It is not simply that MIA is the most interesting rock star in the world today. Though she is and how. Or that she is the most musically gifted rock star around, though after Kanye West she is probably that as well. It is that Pitchfork trashed her awesome 2010 album MAYA and for that alone she is an immediate superstar in my book. My theory is she refused to play a Pitchfork Fest and they got pissy with her.
Signed to roc nation, who have been tweaking her eagerly awaited new album, Matangi, for a year now and releasing well, just a single, the brilliant “Bring The Noise” which I have to remember to put in my top ten song of the year so far next time I write it up, she also has a documentary in the works and from what I can see in the except below it is really really cool. I mean, how many rock stars have a father who used to a terrorist or a backstory that includes hunger as part of the recipe (Oh, yeah, Will I Am, but who else).
M.I.A. is a mess of a backstory and she is like one of those rappers who can’t stop armed robberies even though they’re worth millions. She is Ja Rule. And it is this fury at her own story that makes her one of the mopst increasing cases out there -she is D’Angelo interesting; just a completely fascinating woman who, in the space of three albums, has already created a body of work that has been written and reqritten by everyone since the day it was released.
According to Gigwise, after Roc Nation pulled it: “director Steve Loveridge pulled out of the project, telling Roc Nation that he “really couldn’t give a flying fuck” and that he “would rather die than work on this“.