“I’ve been canceled for many reasons. I never thought I would be canceled for being a brown Republican voter.”
I'm ded.
“I’ve been canceled for many reasons. I never thought I would be canceled for being a brown Republican voter.”
I'm ded.
From The Article:
M.I.A. responded to Cudi hours later on X, writing in all caps, “I WROTE ILLYGAL ON THE MAYA LP A SONG FROM 2010. I STARTED THIS INTRO TO THE SONG WITH THE STATEMENT SAYING I’M ILLYGAL, AND I SAID MY TEAM HASN’T GOTTEN VISAS YET. THEN PLAYED A SONG THAT HAD LYRICS SAYING “FU&% THE LAW”, WHICH I STILL BELIEVE, IF THE LAW IS UNJUST F@%& IT. DO NOT GASLIGHT MY WORDS. THAT IS THE WORK OF SATAN. I WROTE BORDERS AND ILLYGAL AND PAPER PLANES BEFORE YOU THOUGHT IMMIGRANT RIGHTS WERE COOL. I’VE HAD THSES BATTLES BY MYSELF WITHOUT THE HELP OF MILLIONS OF FANS BACKING ME . I DON’T NEED THIS VIRTUE SIGNAL ERA TO ALL OF A SUDDEN ERASE AN ENTIRE LIFE I’VE LED. JESUS WAS AN IMMIGRANT AND A REBEL. I HAVE NO APPOLGY FOR THE JUDGEMENTAL THE WICKED AND THE IGNORENT, FOR THOSE ARE SPIRITS THAT WE MUST OVER COME IN OUR LIVES AND IN THIS WORLD. JESUS RETURNS TO LEAD THE WORLD JUSTLY BECAUSE THERE IS INJUSTICE IN THIS WORLD . IM PROUD OF THOSE WHO FIGHT FOR IT EVERYDAY. GOD BLESS YOU. 🙏🏽 GO LISTEN TO M.I.7.”
The fuck did I just read? Has she hung out with Kanye too often?
You've gotta be nearly brain dead to fall for this shit. Look at fetterman.
Ma'am you became relevant because you had a silly song with sound effects that became popular because it was featured in a movie about weed. that's it. that's all you had going for you.
objectively wrong take. she had 2 critically acclaimed albums and a 3rd that was ahead of its time. and "bad girls" was a hit in the UK
No way this huge track never hit #1
The latter's single "Paper Planes" (co-produced by at-the-time partner Diplo) peaked at number four on the US Billboard Hot 100 and received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards.
It was so big!
Matangi is a first-class hot mess start to finish. 🤌
Okay, please help me out, brothers and sisters and non-binary siblings. She doesn't sound at all like she is making a right-wing point to me.
I WROTE BORDERS AND ILLYGAL AND PAPER PLANES BEFORE YOU THOUGHT IMMIGRANT RIGHTS WERE COOL.
She was in favor of immigrant rights before it was cool, that's the opposite of what she's accused of. The entire post is a wild restatement of her pro-immigrant, anti-law stance.
There may be an additional wrinkle: A republican in the UK is not an American Republican. That is, she is probably advancing an anti-monarchist stance instead of a pro-GOP one. In the UK, a republican is a staunchly anti-establishment, fringe left figure.
She endorsed Trump in 2024 and also tweeted
If Alex Jones pays for lying, shouldn't every celebrity pushing vaccines pay too?
So this may be an over-generous assessment.
M.I.A.s political views are slightly unhinged: On one hand, she is supporting free immigration, female empowerment, outspoken against genocide, supported wikileaks and the English Labor Party but then is anti vacc and is endorsing Trump...I cannot make any sense of that.
I really liked her early music from 2005.
The wikileaks to right winger pipeline is a very clear line that goes through Russian psyops.
What's the pipeline for your paranoid Russophobia?
They can't compete with the US economically if you look at GDP, so the most rational way to fight back is with psyops and phishing schemes. Much like the war in Iran has probably caused a bunch of DDOS attacks on different points in our internet infrastructure. I used to work QA for a company making jerky, and while you might not expect it, we were hit with tons of them. It's cheap-ass warfare for its effectiveness.
I seriously am starting to believe everyone is in it for the money only, they've got ties to trump regime somehow making them money and don't want to fault it while they're ahead. It doesn't make sense other wise.
Good. All republicans should be regularly subjected to public humiliation and shaming. And sometimes bullets.
Baffled why she would take a hard stance as a Republican. She's not even American?
TIL the gal famous for her stance on free immigration is backing the dude famous for "making Mexico pay" for his border wall.
People are funny.
Gosh you'd almost think fame and wealth separate a person from the reality they share with the rest of us.
Wow I didn't know MIA went crazy during covid. Oh well.
Her new album sounds like schizophrenia. Ever read the back of a bottle of Dr Bronner's while pounding random keys on a Casio set to "trumpet?" Fucking yikes
He didn’t know who she was then
To be fair, I don't know who she is either.
A two-hit wonder from 20 years ago
2 is generous. Paper Planes is the only one I know.
thats a massive disservice to her influence
So are her opinions
while thats true we dont need to make ones as dumb as hers
You're right, she's definitely a one-hit wonder, and that song's only decent because of the Clash.
yeah this comment just makes you look like a fool. the hive mind is clouding reality, sad to see
🙄🙄🙄 If this could make my eye-rolls any bigger, they'd be eye-loaves. Sorry my opinion is different from yours, but it's just mine and it's just an opinion, no need to be sad. Especially over something so exceedingly subjective and unimportant.
it isnt an opinion at all, thats the issue. it is objective fact M.I.A. made at least 2 critcally acclaimed albums that critics, the public, and artists loved. no reason to start spreading false information just because M.I.A. is
I'm sorry I can't prove to you that I don't know any of that shit, but I simply don't. I've heard one song and she didn't even write the only part of that song that interests me. I actively listen to MIA the same amount I actively listen to Beyonce or Taylor Swift, which is to say not at all, but I can still list like a dozen tracks from each of them. If she was truly that objectively influential on all of society, why don't I know more of her work? And more importantly, why is she opening for Kid Cudi?
Now if you're Sri Lankan, I could see how that might affect your perceptions on this subject. I'm not and all I know is the one track that got really big where I'm from 🤷♂️. Again, sorry I guess.
Just saying, your view of reality is not the same as everyone else's, and it's never going to be.
you seem to see popularity as the only form of success or influence for a musician
You seem to see personal opinion as universal truth.
The only argument you've actually made is that two of her albums were popular, and now you're implying that's not a good measure of influence 🤦♂️🤷♂️
not what i said, i said they were critically acclaimed. i should have known trying to educate you on this would be pointless, too blinded by hate
Lemmy won't let me expand the conversation to reply to the appropriate comment, so I'll just put it here. Yes, Throbbing Gristle is influential to the industrial music movement. Does that make them universally influential? Of course not, most people haven't even heard of the genre, much less the artist. Likewise, MIA can be extremely influential within her genre without having much affect on the world at-large, and can still be accurately dubbed a one-hit wonder. In this whoooole thread I still haven't even heard what her other hits are, so the epithet certainly still applies for me. Wu Tang and the Kinks permeated culture so effectively that they're still popular all over, I don't even agree with the premise that they're unpopular. Like, if the Kinks could magically reunite and tour again, do you really think they'd be opening for washed-up mediocre rock acts?
xxxo, bad girls, galang, bucky done gun, and jimmy all reached the charts. i dont think you can call her a one hit wonder when 2 of her albums are great. skee lo is a one hit wonder. m.i.a. is not. and her influence does permeate culture as multiple artists who got big in the mid 2010s up to now cite her as a direct influence. her style of music has continued to get more and more popular. "brat" took over a whole summer not too long ago, and charli xcx cites m.i.a. as a major influence on her music. you can not like her music, you cannot downplay her importance, which is what you have done since the first comment
also, funny that there is actually a reply limit on lemmy, i never knew that
See, that's all I wanted, some data! Although I don't know any of those songs or what a skee lo is, I believe you, MIA is culturally significant. It's just too bad she's a fascist, now I'll never listen to any of it.
skee-lo made "i wish" which was a popular rap single in the early 90s
the album is actually not bad but he didnt really have anything other than "i wish" and for the black community one or two other songs that got playtime
edit: also, you dont have to listen to her, but youd be missing out on some important albums and her lyrics still ring true and hit hard, even if shes gone the opposite direction in her life (examples being 10 dollar, atention, illygirl, born free, all of the kala album, vicki leekx)
Critically acclaimed=liked by humans=popular Lack of exposure and interest≠hatred
so based off what you said, throbbing gristle would have had no influence over industrial music, because they aren't popular at all and other industrial acts are. the kinks arent too popular nowadays, im guessing they had no influence either right? wu tang clan hasnt had a hit since forever ago, guess they had no influence over rap music either.
you see what kind of uneducated mess youre saying?
2 hit wonder makes it sound like this is the most pathetic attention grab available ala kid redneck dipshit. No one gives a shit about the terrible music so they go for that sad smaller crowd that will go to smaller, sad festivals that give sad acts like this an opportunity.
Those two tracks are in frequent use in film and TV so she has far more money than sense and an outsized estimation of her genius.
he did know, and made it part of the agreement bringing her on the tour that she can’t say shit like this.
I don't want to let her off the hook for her repugnant views, but I do think we have a real issue with globally rising mental illness, and it seems like there is pipeline for people with certain types of mental illness finding Trump very appealing.
Everyone is so focused on her comments, but what about her music? How's her new album?
Well, I have a "policy" with albums that I have to listen to it all the way through. But I broke that rule with two albums this year and quit this one by track 6. MI7 was one of them. It suuuucccckkks.
Not really any reason to give her music a chance if we know she is a Trump fascist. Plenty of music out there not made by fascists.
This comment was just an excuse for me to shit on her music. I didn't know her voting history going in, just saw that Paper Planes woman had a new album
It's so weird since she (still, as she later clarified) believes in free migration. How can she vote for Trump then?
He really should have known better if he knew her views from the start.
Isn't Kid Cudi loudly pro-republican? Wtf made him tour with M.I.A in the first place
How an artist votes is not something I look up. Once they start picking sides publicly then they cant be surprised that some of their fans do too.
Her (anti-vax) rhetoric probably played zero part in the decision to have her on tour, at least until she started affecting the bottom line.
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