cheating AND incest! this story just keeps getting better!
― some dude, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
And an ... anchor baby!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
ugh not even in jest
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, don't mention it to those conservative nuts already in a tizzy over this militant brown-skinned person with visa issues they'd never heard of until Sunday.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
china girl grew up to be a big girlhad her sights set on a bigger worlddial-a-bride from sri lankafound herself a yorkshire bankerneed a visa, got with a geezerneed some money, paid him with a knees-upa year later, started to ease upgot her own way, shouted out see ya
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
i just checked foxnews entertainment out of curiosity and the top story is about lana del rey
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
lol lex OTM
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
i used to work on the website for a certain magazine bonnie fuller used to edit, back in the mists of time. she insisted that all email correspondence be printed out and couriered to her once a week!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
shes a national treasure, frankly
― max, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, February 7, 2012 11:32 AM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― D-40, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
Drugs OTM
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
ha lex
― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
Those lyrics Lex posted reminded me there was a time when MIA was awesome and not just a tedious attention seeker.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
those things aren't mutually exclusive in my world (lex's either, I suspect)
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
lol "Ten Dollar" is one of the Arular songs I always skip
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
ha posting those lyrics did remind me how much i love "10 dollar"
MIA POX
10 dollarhusselbucky done gun (dj marlboro funk carioca mix)amazongalangbamboo bangasunshowers (diplo mix)uraqtbird flupull up the people
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
bucky done gun (dj marlboro funk carioca mix)
THIS THIS THIS THIS.
So fucking good.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
for me it's a POXII:
Bamboo BangaHombreHusselGalangSunshowersLovalotIllygirlBig BranchURAQTAmazonXR2$20
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't heard that. I feel like this is a grave mistake. xp
― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
lex u forgot "Space" :)
otherwise much agreement, need to hear that carioca mix
― sleeve, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB4Zy7HJyLs
Basically the deal, I believe, was that Diplo totally jacked DJ Marlboro's beat for the original Bucky Done Gun, more or less - or at least that was the rumour at the time, and the remix was a way to 'rectify' that or whatever.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
apparently "space" is on the last album? i don't remember anything about maya except how bad the bad bits were. my 11th track that got kicked off the final 10 was "hit that".
remembering mia's best songs is a handy way of realising how unexciting her new one is.
slays the original (which they nicked off a dj marlboro beat in the first place)
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
ha xp
i like that song "Paper Planes"
― Number None, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
this is not going to change your mind lex but Maya mostly kills, it's just the three sluggish songs on the middle ("It Takes A Muscle", "ItIz What It Iz", to a lesser degree "Story To Be Told") that make it seem interminable
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
Hmmm, that's cool but I don't think I like it as much as the original. "Bucky" is probably my favorite M.I.A. song, though.
― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Tuesday, February 7, 2012 6:49 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This, except the only one that I find sluggish/interminable is It Iz What It Iz.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 02:56 (twelve years ago) link
impressive fact from her WikiShe is the only artist in history to be nominated for an Academy Award, Grammy Award, Brit Award, Mercury Prize and Alternative Turner Prize.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
less impressive if anyone else was nominated for all of those except whatever 'alternative tuner' is
― some dude, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 03:35 (twelve years ago) link
U2 has been nominated for all but the "alternative turner prize"
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 8 February 2012 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
man if u2 isnt alt enough 4u i dont even know
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 03:40 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but i'd kind of expect that from the likes of U2 cause they've been around since forever. pretty impressive from someone with a short career like MIA's i'd say.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 05:16 (twelve years ago) link
I s'spect the Alt-Turner Prize is related to the Turner Prize, i.e., an art prize.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 05:30 (twelve years ago) link
Sting has also been nominated for all but the Alt-Turner, btw.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 05:41 (twelve years ago) link
Maya mostly kills, it's just the three sluggish songs on the middle ("It Takes A Muscle", "ItIz What It Iz", to a lesser degree "Story To Be Told") that make it seem interminable
This, except the exact opposite. If DJP and I divided up MAYA it would be the most harmonious settlement ever.
― Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
i don't know why entertainers strive for the EGOT instead of the EGOTAT
― unworthy of singing thrash metal at this point in time (some dude), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
anyone can get an EGOTAT after a quick trip to the local strip mall
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
SFJ: M.I.A. SHOULDN’T HAVE APOLOGIZED
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/02/im-sorry-mia-apologized.html?mbid=gnep&google_editors_picks=true
― o. nate, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
I love how passionate that SFJ piece is. Being on the blog liberates it from that New Yorkerish sense of distance. It reads like an angry fan: "Fuck you, MIA rules!"
― Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
The artist, of course, is M.I.A. About seven years ago, I praised her for several things, including turning the noxious generalization of “world music” into an idea that represents life as it is lived, and affords huge aesthetic possibilities. She made two albums that received all the praise they deserved, and then a third album called “/\/\/\Y/\,” which received a deeply weird and negative review in Pitchfork (unless you think M.I.A. is here only to provide “bangers” and hasn’t already vaulted way past her “potential as a pop artist” many times) and, most damagingly, the worst profile ever written about a musician, in the New York Times Magazine.
except for this one magnetic fields piece i read somewhere once, maybe...
― omar little, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
unless you think M.I.A. is here only to provide “bangers”
And mashups.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
galang
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
Good article but SFJ is completely off if he thinks M.I.A. did it simply as a performance and not a publicity stunt. If flipping the finger was allowed she would've thought of the next 'offensive' thing to do on live tv. She did it because she knew exactly the reactions it would get.
― Moka, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
SFJ OTM RE MIA
great post
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like people have lost the ability to distinguish between "performance" and "publicity stunt." i mean any 'look at me!' gesture by a professional entertainer/celebrity is what it is, you can just choose to look at it in one light or another as part and parcel of what they do or something unnecessary or sinister or calculated.
― Alshipleyan Goalpostmover (some dude), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
simply as a performance and not a publicity stunt.
these things are not distinct/separate
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
lol xp to some dude
but but MAYBE the apology was the ultimate provocation, makes u think
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
it IS kind of a way to disappoint both sides of the argument
― Alshipleyan Goalpostmover (some dude), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
Did she actually apologize? I know the NFL and NBC did, but I can't find an apology from M.I.A. herself (not even a "I'm sorry you found the gesture offensive" dealie).
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link