Thursday 08-04-2010
Words: Raj Kumar
The UK’s NME magazine have relaunched with ten different covers including British Asian artist M.I.A. M.I.A had some interesting things to say about Lady Gaga in her feature interview...
Do you think those programs and the internet have destroyed the mythology around popstars?
“There’s 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.” She added: “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 disco, you know?
“She’s not progressive, but she’s a good mimic. She sounds more like me than I f****** do! That’s a talent and she’s got a great team behind her, but she’s the industry’s last stab at making itself important – saying ‘You need our money behind you, the endorsements, the stadiums’.
“Respect to her, she’s kept a hundred thousand people working, but my belief is you Do It Yourself.”
How important are image and visuals to your music?
Very. But it’s not like “Haus of Gaga” (laughs). Me blindfolded with naked men feeding me apples and shit.
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