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I honestly prefer having to endure a few fashion blunders (like this dress, which I personally hate) than see her lose her personal style and look like everyone else.

Over 100 photograps.
 

Oh dont get me wrong I love Howard ahhaha. He is funny. I dont really like Robin either so totally agree with you. I just think was kind off cruel in the sense that Lana is not that popular in US and his show is very popular so the jab couldve have been lighter

I'm pretty sure that was yet another silly attempt at humour tbh - although saying 'So Legit' is a new track / from some album is just plain inexcusable ignorance. And of course they know; playing down her popularity & relevance is just yet another way of taking a jab at Lana. That's Howard Stern for you.
 
Howard's OK in my book (if you're not easily offended & can take disproportionate amounts of really crude humour - which I can) but I never liked Robin for some reason.

I honestly prefer having to endure a few fashion blunders (like this dress, which I personally hate) than see her lose her personal style and look like everyone else.

I honestly prefer having to endure a few fashion blunders (like this dress, which I personally hate) than see her lose her personal style and look like everyone else.

I really love it too, Lana looks great in it although I think it is difficult to pull it off. I know what you mean about guys not having the 'unexpected' factor because I think that's why Lana looks so good in it. I'm a girl though but I'm quite petite too so it would probably look quite ridiculously baggy and long on me.
 
Tbh, I think I'd be better wearing a classic Lizzy look with high waisted jeans with some middle-aged looking floral blouse and a shiny baseball jacket.

most of the inspiration behind lana's writing is about video games. she used to be a video game nerd, hence video games.mp3 ~gamer girl~ that song is about a guy she met while playing video games online. if she stopped playing, their luv stopped too! </3
gimme them gold coins   
 
 
mafiosi hit type  
 
 
she also had a love affair with GAS STATIONS, especially one named K. it's where she got her beloved diet mountain dew after all
 
 
 
 
 
close tha thread! i figured it all out! 
 
im bored at work sry   

Neal popularised it here but 4chan invented it

Everyday when I get home and there's nobody else in the house (except my cat and I think this is the reason why she's nearly deaf), I go in the bathroom where it's really echo-y and I sing on the top of my voice to the live version of Million Dollar Man. I've managed to get myself to believe I sound really cool, just like Lana but once I recorded myself just out of curiosity and... I don't want to talk about it 

I'd take nothing. My mum and I used to play this game when I was 5 and I used to say, "my toys, of course". But she said the truly brave would take nothing because they're not afraid to lose everything. So yeah, nothing.

I get what you mean. I just dont think she is controversial.

Mostly because of her controversial political opinions (I only know a little bit about that though since Sri Lankan politics really aren't my thing, but I know she's often been criticized by her own countrymen because of her political beliefs) and how she's not afraid to shock in order to spread her message / be politically incorrect / go against the opinion of the majority. She does it for something she truly believes in and fights for, and not simply as a marketing strategy to get easy publicity and pop star fame, and I really fucking respect that.

I like her a lot. Really admire her strong-mindedness and 'rebel with a cause' attitude. In terms of her music I only ever listened to Kala and a couple more songs though, still have to listen to her other 2 albums. Tbh I think I could very easily stan for her, and that's definitely saying something.
 
Oh, and I also think 'Bad Girls' is quite simply the best music video ever, bar none.
 

I was going to create a thread about her. The thing was I think she is so plural that the thread would take me forever to create. OMFG I have so much to talk and hear what others think about M.I.A  Not only the songs and visuals but everthing in between. My dad gave me her first album and said I would like it and said she was very interesting not only for her music. From that day on I have being a hard core fan. M.I.A to me is one of those few artists that doesn't matter if you like or not her work/music she is a necessary artist IMO.
 
She is the only artist that talks about really important issues and uses pop, visuals and rap to express her visions of the things wrong in the world we don't see (places like Sri Lanka where her parents were born and she lived during her childhood. Also certain parts of the middle east and the relations between media and governments interests.
 
Like in Bad Girls: do you know what they use to punish boys and womens in Sry Lanka and parts of the middle east? Chains. "The chains hits my chest when I am banging on the desk. My chain  hits my chest when I banging on the radio". Also notice she says specifically Cherokee Gasoline in Bad Girls. Guess why? The gasoline is the important part.
 
M.I.A is genius imo. She is quite big in Rio de Janeiro (São Paulo as well but in Rio she is very known) her beats are based a lot in Funk. The frenetic beat that comes from the slums in Rio. Funk is usually also very political or in his poor version sex explicit lyrics.
 
Her life story is very interesting as well. She was born in London moved as a baby with her parents back to Sri Lanka. Her father was one of the founders of a non violent student group against the government. She barelly saw her father when she was groing up in SRy Lanka. Since the police didn't leave her family alone her mom moved back to London with her and her siblings. She grow up in the a refugee area in London. Until today when the midia wants to descredit her they make assumptions she is a terrotist in discuise. The Sry Lanka government has called her out several times.
 
Born Free Is also genius. The fact she used gingers to illustrate the sitiuation was great. Was taken out of youtube and the air in several countries including USA
 

 
M.I.A doesn't give much interviews too thank god she is clearly not good at it. Looks usually high (I bet she is lol) and sometimes she makes you read between the lines

OMG @  :crying4: :kiss:
 
And wow, I was nominated?! And people actually voted for me, wow. Thank you, guys!!!
 
Anyway (and no disrespect for the other 3!), I voted for @@Trash Magic.

I'll post that new week or something, here is a new poster (which i prefer) I made after the first poster was released. 
 

 
The full size is really good quality, you can buy a print of it here: http://society6.com/TrashMagic/TROPICO_Print 

100 hours on photoshop.
 
   

I don't think that means much, tbh. Maybe at first he just didn't associate sultry, vampy, successful Lana with cute, struggling artist Lizzie? Or maybe he simply doesn't remember a girl he once had a one night stand with or something? Not an uncommon thing for a guy in a rock band, especially one that looks like Jimmy.
 
My point is, even if he isn't lying it doesn't necessarily mean they never met or had no contact whatsoever with eachother, imo. I kinda believe something happened between them (not even necessarily a fling, she could have just met him one night and thought they shared a 'special connection' or something like that), something that was completely meaningless to him but fuelled (or initiated?) her obsession.

I don't think that means much, tbh. Maybe at first he just didn't associate sultry, vampy, successful Lana with cute, struggling artist Lizzie? Or maybe he simply doesn't remember a girl he once had a one night stand with or something? Not an uncommon thing for a guy in a rock band, especially one that looks like Jimmy.
 
My point is, even if he isn't lying it doesn't necessarily mean they never met or had no contact whatsoever with eachother, imo. I kinda believe something happened between them (not even necessarily a fling, she could have just met him one night and thought they shared a 'special connection' or something like that), something that was completely meaningless to him but fuelled (or initiated?) her obsession.

I don't think that means much, tbh. Maybe at first he just didn't associate sultry, vampy, successful Lana with cute, struggling artist Lizzie? Or maybe he simply doesn't remember a girl he once had a one night stand with or something? Not an uncommon thing for a guy in a rock band, especially one that looks like Jimmy.
 
My point is, even if he isn't lying it doesn't necessarily mean they never met or had no contact whatsoever with eachother, imo. I kinda believe something happened between them (not even necessarily a fling, she could have just met him one night and thought they shared a 'special connection' or something like that), something that was completely meaningless to him but fuelled (or initiated?) her obsession.

Just read what you'd written and tbh it's me who should learn2readingcomprehension.