Yesterday, the 10 magazine covers of NME’s relaunch were unveiled and today some of the interviews are finding their way online. Cover artist #8 of 10, M.I.A., was asked about Lady GaGa and she just spoke her mind, truthfully:

Do you think those programs and the internet have destroyed the mythology around popstars?

“There’s Gaga – people say we’re similar, that we both mix all these things in the pot and spit them out differently, but she spits it out exactly the same.” She added: “None of her music’s reflective of how weird she wants to be or thinks she is. She models herself on Grace Jones and Madonna, but the music sounds like 20-year-old Ibiza disco, you know?

“She’s not progressive, but she’s a good mimic. She sounds more like me than I f****** do! That’s a talent and she’s got a great team behind her, but she’s the industry’s last stab at making itself important – saying ‘You need our money behind you, the endorsements, the stadiums’.

“Respect to her, she’s kept a hundred thousand people working, but my belief is you Do It Yourself.”

How important are image and visuals to your music?

Very. But it’s not like “Haus of Gaga” (laughs). Me blindfolded with naked men feeding me apples and shit.

Rihanna who is also one of NME’s current special edition cover stars, told the magazine how she hate’s product placement in videos [something which Gaga specialises in]

“I hate doing product placement in my videos,” she asserted. “I hate it. I think videos should just tell the story of the song. And then with product placement it all just becomes this big ad campaign.” She added: “Sometimes we have to do it, for whatever political reason, but it’s never my first choice. I don’t like things to be so commercial”

Before we get to M.I.A., don’t you just love Rihanna. When she speaks in her interviews she really sounds as unique as say a kelis then you lsiten to her music. While the music is good there is always that commercial appeal to it so we never can grasp why Rihanna has completely gone balls out and do something completely without commercial appeal.

Now, back to M.I.A. She is telling it like it is. We are monsters fans of Lady GaGa but not for one second do we forget that there is a gigantic machine behind the popstar. As much as she gives off this idea that she comes up with everything… it’s absurd. Sure, she does have large input but what she does is on such a great scale that of course there’s a team. Besides, she’s a damn popstar; there is no such thing as a non-commercialized popstar.

And for those crazy little monsters who have something to say, go somewhere because it is a truth that needs to be accepted. it does not make her anyless talented.