MIA

i don't even know what Pitchfork Media is

get the hell out of our store please!

http://i47.tinypic.com/200sksn.gif

irl hearty lols

everything's coming together.

http://www.picpop.com/gallery/albums/userpics/1-14-05/thumb_ashlee-simpson.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x_-IoeSB-A

I have no idea what's been going on in this thread for the past week or so... fucking gossip about MIA's diet? Yeah, she eats truffle fries when she isnt sticking her foot in her mouth. Get ready to have your mind blown!

i support the idea that they create a special beef tumblr where they can post any back-and-forths when they're feeling the urge (and make it accessible only by password (and then give nobody else the password)).

― unfinest states of america (some dude)

So yeah, we pretend this all never happened and start a new thread when the album leaks, right?

beef delivers

So yeah, we pretend this all never happened and start a new thread when the album leaks, right?

― Matt DC, Thursday, June 3, 2010 1:55 AM Bookmark

^^this

and when michaela grobelny releases a new album we can use this thread for the artist it was actually intended for

I think that would be selling her short, saddling her with this.

Genuine curiosity: is MIA a vegetarian?

genuine, childlike curiosity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5whaRkuipU

correction 2 article: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2010/06/lynn_hirschberg_2.php

hate the hirschberg not the game. or something. she should get fired. she does this stuff too much. editing and mix and matching are two very different things.

mixing and matching quotes anyway.

collage culture

and she ordered the food! entrapment via truffle fries.

I think it's safe to say that MIA has won this round.

bet stephen glass is wondering if people just didn't like his face

I think it's safe to say that MIA has won this round.

in a highly entertaining way too

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Let's hope the album itself can cause as much fuss and passionate discussion as this.

MIA's rep may be better than hirschberg's, but this article probably still did plenty to negatively affect the CW on her.

Not that a backlash wasn't already imminent, but this was probably the biggest platform to slam her yet.

MIA's rep may be better than hirschberg's

^I dont know if this is the case. On my scale, taking some liberties with journalistic license is nowhere near as bad as the juvenile romanticizing of terrorists, lying and basically making a complete ass of yourself.

you have weird standards Bill, esp in a case like this where the former is complicit in the construction of the latter

like, at least partly the reason you think MIA indulges in "juvenile romanticizing of terrorists, lying and basically making a complete ass of yourself" is because of Hirschberg "taking some liberties with journalistic license". would think this is self-evident.

except hirschberg is a journalist whereas mia is not a politician xp

"MIA's rep may be better than hirschberg's, but this article probably still did plenty to negatively affect the CW on her"

Really? I think the article basically appealed to people like Bill who've already made up their minds about what kind of person they think MIA is.

it can be a really difficult and delicate science to arrange quotes from an interview into a coherent statement that works on paper (that goes for the hiccups and subtleties of IRL conversation with anyone, not just someone like M.I.A. who can be, well, kind of incoherent). ultimately you almost HAVE to jumble the order of what was said, but you should still use endquotes and ellipses and such to denote where you're omitting or rearranging stuff. i get the feeling that bigger publications are almost more likely to play fast and loose with that stuff, though, especially when it comes time to find a concise pullquote or headline.

the ppl who buy her records -- myself included -- will care much more about the music than all this noise, tbh

u rly "buy" "records"?

yeah dogg

I cant imagine that's the case. Just cuz she didnt order the goddamn truffle fries doesntthe rest of the article doesnt contain some truth about MIA's character.

xxpost to Collier

at a record store O_O sometimes

mia's been saying retarded shit for abt 5 years now

nyt has to include corrections so u think the rest of it is true (hat tip to whoever came up with this gag)

ppl cut & paste quotes all the time, and most don't use ellipses or square brackets. you just have to do it in good faith.

I think the article basically appealed to people like Bill who've already made up their minds about what kind of person they think MIA is.

^ no, quite frankly, i never really gave a shit before, and will continue not to give a shit now. The article discusses visa problems, let's hope she continues to have them.

Wary about music/press-surrounding-the music fight but sometimes I feel her music wouldn't hit the way it does, if she wasn't this way as a person. Pop music is about the whole package.

The article discusses visa problems, let's hope she continues to have them.

You certainly sound like someone who doesn't give a shit either way. She may be full of shit but she has some of the lamest haters of any artist I can think of.

there are better ways of not giving a shit about something than getting in arguments on msg boards about that something

xpost hah supposedly visa problems inspired the enduring single Paper Planes. I agree, in a way.

mia has dumm opinions? god she should totally have her passport shredded

Bill has said what, 5 things on this thread? (Granted most of them were really stupid but that's as unsurprising as M.I.A. saying stupid stuff about terrorism.)

the ppl who buy her records -- myself included -- will care much more about the music than all this noise, tbh

true (and the article's biggest fans are obviously people who wanted MIA to suffer a hatchet job), but if she comes out with something that doesn't immediately grab the audience, people would be more apt to give it the benefit of the doubt if her rep is of forward-thinking, politically-minded dance floor genius than pretentious rich dipshit who stumbled into the good graces of Diplo and some record company dudes. and this is easily the highest profile interview she's given.

M.I.A. should come out with a solo voice + acoustic guitar album in 2015. Protest songs!