MIA

oppressed, even

o-pressed (ie, pressed until orgasm)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgKvtb_gq5E

"It's upsetting when babies say ga-ga now. It used to be innocent. Now, they're calling her name."

oh I dunno, I lol'd. what I take from that is that MIA is really paranoid/competitive with LGG and made a lame joke about it

yeah i think the yardstick is more her affinity for contradictory bullshit that borders on straight up lying and the fact that she is firmly of the school of say something that sounds challenging without worrying about what it actually means.

when has this woman ever played nice? all the Gaga references (lame and otherwise) are just a part of her whole rebel schtick. she's the contrarian's pop star...for better or for worse.

i mean also i don't think the problem is as much that she doesn't understand sri lanka as the way she exploits it and her personal connection to it.

but whatever my dislike of maya is on record all over the place so i'm done i think.

say something that sounds challenging without worrying about what it actually means.

welcome to pop music

no

blackwater has the best sportswear

^^^statement in the grand tradition of pop music there

anyway carles pretty much nails the whole thing so

Maya’s tirade, typical in the way it moved from the political to the personal and back again, was interrupted by a waiter, who offered her a variety of rolls. She chose the olive bread.

^ this line is kind of dumb tbh

SHE CHOSE THE OLIVE BREAD!

WRONG CHOICE.

lol

true revolutionaries choose wheat rolls

say something that sounds challenging without worrying about what it actually means.

could be said about the Beatles, Public Enemy, the Clash, the Sex Pistols (Anarchy in the UK anyone?), NWA/Cube, Ice-T, ad infinitum

galang galang pour salt on my mango

MIA as a female KRS-One does seem to be about right

Now I want some olive bread.

say something that sounds challenging without worrying about what it actually means.

welcome to pop music

Channeling Homer J Simpson's "Its just nonsense, like ramma-lamma-ding-dong, or give peace a chance!"

Shakey Mo is completely OTM.

That said I think pieces like Hirschberg's are also awesome. Esp. why they cause pop stars to freak out completely!

haha

Honestly, this article told me a lot more about Diplo than MIA, who I already knew was a shticky loudmouth married to a Bronfman.

I mean damn that guy must have some resentments

I also want to see the "UNEDITED VERSION"!

"My tirade, typical in the way it moved from the political to the personal and back again, was interrupted by a waiter, who offered me a variety of rolls. I chose the olive bread which was delicious. That vicious cunt Lynn chose some baguette thing which she picked at but didn't eat since she subsists on hate alone."

Do you like the music of M.I.A.? Do you listen to her lyrics, or do you just like the beat? The Times Magazine examines the politics of the Sri Lankan musician, who has been called a terrorist sympathizer by some. In general, do you pay attention to political messages in music? What musical artists past or present do you think have been particularly deft at getting across political messages?
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/what-can-you-learn-about-politics-from-pop-songs/

wait carles blogs for the ny times now?

ha

the "questions for later study" parts of carles' posts are so genius

bloggers sure do like to pretend to be interested in their readers' opinions to increase pageviews

"My tirade, typical in the way it moved from the political to the personal and back again, was interrupted by a waiter, who offered me a variety of rolls. I chose the olive bread which was delicious. That vicious cunt Lynn chose some baguette thing which she picked at but didn't eat since she subsists on hate alone."

A+ content, but you need to type like a dyslexic third grader to get the Authenticity Factor.

why does the writer say her fans don’t listen to the lyrics? Has she met them all?
And what does she have against french fries? These are trite comments.
— Kevin

"I mean damn that guy must have some resentments"

Yeah no kidding. Bitter bitter.

if I were hirshberg I'd change my outgoing voice mail message to this

lol

So there is going to be a Courtney/MIA collaboration track now, surely.

courtney will contribute her vocals via twitter

lol like Courtney would ever tolerate sharing the spotlight with another woman

Diplo said, “I made her sing.” He was a producer of her first album as well as “Paper Planes” and was also Maya’s boyfriend for several years. “Maya is a big pop star now, and pop stars sing,” he said. “For me, making this record wasn’t easy. In the past, we were a team. But Maya wanted to show us how much she didn’t need us. In the end, Maya is postmodern: she can’t really make music or art that well, but she’s better than anyone at putting crazy ideas into motion. She knows how to manipulate, how to withhold, how to get what she wants.”

this quote is nuts

u guys were saying diplo is bitter, not husband guy, right?

Diplo's always seemed like a dick to me

When Richard Russell, the head of XL Recordings, Maya’s British label, visited the house, he told her it reminded him of how the Rolling Stones recorded the classic album “Exile on Main St.” in a villa in the South of France in the ’70s. “I told Richard I felt so disconnected from the world I had known,” Maya recalled. “And he said, ‘The best music can come out of that.’ It was certainly different. I’d be writing lyrics upstairs, and Blaqstarr would be doodling downstairs, and I’d hear bass lines through the floorboards. I’d get inspired and leave the baby monitor on and go down to the studio. There is almost no cellphone reception at my house, and we couldn’t always find our land lines. It was easy to shut the outside world out. And I was making music for me again.”

lolololol waht

she’s better than anyone at putting crazy ideas into motion. She knows how to manipulate, how to withhold, how to get what she wants

"...now let me tell you about this Major Lazer guy I discovered."

I saw that too, and wondered who in France still has land lines.

xpost

Maybe she meant to say "land mines."

"...now let me tell you about this Major Lazer guy I discovered."

loooooooooooooool

u guys were saying diplo is bitter, not husband guy, right?

totally. sure the bronfman dude is a total bro

dude makes some mean truffle fries i heard