Plan B - Ill Manors

over the past week, Plan B has released the video for his new single 'ill manors'. In my opinion the video/song itself is definitely a post modern one. The song itself owes heavily to the London riots that took place last summer.

The video itself could be seen as a parody, including clips of various politicians being mocked, with one image of a dog actually having an image of David Cameron in his poo. Plan B has tried to show how Britain is seeing the youths of today, and also how exactly we stereotype people, for example with the line 'he's got a hoodie on give him a hug, on second thoughts don't you wanna get mugged'. The song continues to carry on the theme of how Britain is blaming all of the 'chavs' for the ongoings of last year's riots, with Plan B highlighting the fact he believes that the typical assumption for the word 'chav' in today's society means that someone is 'Council Housed And Violent'. The list of references goes on and on 'do what Boris does & rob everyone blind'  - obviously referring to Boris Johnson. On top of all of this obviously the video could be seen as intertextuality with the way they have shown the London Riots.

The guardian have actually written a piece on the video/song itself as well, claiming that it is the 'greatest British protest song in years'.

Here it is;

Furthermore, I have also listened to the full interview that he did on BBC 1Xtra, he speaks all about the influences of his song. He is speaks about how we wants to try and set up a charity/foundation to try and solve this issues.  Here the interview is aswell, pretty interesting.