Mommy, why does the Chinese government hate ‘Gangnam Style’?

So a very political-minded Chinese artist named Ai Weiwei made his own “Gangnam Style” video in which he kinda sorta hinted — with handcuffs — that the Chinese government wasn’t very nice to him. Like that time they arrested him. Boom, his video is gone. So then his buddy, artist Anish Kapoor, organized a mega-music-video…

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Carolyn Silveira

Jan 12, 2013

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