Though M.I.A has been quietly under raps since giving birth to her son over a year ago, she is far from being forgotten. As fans rabid fans patiently await the release of her next album, which is still untitled and slated for a Summer release (she made GG’s 15 Most Anticipated Summer Albums List), the always outspoken Sri Lankan rapper/singer had a few words music’s newest and biggest sensation Lady Gaga. In more or less words, M.I.A calls Gaga’s music ‘not progressive’ and ‘not as weird as she thinks or wants to be’. Here’s is her actual interview statement:
‘Do you think those programmes [X-Factor] and the Internet have destroyed the mythology around popstars?
I don’t know. Again, there’d Lady 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! 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 music, you know? She’s not progressive, but she’s a good mimic. She sounds more like me than I fucking do! That’s a talent and she’s got a great team behind her, but she’s the industry last’s stab at making itself important – saying, ‘You need our money behind you, the endorsements, the stadiums’ Respect to her, she’s keeping a hundred thousand people in work, but my belief is: Do It Yourself.
What do you think? Does M.I.A have a point or is she drumming up drama for album publicity? Leave comments and let me know!
