Prince creates filmclip friction

PRINCE is once again stirring up some controversy. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is generating debate with a new music video depicting an Arab-American teenage girl imagining herself as a suicide bomber.

The Cinnamon Girl video - created mostly in the Twin Cities and released to music television channels this week - has been criticised on Fox News and CNN.

“Prince intended for it to spark some dialogue,” said the video’s director, Phil Harder, of Minneapolis-based Harder-Fuller Films.

The clip features a school girl who imagines taking a bomb into an airport after experiencing racism following a terrorist attack.