Comments on: M.I.A. Doesn’t Need This Sexist Groove Thing

By: gorillavsmarykate

gorillavsmarykate — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:30:58 +0000

@blueeyeddevil:
hhaah! That's really funny.

By: blueeyeddevil

blueeyeddevil — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 05:36:58 +0000

Sounds like MIA is on the rag.

By: zaky

zaky — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 05:08:08 +0000

Who’s Diplo?

By: Trackback

Trackback — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 02:35:23 +0000

M.I.A. unloads on Pitchfork over Diplo. New album out in three weeks. [via]

By: catdirt

catdirt — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 06:08:55 +0000

@Richfourfour: the weirdest thing is that when she was doing Arular press, she was nothing but up front about her nonmusicianship. She literally told me, "I don't know how to write songs." It's her schtick, the unpolished, songy quality of her music.

yeah- i totally agree with this- just as a reader from that time period- the whole thing was like "she doesn't know how to make music! she is a gifted amateur!" i mean, my perception was that she was playing that up? but maybe it was male music journalists fault?

By: Chairman Meow

Chairman Meow — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:34:10 +0000

How similar would these writers' perceptions be if M.I.A. collaborated on her music with, say, Ellen Allien.

It's worth pointing out that Ellen Allien's had the same sort of issues in the minimal world, where credit's given to Apparat or Sascha Funke or whoever she was working with. Or Björk . . .

By: Blackjack

Blackjack — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:22:35 +0000

So who's MIA?

I kid, I kid, but she needs to quit worrying about who thinks who produced what where and how. Someone who gets one of her mixes for the first time really doesn't give a fuck about that stuff. Seriously, MIA, have a little cheese with that whine and stop freaking out about what people think. Are you an artist or what?

By: Richfourfour

Richfourfour — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:05:42 +0000

To me, the weirdest thing is that when she was doing Arular press, she was nothing but up front about her nonmusicianship. She literally told me, "I don't know how to write songs." It's her schtick, the unpolished, songy quality of her music. She only really got into making music, like, a year before Arular came out and so OF COURSE she'd need collaborators. Has anyone really faulted her for this, anyway? Her perception seems to be that she's beat up, but god, last I checked, she was a fucking darling.

But, yeah, girl powa and all that. She raises fine points, but I can't help but feel like this ultimately reads like the rich pretending to be poor. Given her music and status at this point, that kind of makes sense.

By: Nunya B

Nunya B — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:02:08 +0000

Given Diplo's comments on Pitchfork about Kala ("she didn't work very hard on it"), I can understand her frustration with both him and P4k in general. Given his dismissive attitude toward the new album I would want to take a stand and just make the truth known in as unambiguous a manner as possible, which I think MIA has done as well as anyone in her situation could do. His interview with them slighted both the album and her live show, but I don't think anyone would have bothered to give his comments a second glance as being the rantings of a bitter ex, whereas that's all anyone will say about MIA the minute the fact of her having dated Diplo comes up into the conversation. I WONDER WHY.

Team MIA all the way, yo.

By: nonce

nonce — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:58:11 +0000

I was waiting for the backlash to kick in on her, what with Kala coming out soon.

Weird and nasty, though, that while Arcade Fire (etc.) backlash focuses on being "overrated" and derivative, all the MIA stuff seems to be about who she dated and how she's "difficult." Can US culture not understand female solo artists outside of the context of divas?