MIA

I know it's good for lolz to discuss her life but I still don't know what makes her any more a liar and scamp than any other ambitious rock artiste.

the olive bread.

dude, stop: I haven't had dinner.

has gaga responded to any of these jabs? would love to see the beef escalate.

Disagree. I hope Gaga has more class than that.

does she take her fries with truffle oil then?

my god i really want to try that now

Disagree. I hope Gaga has more class than that.

lol more like Gaga's probably smart enough to know that not responding will make her look like the bigger star/better person and increase her cachet

your move, gaga. your move.

Gaga won't bite, she's had MONTHS and hasn't responded to Grace Jones beef, so...

JD, not my experience as such - I was away at college when it happened - but anyone who'd fuck over Lori B is a creep for realz.

move gaga move

assuming gagalang jokes have been made already

i would think that the fact that she actually sells some records would be the thing that makes gaga the bigger star but what do i know

lol @CourtneyLoveUK is now all "got ur back sister" on the Twitters

how mean is the actual nyt piece?

i was trying to make some kinda jethro tull gagalung joke then i was all wtf am i doing w.my life

how mean is the actual nyt piece?

it's really kind of subtly mean - Joan Didion would have written the definitive dismissal around the same issues I think but this one isn't so confident

she just kinda sits back and waits for maya to contradict herself. it is mean, no doubt.

Didion is subtler about balancing disdain and admiration.

I don't know if this NYT piece is quite in control of its effects.

to the extent that we can even conceive of an ink-stained wretch as "mean" to a billionaire-by-marriage international pop star, i suppose the piece has done its job

MIA would never call a 13 year old on the ellen show and tell him to follow his dreams... mores the pity...

she has all this press to actually get across a legimate pov of tamil and just come up looking like hipster lolzzz and i have met 20 something girls with fringes who consider her their RATM.

+ that pic up there of the fries etc is how her new tracks makes me feel.

xpost like, "meanness" requires a certain power imbalance to be perceived as such

she has all this press to actually get across a legimate pov of tamil

is this her obligation? Serious question. I guess we're entering much-trod terrain here: how coherently do we expect artists to discuss politics when most of them just exploit?

if the objective of the piece is to signal to the world outside of ILX that This Is Not A Serious Person, i'd take ILX discussion of "meanness" as an index of its effectiveness in that project

i just re-read the courtney love piece, and this seems meaner than that.

except that had accusations of actual harmful shit

Didion is subtler about balancing disdain and admiration.

I would sub "awe" for admiration, but yeah - Didion gives respect to those qualities which she could not begin to imagine in herself; it is one of her most towering strengths as a writer; a monster, for her, is that which she understands but is only willing to judge with reservations most of the time

and yeah obv as a stylist there is nobody living within a hundred yards of Didion

aerosmith, I miss you.

^^^real talk re: Didion

bringing up Didion is sorta not fair to other writers

alfred I miss you too - mixed a delightful gin drink tonight and thought "man, Lord Sotosyn would appreciate this, I bet"

i would think that the fact that she actually sells some records would be the thing that makes gaga the bigger star but what do i know

Real talk.

And make her more, shall we say, circumspect.

Naw dude, she doesn't have a cock, didn't you hear.

it's pretty obvious from Shakey's post that he meant more Gaga not responding makes her look more dignified and not that he actually thinks there's a question of who's the bigger star, but y'know why get in the way of any excuse for a zing

I think we all know what M.I.A. has to do now (A: do an interview with John Mayer)

She's turning 35 years old in a month, FWIW.

This article is hilarious, and depressing. But M.I.A. has *always* been full of shit and shitty contradictions - and with the really basic stuff ("Kate Moss in ads for mascara / Don't sell out to be product pushers!" --> M.I.A. is the new face of Marc Jacobs within weeks!). None of this should be particularly surprising.

Oh, and Costa Gavras' son seems like a champ, too.

I basically like MIA's music, but yeahhhhh, the fact that she acts literally half her age is pretty damning

http://blogs.bellinghamherald.com/media/users/zoe/madonna.JPG

I dunno, big difference between madonna's 'act like I'm a hot 24 year old even though I'm 79' and 'act like I'm a bratty 18 year old even though I'm 35'

I guess "act like I've got hot 23-year-old body tone when I'm 50" is more repellent to my sense of dignity than a youngish woman whose politics and "worldview" are as disorderly as everyone else's.

eh I'm fine w/ her shitty politics (what musician has good politics? uh...)

alfred otm

at least I can look at a pic of m.i.a. without recoiling in horror

Ted Nugent is pretty consistent iirc xpost

she has all this press to actually get across a legimate pov of tamil

is this her obligation? Serious question. I guess we're entering much-trod terrain here: how coherently do we expect artists to discuss politics when most of them just exploit?

― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, May 27, 2010 7:39 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this would totally be a cogent argument if she didn't deliberately and repeatedly make it a huge part of her image to be explaining her home country's issues to the western world. i mean you can shrug 'yo musicians are not usually v nuanced re: politics' but she's been depicted, by herself and the media, as a little more engaged and knowledgeable than your average bono wannabe.

But that's the media's fault. What makes her music compelling to me is the degree to which she's able to marry agitprop to "1999." This will inevitably produce some uncomfortable, embarrassing moments.

huh? why is it the media's fault?

But that's the media's fault.

blaming the press for her ridiculousness is sort of a cop-out

yeah, sorry, mayas image is as much her fault as it is the medias