All she wants to do is [POW POW POW POW] [sound of cash register] take their money.

once one of the brightest stars in world pop music

Ha. Haha. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

I downloaded Paper Planes just like everyone else, but it was pretty obvious to me that this woman would be a one hit wonder.

Why does this read like an obituary? Somebody had a shiatty concert. Woopty shiat.

I saw her once at a festival. About 30 seconds in, people were leaving so fast you would have thought the place was on fire.

Adjective Bird Whiskey: Why does this read like an obituary? Somebody had a shiatty concert. Woopty shiat.

Came to say this. The writer even admits that her recent live performance on Letterman was great. I don't know much about MIA, but everyone has crappy concerts.

The best concert I ever saw was Willie Nelson at Ravinia near Chicago. One of the worst concerts I ever saw was Willie Nelson mailing it in a year or so later.

Elzar: If you ever have the misfortune of hearing her at a live concert, she is more tone-deaf than Miley Cyrus if that is even possible. Another "musician" that just can't cut it without being "enchanced" in the studio...

I'll never understand this line of thinking. Yes, there are vapid, useless artists who use autotune or whatever. But the use of technology has no correlation to artistic merit.

Are you still pissed off that Bob Dylan started using those electric instruments?

I've liked MIA, but she certainly isn't for everyone. She sort of went "Kanye" which is disappointing, because it is weird to say I like her now. I really like her albums, I really like her new album, and that is really the bottom line.

When someone says that your were upstaged by Die Antwoord, then you must of really sucked.

FishyFred: I downloaded Paper Planes just like everyone else


Um, am I really in the minority that wanted to strangle her after I was exposed to that piece of shiat? That song is farking painful.

I can't stand her. fark her and her politics. She supports terrorists. The LTTE did nothing but farking BOMB civilians during the 20 years of conflict. A friend of mine from Sri Lanka LOST family members due to that shiat.

So much hate in this thread. I don't go into your Rush threads and biatch there, do I? You guys need to calm down. Yeah, Paper Planes was annoying because it got played everywhere. She's not supposed to be a singer, she's a rapper - so I don't really care how on key she is. She didn't have a trust fund. She probably doesn't have the greatest live show, rappers aren't really known for that. I don't really care about what politics the artists I listen to support or how much they know about them - I care about the music. I just like her albums, which nobody here complaining has listened to.

You probably wouldn't like the albums anyways, I don't know why I am bothering to type this. To each their own.

Link (new window)

Link (new window)

Link (new window)

Link (new window)

Here are some examples of what I like about her. Not saying you will like her or you won't, but don't let her public image make up your mind about her. I totally understand people who don't like her musically, but some people hate on her without ever giving her a chance.

Marla Singer's Laundry: Oh, and that's not her on the albums, that's her producers and the programmers of ProTools.

If you can't do it live, you're not doing it. Period, end of story, STFU, you're wrong. She's Milli Vanilli with an axe-wound and one fewer sock puppet.

If someone played you an album and you liked it, but then you found out they had a bad live show, you would stop listening to them on principle even if you really loved the album? And in the case of TFA, all you are basing their entire live act on is one show? Also, you're basically saying "all hip hop isn't music," which suggests what an open mind you have about music. Liking music on principle isn't actually liking music.

Producers and singers work together in other ways than pro tools. If a singer works with a band, do they have to know how to play the song on every instrument and nail it every single night in order for them to pass your standards? Probably not. You are ruling entire genres of music out because why exactly? To "have taste" in a narrow way that the majority of people wouldn't agree with you on?

Marla Singer's Laundry: SnakeLee: I totally understand people who don't like her musically, but some people hate on her without ever giving her a chance.

Dude. If I don't like her musically, WHY WOULD I LISTEN TO HER MUSIC? That's kind of the point. It doesn't mean I don't like you, because I like your posts, and you're funny and all. I'm not attacking you, or her fans. If she makes you happy, that's great.

But don't sit there and tell me I just have to accept that she has no real musical ability and look past her dismal performances. That's not happening.

My only point is: I get disappointed with people when they just rule out entire genres of music. I hear people all the time say things like "I like all music but country," but if I took even the staunchest anti country person into a time machine to a Bonnie Rait concert in the 80s, they would at least admit that there was merit to it. If I played them Ray Charles "Modern Sounds in Country Western," they would go "okay, I like that."

I personally know some people that won't give MIA a chance because indie kids like her and she talks about shiat that maybe she doesn't fully understand. If you don't like her musically - in other words, because you listened to her and it didn't resonate - then that's fine. It's just that some people that have never heard her outside of a movie trailer swear she is a no talent hack. Not trying to get personal, just trying to challenge people on why they like things.