There was once a time when the letters M.I.A. only referred to their original meaning of missing in action. But then Slumdog Millionaire came out, and hipsters all over the world were heartbroken to discover their favorite Sri Lankan female rapper splashed all over the iTunes top 100 charts. And since then, all M.I.A. (real name: Maya) could do was make headlines:
she insulted Lady Gaga,
she ragged on Justin Bieber,
she made a video about redhead genocide, she
told Nylon that Facebook and Google are evil tools of the government. She came her new album, out July 13, an un-Google-able name: /\/\/\Y/\. She complained the US was trying to stop her from travelling out of the country. But now, it appears, she's just lost her mind: after being interviewed for
a profile piece for the New York Times and feeling insulted by it herself,
she tweeted the journalist's telephone number and encouraged her fans to call it. The article points out several parts of Maya's lacking personality traits: her desire to perform at the Grammy's last year after her baby's due date ("The combination of being nearly naked, hugely pregnant, singing incendiary lyrics and having the eyes of the world upon her was too much to resist."), her polarizing stance on Sri Lankan politics ("She only made the situation worse. What happened in Sri Lanka was not a genocide. To not be honest about that or the Tigers does more damage than good. When Maya does a polarizing interview, it doesn’t help the cause of justice."), and her comments on terrorism (" 'All of what I’m wearing is American,' Maya said. 'If I was a terrorist, I wouldn’t be wearing American clothing.' "), among other things. Maya responded by posting the author's private phone number to the web, in a classic case of not being able to take what you dish out.
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