Thanks, M.I.A.!

Debuting my fall line of Infowears

lmao "Infowears"

First Chuck McGill now M.I.A.

Truly the Grimes of the GWBush era

Surely to truly shield yourself you'd need to cover your entire body, like an astronaut suit or something? You'd still be quite exposed if just your hat and poncho were shielded, I'd think.

lol @ 'ohmni'

M.I.A. endorses Donald Trump in new post:

“Trump is going to ride America through the most challenging 4 years” pic.twitter.com/ekES3DfPiv

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) August 24, 2024

The journey is complete

does she still get invited to official MBE parties by the British Empire? (I don't know if there are any)

Fully worthless now

my long term skepticism validated lol

that’s overperformance tho

Moar like Brain M.I.A right

no just a statement of interest and preference

giving me the mental image “Trump is going to ride America” is unforgivable on its own

She and grimes were my favorite artists around 2012.

ikr

Ugh, fuck this nonsense. Pulling her shit out of my collection and selling it. I haven't kept up for a while but I still liked those first two albums a lot. Can't imagine listening to them now.

i'm ok with remembering the good times here

turns out all i wanna do is BANG BANG BANG BANG and *CHA CHING* and take your money was just a literal expression of her desire to become a republican

I can see how anti-authoritarian impulses can lead to anti-lockdown sentiment and from there the jump to full brainworms is a short skip. So it hasn't ruined her old music for me, I don't think she was dishonest in her sentiments back then but she was never the most considered political thinker and it's lead to where it's lead. Not trying to excuse her tbc, fuck her.

I just bought arular and maya cds at local charity shop for a buck each i haven't listened yet but sheesh ...timing

They're still great, I mean they're the reason people care enough to be disappointed by her.

i dunno if i should take it to the Rare Opinions thread but imo MAYA + Matangi > Arular + Kala

Daniel otm. I ditched my few Ryan Adams CDs but this isn't that.

“so you married a billionaire” is definitely in this for me, but i dont know anything maybe he was cool for a billionaire.

erm also if youre that big a star maybe all your besties are suddenly billionaires and the market is the market

Kala > Matangi > Arular >>>>>>>> Maya; I stopped paying attention after those 4

The odds that I play any of these again are very low

I think marrying a billionaire is the natural progression, but once you hit that point, you should realize that the world no longer needs your terrible political opinions and deep thoughts

billionaires tend to be bad at realizing such things

Seems just like a pretty easy mark for these narcissistic sociopaths like Russell Brand and Donald Trump

Though if she herself is one, water does tend to find its own level

she's supporting a guy who, if he saw her walking through the airport, would probably reflexively say "she's one of them, detain her, deport her!"

nah if she has the right bling and protection, then he'd be like "HI, YOU LOOK WONDERFUL, WHERE ARE GOING AND WHY ARE WE IN AN AIRPORT? SERIOUS MONEY NEVER GOES TO AIRPORTS. WE MAKE THEM LOOK GREAT THOUGH, THEY SHOULD PAY US."

its moronic even by her own dumb standards – supporting a white supremacist anxious to do nuclear strikes bc he might also appoint RFK as HHS secretary, which even RFK doesn’t seem to think theres a great chance of that happening. toddler logic.

Not to mention that the lockdowns and Fauci, Operation Warp Speed etc. were all part of the Trump admin.

probably a cynical take but her revolutionary politics were a bit of window dressing and it was always a con, she was never a deep thinker, she was always an idiot, just absolutely a lunkhead. she dispensed with all her supposed philosophies and threw in with the other side as soon as she recognized no one was paying attention to her anymore.

she kind of admitted it one time, I think she defended herself against criticism once saying something like "why can't ignorant people make political statements" or something.

She’s always had brain worms but we ignored it because she was dropping bangers. Now she’s not even doing that there’s no reason to. See also: Azealia Banks https://t.co/xCFqeVthc4

— Congolesa Rice (@judeinlondon) August 25, 2024

I disagree with that because Azealia Banks sucked from the get go

the most surprising heel turn i've seen was Cassandra Wilson, i mean not that i'd thought about Cassandra Wilson recently but when i saw her social media awhile back it was like a Chernobyl-level radiation exposure to MAGA.

Wait WHAT

I found that out a few years ago. Sad.

omar otm. Its easy to forget that in the Bush Jr/Iraq war era when she rose to prominence a lot of fucked up conspiracy brainworm shit was tolerated on the left. She was always like this but it kind of went unexamined for a long time bc even a stopped clock is right once every few administrations.

yes

a lot of fucked up conspiracy brainworm shit was tolerated on the left

some of the loudest Anti-Trump, far left voices on my wall now used to share the following things once upon a time:

"Be aware of the tell-tale signs of ASPARTAME POISONING"
"If FLOURIDE is so bad for us as all of us know, why is the government PUTTING IT IN OUR WATER?"
"Trayvon Martin was murdered, but it's ridiculous to say that George Zimmermann only called the cops on him because of race"
"Gary Johnson needs to get 5% this election so he gets government funding"
"I have my kids on an alternate vaccine schedule - there's just too many shots given at once"
"I'm against racism, but affirmative action is the wrong way to fight it"
"there's too much chemicals in food!"

nevermind the mother of a friend of mine who littered the back window of her van with anti-vaxx links and messages to where she couldn't see out the back window.

That reminds me it’s been years since I’ve seen the ‘90s Ford minivan that was covered front to rear with conspiracy and Ron Paul stickers. Wonder if that guy died of the ‘rona or just wound up in prison because of Jan 6.

Happened to glance at her insta and she’s shilling for anti surveillance clothing.

NASA has some for sale

yeah i found out about the cassandra wilson thing on steve hoffman forums of all places. She has kind of diligently scrubbed her social media though, I dunno if she's changed her mind or just realized it was going to destroy her music career

I’m going to get yelled at for saying this, but there is a small but significant number of people who went from Ron Paul to Bernie to probably RFK. Not a huge number of people, of course and it’s absolutely not a knock on Bernie. It’s just people without any sort of core values hitching onto something that seems anti-system.

Her recent twitter just has some RFK retweets but this is still up

Oh you poor thing. You have no clue. Remove at will because I have never received a cent in artist royalties from #BigRecka. They are masters of creative accounting! #Connectthedots https://t.co/XveEkfI9yN

— Cassandra Wilson 🇺🇸 (@reallycassandra) November 21, 2020

well she's probably right about that, royalty payments are shit. not like trump is going to fix it for her