DicherdownDAVE9

8mo

“Is Beyoncé or Kendrick Lamar going to say Muslim Lives Matter? Or Syrian Lives Matter? Or this kid in Pakistan matters?“

That’s not their job why didn’t she say the same thing about popular asian stars who spoke on stop asian hate? This b**** is fried

DicherdownDAVE9

8mo

“Is Beyoncé or Kendrick Lamar going to say Muslim Lives Matter? Or Syrian Lives Matter? Or this kid in Pakistan matters?“

That’s not their job why didn’t she say the same thing about popular asian stars who spoke on stop asian hate? This b**** is fried

Free YoungBoy

8mo

Not only that but she’s saying speaking on BLM doesn’t mean s*** because it’s safe or whatever

Like Kaep didn’t get black balled from the NFL for it

OHMNI

8mo

thats one sentence of a 8 paragraph interview.....

DicherdownDAVE9

8mo

I went to google and that’s the sentence i found and that’s enough that i needed to tell that b**** to stfu and stop telling people what they should use their platform for

Free YoungBoy

8mo

Not only that but she’s saying speaking on BLM doesn’t mean s*** because it’s safe or whatever

Like Kaep didn’t get black balled from the NFL for it

OHMNI

8mo

lol you going up for a billionaire who used sweatshops in MIA area

OHMNI

8mo

let me help you

Mercifully, Paris Saint-Germain have dropped their legal warning after she tweeted their letter to her 678,000 followers. ‘I haven’t heard anything since then,’ she says. ‘It’s awesome. The support I got from my fans actually made them go away. I’m going to do that all the time now, ha-ha!’ And what happened with the NFL? At one point, she jokingly tweeted Madonna to ask if she could lend her £10 million as she defended herself against the corporation (Madonna was said to be highly unimpressed at being upstaged at the time, according to several newspapers). ‘That’s gone too,’ she says quietly. She’s not really allowed to talk about the precise terms, but she has her own views of male sporting institutions. ‘The way females fit into those cultures is simply as s***objects. You either get passed around the players, or you’re a cheerleader. It’s hard for a musician to relate to that.’ She was struck by ‘insane’ levels of fear among her fellow stars when she performed at the Super Bowl. ‘Nobody wants to upset the status quo, but then the status quo doesn’t change unless someone upsets it.’

I wonder what she made of this year’s Super Bowl in which Beyoncé gave a Black Power salute to the Black Lives Matter movement. She pulls a face. She didn’t see the performance, but doesn’t feel she could have missed anything. ‘It’s interesting that in America the problem you’re allowed to talk about is Black Lives Matter. It’s not a new thing to me — it’s what Lauryn Hill was saying in the 1990s, or Public Enemy in the 1980s. Is Beyoncé or Kendrick Lamar going to say Muslim Lives Matter? Or Syrian Lives Matter? Or this kid in Pakistan matters? That’s a more interesting question. And you cannot ask it on a song that’s on Apple, you cannot ask it onan American TV programme, you cannot create that tag on Twitter, Michelle Obama is not going to hump you back.’

A lot of M.I.A.’s frustration comes from the fact that she’s pretty much the only South Asian musician on the world stage. She has been accused of naivety in the past, but when she describes the refugee camps that she recently visited in Tamil Nadu, she is nuanced and knowledgeable. These problems are live for her. The Sri Lankan authorities no longer class her as a terrorist cheerleader but she doesn’t plan on returning any time soon. ‘They keep saying: “It’s all great now, come see for yourself!” But I have a kid, I don’t want to take that chance. The way Sri Lanka operates, you’ll get killed and the government will say: “Ah she went swimming, she was eaten by a shark, what can you do?” ’

She has recorded a new song, ‘Rewear It’, to encourage shoppers to recycle their old clothes at H&M stores during this week’s World Recycle Week, in exchange for shopping vouchers. ‘I’m brown. So the first thing people will say is that brown people make the clothes in the factory — what are you doing repping the other side and not addressing this?’ And what does she say to that? ‘OK, so with a mainstream brand, we know what it represents, we know what it means. It’s click-click-click, buy-buy-buy. We’re the max generation, maxed out, maximising on the, erm, max.’ And with H&M at the pinnacle of ‘fast fashion’, she feels it’s ‘brave’ of them to change their approach. ‘People will say that they’re greenwashing, and so on — but the fact that people can even make those comments and H&M will see those comments is a positive thing. ’

Change has to come from somewhere and it’s encouraging that one of the world’s biggest retailers is taking sustainability seriously. And M.I.A. may lack the obedience of your modern production-line pop star, but isn’t that how we prefer our musicians: unpredictable, contradictory, even a little infuriating? When I ask what scares her she doesn’t pause. ‘Nothing. I feel like I should have died a long time ago. I’m surprised I’m still alive, to be honest. I came from war. When I was growing up I didn’t really think I’d live beyond about 25. I never thought I would be old enough to drive or have a house or raise a child. Having to do it is really difficult.’ But as she says, like any immigrant, she’s used to working ten times as hard.

DicherdownDAVE9

8mo

Tell mia send the millions she made off music to those people in her area

Free YoungBoy

8mo

Yeah I read the article when you posted it here a couple days ago. Doesn’t change anything I just said.

Just bad takes and bad delivery from her.

OHMNI

8mo

lol Jay z wanted her to sign a slave deal the NFL for the rest of her career

and she has.....

you are so stupid its impressive

OHMNI

8mo

you will find more pro military black people than pro police muslim people

so it is by its definition an interesting question.

Free YoungBoy

8mo

Again bro nobody is denying her core message. She’s standing up for a good cause.

The point we’re making is that she doesn’t need to s*** on black peoples activism in order to get her point across

Free YoungBoy

8mo

Again bro nobody is denying her core message. She’s standing up for a good cause.

The point we’re making is that she doesn’t need to s*** on black peoples activism in order to get her point across

DicherdownDAVE9

8mo

You’re stupid if you are impressive by that trailer i need to see transactions or the s*** didn’t happen tell that b**** put her money where her mouth is

OHMNI

8mo

you will find more pro military black people than pro police muslim people

so it is by its definition an interesting question.

afterimage

8mo

you are arguing from the most contrarian ass angle man for no reason

aren’t you tired

DicherdownDAVE9

8mo

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/lana-condor-charles-melton-more-celebs-speak-out-about-anti-asian-hate

Where the f*** was mia when this was happening?! Why didn’t she downplay it they actually had s*** signed in LAW!!!! Why the b**** went MIA pun nigga!!!!

OHMNI

8mo

Name your tops

I got Bjork, MIA, Badu, Sophie ( RIP) up there