Last year, she wrote original music for the political dissident’s talk show The World Tomorrow, occasioning a flurry of mutually admiring tweets between the singer and Assange’s people. This isn’t the first time the button-pushing, bird-flipping pop star has collaborated with Assange. (Surely, somewhere right now, frantic artist managers are trying to wrangle Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning for appearances at Coachella 2014.) While we’re still not sure what he actually said - the twitterverse is heavy on images from the event, but no quotes have surfaced - one message remains loud and clear: Holograms are so over, and dark-web TED talks are in. via Skype from London, where he remains holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy. With his image projected onto a massive screen on stage, the embattled hacktivist joined M.I.A. M.I.A.’s radical chic got a boost last night when she enlisted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to open her New York City show at Terminal 5, reports MusicFeeds.
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