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.

She went live on Infowars today...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GP0DvY3a0AAWUmY.jpg

she's been a POS for a pretty long time but good to see it fully confirmed, last thing i saw when i was paying attention to her was she was on Russell Brand's podcast. she's a born sucker for charlatans, an idiot who thinks she's a damn genius. a dangerous type, especially when other people also think she's a damn genius.

Ugh. Still love her first run of albums, sad to see.

Let’s not neglect her recent appearance on Tim Pool as well, yikes.

M.I.A. stands for Majorly Inane Asshole

Come back, truffle fries journalist; all is forgiven

is she all-in on crazy conspiracy theories or has she gone completely hard right?

WHATS THE DIFFERENCE AMIRITE?!?!

#trenchantsocialcommentary

From what I can tell she’s in her “I was cancelled for speaking the truth about vaccines” phase

ooh, maybe she can do a collab with all those punk dudes who got kicked out of their bands for being anti-vaxx!

She, Azealia Banks and Nicki Minaj should tour together.

azealia banks is a delusional conspiracy theorist but she wasn't antivax (supposedly she wrote on instagram “I got vaccinated in April in Miami, and got my second shot in May in NYC. .... just because I like to share my sometimes stupid opinions doesn’t mean that I’m ACTUALLY an idiot.”)

idk m.i.a. turning out like this isn't remotely surprising to me. i mean come on, remember maya? and around that time anytime she'd face the slightest setback (e.g. having certain uploads of the "born free" video 'banned' age-restricted) she'd go directly into they're-out-to-get-me mode on her social media

couldn't resist checking a Tim Pool video. Yeah it's pretty same ol for her.

Apparently she saw Jesus on the "Borders" video shoot. And he said, all your singles after this are gonna suck.

M.I.A. sporting an "anti-EMF" poncho from her clothing line on Alex Jones' show:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GP4IpFGWAAAyfai.jpg

She also apparently modeled an anti-EMF hat:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GP4KMkxXQAA3f5b.jpg

so dumb

so unbelievable (oohh)

azealia banks is a delusional conspiracy theorist but she wasn't antivax

lol fair. Was just thinking about their general trolling tendencies. Sad day when arguably my favorite artist of the '00s is reduced to "crazier than Azealia Banks."

What is an anti-EMF poncho (and can we eat it)?

it's unbelievable

EMF is electromagnetic fields.

Per Wikipedia:

Electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) is a claimed sensitivity to electromagnetic fields, to which negative symptoms are attributed. EHS has no scientific basis and is not a recognized medical diagnosis, although it is generally accepted that the experience of EHS symptoms is of psychosomatic origin.

A tinfoil bucket hat

lmao this is so dumb

Debuting my fall line of Infowears

lmao "Infowears"

First Chuck McGill now M.I.A.

Truly the Grimes of the GWBush era

Surely to truly shield yourself you'd need to cover your entire body, like an astronaut suit or something? You'd still be quite exposed if just your hat and poncho were shielded, I'd think.

lol @ 'ohmni'

M.I.A. endorses Donald Trump in new post:

“Trump is going to ride America through the most challenging 4 years” pic.twitter.com/ekES3DfPiv

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) August 24, 2024

The journey is complete

does she still get invited to official MBE parties by the British Empire? (I don't know if there are any)

Fully worthless now

my long term skepticism validated lol

that’s overperformance tho

Moar like Brain M.I.A right

no just a statement of interest and preference

giving me the mental image “Trump is going to ride America” is unforgivable on its own

She and grimes were my favorite artists around 2012.

ikr

Ugh, fuck this nonsense. Pulling her shit out of my collection and selling it. I haven't kept up for a while but I still liked those first two albums a lot. Can't imagine listening to them now.

i'm ok with remembering the good times here

turns out all i wanna do is BANG BANG BANG BANG and *CHA CHING* and take your money was just a literal expression of her desire to become a republican

I can see how anti-authoritarian impulses can lead to anti-lockdown sentiment and from there the jump to full brainworms is a short skip. So it hasn't ruined her old music for me, I don't think she was dishonest in her sentiments back then but she was never the most considered political thinker and it's lead to where it's lead. Not trying to excuse her tbc, fuck her.

I just bought arular and maya cds at local charity shop for a buck each i haven't listened yet but sheesh ...timing

They're still great, I mean they're the reason people care enough to be disappointed by her.

i dunno if i should take it to the Rare Opinions thread but imo MAYA + Matangi > Arular + Kala

Daniel otm. I ditched my few Ryan Adams CDs but this isn't that.

“so you married a billionaire” is definitely in this for me, but i dont know anything maybe he was cool for a billionaire.

erm also if youre that big a star maybe all your besties are suddenly billionaires and the market is the market

Kala > Matangi > Arular >>>>>>>> Maya; I stopped paying attention after those 4

The odds that I play any of these again are very low

I think marrying a billionaire is the natural progression, but once you hit that point, you should realize that the world no longer needs your terrible political opinions and deep thoughts

billionaires tend to be bad at realizing such things

Seems just like a pretty easy mark for these narcissistic sociopaths like Russell Brand and Donald Trump

Though if she herself is one, water does tend to find its own level

she's supporting a guy who, if he saw her walking through the airport, would probably reflexively say "she's one of them, detain her, deport her!"

nah if she has the right bling and protection, then he'd be like "HI, YOU LOOK WONDERFUL, WHERE ARE GOING AND WHY ARE WE IN AN AIRPORT? SERIOUS MONEY NEVER GOES TO AIRPORTS. WE MAKE THEM LOOK GREAT THOUGH, THEY SHOULD PAY US."

its moronic even by her own dumb standards – supporting a white supremacist anxious to do nuclear strikes bc he might also appoint RFK as HHS secretary, which even RFK doesn’t seem to think theres a great chance of that happening. toddler logic.

Not to mention that the lockdowns and Fauci, Operation Warp Speed etc. were all part of the Trump admin.

probably a cynical take but her revolutionary politics were a bit of window dressing and it was always a con, she was never a deep thinker, she was always an idiot, just absolutely a lunkhead. she dispensed with all her supposed philosophies and threw in with the other side as soon as she recognized no one was paying attention to her anymore.

she kind of admitted it one time, I think she defended herself against criticism once saying something like "why can't ignorant people make political statements" or something.

She’s always had brain worms but we ignored it because she was dropping bangers. Now she’s not even doing that there’s no reason to. See also: Azealia Banks https://t.co/xCFqeVthc4

— Congolesa Rice (@judeinlondon) August 25, 2024

I disagree with that because Azealia Banks sucked from the get go

the most surprising heel turn i've seen was Cassandra Wilson, i mean not that i'd thought about Cassandra Wilson recently but when i saw her social media awhile back it was like a Chernobyl-level radiation exposure to MAGA.

Wait WHAT

I found that out a few years ago. Sad.

omar otm. Its easy to forget that in the Bush Jr/Iraq war era when she rose to prominence a lot of fucked up conspiracy brainworm shit was tolerated on the left. She was always like this but it kind of went unexamined for a long time bc even a stopped clock is right once every few administrations.

yes

a lot of fucked up conspiracy brainworm shit was tolerated on the left

some of the loudest Anti-Trump, far left voices on my wall now used to share the following things once upon a time:

"Be aware of the tell-tale signs of ASPARTAME POISONING"
"If FLOURIDE is so bad for us as all of us know, why is the government PUTTING IT IN OUR WATER?"
"Trayvon Martin was murdered, but it's ridiculous to say that George Zimmermann only called the cops on him because of race"
"Gary Johnson needs to get 5% this election so he gets government funding"
"I have my kids on an alternate vaccine schedule - there's just too many shots given at once"
"I'm against racism, but affirmative action is the wrong way to fight it"
"there's too much chemicals in food!"

nevermind the mother of a friend of mine who littered the back window of her van with anti-vaxx links and messages to where she couldn't see out the back window.

That reminds me it’s been years since I’ve seen the ‘90s Ford minivan that was covered front to rear with conspiracy and Ron Paul stickers. Wonder if that guy died of the ‘rona or just wound up in prison because of Jan 6.

Happened to glance at her insta and she’s shilling for anti surveillance clothing.

NASA has some for sale

yeah i found out about the cassandra wilson thing on steve hoffman forums of all places. She has kind of diligently scrubbed her social media though, I dunno if she's changed her mind or just realized it was going to destroy her music career

I’m going to get yelled at for saying this, but there is a small but significant number of people who went from Ron Paul to Bernie to probably RFK. Not a huge number of people, of course and it’s absolutely not a knock on Bernie. It’s just people without any sort of core values hitching onto something that seems anti-system.

Her recent twitter just has some RFK retweets but this is still up

Oh you poor thing. You have no clue. Remove at will because I have never received a cent in artist royalties from #BigRecka. They are masters of creative accounting! #Connectthedots https://t.co/XveEkfI9yN

— Cassandra Wilson 🇺🇸 (@reallycassandra) November 21, 2020

well she's probably right about that, royalty payments are shit. not like trump is going to fix it for her

He did, at least, bring up the issue.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/trump-signs-bill-ensures-music-streaming-services-pay/story?id=58440865

well she's probably right about that, royalty payments are shit. not like trump is going to fix it for her

My first reaction too but reading it again I don't think she's saying "I support Trump because I got screwed out of royalties" but "your attempt to punish me for supporting Trump is pointless because I don't receive any royalties anyway".

otm, that's the read I got from it too.

you should see the tweet of hers which shared a video of some creepy white Republican talking about systemic racism

I do not wish to see that

no thanks

It's all the more surprising when you see who she worked with at the start of her career (before she blew up and became popular with mainstream tastes). Did they ever argue over politics, at least in terms of social ideas if not policy and political parties?

what a dumbshit

https://stereogum.com/2495052/m-i-a-announces-new-album-10g-blocking-clothing/music

She is terrible but I do still giggle at the first post in this thread each time, like she was personally responsible.

hahaha never even looked at the top before

Oh wow, scrolling through this thread. I never saw that picture of her with Candace Owens before.

Trying to think of someone I’m less interested in a gospel album from than M.I.A.

My first thought was IDLES but now I’m landing on Boyd Rice

lol

i listened to one song it wasn't gospel so much as a Kirkland brand MIA song with her babbling on some vague spirituality bullshit

the song is not good or anything but way less unlistenable than i was expecting given how much she's gone off the deep end & her describing it as a 'gospel album'

TIL she became a born again Christian in 2017? Explains her news/propaganda bubble based worldview.

I think if MIA attempted an entire album of full-throated gospel singing, she might inadvertently stumble upon the outsider art album of the year

i do have to respect her selling 10G blocking clothing, sure why not

"I think if MIA attempted an entire album of full-throated gospel singing, she might inadvertently stumble upon the outsider art album of the year"

LOL!

My Teenage Bamboo Banga Dream Ended

MIA: https://theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036/

xp

lol, Farrah Abraham was exactly who I was thinking of

her kid has to be around 16/17ish years old now? can't imagine what it's like for them

Oh yeah. And I think the kid lives with the father--who is from the family that started the birthright trips to Israel program.

there are a lot of things going on in that family. the father's aunt basically bankrolled the Nxivm cult!

loser

https://consequence.net/2026/05/m-i-a-booed-dallas-illegal-immigrant-comments-kid-cudi/

really glad that social media didn't exist when great artists went off the deep end in the past. Not that they would have necessarily fallen victim to this specific brand of brain worms, but I do miss the days when folks just fucked off to mansions and mountains of cocaine instead of posting through it.

you could put together a decent music festival comprised of nothing but musicians who have turned out to be completely smooth-brained in recent years.

Imagine how the Bowie Nazi phase would have played on social media.

most of this is the fault of "Straight to Hell" by the Clash

or Elvis Costello's, errm, ill-considered remarks

Looks like Cudi kicked her off the tour.

If you want to believe the Consequence article linked itt, sure.