[olepap]

This is utterly boring

[OCCASparky]

W.T.F. is M.I.A.?

[Puppage]

"I Never Said I'm Smart"

Yes you did, Freddo. Right before ya went out fishing on the lake.

[domenad]

"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.

That's every single freaking idiot in show business. Why else do we ignore them?

[equalitybeforethelaw]

Who is a MIA?

[wideawake]

The really cutting part about the NYT article is not the exposure of M.I.A. as a social-climbing, airheaded fake revolutionary.

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.