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.
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.
Packets > Bullets
much cheaper too
That shit rips.
I like The Clash as well
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.
Music video for Born Free is crazy
English LaboUr Party
that should be on the Trump side
Wow I didn’t know MIA went crazy during covid. Oh well.
Yep just add her to the list
To be fair she sounded crazy when she first got popular 20 years ago too.
“I’ve been canceled for many reasons. I never thought I would be canceled for being a brown Republican voter.”
I’m ded.
She isn’t even a Republican voter (unless she is American some how)
She’s not. Multiple outlets have states she’s a UK citizen.
she’s a UK citizen
And not the English, Welsh or Scottish kind. Not even Irish of any kind.
edit: in case someone is going to freak out about this, because I know that’s likely: “I’m not. I’m a Tamil and there are people dying in my country and you have to like look at it because you’re fucking Oprah and every American told me you’re going to save the world.” - source
She’s lived there for 20 years
That doesn’t make her a citizen.
Neither are all the illegals in the USA, but whooo boy, will Lemmy have an aneurysm if you would say that out loud!
Gamergate douchebag, why bother coming to Lemmy? Shouldn’t you be on 8kun or patriots.win or something?
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.
Do I have to? Ugh.
Drugs
Are a helluva drug
I think it’s when the drugs stop being used tbh
All caps is Republican tradition
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. 🤌
youre thinking of aim
She supposedly “found Jesus” during COVID and now… Whatever this is.
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.
Thanks for the clarification! Yeah, eff her then.
She literally endorsed Trump. Is that a UK republican thing?
I think covid broke a lot of people’s brains
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.
The gal whose parents immigrated to the UK, so that she could immigrate to the US
Good. All republicans should be regularly subjected to public humiliation and shaming. And sometimes bullets.
To the user who reported this comment (above): based on my reading of the LW TOS, this speech is allowed as it does not call for imminent, specific harm to an individual or minority group.
Baffled why she would take a hard stance as a Republican. She’s not even American?
stupid people are a global phenomenon.
Gosh you’d almost think fame and wealth separate a person from the reality they share with the rest of us.
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.
“Bad Girls” was an absolute banger.
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
dang Pineapple Express was 20 years ago?
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.
what was the second track? all I know is paper planes was featured heavily in Pineapple Express and that’s it.
That makes sense. She’s still sad af in my estimation though
he did know, and made it part of the agreement bringing her on the tour that she can’t say shit like this.
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.
He had money involved, only renegged after she went ape shit.
MIA is loudly pro republican. Kid Cudi is not.
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.
