MIA turned down sponsorship deals with both soft drink giants and I would be a whole helluva lot more impressed if her father-in-law wasn’t a major stockholder in Seagram’s.
However, MIA claims and some point she will accept corporate sponsorship if only to fund her record company, N.E.E.T. The two acts on N.E.E.T. I am aware of are, Sleigh Bells and Rye Rye, are so good you gotta think whoever MIA’s A&R folks are they seriously know their shit.
I got this story off contactmusic as I did the prior one about Lady Gaga. When you see a lotta stuff from contactmusic it means one of two things:
1) Helen Bach got busy (she was having a major meltdown last time I heard from her).
or
2) I got busy at work the day before.
In this case it was both.