MIA

and pull up the people is awesome

I don't understand why it is important for MIA to have a complex persona to be entertaining when it isn't a requirement for anyone else.

i dunno there are lost of 1-dimensional personas i find offputting dan ... this isnt a double standard. i.e. Drake/Rick Ross/etc etc (& i mean i like some rick ross songs but i certainly dont think hes deserving of like critical rap nerd hosannas either)

*lots

i think m.i.a.'s got a great voice, and more often than not it totally rescues her songs from their shallowness

'My BLAOW BLAOW don't want BLAOW you got CLICK, CHA-CHING!'

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maybe it's a sheryl crow reference???

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Yeah, M.I.A. does have a great voice, I agree lex, but in this entire thread, I wish we could combine contenderizer's posts with tipsy mothra's, and then there would be pretty much no need to argue any more.

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/photographs/hro/1cd21324.jpg

ha

won't uploaders just call it Maya?

so obvious when u think about it

egg all over carles's face

that's not egg

this is the next search result after Y!Finance, lol

/y/ - Yaoi
y/ is 4chan's imageboard for posting yaoi hentai images.
boards.4chan.org/y/

should've named the album MA/Y/AOI

AOI: POLEMIX

Just wanted to jump in here to say that MIA is one annoying, self-important person. Thank you.

did she really say "i could afford to have you killed now" ?

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/05/mia.html

the bit about her father is iiiiinteresting

Unity holds no allure for Maya — she thrives on conflict, real or imagined. “I kind of want to be an outsider,” she said, eating a truffle-flavored French fry.

...is the money line, I think.

haha yeah i just picked that out too. the original piece is fantastically written.

Just heard XXXO for the first time. Ropey as fuck. Having heard three new songs now I'm not optimistic about the new album at all. Feels like MIA's been told she's an Important Artist so often she's lost sight of what made her good in the first place.

A song with even a half-decent beat would be nice for starters.

oh, comeback

http://twitter.com/_M_I_A_/status/14841407386

who?

MIKE JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWNS

MIKE JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWNS

new york times wrote an article saying mia was a bit of a ninny; mia responds by posting the journo's contact deets

that's the journalist's number and not her own?

call and find out!

yeah, what?

I just tried. It's a full mailbox under the journalist's name. That's a proper dick move.

really doe

woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

Actually I think the journalist is being a bit of a dick for having a go at MIA for - shock horror - moving to a neighbourhood full of rich white people like she's the only non-white pop star ever to have done that. And the bit about her having the temerity not to have a water birth is lame.

The bit about the politics is superb.

We should campaign for a Suggest Ban button on Twitter.

wow. classy

looool

if i was lynn hirschberg i'd just be like, told ya she was a dick.

An MIA/Wiley Twitter beef would honestly be the best thing of all time.

hirschberg's pretty infamous for these kinds of takedowns by now right? seems like celebs would avoid her like the plague.

wtf is up with that twitter? isnt she like 35?

has mia really been called out that much for her idiocy? most of the media reaction has been unthinking "ooh controversial" which is exactly what she wants, i doubt she's used to someone cutting through the BS. i know hirschberg did a takedown of courtney love, who else?

xp yeah early 30s i think

hirschberg's pretty infamous for these kinds of takedowns by now right? seems like celebs would avoid her like the plague.

otm. she did that David O. Russell piece right? or wait, no, that was Sharon Waxman.

isn't david o. russell a fuckin' maniac basically?

total bullshit to give out somebody's phone number in response to getting press you didn't like imo

if you don't want people to write what they think about it, stay out of the music biz imo, I may be mr. whiny baby about politics & stuff but you don't hear me complaining about bad reviews, that's kids' stuff imo

Feels like MIA's been told she's an Important Artist so often she's lost sight of what made her good in the first place.

Her music is obviously great but this interview looks to be pretty rough for her. It's hard to be a convincing revolutionary when you're engaged to the son of the Seagram owner.

The NYT article is kinda hilarious:

Unity holds no allure for Maya — she thrives on conflict, real or imagined. “I kind of want to be an outsider,” she said, eating a truffle-flavored French fry.

What Maya wants is nearly impossible to achieve: she wants to balance outrageous political statements with a luxe lifestyle; to be supersuccessful yet remain controversial; for style to merge with substance. “If you want to be huge, you have to give up a lot,” Michelle Jubelirer, Maya’s longtime lawyer, told me. “Maya vacillates between wanting to be huge and maintaining her artistic integrity. That’s her dilemma.”

you don't hear me complaining about bad reviews

goes beyond bad review, more like her LIFE gets a bad review

but yes the phone # thing is so juvenile

and the NYT article is hilarious

Is this even legal?

_M_I_A_

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i will get some truffle fries and listen