MIA

just getting around to checking out the Vicki Leekx mixtape, which starts out very very well

Definitely liking the mixtape. It has a few weak spots, but very enjoyable overall.

after an interruption due to work (lol) I'm 6 minutes in and this is great

so yes, this is great

also great: "Internet Connection (Huoratron Rum Aid Remix)" (currently playable on Pitchfork)

once it all clicks in around the 2 minute mark... holy hell

"Space" is so pretty.

ugh why do people keep bumping this thread to talk about that m.i.a.? it's not like there's a shortage of threads that are actually about her.

You might want to complain to someone who cares.

you might want to start caring

it's like me going into any old random thread to talk about a completely different artist

Which I wouldn't have any problem with.

suspect you would, but anyway. michaela grobelny.

http://i2.kickasstorrents.com/artists/2288922.jpg

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/7178029/mia++sub+static.jpg

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/10520105/mia.jpg

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/7178097/mia++sub+static.jpg

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/24116155/mia++sub+static.jpg

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/29697735/mia++live+in+Portugal.jpg

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/7177993/mia++sub+static.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3078/2331096551_c84461bab2.jpg

http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/16/l_87cad90db0f848b454b08e64d159a78b.jpg

This is her, right?

http://www.behindthehype.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/mia420.jpg

boy, lex, that's really telling 'em...something

yea yea it's confusing that this thread started about one Mia and ended up about another, but like....that happened years ago, kind of weird to just start complaining about it now.

unless you're really dying to talk about german Mia right now.

ok not years ago more like a year ago, but geez who cares

Taking sides: M.I.A vs M.I.A vs M.I.A. vs MIA vs MIA vs Mia vs

i complained a year ago as well. just because you guys don't care about the german mia doesn't mean people who actually like her shouldn't care about her thread being hijacked? especially when there's NO SHORTAGE of m.i.a. threads to bump - why the FUCK would anyone choose this one?

otm

and thread bombing was the best way to respond? i'm sure a mod request to split the thread is possible, it's been done before (re: the opening of The-Dream Love King thread originated elsewhere iirc).

posying a few images of the artist whose thread this is, is WAY less obnoxious than the multiple posters who've just gone "don't give a shit" about hijacking it

*posting

lex otm itt

i actually suspect forks probably didn't notice at first when he revived a year ago, given the confusion between MIAs IN THE ORIGINAL THREAD

the thread had also been dormant for six years prior to its revive. the names are MIA and M.I.A., it's at least understandable, it's not like someone revived a Michael Jackson thread with posts on Hootie and the Blowfish

original intent of this thread seems a lost cause. the debate is now just comedy. i mean it's like 2990 maya poasts vs?

anyway, i've enjoyed vicky leakx. it's clearly something of a retrenchment, a reestablishment of her core sound, perhaps in response to negative reactions (and poor sales), but i've always liked MIA-sounding maya, so i'm cool with that. also seems pretty sketchy, experimentally defaced, and nothing jumps out as an obvious hit except maybe "let me hump you" & "bad girls", but i like basically every fragment on here. be interesting to see what survives to the next album, and in what form...

yeah but the appropriate response there is "oh sorry i'll take it to one of the MANY threads for m.i.a." not "tell it to someone who cares"

i guess i'll see forks in his tonetta thread, talking about toni braxton

not saying that a mod decision to somehow break this into two threads would be unwelcome. dunno that that's even possible, but there's a clear break before the recent revive...

i guess i'll see forks in his tonetta thread, talking about toni braxton

― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Wednesday, January 19, 2011 4:49 AM (24 seconds ago) Bookmark

can't imagine anyone who cares about tonetta not being pleased by this.

i'll post about anthony

xxpost the original thread had 14 posts and half of them were mistaking MIA for another MIA. Big fucking deal.

most of the other M.I.A. threads were either polls or album specific. I and the other ilxors sincerely apologize for preventing fans of the german Mia from resuming their conversation six years later and resuming their convo....well, nowhere, because nobody did.

best part is that those initial 14 posts consist almost entirely of an argument about which mia the thread properly concerns

yep.

are you incapable of posting in the other m.i.a. threads, seriously?

i've said my piece, lex. at this point, i'm just messing, and you're keeping the discussion alive as much as anyone else. nor is there anything preventing anyone of us from starting a nice, clean, new thread specifically and clearly devoted to whichever mia they're excited about. not telling you to go do that, mind. just casting about for options...

Michaela Grobelny was a very fine DJ when I saw her a few years ago, has anyone seen her play recently?

xpost jesus if it means that much to you, request the thread split, but idg what you're so up in arms about. It's not like M.I.A. fans intentionally jacked an active thread about someone completely different.

The thread had been dormant and inactive for six years, nobody was talking about the german MIA (hell, half the people in the ORIGINAL thread weren't talking about her), and forks revived it about the other M.I.A., which then generated 3,000 posts.

the other m.i.a. threads as I said are mostly about specific albums or polls where it wouldn't make sense. and also who in the hell is going to post to them now after the conversation has mostly been held here in the last year?

Can the MIA thread be 'split'

there, we can move on with our lives

Michaela Grobelny was a very fine DJ when I saw her a few years ago, has anyone seen her play recently?

i've never seen her dj ;_;

i thought she'd been quiet recently, but it seems she quietly released a couple of EPs last year, which i'm now gonna check out...

We were lucky enough to have her play twice in Brighton. From memory she played more techno-y than her records would suggest, almost Detroit-y at times. Also seemed to have a love of the party - dancing on the floor after he set, which is all too rare among DJs.

I find her very hit and miss on her releases but like you I haven't checked out the recent tracks yet…

MIA aka Michaela Grobelny

New thread from mods for German MIA containing the initial conversation from this thread.

FWIW I confine all of my M.I.A. talk to this thread because Lex uselessly rages about how it's the "wrong" thread even though it's not true, hasn't been true since the original 20 posts, and never will be true.

also lol @ claiming that confusing MIA and M.I.A. is the same as confusing Toni Braxton and Tonetta, who for one thing don't have the same name

Is it alright if I use this thread to talk about the hardcore band M.I.A.?