Thanks, M.I.A.!

The Tigers were not immediately available for comment.

Arise Dame M.I.A. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48545983

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jun/08/architect-of-hostile-environment-policy-named-in-honours-list?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

So this is why she accepted it and it's a bit of a surprise

https://www.instagram.com/p/BycvDUpBk4j/?igshid=ix5rq8enuzel

Well dang.

that bbc article said it was for services to music, not for being someone's daughter?

Seems like if your mom has been sewing the medals for 30 years that’s gotta at least help bump you pretty far up the list

sewing the medals sounds like something an athletics groupie would do

You'd think that pays more than minimum wage

Finally watched her documentary last week, it's good

If Alex jones pays for lying shouldn’t every celebrity pushing vaccines pay too ?

— M.I.A. (@MIAuniverse) October 12, 2022

Look at MMEEEEEEE, pay attention to MEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Fuck her.

She has an album coming out on Friday, so it's time for some controversy clicks.

Surprised she thinks Alex Jones is lying tbh

Remember when her eating truffles was the controversy

I am sorry to report that the beats on the new MIA album are mostly excellent

her music is always good. MAYA is the unrecognized masterpiece.

she is very reckless in her public statements though, for sure

Lol "Keep the Peace" goes way over the line in trying to redo "Paper Planes", fucking Rick Rubin. I felt his presence before I looked at the credits.

Other tracks have more success at recapturing classic MIA vibes without being gross about it.

Also that last track, yikes

Guess I’ll roll the dice on this one

Dunno if this is anywhere near top tier, but (so far) as a collection of songs recorded and sequenced, it’s at least easy to listen through without wincing hard/skipping through/eyes rolling out of my head. It’s been a really long time since a M.I.A. album accomplished that for me as a listener.

More listenable than anything since M/\Y/\ for me.

(notable exception of Bad Girls of course)

Matangi was pretty great. This must be better than AIM. I look forward

Matangi rules

-YOU'VE CHANGED, MIA; YOU USED TO BE COOL.
-NO, I WASN’T!

I mean the first time I heard of her it was because she was because she was throwing around tamil tigers imagery

To listen to her is to make peace with the fact that she says fucked up things and is irresponsible

She's the original Azealia Banks

Even her, like, dissociated drawly delivery suggests profound irresponsibility. Chaos is the brand.

A very problematic idea of “cool” for sure, as ilx discussed at length in like 2006 or something

She cites the example of the movement to defund the police in the US, suggesting that this will cause poverty and hardship. “Even [with] the police force, who we’re supposed to not like, you had people losing their livelihoods and losing their jobs and can’t pay rent, families losing their houses because they’re threatened with this choice of following orders or not following orders,” she says. “That is actually really happening on our doorstep, like this is not happening in Sri Lanka, this is happening in the west, this is happening in your neighbourhood.”

Wow beep is good

https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2022/oct/14/mia-on-vaccines-vindication-and-her-visions-of-jesus-people-fear-me-for-some-reason

Lol at the spinning vaporwave crucifix as the spotify graphic

Lol Jordan is right KTP is so tryhard it’s almost gross.

I’ll admit it’s pretty enjoyable but it feels like a case of too little too late for her.

The whole album not the paper planes copy.

I can't and won't listen to this.

I agree with the consensus, it's a good M.I.A. record with some classic M.I.A. bangers. Sometimes too obvious or redundant, but at least there's no track called "Lab Leak Theory" or anything. My son actually put it on in the car this morning, I wasn't even aware it was out. It's funny, he loved M.I.A. and "Bird Flu" in particular when he was like 3. But he's only recently circled back around to her, he thinks she's interesting. We both thought it was pretty good.

OH GOOD.

Grimes & M.I.A. talk spirituality, cryptocurrency, politics and more in new interview

(Honestly, the thing that bugs me the most is that the headline contains both an ampersand and the word "and" typed out. Pick one.)

It's a pity this album is, as tipsy pointed out, good, her best since 2010 even when "Keep the Peace" bites "Paper Planes" hard.

billionaire trophy partners how can you not click

ok I'll listen to this. if you're going to be a psycho with awful political opinions, at least make good music

Delightfully surprised to like most of this. Plenty to like for those who fell in love with Kala.

Yeah it’s good, very surpo

Lol surprised, thanks fat thumbs

in the old days "surpo" would be accepted into the lexicon by morning

The AFC and NFC champions play in the Superbo

Her music has always been good. She would have been a perfect celeb in the days before all artists had their opinions broadcast across the world.

So the 1920s?

stravinsky had some dogshit views too

I'm sure the album is fine I might get round to listening to it in a couple of years

She would've made for a great medieval troubadour, travelling from town to town spreading the word on innovative leech treatments.

Also AIM was bad

I finally got around to listening to this, on first listen it's not bad, much better than AIM, but still nowhere near her first four albums. I'll probably listen to it again in a couple of weeks.

Here’s a scary picture for halloween.

❤️#Freespeech @RealCandaceO pic.twitter.com/9dMhMQjSmP

— M.I.A. (@MIAuniverse) October 30, 2022

Uh oh, Candace Owen may be a bridge too far. That's how you know the brain worms have taken full control.

She is amazingly stupid

MIA coming off a little dense too tbh

Now I don’t feel badly about not buying the new album

Yeah, some things you can just give a miss on.

you don't call it a scary picture if you're being dense or naive about it

how many people know who owens is and don't know what she's about

remember the anti-blm stuff

CO doesn't care about palestinian lives either so clearly that wasn't MIA's real problem with it

tbh M.I.A.'s shtick/persona has always been this amoral global hustler, and Candace Owens is that.

tbh M.I.A.'s shtick/persona has always been this amoral global hustler, and Candace Owens is that.

Nah, if that was the case she'd be posing for pictures with Gary Vaynerchuck. Candace Owens may be a grifter, but her specific grift is reactionary politics and grudge warfare. By positioning herself with Owens, M.I.A. is branding herself as a reactionary culture-war asshole, full stop.

Yeah “global hustler” sure but “amoral” no way, her personal has always been founded on scolding “ARE YOU EVEN AWARE THAT” lectures delivered from a perceived moral high ground.

what a scam artist shes always been

Candace Owens seems to be going after artists who debuted in 2004

Watch out Joanna Newsom

the ultimate empty posturing coward, not that her bonafides in standing up for the downtrodden ever felt real to me but it's so much easier to step aside, say nothing, and just #freespeech her way thru social media.

lol trying to imagine what a Newsom/Owens conference would be like.

MIA has always been a nutty conspiracy theorist, that has been obvious for a long time now

I love her sound though, including what I've heard of this album

You should come to Duluth and sit with Mim for a few hours and listen to her breathe. https://t.co/OqGoxFRpXO

— LOW (@lowtheband) November 1, 2022

I've thinking about Mimi and Low

*I've been

birdflu

Right wing and Left wing is part of the same 🦅 bird. I see the bird.

— M.I.A. (@MIAuniverse) November 4, 2022

She probably sees the bird quite often

"left wing right wing chicken wing" - MIA

galaxybrain.jpg

All I wanna do is cluck cluck cluck cluck

Paper Birds

lol she fucked that up

here's how I've heard that phrase before: "The right and the left wings belong to the same colonial bird that shits on us," said with ample good sense here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/two-row-wampum-haudenosaunee-voting-election-1.5273605

why do vaguely leftish conspiracy minded spiritual stoner types keep moving in the same fashy direction it's extremely disconcerting

the 'spiritual stoner' part, means they believe in homeopathic nonsense treatments, tend to go w/ gut over facts, listen to Earth all day

I think it's more people that want to seem edgy and countercultural-ish but don't necessarily reach too far beyond that

she had somewhat of a hook with her dad, but I don't know that any of her audience really engaged with that at all (or bothered to understand what any of that meant) but, to be fair, I am not sure she was all that invested either!

wasn't there an interview in 2010 where she admitted she was ignorant but said why can't ignorant people be political

in theory, why not

I feel like the whole spiritual stoner field has been appropriated wholesale by the right in recent years. but maybe it's always tended that way since blavatsky

I was the part of the audience who thought her dad's politics gave her some cred despite knowing nothing about sri lanka so that angle certainly worked on me when I was 15

wasn't there an interview in 2010 where she admitted she was ignorant but said why can't ignorant people be political

Very prescient of her, as the most political people in America in 2022 are also the most ignorant motherfuckers on Earth.