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Model Minority

by Liadland

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From the upcoming album 'Nothing to Declare'

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we got a secret language
that you don’t understand
and we won’t share it with you
a secret culture
and we won’t share it with you

these are peculiar times
we are living in
generations of persecution
made me fetishized and desired

being Jewish and an artist is so trendy now
my culture can hang in the museum now
next to ancestral bones from Namibia
and the head of Nefertiti

oh Europe you fucked me
and you fucked us all
we ain’t humans we are ornaments
relics of forgotten lands that decorate
your gated institutions

who would think
that a genocide would become their national treasure
who would think
that the victim would seal a deal with the perpetrator
who would think
they’ll use it to write off their past, to divide and conquer
who would think
they would never forget but insist to repeat their mistakes

model minority
fuck your seniority
I don’t care
I don’t accept your authority
model minority
you won’t divide and conquer us

I don’t want your reparations
no apologies or declarations
you can take them back
til they’re given to all of us

talk about yourself, they say
talk about the you we know
but let us be the experts
holocaust, ‘Juden raus’, never forget
any mention of Palestine is Russian roulette
that you’re playing with your own right to exist

while Arabs in Europe branded terrorists
Antisemites, racists, self-hating Jews
everybody is guilty except for you
Colonizers keep their power roles
savior mentality reigns across the world

but I’m too sassy and too loud it don’t fit the mold
and I ain’t playing no victim’s role
no fiddler on the roof, no violins
as I scream ‘free Palestine – from the river to the sea’
whatcha gonna do to me? Huh?

model minority
fuck your seniority
I don’t care
I don’t accept your authority
model minority
you won’t divide and conquer us

I don’t want your reparations
no apologies or declarations
you can take them back
til they’re given to all of us

אני יודעת עוד רבה הדרך
אבל אלך בה עד כלות כוחי
אתה לי ארץ אבודה לנצח
אתה לי ארץ אבודה לנצח
אתה לי ארץ אבודה לנצח

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released March 29, 2024
Written by: Liad Hussein Kantorowicz
Composed by: Liad Hussein Kantorowicz + Kalpour
Produced and mixed by: Kalpour

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Liadland Berlin, Germany

Liad is a musician, an artist, a perpetual migrant, a queer trash diva, and a master of the margins. Liad lives in Liadland, a place physically in Berlin, but emotionally located between continents, between the places she’s lived in and where her heart lies.
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