M.I.A. is really speaking her mind in the new NME interview. Here’s what she said of Ke$ha ripping Uffie off:
I’m more concerned by how someone like Kesha can so blatantly copy Uffie. Everyone’s fine with it. Not a fucking lawsuit in sight.
On today’s state of music:
There aren’t tribes any more – how can there be when we all live in computers, on social networks? People listen to and access music differently now, so the tribal thing has to be reformatted.
I’m always encouraging people to be more vocal [politics in music]. Google’s more powerful than any government now – people think it’s God. They’re storing all our data and one day they’re gonna turn against us. That’s what my new album’s about – I’m living fucking proof that politics doesn’t work. Every time I breathe it’s documented on my computer and yet I’m still on some stupid list somewhere that says I’m a terrorist.
In people’s hard drives and their brains [music underground], it just hasn’t been outputted yet. It’s really important to be physical, especially now so many of us have become typists and voyeurs. We need a digital moshpit like we’ve never seen, harder than how people were doing it in the punk era. We need that energy, but digitally. It’s coming.
On musicians “selling out”:
Back in 2003 I was in a bedsit, hand-spraying very 12-inch and just wanting to make art. Everybody gets turned into a product push so fast – these weird fucking ‘hipster’ parties promoting Red Bull or whatever. There’s a difference between saying ‘no’ to everything and ‘yes’ to everything. I’m not fucking Coldplay because I said ‘no’ to certain things. When I did my ‘selling-out’ show for MTV they made me a hundred grand and I built a school with it in Africa.
Damn, rude we say. Mathangi Arulpragasam is very opinionated isn’t she. We love M.I.A. but that interview was such an influx of pessimism. We’re all for being “real” and “human” but after reading the entire interview she seemed a tad bit annoying and miserable. Besides that, M.I.A. is pretty damn spectacular. Thanks to Sean.
Rude? Maybe. Honest and pragmatic? Definitely. When i first heard Ke$ha on the radio i thought “Wtf since when did Uffie hit the mainstream?!” so as “rude” as it may seem, i think it’s an absolute joke that she’s cashing in so much on a) disposable superficial music that makes nobody any wiser and b) a sound that is very much taken from Ufie.. but that’s entirely subjective. All in all, she’s pretty out there, and for some people it’s too much.. but i rather that then some see-through bullshit that everybody wants to hear.
Wow! Thanks! I have wanted to note down in my webblog something similar to that. Can I note part of your post to my blog? Thanks again for putting this online. I definitely liked every part of it.
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