We discussed M.I.A. ripping Lady Gaga a new one in her recent NME interview earlier this morning, but we neglected to mention the various other musicians and mainstays of pop-culture with which the Sri Lankan singer has a big, big problem. Maya Arulpragasam unleashes her potty mouth while ranting against today’s biggest pop stars, reality shows, vampire movies and even internet search engines. Check out M.I.A.’s All-Inclusive Hate List below, and seriously beware of getting on this woman’s bad side.
Lady Gaga
“None of her music’s reflective of how weird she wants to be or thinks she is. She models herself on Grace Jones and Madonna, but the music sounds like 20-year-old Ibiza music, you know? She’s not progressive, but she’s a good mimic. She sounds more like me than I fucking do!”
Ke$ha
“I’m more concerned by how someone like Kesha can so blatantly copy Uffie. Everyone’s fine with it. Not a fucking lawsuit in sight.”
The X Factor
“Oh God, I’m so bored by it already, people need to get over it. X Factor shit’s irrelevant.”
Coldplay
“There’s a difference between saying ‘no’ to everything and ‘yes’ to everything. I’m not fucking Coldplay because I said ‘no’ to certain things.”
Twilight
When the producers of the Twilight and New Moon soundtrack asked M.I.A. to contribute a track, “Jimmy [Iovine, chairmen of M.I.A.’s US label Interscope] had beef with the Twilight people, so he stepped in and told them to fuck off.”
Google
“Google’s more powerful than any government now—people think it’s God. They’re storing all our data and one day they’re gonna turn against us.”
Money
“Money is always the enemy of music.”
Everyone
“We have, what, a million songwriters? And probably three risk-takers.”
Although she makes some interesting points, this sure is a lot of negativity for one short interview—maybe M.I.A. should take a look at this morning’s photo of Lea Michele holding a puppy and cheer up already.
[via ONTD]
If M.I.A. said “Money is always the enemy of music,” then M.I.A. does not know what she is talking about. Someone should inform her of the error she has made. I would strongly suggest she carefully study the later work of John Forbes Nash, Jr., “Ideal Money,” and “Ideal Money and Asymptotically Ideal Money.”
Without standards, we are lost. Standards of time, temperature, mass, distance, etc…, are necessary to survive in the modern world. Nash provides a framework for the creation of a real standard for value. A standard which allows us to make true judgments concerning the value of things, and actions, in the world we actually inhabit. Without the intervention of dogma or ideology, or the pretentious sophistry of central bankers, and their friends.
If M.I.A. has any concern for music, she will listen when I tell her, “Get rid of your anger, and hatred, now. For, it is not money that is always the enemy of music, but anger and hatred and ignorance and bullshit that are always the enemy of music.” I suggest she give the gals another listen. Joy to you, M.I.A. You need some. Bad.
And, as always, Joy to you, Rose.
Its Sri Lankan, not Sri Lanken
hahahahahahah!! i love this women!!
FONZI!!!!!
god this woman is as angry as i am.
It’s impossible to beat Hollywood history. Good to see A.C. Lyles.