MIA

I mean, I know it's beyond cliche to say something is very "Nathan Barley," but M.I.A. just said "The record kind of goes to different places. A bit emo... and a bit digital ruckus. Moshpit. It's kind of... muzak. It's infotainment."

It's infotainment.

So Dan was quite literally right with the KRS-One comparison upthread, then.

do you think she's going to get krs one in to do a guest spot?

oops snap ned

i read the new york times article. it's easy to see it's a biased piece, but i'd also say it's likely more truthful and insightful than MIA ever will be.

Every story is biased.

It makes life more fun.

KRS-1 is a great comparison.

krs made awesome music for like a good dozen years or so

jus sayin

MIA has made some good songs over the past few years as well.

if MIA = KRS, i "can't wait" for 10 years from now

ughsiguhfiguhrfuh i know im not known for being an MIA fan so u might disregard this but KRS's career shits all over MIA's

you could say that, these days, they are both sounding a bit batshit & politically self righteous but thats about where the comparisons end

• both love truffle fries

KRS's career shits all over MIA's

...this and more in this month's issue of "NO DOY" magazine!

*both wear dayglo spandex

oh hey whineys back

http://yepyep.gibbs12.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/kool.gif

Oh Lord.

that interview is very spinal tap in the way. it just. sort of. strings. random. words. together? with. ODD. inFLECTions. in the HOPES. that. something. interESTing. willcomeout.

http://www.nme.com/news/mia/51302

She added: "Everyone on the internet is like, 'Oh my God, come and join Facebook!' They’re all so optimistic… and really, everyone is fucking you up behind the screens. And I don't like that. It makes it difficult for me to interact with my fans knowing that. Google and Facebook were developed by the CIA, and when you're on there, you have to know that."

Amazing. She really is turning into the female Bobby Gillespie.

nice gif xps

mia is clever but obv a complete fantasist

of course not all pop stars shd be like that but it helps that a few are

i find this woman annoying. the nyt piece isnt the best, its pretty obvious in how it wants to slyly show her up, but mia does talk a lot of complete shit. its so baiting. reeks of desperation to agitate and cause a fuss. she might have not had much back in hounslow, though ive a feeling it was more than she perhaps let on (the whole 'started from nothing' thing obv has a real attraction for her, prob from years of listening to hip hop), but now shes basically just a rich girl, living a pretty privileged existence, with some class guilt issues, a few dozen immature axes to grind (though this makes for good music, less good political interview quotes), and a rich white husband (funny how all her talk of 'IM FROM THERE I KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE IM REAL IM REAL IM REAL' she hasnt married someone sri lankan or FROM THE STRUGGLE.

"On several tracks, Maya even sings."

thats not new.

(this might have been commented on already)

xpost - it seems ben brofman is mixed race, though my point still stands.

the turnaround from "untouchable rock critic golden child" to "hilarious, unlikeable retard" took only six years. Good job everyone!

how long did it take you again?

(haha i don't mean that at all, but the set-up was too good)

damn stole my joke

i'm just saying, her politics were vague and her interview quotes were nonsense in 2005, when this place was a virtual m.i.a. fan club

xpost - it seems ben brofman is mixed race, though my point still stands.

So, marrying a white person would make her less "real"?

Agree, that's bollocks. You're right about the rest though, and I suspect she's actually quite posh herself.

no i said that for all her talk of embracing the struggle youd think shed move in with some dude living in the middle of port au prince or dharavi.

who gives a shit jaypeg

she does mislead americans slightly about life in the hounslow 'projects' i think but none of this stuff matters

she didn't say she'd embrace the struggle with her vagina or anything

and diplos point about paper planes being a piss take of americas gangster-love was a bit lol - she loves that shit herself, blatantly, just like a million other kids of all classes do/did in london and around the world. she talks all this stuff up as being a critique but its also a celebration (which admittedly is prob what keeps me checking for her music), a lot of the stuff she says like when she talks about being a hooker or pregnant if she didnt get into art college sounds like she WISHES those were the possible outcomes she might have been faced with. but idk, as a fellow lower mid-class person of around the same age as maya, i dont imagine it being quite that bad. hounslow ISNT a rich area, not by any stretch, i lived there for a few years, but its not a complete hellhole either, its just a bit of a dump (like lots of places where white people have largely moved out of) around london where people are largely trying/struggling to get by. but unless its changed massively since i was last there, i dont think its crime infested or riven with dealers or anything.

"she didn't say she'd embrace the struggle with her vagina or anything"

all struggles begin and end with the vagina.

now you're really projecting

that's so fucking sexist it's not even funny. "for all her talk of embracing the struggle, MIA hasn't even given herself over sexually to a freedom fighter!"

and racist too, don't forget

http://www.slippinn.co.nz/uploads/images/Logos/2%204%201%20Tuesday%20logo.jpg

oh god the vagina comment was obviously not serious.

that isn't what i'm talking about.

also classist

lamemism

http://www.1stchoicepools.co.uk/images/toys_3in1_250w.jpg

why does it have to be about 'giving herself sexually'? i didnt say she should sleep with an entire slum and make her their plaything did i?

but yes, i am a classist.

"hounslow ISNT a rich area, not by any stretch," he said, eating a truffle-flavoured french fry.

"chip"