Now that M.I.A. has an actual U.S. pop hit on her hands, folks who weren’t paying attention when she was the blog cause du jour (three years ago) now get to wonder if she is or isn’t, you know, a terrorist–something she’s been steadfastly denying since before the release of Arular. Still, it’s a wee bit disingenuous to couch this E! Online “story” about it as a “letter from a reader” who probably doesn’t exist. (If Mela of Los Angeles–who apparently can’t use Google but does know how to send a letter to E!–is, in fact, real, my sincere apologies.) [E!]
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Some Sri Lankan hip-hop label is leaving messages on my blog that i’m supporting terrorism by talking about MIA. All I did was mention she had a Top 40 hit the end.
They also keep flagging my blog as spam to spite me.
All I think is “wow, I think they’re pretty pissed that she’s more successful than any Sri Lankan musician since time began”.
I actually think these are the same people who are spamming me. The question asker herself uses the same fricking syntax as the person who wrote the first comment to my blog.
Ridiculous.
She’s an aural terrorist. Her music is bomb.
If more rappers jump on “Paper Planes” than “A Milli”, then the terrorists win.
The article refers to the world wide web as “the Internets”.
Rad.
E! Online is just one step above spam.
This is ridiculous. M.I.A. spent most of her adult life as an upper middle class woman in England and went to art school. Like she gives a flying f what happens in Sri Lanka.
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How is this anything new? (Not calling her a terrorist) She’s had “ties” to said organization because of her family’s history… People need to do more research before throwing a fit over nothing.
@slowlybutsurly: my point exactly
Her father is a Tamil Tiger!
And I am also in favour of the Tamil Tigers.
I was in Sri Lanka many times, with my wife, she’s from the area.
And she is a gorgeous piece of ass!!!!
Well, that elevated the discourse.
Mela from Los Angeles sounds like the type of person who believes Obama is a Muslim.
You know, I heard her real name is Maya Hussein Arulpragasam.
The real question is, now that she has a hit, will she come out of “retirement”?
@Kodiak: Um, really? The Tamil Tigers? The ones who invented suicide bombing and practice forced conscription? Yeah, I’m a BIG fan.
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I’m not a supporter of either side in the Sri Lankan conflict, and M.I.A. might be suffering from guilt-by-association, but she has never adequately explained her (to my ears empty) sloganeering on her albums given her father’s politics. Just sayin’.
@DocStrange: i’m willing to bet they’re the same people spamming youtube and the E! post. I’ve also seen them on Facebook. The way they type is the same on all three sites.
@auralpragasams: Well, I’ve reported them to google. They’re spamming my blog. Look, on my blog, I do a feature similar to “100 And Single” (which i’ve been doing well before I knew of Idolator’s existance) in which I report on what alternative rock acts are in the Billboard Hot 100. But now they’ve turned my whole blog into a battleground. They’re flagging my little blog as spam. I can’t afford this any more.
What I think they’re doing is going onto Google Blog Search and spamming anything with the words “MIA” or “Paper Planes” on it.