M.I.A.'s Bullshit Truffle Kerfuffle
We're calling bullshit on this whole, M.I.A. vs. NYT truffle french fries nonsense. Cause honestly, we feel like homegirl is actin' all kindsa childish. Throwing a hissy fit over a quote about french fries! Tweeting a journalist's personal phone number! This is how you spend your time, M.I.A.? Getting pissed off about a percieved blow to your street cred? Isn't there a civil war you should be stopping with your popular rap music or something?
In case you haven't heard, we'll bring you up to speed: In last week's New York Times Sunday Magazine, Lynn Hirschberg's profile of M.I.A. contained the following quote:
"'I kind of want to be an outsider,' she said, eating a truffle-flavored French fry. 'I don't want to make the same music, sing about the same stuff, talk about the same things. If that makes me a terrorist, then I'm a terrorist.'"
The implication is, of course, that M.I.A. talks a big game, but in the end is just a bourgie pop star stuffing her face with expensive appetizers. The singer got pissed, released a diss track on her blog along with her own surreptitious recordings of the interview which seem to indicate that it was Hirschberg who in fact ordered the fries.
Sigh. Ok, first of all, who fucking gives a shit? Granted, Hirschberg's quote was kind of a dick move—and we should remind everyone that she's the same journo whose 1992 profile of Courtney Love in Vanity Fair resulted in the Hole singer's daughter being taken out of her parents' custody for a short time. But we're gonna have to side with the journalist on this one: Talk about unethical! And M.I.A. seriously comes off way worse getting her panties all in a bunch over something as inconsequential as this. French fries for fuck's sake! As controversies go, this one's pretty fucking stupid.
So, we're calling bullshit. Grow up M.I.A.
