neighed, the mouse squeaked, the fly buzzed, the goldfish living in a bowl stretched its jaws; the door banged shut, the stairs creaked, the fridge hummed, the curtains billowed up, the pot boiled, the gas hissed through the stove, the tree branches heavy with snow crashed against the roof; my heart beat loudly thud! thud!, tiny beads of water grew folds, I shed my skin…

Kincaid’s sentences, Wong writes, “have the ability to simultaneously suspend and propel the reader. We trust her semi-colons and follow until we are surprised to find the period. We stand on that rock of a period---with water all around us, and ask: how did we get here?”

The blog Paperback Writer brings us the “puzzle” below from notorious long-sentence-writer Virginia Woolf’s essay “On Being Ill”:

Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undiscovered countries that are then disclosed, what wastes and deserts of the soul a slight attack of influenza brings to view, what precipices and lawns sprinkled with bright flowers a little rise of temperature reveals, what ancient and obdurate oaks are uprooted in us by the act of sickness, how we go down into the pit of death and feel the water of annihilation close above our heads and wake thinking to find ourselves in the presence of the angels and harpers when we have a tooth out and come to the surface in the dentist’s arm-chair and confuse his “Rinse the Mouth —- rinse the mouth” with the greeting of the Deity stooping from the floor of Heaven to welcome us – when we think of this, as we are frequently forced to think of it, it becomes strange indeed that illness has not taken its place with love and battle and jealousy among the prime themes of literature.

Blogger Rebecca quotes Woolf as a challenge to her readers to become better writers. “This sentence is not something to be feared,” she writes, “it is something to be embraced.”

Finally, from The Barnes & Noble Book Blog, we have the very Molly Bloom-like sentence below from John Updike’s Rabbit, Run:

But then they were married (she felt awful about being pregnant before but Harry had been talking about marriage for a while and anyway laughed when she told him in early February about missing her period and said Great she was terribly frightened and he said Great and lifted her put his arms around under her bottom and lifted her like you would a child he could be so wonderful when you didn’t expect it in a way it seemed important that you didn’t expect it there was so much nice in him she couldn’t explain to anybody she had been so frightened about being pregnant and he made her be proud) they were married after her missing her second period in March and she was still little clumsy dark-complected Janice Springer and her husband was a conceited lunk who wasn’t good for anything in the world Daddy said and the feeling of being alone would melt a little with a little drink.

Sentences like these, writes Barnes & Noble blogger Hanna McGrath, “demand something from the reader: patience.” That may be so, but they reward that patience with delight for those who love language too rich for the pinched limitations of workaday grammar and syntax.

Manu1002

9w↑1

did you die?

sTaTiiCz Wolf

11w↑1

been 4 years he gone😢

NS I

11w↑1

hello, it's been 4 years, are you alive?

Regina c.c

10w↑23

Others kids childhood: babyshark tutu
My childhood:

Egriff123

5w↑2

thank god for that "stereotypical music around the world" video, or else i would have never known this fire existed

GAMING WITH SWAGGER

3w↑4

Who all came here while listening to gta 5 radio lol

Slaven Mitar

1w

Me

Chris Carpenter

3w

yup

chnill

1w

i’m playing this song when i get my drivers license

Cielo Villarroel Soriano

39w↑1.2K

This song slaps harder than my mom´s belt

Ellie A

19w↑1

M Loftin Lmfao Pitbull is still a thing?

rob 998

19w

@TheArtofBeingReacts bRuH

TheArtofBeingReacts

19w

@rob 998 ... 🤣

rob 998

19w↑2

??? your mom wears belts?

TheArtofBeingReacts

20w

🤣

LyN3

5w↑3

Omg insane!!!!! And gucci gang has more views?! What a shame

zIlIlz -ANMX-

2w↑4

The only song that plays when I’m chilling in the strip club with the boys “GTA”

Yiddish Terrorist

2w↑1

Ok boy

Joel46n2

7w↑1

WHEN MY CHAIN HITS MY CHESSST

Achieng Adongo

6w↑5

2020 coronavirus still living...haven't died yet. Hoping that part isn't applicable

Il Fantino

26w↑2.5K

Saudi Government:
"Today we are legalizing the driving licence for women. (Allahmmit!)"

Arabic women: 2:56

Connor Crawford

8w

Good point

Ivelisse Gonzalez

9w

Amen

نواف .

10w

ههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههه 😂

Asmaii The weirdo

12w↑2

Damian W didn’t CIA make taliban they also do bad stuff and Saudi Arabia a beautiful country but the government is evil just like America’s look at what they did to yeman and the Palestinian and America created isis and went on war with Iraq which destroyed the country

Peter Parker

12w↑1

Isn't it like forbidden to hear such music there? ^^

Shallow Phoenix

2w

When this song comes on in gta i go off

Navithegoat 2007

4w↑2

1:04 my first day at driving school

Vapawhirl Music

8w↑2

LIVE FAST DIE YOUNG BAD GIRLS DO IT WELL 🗣

Unknown Boi

3w↑2

GTA V radio is really going good with this xD

Misfit Actual

5y↑2.4K

Director: What else can we add to this video to make this more randomly majestic and badass?
random voice in the back : Add an Arab guy riding a horse in slow mo
Director: Genius!

إرُم َErum

17w

Cremo it’s arabian culture started in Saudi arabia not somali and not moroccoan

Shahriar Rahman

33w

Best part of the video.

Bebe

35w

Omg YES 😍😍 Arab men are so hot and I just love the way they ride horses ... they are so good at it. It looks amazing when they’re in traditional clothes and riding fast! Genius idea! I would love to know who all these people in the video are, especially the drivers and horsemen

B

40w

@oliveavelo some Africans are Arabs. They all belong to the Arab league.

B

40w

@fckusoogle Moroccans are Arabs, so are Egyptians, and even some Somalians.

Arab isn't exclusive to Saudi Arabia or UAE.

Arabs are an ethnic group inhabiting the Arab world. They primarily live in the Arab states in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa and western Indian Ocean islands. They also form a significant diaspora, with Arab communities established around the world.

James Anley

6w↑2

being a previous owner of an e36 bmw I'm so proud

that's me

12w↑9

As always great clips filmed in Morocco❤🇲🇦🇲🇦

Antônio Carlos Soares

3w↑1

01:55 This scene with horse running in slow motion.♥️♥️♥️

Sushmita

7w↑6

We want your music back M.I.A!! 😭😭

Yeah Cool

3y↑2K

This has it all:
Good song,
Good video,
Hot singer,
and a guy riding a horse in slow motion.

gypsy lab

2y↑1

hot singer or not..shes got dem music skillz

No Brakes

2y

Cheezbuguh Cheese don’t forget the e36 m3s

JENTZ

2y

tru

M

3y

Cheezbuguh Cheese -Bending corner. Always lol

Jay King

3y

N the beat go hard as hell

Macedonian Funny Valentine

4w↑1

The Persians about to fight Alexander the Great.

Fauzia Shaikh

2w↑1

You maybe badass but you'll never be

My husband rides a black horse in the middle of the desert

OR

My wife drives the car on two wheels badass

hpept

5w↑2

2:12 thumbs up if you noticed the tire bursting...

Akmlpsha

1w

When you can drive as a woman in saudi arabia

FlospyTV

27w↑2.6K

GTA 5 Radio be like:

Me: Now that's what I like to hear.

Nami

7w↑1

@raggedyrøbin no area 51, military base fort zancudo

Albert Always

9w

FlospyTV tup

Selma Lucevic

9w

Same thing brought me here :D

Arturo Hernandez

10w

no homo tho

Sgt_ Tyty

10w

Sid now I like iFruit radio

emre yelen

3w↑1

Beautiful even after 8 years.

Roman Sales

5w↑1

Never played GTA V I've loved this song since it first came out, amazing track, amazing artist

Pietro Salomone

2w

When you go the Saudi arabs :

Imelda Odo-Effimi

8w↑6

searched for this song for five years, just saw it in my recommendations
we thank God🙏🏽

lyhthegreat

2y↑2.5K

wow the singer is 43 yrs old damm..she looked like she's in her twenties.

Niratz

50w

lyhthegreat WHAT?! 43?! 😱

Toby Owens

50w

Wait

Marceline

51w

lyhthegreat whaaaaaaaaattttt

Madisyn Stanley (981MadStan)

51w↑1

@Max Maximus asians dont raisin

John Spencer

1y

She's still young how old was she in this video? Don't know if she's making new music.

I don't get jokes

10w↑1

Ah yes, middle eastern stereotypes. Drifting

Wolfeyesi

12w↑11

This makes feel like a bad ass 😎🔥

Scott La Rock

7w↑1

How I thought Iraq would like by now LMAO

n

6w↑1

This was shot in Morocco?

Whisky Horse

iMR SLiME

Aaron Barlow

Heron Dram

SlowedSound Network

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sudheer kaneti

BlitzKrieg Azteca

J Mack

R A

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Sharon Ruiz

Alina Gabrial

Jamal Lkouatli

mr whipple

Jamal Lkouatli

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4TEEN jelo

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rani jha

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Mounir Yamout

Taquitosdesuadero168

Guillem ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨

Sen Fontijn

skskskSKZ

Paulo secreto

R A

cherry pies

Francesca Buonanno

Aleem

Francesca Buonanno

Aleem

Alexander Oskar Omon 4

Dae Baby B.A.P

Cornchipgirl

lumaverick6 *

The BahamianPrincess

BlueTheRobloxian

EAT THIS

Khalid Dixter

Noura Alafaliq

MR. skylight

fknxo

Padraig Ohalloran

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MellC

GlitterHorses

KarateAngriff

Yond3r Playz

KarateAngriff

Jirka Filípek

Charbel Zeayter

Abdo Peekaboo

Benni9ton

Maple Syrup

Elite F40

Mert please enter a soyad

Black screen

eggs are coming

lemon .X

Urvashi Pathak

Trakos Sukatiq

Trakos Sukatiq

El Liono

hello dude

INCOGNITO SHHH

Evandro Bomfim

from the 46

Valdus Oswald

Valdus Oswald

isabella

band ersnatch

Neonraider

Neonraider

band ersnatch

Marwan Manowar