October 20
Listen to the banned LittleBigPlanet song
Posted on October 20th, 2008 at 9:42 AM by Talk Playstation
Category: News/Announcements
Ok, so most of you if not all of you know that LittleBigPlanet has been delayed because the muslim community wasn’t happy about one of the games background music.
So what was the song in question? After doing some research it seems to be called ‘Tapha Niang’. Head over to Toumani Diabate’s MySpace page and listen to Tapha Niang.
Click here for the page. Doesnt sound that bad does it?
5 Responses to “ Listen to the banned LittleBigPlanet song ”
So the obvious question is… why aren’t ‘offended Muslims’ also e-mailing MySpace demanding that the song be removed from there?
It’s a family-oriented site in the same way that LBP is a family-oriented game, and I’m sure MySpace has more users than there are PS3 owners.
well the thing is paranoimia: im muslim but in our countries we dont use MySpace and its not popular in here and all of the people i know dont have a profile(we use the Facebook)
and second: Little Big Planet is the kind of game that every child could be playing so its not a nice thing when you put something sacred like quran with music inthe game.
i respect the company for their decision otherwise i (for example wont buy the game).
Fair enough on the MySpace issue, but what I honestly don’t understand is, why complain now, and to Sony? If it is truly that offensive, why were complaints not made 2 years ago when the track was released, and to the artist and his record label?
Then the track may not have been available to be included in a game years later – or at least, its ‘offensive’ content would have been known, prohibiting its inclusion in the game.
With all due respect, I genuinely find it hard to believe that it’s taken 1+ billion Muslim people 2 years to discover that a Grammy award winning Muslim artist has released a track containing offensive lyrics.
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“Diabate is a devout Muslim, with his own prayer room next to his office”
From: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2008/02/24/2003402699
“From the brief research we’ve done (um … Wikipedia), we have yet to find evidence to suggest “Tapha Niang” (or any Toumani Diabaté production for that matter) has been criticized for possible religious offenses prior to today’s development.”
From: http://game.blogdig.net/archives/articles/October2008/17/Inside_the_LBP_delay__A_Grammy_award_winning_artist_s_2006_song.html
Hi man, well first of all you would be surprised if i told you nobody knows this artist in our culture,Therefor the song is not known at all. But when a big name like little big planet added the song people heard it and recognized the offending material included.
You cant judge what you dont know right?
As for the info you told me about the artist im gonna check it out and tell you what think Soon.
Goodnight
Its just a song.
Why are we even complaning about this song.
shouldent we be happy that this kind of song even gets into a game. where lots of ppl play it?
Comon.
Theres are more then this type of songs. like everywhere.
prasing Everyones God in Some way? correct?
Lets just live ourlife as it is.
doing the same thing over and over again?
Only those who know the Arab language knows.
what about other races.
Chinese . Indians. English. ectt.