MIA

shes actually sort of like the female brit-asian 50 cent isnt she? cleverly playing on various familiar ethnic poverty tropes that people like.

Find me someone successful, in any field, who isn't good at selling their hard childhood. You hear the I-clawed-my-way-up-from-nothing narrative everywhere: business, journalism, art, movies, music.

every successful person is "a bit try hard" iirc

i blame hollywood

i blame physics

its a good story though

my dad tells a similiar story

part fact (he def wasnt rich), part fiction (his dad had a small business), and he def was pretty poor when he arrived in london

but we still tell him he over exaggerates it

its fun

what kind of fries does he eat

he doesnt.

hes an outsider.

She isn't even that successful - one big hit in the US and only one top 40 hit AT ALL in the UK. Paper Planes aside, how many records has she actually sold? It seems to be de facto accepted that she's a massive pop star when she isn't really, and this album could well flop.

You just gotta wonder if her now-posh life and super successful music career has anything to do with her marrying the son of Edgar Bronfman, Jr. the CEO of Warner Music Group.

otoh most people we know have MIA mp3s xp

I guess being on the Grammy's is a step up to success?

It didn't help Edgar Jr. much with HIS band, eh?

Developing-world bling is stuff like heavy gold jewelry, Cazals, dyed hair, WAH! Nails, Kente cloth, flags incorporated into designs, graffiti and fluoro trainers, all mixed up together. It's a bit like being dragged through Ridley Road market backwards.

uh I mean Ben! Point stands.

zzzzzz wake me when this chick marries a sri lankan and beats up the dude from PM dawn

shes actually sort of like the female brit-asian 50 cent isnt she? cleverly playing on various familiar ethnic poverty tropes that people like.

― truffle-flavoured french fry (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, June 1, 2010 10:34 AM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

unperson, all is forgiven

zzzzzz wake me when this chick marries a sri lankan and beats up the dude from PM dawn

Would you settle for MIA swinging from the girders at the MTV Music Awards while Gaga accepts an award and says "this is what pop music is about?"

it's a deal!

shes actually sort of like the female brit-asian 50 cent isnt she? cleverly playing on various familiar ethnic poverty tropes that people like.

― truffle-flavoured french fry (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, June 1, 2010 10:34 AM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha 50 Cent is so canny he actually went so far as to actually grow up in poverty, what a po-mo trickster

He was playing a long con.

m.i.a. went to the same primary school as me!

like 8 years before me though obvv

she's incredibly successful at selling truffle fries. I looked for some this weekend and couldn't find any :(

― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, June 1, 2010 10:30 AM (1 hour ago)

poll: how many ILXORs spent their weekend looking for truffle fries & were you successful or not?

I didn't but I made a mental note when I read this article that was linked on the NYT q&a thread:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw/2011906512_pacificpfoodhunt30.html

the author mentions that he was able to buy truffle oil for $3 with food stamps. so it can't be that hoity-toity after all!

Maybe truffle oil and Smirnoff Ice are both running the ultimate in viral campaigns right now.

BROS TRUFFLING BROS

u kno what's up

*sees dog with bottle of truffle oil tied to back* aw man, I totally gotta drizzle truffle oil all over these fries now :/

BROS TRUFFLING BROS

A++

dogs are the new pack mules

"haha 50 Cent is so canny he actually went so far as to actually grow up in poverty, what a po-mo trickster"

oh so youre saying mia didnt? classist.

I know nothing of MIA outside of the Aziz Ansari Tamil joke. Is there more Ansari/MIA material around?

Lex can settle this by telling us what his primary school was like xp. Eton feeder or borderline borstal?

So much for truffle fries, I'm just worried '/\/\/\Y/\' will the rubbish.

gah 'the rubbish'....the point is we could all use another great album from her.

we could all use another great album from anyone

Your monogram seems like it should be a wrestling federation logo.

or you could add weezer wings to the Ws

It's not rubbish but it has problems that the first two didn't. Can't really say any more than that on a public forum. Because the CIA are watching me.

Stay in camera view please.

FREEZE!!! and DROP THE TRUFFLED FRY!!!!!!!!!!

Back away slowly from the truffle. Slowly..............

xpost glad to hear it's not a disaster...even the finest albums can have 'problems'. But is there anything which just makes you go "WOW" like on the first two (see: Galang, BDG, Bird Flu, Paper Planes)?

In fact see the vast majority of both LPs IMHO.

Tell Me Why, as mentioned in the Hirschberg piece, is pretty wow.

Tell me why
Ain't nothin' but a heartache
Tell me why
Ain't nothin' but a mistake
Tell me why
I never wanna hear you say
I want it that way

cause I
want
it
that
a-way

is it hard to make arrangements with yourself
when you're old enough to repay
but young enough to eat truffle fries

i usually think its hilarious when writers go into great detail about what a band is eating like it reveals some secret truth.

would be cool if it was revealed that MIA ate BACON wrapped in BACON

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