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

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!