MIA

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

Yes.

i guess personally for me MIA wouldnt need to be so subtle and measured if she was atually more "authentic" bc her voice would feel like a "genuine voice of the oppressed" but when she is some rich broad getting a boner for terrorist dudes w/ hot nikes and watching utube in beverly hills not so much, i know that makes me an asshole but whatevs

this kind of shit is better than the music

ppl get defensive & butthurt when other ppl say things about them that are true but they've been denying to themselves -- sorry mia

mia is a dumbass but i would totes bang the fuck out of her to cnn

it is kind of amazing, though, how she is saying all kinds of fantastically stupid shit and still manages to come across as being more pleasant to be around that Diplo

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

I think they are talking about MIA's house in Beverly Hills, not the Exile house.

diplos is bitters

Because she comes across as naive and clueless, whereas Diplo is just an asshole.

xxp

During her interview for the school, Maya says, she told the admissions officer that if he didn’t accept her application, she would become a prostitute or a crackhead or the best criminal in the world. “I said to him, ‘Don’t make me do it,’ ” she says now, smiling. “ ‘If you don’t let me in, there’s only one option: I become a hooker.’ He said, ‘That is emotional blackmail.’ It might have been, but I couldn’t stand that one person had that much power over my life, that if he said yes or no, it would change everything.”

this is fucking outstanding, though

mia is a dumbass but i would totes bang the fuck out of her to cnn

^^^just fyi this is the part that makes you an asshole, not the other stuff

i guess personally for me MIA wouldnt need to be so subtle and measured if she was atually more "authentic" bc her voice would feel like a "genuine voice of the oppressed" but when she is some rich broad getting a boner for terrorist dudes w/ hot nikes and watching utube in beverly hills not so much, i know that makes me an asshole but whatevs

who gives a fuck about her biography except us dickheads on ILE?

In 2003, Maya turned up here and said, ‘I heard you’ve been looking for me,’ ” Russell told me when I went to see him. “She decided that we were going to put out her music. And since Maya is able to will the universe and is an obvious force of nature, I found myself saying yes.”

hahahahaha

jokes shakey

for one thing

http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Science/Images/gay-pride-parade-toronto.jpg

lolololol

sorry

its okay im at peace w/ it u kno

brb, sudden urge to buy a six-pack

of truffle oil?

truffle oil would def. complete the above pic. for me

and the winner of the most creative use of truffle oil award goes to...plax(ico)

I have to say, it's kind of amusing how some of the excerpts are way less jarring/idiotic etc in the context of the piece.

I dunno. The quotes are way more amusing out of context.

I read the piece yesterday and thought, "Oh, she's become `unpredictable' in that boring star way."

Like, for example, the Blackwater thing; it's pretty clear she's talking about appropriating a specific style and applying it to a different function from the flow of the piece, yet the narration tries to subvert the story its telling by editorializing about how the idea doesn't make any sense when it actually does.

the few people who court controversy these days seem to be trying way too hard in my opinion

either that or we've all been paying attention to this sort of thing so long that it'd take a totally loose cannon to really get my attention

wtf is up with that twitter? isnt she like 35?
― kumar the bavarian, Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:09 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this. is she straining to sound youthful? her twitters (tweets? whatever.) read like those of a preteenager.

the olive bread and truffle fry lines are cheap shots, but there's way more than enough in that article, anyhow, to out her as a callow poseur. but we all knew that already.

did we

wasn't till i learned about her bread prefs that i could comfortably 'call it'

a callow poseur on the pop charts?!? say it ain't so

how I long for the authentic pop stars of yore, yr Puffys, yr Lady GaGas, yr Lil Waynes...

Those guys are all FAKES, it's all about Miley and Selena and Biebs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

so shakey is your point that this isn't even worth discussing because she's "pop" iyo?

I think it isn't worth talking about because everyone who cares has already made up their mind one way or the other and is violently disdainful of the people who disagree with them.

In a lot of ways, she has succeeded admirably in being a reflection of 2K politics.

I think talking about whether or not she's "authentic" is a total waste of time, as it is with any artist.

xp

i guess i have more issues with her being 32 & acting like she's 19 than her trumping up her dad's terrorist past

I thought part of the point of being an artist was that you didn't have to grow up.

it would be a lot less fun to poke holes in her image if she didnt come across as such an unpleasant person

that quietus hit piece on florence and the machine seemed so cheap because florence came across as basically a nice lady, if a little simple

this just seems like two unpleasant people spent some time together and the unpleasant person who is the writer got the last word

actually i dont know that lynn herschberg is an unpleasant person

she certainly hold musicians to high standards of political sophistication though

lynn hirschberg sounds awesome imo, would definitely love to sip martinis w/ lynn as long as she's not like writing a piece abt how i'm a massive asshole w/ bad table manners

careful what bread u choose

jesus, i hope she never writes a story about me -- because i AM a massive asshole w/ bad table manners

ill take the olive, but i'll be really ironic and knowing abt it, she'd be into that i think

i tend to like snipey bitchy girls more than i like strident contrarian girls so

man, if my bread basket habits were documented you guys would be aghast.

lots of scratching?

it would be a lot less fun to poke holes in her image if she didnt come across as such an unpleasant person

― max, Thursday, May 27, 2010 3:28 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is very obv otm