M.I.A. on...
Lady Gaga
“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. She sounds more like me than I ****ing do!”
Ke$ha
“I’m more concerned by how someone like Kesha can so blatantly copy Uffie. Everyone’s fine with it. Not a ****ing lawsuit in sight.”
The X Factor
“Oh God, I’m so bored by it already, people need to get over it. X Factor shit’s irrelevant.”
Coldplay
“There’s a difference between saying ‘no’ to everything and ‘yes’ to everything. I’m not ****ing Coldplay because I said ‘no’ to certain things.”
Twilight
When the producers of the Twilight and New Moon soundtrack asked M.I.A. to contribute a track, “Jimmy [Iovine, chairmen of M.I.A.’s US label Interscope] had beef with the Twilight people, so he stepped in and told them to **** off.”
Google
“Google’s more powerful than any government now—people think it’s God. They’re storing all our data and one day they’re gonna turn against us.”
Money
“Money is always the enemy of music.”
Everyone
“We have, what, a million songwriters? And probably three risk-takers.”
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