QOTD: M.I.A. on 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.”
—M.I.A. to the NME on April 7, on Lady Gaga.
– Interview Magazine, June 2010
i’m not much into M.I.A.’s music either, but this perfectly sums up why i’m not into Gaga. her costumes? fantastic (but i’m giving a lot of credit to her costume designers there too). her music? horrible, to the point that it annoys me so much that i can’t bear the thought of listening to it just to see the performance art.
lots of other good quotes in there too, such as the opening one:
Filed in culture and random linkage, music, QOTD | Comment (0)“I find the new Justin Bieber video more violent and more of an assault to my eyes and senses than what I’ve made.”
—M.I.A. to NME.com on May 12, responding to the furor over the video for her new song “Born Free,” which was yanked from YouTube.
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