Posted on 06/02/2010 11:14:25 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
On her Twitter this morning, M.I.A. attacked New York Times writer Lynn Hirschberg over a profile (set to appear in print this weekend but available online now) that addresses the artist's politics and upbringing in Sri Lanka. ""CALL ME IF YOU WANNA TALK TO ME ABOUT THE N Y T TRUTH ISSUE," she Tweeted, adding Hirschberg's phone number. "ill b taking calls all day b--ches." In the piece, Hirschberg implies that M.I.A. doesn't understand the complex political web of Sri Lanka and that violent videos like "Born Free," in which red-headed children are assassinated by military police, are "exploitative" and "hollow." She also addresses M.I.A.'s moving to an upscale Los Angeles neighborhood and getting married to Benjamin Bronfman, son of mogul Edward Bronfman, Jr. "What Maya wants is nearly impossible to achieve: she wants to balance outrageous political statements with a luxe lifestyle; to be supersuccessful yet remain controversial," Hirschberg wrote.
Rolling Stone contributing editor Jenny Eliscu was with M.I.A. in London around the same time as Hirschberg, reporting a story for the magazine in an upcoming issue. Eliscu talked extensively to the singer about the personal basis for her political beliefs. "If I want to be really political, I’d have to sit down and study you know," M.I.A. told Eliscu. "But I feel like my approach to politics is [that] I never said I’m smart and I read this and I’m making assumptions. But why aren’t I allowed to write about my experience? Why can’t I say, 'Oh my God, my school got shot by the government? I can’t say that, yet they can do it. But I want to be able to still say it somewhere. There needs to be some sort of an outlet for people like me."
On allegations that her art lacks a deep political message, M.I.A. said, "What I like about my stuff is that, whether it's contrived or not, there’s an art to being contrived, too. You can have fun with something. I like the freedom to sort of point out that creativity kind of should work like that: it should be really instant."
Hirschberg — who wrote a controversial Vanity Fair cover story in 1992 on Courtney Love, in which the writer reported that Love admitted to using heroin while pregnant with child Frances Bean — reacted today to M.I.A.’s Tweets. In an interview with the New York Observer , Hirschberg said, "It's a fairly unethical thing to do, but I don't think it's surprising," she continued. "She's a provocateur and provocateurs want to be provocative."
This is utterly boring
W.T.F. is M.I.A.?
Yes you did, Freddo. Right before ya went out fishing on the lake.
“W.T.F. is M.I.A.?”
Really, man. And why am I supposed to care?
That's every single freaking idiot in show business. Why else do we ignore them?
Who is a MIA?
"But I feel like my approach to politics is [that] I never said I’m smart and I read this and I’m making assumptions. But why aren’t I allowed to write about my experience? Why can’t I say, 'Oh my God, my school got shot by the government? I can’t say that, yet they can do it. But I want to be able to still say it somewhere. There needs to be some sort of an outlet for people like me."
Even Paul made this type of remark in the same press meeting he had where the headlines trumpet him blowing Barack Obama... a kiss.
McCartney Rocks Library of Congress (By Rolling Stone -Jun 02, 2010 11:56 AM EDT)
McCartney also showed his support for President Obama, saying at one point, "I must say I'm a big fan, he's a great guy. So lay off him. He's doing great."(snip)
The assembled press, who did not shy away from asking McCartney for an occasional autograph, also took the opportunity to pose more difficult questions to Macca, even asking the rock icon to offer his thoughts on the BP disaster. But McCartney, ever the British gentleman, was careful not to say anything too controversial. "I'm not a politician, I wouldn't know," he said of the spill. "I think it's terrible but it's too big a question for me to answer."
Milli Vanilli 2000...
This generation’s Gerardo.
Right Said Fred in a skirt.
That's what you expect from celebrities.
The cutting part is that the article exposes her as a musical fraud: her critically acclaimed albums with their cutting-edge tracks were not composed by her.
They are the work of her ex-boyfriend - a middle-class Southern white guy.
In other words, the epitome of the WASP America she despises.
She is so dependent upon him to actually do her work for her that she risks her relationship with her sugar-daddy husband in order to have him produce her albums.
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