MIA Interview, At Times Absurd
So hot, so wrong
I like MIA’s music, the new single XXXO is pretty good. Her politics are I think worse than wrong headed, they’re spray paint ignorant. There’s very interesting article on her in the New York Times magazine. Her musical progression has been interesting, as is the history, but the best part is the sheer absurdity of some of the quotes, the juxtaposition between here black-and-white, jingoistic politics and the reality of her life. My favorite is the one about the bread rolls.
“You gotta embrace the pain, embrace the struggle,” she proclaimed weeks before Ikhyd was born. “And my giving birth is nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.”
As it happened, Maya, who is 34, gave birth in a private room in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles…
“The biggest Sinhalese community is in Santa Monica, people who are sworn enemies of the Tamils, which is me.” She paused. “I live around the corner from Beverly Hills, and I feel semiprotected by Ben and, if anything happens to me, then Ben’s family will not take it. Jimmy Iovine, who runs Interscope, my record company, said, ‘Pick your battles carefully — don’t put your life at risk,’ but at the end of the day, I don’t see how you can shut up and just enjoy success when other people who don’t have the fame or the luxury to rent security guards are suffering. What the hell do they do? They just die.”
Maya’s tirade, typical in the way it moved from the political to the personal and back again, was interrupted by a waiter, who offered her a variety of rolls. She chose the olive bread.
I’ve just started reading it, please read more and tell me if you find anything else of interest.
She’s a moron and I’m not impressed with her music. It’s just a mishmash of sampling nothing original.
So before you read in full this title given to this post? lol
what are you even saying?
MIA found the coolest way to merchandize the Tamil genocide story. It’s her fantasy and she is happy there. No way she can get that high on any dose of ‘Tamil reality’.
That article is the biggest joke I’ve read in a while.
I dunno, it’s like the writer thought of asking every dumb half wit commentator for a quote, stuck a bunch of random M.I.A. quotes in an article to suit her uncle’s propaganda and ended up coming off as a bit of a fool for thinking we’d fall. Where’s the interview? Do your job next time.
Better off reading Complex.com’s interview with her me thinks. Haha.
Her view is of course biased (every human being’s is) and she doesn’t have it in her to grasp the complex reality or express herself properly. But I think her caring about the Tamil people, talking about the plight of the Tamil people, is a good thing because I don’t think the SL government, the Army, or the Sinhalese people (including most of the pundits here) give a shit.
You think?
BTW, what usually happen in places like Canda and England is unhappy Tamils attacking Sinhalese individuals whenever they’re vulnerable.
Another pearl of wisdom: “I’m from there. I’m tired of pop stars who say, ‘Give peace a chance.’ I’d rather say, ‘Give war a chance.’
Simply risible and disgusting. Well, war was most certainly given a chance, but without any risk to her Givenchy outfits. The outcome however wasn’t exactly what she wanted, no?
This is what happens when people look to pop stars for political leadership.
“Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world,” Maya said for no apparent reason. “And African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs.” The designers said they thought that was terrible. “The best sportswear is on Blackwater operatives,” Maya continued, referring to the agents who were clandestine guns for hire in Iraq. The designers nodded, but they clearly had no idea what she was talking about. “
It’s funny how she takes a potty shot at Lady Gaga, they’re both horrible at music if you ask me. All they do is take bit’s and pieces form other people and mishmash them together, there is nothing original there nothing even inspired.
plus, they’re both ugly
at least gaga’s spectacle is enjoyable like when you enjoy train wrecks
You know, when ever I see Lady GaGa I can’t help but wonder if ‘she’ is packing more than tampons down there. :)
Apparently MIA did not like the article or was it it could be used as “controversy”.
That said I like to see her being famous as she is the quintessential South Asian, skinny, dark and small made. Most other South Asian who have made it look more European, e.g. Padma Lakshmi.
MTV on MIA Lynn Hirschberg Feud
M.I.A. continues to lash out at New York Times reporter, says some more dubious sh#*
Ok the proper linky
M.I.A. continues to lash out at New York Times reporter, says some more dubious sh#*
hah, that was golden. Thanks for the link
seriously …shes a piece of shit. Music is garbage and addictive to listen to only when she went out with Diplo-the DJ, who helped her make songs like Paper Planes. I think its safe to say that shes lost her mind, probably looking to get into a mental institution.
She’s like a tamil lindsey lohan. Sad.