26 Feb
Singer/Rapper. Songwriter. Producer. Artist. Fashion Designer. Filmmaker. N.E.E.T. record label owner. Activist. Mother of Ikhyd.
“I’ve always found it easier to create when you’re just sort of left on your own to deal with your own shit and your own mess and your own whatever. And I think having a baby makes me a lot more focused in terms of time.” -M.I.A. on Spinner.com
M.I.A. official Bird Flu video
During my latest trip to Brooklyn and northern New Jersey, my best friends and I recorded ourselves performing the infamous Top That rap from the classic 80s film Teen Witch. What follows is that rap plus a montage of shenanigans that most people would consider embarrassing.
As I sat in this room, a make-shift theatre in the back of an organic grocery shop, with four women and two nursing babies, I was carried by their momentum. Surrounded by their art and baby food jars felt as organic as the produce shelved around me.
Oh, thank God, I thought. They’re porn-friendly moms. Now I can relax and enjoy my third cup of coffee.
I busted out the old sewing box my mom gave me years ago and fished around for a solution. And what did I find? A Led Zeppelin patch I got from the record store I worked in 15 YEARS AGO. Here’s what went through my head at this discovery…
Remember how I wrote about going home to Virginia for Christmas? Well, I left out a little something we now refer to as “The Disco Christmas Sleepover of 2009,” wherein my best friends and I drank too much and decided to do a dance video.
I read yesterday that her new album should be out this year… June. I guess she left these messages on twitter:
“BANNED FROM LEAVING THE U.S, FAMILY BANNED FROM COMING TO U.S TO SEE ME , BABY, RECORDING LP, SIGNING THE DOPEST ACTS THATS HITTIN 2010″
“I THINK IM READY”
“JUNE 2010″
Yeah, I hope it’s good stuff. Heard one song that was super mellow. Maybe she’s tired from motherhood!