Thanks, M.I.A.!

(notable exception of Bad Girls of course)

Matangi was pretty great. This must be better than AIM. I look forward

Matangi rules

-YOU'VE CHANGED, MIA; YOU USED TO BE COOL.
-NO, I WASN’T!

I mean the first time I heard of her it was because she was because she was throwing around tamil tigers imagery

To listen to her is to make peace with the fact that she says fucked up things and is irresponsible

She's the original Azealia Banks

Even her, like, dissociated drawly delivery suggests profound irresponsibility. Chaos is the brand.

A very problematic idea of “cool” for sure, as ilx discussed at length in like 2006 or something

She cites the example of the movement to defund the police in the US, suggesting that this will cause poverty and hardship. “Even [with] the police force, who we’re supposed to not like, you had people losing their livelihoods and losing their jobs and can’t pay rent, families losing their houses because they’re threatened with this choice of following orders or not following orders,” she says. “That is actually really happening on our doorstep, like this is not happening in Sri Lanka, this is happening in the west, this is happening in your neighbourhood.”

Wow beep is good

https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2022/oct/14/mia-on-vaccines-vindication-and-her-visions-of-jesus-people-fear-me-for-some-reason

Lol at the spinning vaporwave crucifix as the spotify graphic

Lol Jordan is right KTP is so tryhard it’s almost gross.

I’ll admit it’s pretty enjoyable but it feels like a case of too little too late for her.

The whole album not the paper planes copy.

I can't and won't listen to this.

I agree with the consensus, it's a good M.I.A. record with some classic M.I.A. bangers. Sometimes too obvious or redundant, but at least there's no track called "Lab Leak Theory" or anything. My son actually put it on in the car this morning, I wasn't even aware it was out. It's funny, he loved M.I.A. and "Bird Flu" in particular when he was like 3. But he's only recently circled back around to her, he thinks she's interesting. We both thought it was pretty good.

OH GOOD.

Grimes & M.I.A. talk spirituality, cryptocurrency, politics and more in new interview

(Honestly, the thing that bugs me the most is that the headline contains both an ampersand and the word "and" typed out. Pick one.)

It's a pity this album is, as tipsy pointed out, good, her best since 2010 even when "Keep the Peace" bites "Paper Planes" hard.

billionaire trophy partners how can you not click

ok I'll listen to this. if you're going to be a psycho with awful political opinions, at least make good music

Delightfully surprised to like most of this. Plenty to like for those who fell in love with Kala.

Yeah it’s good, very surpo

Lol surprised, thanks fat thumbs

in the old days "surpo" would be accepted into the lexicon by morning

The AFC and NFC champions play in the Superbo

Her music has always been good. She would have been a perfect celeb in the days before all artists had their opinions broadcast across the world.

So the 1920s?

stravinsky had some dogshit views too

I'm sure the album is fine I might get round to listening to it in a couple of years

She would've made for a great medieval troubadour, travelling from town to town spreading the word on innovative leech treatments.

Also AIM was bad

I finally got around to listening to this, on first listen it's not bad, much better than AIM, but still nowhere near her first four albums. I'll probably listen to it again in a couple of weeks.

Here’s a scary picture for halloween.

❤️#Freespeech @RealCandaceO pic.twitter.com/9dMhMQjSmP

— M.I.A. (@MIAuniverse) October 30, 2022

Uh oh, Candace Owen may be a bridge too far. That's how you know the brain worms have taken full control.

She is amazingly stupid

MIA coming off a little dense too tbh

Now I don’t feel badly about not buying the new album

Yeah, some things you can just give a miss on.

you don't call it a scary picture if you're being dense or naive about it

how many people know who owens is and don't know what she's about

remember the anti-blm stuff

CO doesn't care about palestinian lives either so clearly that wasn't MIA's real problem with it

tbh M.I.A.'s shtick/persona has always been this amoral global hustler, and Candace Owens is that.

tbh M.I.A.'s shtick/persona has always been this amoral global hustler, and Candace Owens is that.

Nah, if that was the case she'd be posing for pictures with Gary Vaynerchuck. Candace Owens may be a grifter, but her specific grift is reactionary politics and grudge warfare. By positioning herself with Owens, M.I.A. is branding herself as a reactionary culture-war asshole, full stop.

Yeah “global hustler” sure but “amoral” no way, her personal has always been founded on scolding “ARE YOU EVEN AWARE THAT” lectures delivered from a perceived moral high ground.

what a scam artist shes always been

Candace Owens seems to be going after artists who debuted in 2004

Watch out Joanna Newsom

the ultimate empty posturing coward, not that her bonafides in standing up for the downtrodden ever felt real to me but it's so much easier to step aside, say nothing, and just #freespeech her way thru social media.

#trenchantsocialcommentary

From what I can tell she’s in her “I was cancelled for speaking the truth about vaccines” phase

ooh, maybe she can do a collab with all those punk dudes who got kicked out of their bands for being anti-vaxx!

She, Azealia Banks and Nicki Minaj should tour together.

azealia banks is a delusional conspiracy theorist but she wasn't antivax (supposedly she wrote on instagram “I got vaccinated in April in Miami, and got my second shot in May in NYC. .... just because I like to share my sometimes stupid opinions doesn’t mean that I’m ACTUALLY an idiot.”)

idk m.i.a. turning out like this isn't remotely surprising to me. i mean come on, remember maya? and around that time anytime she'd face the slightest setback (e.g. having certain uploads of the "born free" video 'banned' age-restricted) she'd go directly into they're-out-to-get-me mode on her social media

couldn't resist checking a Tim Pool video. Yeah it's pretty same ol for her.

Apparently she saw Jesus on the "Borders" video shoot. And he said, all your singles after this are gonna suck.

M.I.A. sporting an "anti-EMF" poncho from her clothing line on Alex Jones' show:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GP4IpFGWAAAyfai.jpg

She also apparently modeled an anti-EMF hat:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GP4KMkxXQAA3f5b.jpg

so dumb

so unbelievable (oohh)

azealia banks is a delusional conspiracy theorist but she wasn't antivax

lol fair. Was just thinking about their general trolling tendencies. Sad day when arguably my favorite artist of the '00s is reduced to "crazier than Azealia Banks."

What is an anti-EMF poncho (and can we eat it)?

it's unbelievable

EMF is electromagnetic fields.

Per Wikipedia:

Electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) is a claimed sensitivity to electromagnetic fields, to which negative symptoms are attributed. EHS has no scientific basis and is not a recognized medical diagnosis, although it is generally accepted that the experience of EHS symptoms is of psychosomatic origin.

A tinfoil bucket hat

lmao this is so dumb

Debuting my fall line of Infowears

lmao "Infowears"

First Chuck McGill now M.I.A.

Truly the Grimes of the GWBush era

Surely to truly shield yourself you'd need to cover your entire body, like an astronaut suit or something? You'd still be quite exposed if just your hat and poncho were shielded, I'd think.

lol @ 'ohmni'