May 27th, 2010 / 1:13 pm
Snippets
Snippets
Nick Antosca—
New York Times Magazine on hipster darling M.I.A., aka Maya Arulpragasm: Maybe kind of a complete poseur? UPDATE: M.I.A. pissed off by story, tries to trick fans into prank calling the reporter, Lynn Hirschberg.
if i could read through nine pages of that, i’d be able to decide for myself, but i’ll just trust you and my gut
We live in a new Baroque age. Everybody with an internet connection — and most everyone without one — is maybe kind of a complete poseur.
Billionaire prank-phone-callers are the new terrorists.
Yeesh, what a boring brat. Anyone who could muster 9 pages on her is worthy of a Pulitzer.
if i could read through nine pages of that, i’d be able to decide for myself, but i’ll just trust you and my gut
We live in a new Baroque age. Everybody with an internet connection — and most everyone without one — is maybe kind of a complete poseur.
Lynn Hirschberg is a cunt. M.I.A. is not the first to want to slice her seven ways to Sunday.
Billionaire prank-phone-callers are the new terrorists.
Yeesh, what a boring brat. Anyone who could muster 9 pages on her is worthy of a Pulitzer.
Why?
Lynn Hirschberg is a cunt. M.I.A. is not the first to want to slice her seven ways to Sunday.
Why?
Hopefully this link won’t get spam-filtered. It sort of echoed my gut feeling after reading. Not that figures like MIA who straddle celebrity and social justice politics are beyond reproach or critique by any means, but I felt like a lot of Hirschberg’s blows were sorta facile and tired:
http://www.racewire.org/archives/2010/05/mia_v_nytimes_whos_right.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+racewireblog+%28RaceWire%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
I dunno, that post didn’t do much to convince me that MIA isn’t a total hypocrite.
Maybe it’s time to rehabilitate the idea of the hypocrite a little bit. Isn’t it better to promulgate a laudable ethics, even if failing to live up to it oneself, than failing on both counts? The article does question MIA’s ethical stance in itself, but the drumming up of these contradictions (ooh, she’s eating fancy french fries!) to point to her hypocrisy seems petty, and I think obscures real issues of inequality — such as that it exists to such a massive extent in the first place.
The other celebs in glitzy pads who don’t even pay lip service to issues of social justice, who enjoy incredible wealth and go so far as to promote a narrative of their own deserving it all, are the bigger boners, in my book.
Hopefully this link won’t get spam-filtered. It sort of echoed my gut feeling after reading. Not that figures like MIA who straddle celebrity and social justice politics are beyond reproach or critique by any means, but I felt like a lot of Hirschberg’s blows were sorta facile and tired:
http://www.racewire.org/archives/2010/05/mia_v_nytimes_whos_right.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+racewireblog+%28RaceWire%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
I dunno, that post didn’t do much to convince me that MIA isn’t a total hypocrite.
Maybe it’s time to rehabilitate the idea of the hypocrite a little bit. Isn’t it better to promulgate a laudable ethics, even if failing to live up to it oneself, than failing on both counts? The article does question MIA’s ethical stance in itself, but the drumming up of these contradictions (ooh, she’s eating fancy french fries!) to point to her hypocrisy seems petty, and I think obscures real issues of inequality — such as that it exists to such a massive extent in the first place.
The other celebs in glitzy pads who don’t even pay lip service to issues of social justice, who enjoy incredible wealth and go so far as to promote a narrative of their own deserving it all, are the bigger boners, in my book.
MIA seems okay.
MIA seems okay.
i think the point was conveyed when M.I.A. didn’t even know that it was Sri Lankian new years day (and the Sri Lankian photog she was visiting did)… I would have thought she would have known that… Still like her music though.
i think the point was conveyed when M.I.A. didn’t even know that it was Sri Lankian new years day (and the Sri Lankian photog she was visiting did)… I would have thought she would have known that… Still like her music though.