When Celebrities Blog

M.I.A. is PISSED, and she's venting her frustrations on her official blog:
"PAPER PLANES VIDEO
LOOK I KNOW THERE ARE HATERS OUT THERE, I DEAL WITH IT EVERYDAY THATS NO FUCKING BIG DEAL AND IVE DEALT WITH WORSE IN MY LIFE, A FEW PEOPLE TALKING SHIT DONT MATTER TO ME, BUT TWISTING TRUTH ISNT THE LESSON I WANNA LEARN IN MY TIME IN MUSIC, SO WHO EVER THAT IS DOING IT , I WANNA SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT
1, I ORIGINALLY WANTED TO SHOOT THE VIDEO IN A FACTORY ON THE BORDER OF
EQUADOR, BUT COULDNT. I WAS TOURING THE U.S, I COULDA BEEN ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD RIGHT THEN BUT THERE I WAS IN AMERICA, IN NYC, IN BROOKLYN, IN BEDSTUY , I WAS TORN BETWEEN SCRAPIN SHOWS IN AMERICA AND MEETING AMERICAN FANS OR SHOOTING IN NYC ON MY ONLY DAY OFF I'D HAD IN 4 MONTHS AND GETTING ON WITH IT.
2, SO THAT WAS THAT! I NEVER MADE A VIDEO IN AMERICA AND HEY ITS STILL A PART OF WHAT I DO AND SAY, ITS WAS STILL VALID, SO I WAS READY TO ROLL WITH IT.
3, YOU ALL KNOW HOW THE SONG SOUNDS, THATS WHY WHEN U GO ON YOUTUBE 400, 000 PEOPLE WOULD RATHER LISTEN THE SONG AS IT IS AND STARE AT SOME PICTURE THEN TO ACTUALLY WATCH A VIDEO
4, WHEN LETTERMAN CENSORD ME IT WAS WAC OF COURSE!!!!!! , AND YES I FELT SOOOOOO BAD FOR WHAT THEY DID TO MY SOUND. I WAS ABEL TO SOUND CHECK FOR THAT SHOW AND THEY LET ME SOUND CHECK FINE, THEN ON THE ACTUAL TAPING MY SOUND WAS SOOO DIFFERENT FROM WHAT ID AGREED, AS SOON AS I OPENED MY MOUTH THE DIFFERENCE BLEW ME AWAY, I FELT I WAS GETTING BULLIED ON NATIONAL TELEVISON, AND I COULDNT EVEN REACH OUT TO MY LABELS OR MY MANAGEMENT TO HELP, SINCE THEY ARE NEW TO WHAT HAPPENS TO AN ARTIST LIKE ME IN MAINSTEAM AMERICAN CULTURE.
SO THEY TRIED TO SHUT ME DOWN AGAIN. I MADE THE PAPER PLANES VIDEO. I MADE IT HOW THEY WANTED. NO VIOLENCE. AMBIGUOUS. MTV - FRIENDLY. NOW TODAY, I CHECK YOUTUBE AND SEE THE LEAKED MTV PAPER PLANES VIDEO UP FOR THE FIRST TIME. I CLICKED ON IT AND OUT COMES THIS FUCKED UP MESS WITH DOUBLE-TRACKED BULLSHIT MESS
WHO THE THE FUCK IS DOING THIS TO ME?????
THE VIDEO WAS SABOTAGED FOR WHATEVER REASON AND IM DISAPPOINTED THAT MTV HAS HAD SUCH A MAJOR ROLE IN THIS. THE BLOGGERS WHO ARE LAZY ENOUGH TO FOLLOW THE MTV LINK AND POST UP AND COMMENT ON THE SOUND WHEN THAT HASNT BEEN COMPROMISED AND THE GUNSHOT ARENT REPLACED AND EDITED MAKES ME SAD. I DID FIGHT FOR THE SOUND , BECAUSE PUTTING MEANINGS IN YOUR VIDEOS, IN MY OPINION IS A DYING ART. I CAN FILM MY SELF ANYWHERE ANYTIME AND LET YOU KNOW THE TRUTH , BUT THE SONG IS WHAT I WANTED TO PRESERVE IN THIS CASE.
TO ALL MY FANS, LOOK, ITS LIKE THIS,
IM LEARNING THINGS ABOUT THIS WORLD WITH YOU, I WANT YOU TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO ME , I WANT YOU TO SEE HOW PEOPLE WILL SIT AND SPEND ALL SUNDAY TEARIN ME DOWN FOR SOMETHING I DIDNT EVEN MAKE OR PUT OUT, SO PEOPLE WELCOME TO MODERN DAY PROPAGANDA MESSAGE MANGLING.
IN 2007, AN OUTSIDER OPINION WILL BE CONFRONTED THIS WAY , AND THIS IS HOW THE BATTLE GOES, MY MESSAGES AND IDEAS AND MEANING WILL ALWAYS BE BROUGHT TO YOU WITH SLIGHTLY TAINTED CHANNELS. IF YOU SUPPORT ME BE SMART, AND KNOW THAT.
I LOVE YOU, U KEEP ME GOING.
XXXXXX
MAYA
HERE IS THE REAL AMERICAN VERSION WITH GUN SHOTS!"





















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who the fuck is this bitch
WHO……?
Dude yer a fag
first!
love MIA
What an illiterate bitch!
They should play it on the Who Gives A Shit channel
first???
M.I.A is the coolest.
She's right. Censorship = bullshit.
Let's not upset the masses. Paleeease.
No really… who is this????
MIA TORONTO LOVES YOU!!!!! DON'T BOTHER WITH THESE LITTLE MTV ASSHOLES OR THE MTV CROWD THEY ARE A BUNCH OF LOSERS ANYWAY YOU'RE TOO GOOD FOR THEM AND THEY DON'T DESERVE YOU!! THEY ARE TRYING TO MAKE YOU INTO SOMETHING YOU AREN'T, FUCK BEING MTV FRIENDLY,FUCK MTV, AND FUCK ALL THE STUPID PEOPLE WATCHING MTV!! YOU SUCK!!!DON'T LET THESE FUCKERS MAKE YOU INTO SOMETHING YOUR NOT! MTV FRIENDLY? FUCK THAT!!!! THATS NOT THE MIA I KNOW AND LOVE!!!!!!!!! FUCK THEM!!!
She should be able to express her music. she is one of the few artists who are truly original.
FIGURES A FUCKING MUSLIM WANTS TO SHOOT A GODDAMN VIDEO WITH PLANES FLYING AROUND IN NEW YORK. TRYING TO SAY SOMETHING YOU CAMEL JOCKEY?
well luckily for her, no one really knows who she is, so it won't affect her career. lol
Who is this person????
YOU GUYS DIDNT YOU SEE HER ON MTV IN SUMMER?? SHE IS RELATED TO BIN LADEN. SHE WENT ON HOW SHE HATED HIM AND DOESNT BLEIEVE IN THE SHIT HE HAS DONE. THATS FINE AND ALL BUT SHE ACTUALLY THINKS AMERICA IS GOING TO ACCEPT HER CRAPPY MUSIC??
Yeah. But no. But yeah.
This song is TERRIBLE with or without gunshots. I mean really, really, terrible. I thought it was a joke when I first heard it. Apparently this is an example of a "hard" british bitch who's gonna take ya money. Literally, figuratively, up my assly… Somebody punch this little girl in the face.
zzzzzz….zzzzz……zzzzz
who the fuck cares anyway? Like it matters…NOT
Learn how to spell… its ECUADOR.. not EQUADOR..my peeps dont want you there anyway
I love you M.I.A….I loed you since the begining,
Ignore the Big Jew engine, babe. Ignore all people who don't want to hear your truth, because cash rules everything around them. Cream get the money, baby.
Kisses.
I love you M.I.A….I loed you since the begining,
Ignore the Big Jew engine, babe. Ignore all people who don't want to hear your truth, because cash rules everything around them. Cream get the money, baby.
Kisses.
i just saw the video and the shit was wack anyway.
i love mia…stand up for yourself…corporate america and this government are gonna tear down our rights…people need to wake up.
i love mia…stand up for yourself…corporate america and this government are gonna tear down our rights…people need to wake up.
This woman cannot write for shit! She sounds so ghetto and so illiterate, it isn't even funny. Go to school girl; learn how to write, spell, speak, etc.
it would appear that she has the same, or lack of, spell check button as YOU do, mario…i weep for our future….morons, all of you!
All of you who don't know who M.I.A. is, you are all RETARDS!
She is awsome!!! Inovative and an extremely creative artist.
What about Biggie, TuPac, Dre and Snoop and a dozen other rappers, they all have gun shots in there music!
if you want to go to ecuador you should learn how the country is actually spelled.
This bitch Sucks!
you people who don't know m.i.a. are the lemmings that eat up anything that mtv or television serves you on a graphically stylish platter. we can celebrate an abusive mother or criminal heiresses for the talent but once something of real value comes along, it's horrible.
if you knew anything about her, you'd understand her music and her message. this is a great song and i'm sorry to hear about all of this b.s., maya.represent the world town!
Sweetheart…go back to school and get an education. Make yo momma proud. Get over it hun, you will be a has-been in about a month or so. awwww…poor thing. awwww
I understand why Maya is miffed.
The difference between the two videos is vast.
Whomever is responsible is a philistine.
And a big pussy.
M.I.A Diarrhea…hahahahahaha…..ahhhhhhhaaaaaaaaa…..bwaaahhhhhh
WOW!! I can't believe how many RACISTS we have in the house. You people that are saying unintelligent, uneducated comments about someone you CLEARLY have no idea about are TRASH. It's too bad your real names aren't attached to such disgusting comments—and be exposed for the racist morons that you are. Really. Why don't you educate yourself on a subject before you jump right and say things that are evil and lacking truth. PEREZ scold this idiot readers of yours.
oh yeah PS
GO BACK TO YOUR OLD SOUND…..PLEASE……KALA WAS OK BUT I MISS YOUR OLD SOUND AND IT SUITED YOU SO MUCH BETTER!!!! KALA ISNT NEARLY AS ORIGINAL AND UNIQUE….
Re: Clementine – hi
my name is jacqueline…it truly is. sometimes people call me jac. im not a racist.
call the waaaaaaaaaaaaaaahmbulance…..your music and your video is trash….not really sure what version you wanted out but im gonna go ahead and assume its just as much garbage as what ive already heard…..go back to your country and torture them with your music, we already have enough talentless airheads polluting our airwaves
THIS WAS FILMED ON MY STREET! FULTON STREET BROOKLYN BABY.
what the fuck is this bitch babbling about???????????
furthermore is she doing the rolling with the homies dance in this video? i believe so…..go swallow a bullet you loser
this stupid bitch needs to get over herself. her song sucks, censored or not, it sucks both ways.
Who is this skank and why does anyone care?
she sounds mentally unstable
Who is M.I.A.?! She is a badass bitch and a great musician! Try culturing yourself with stuff that's not on the radio!
Keep going, M.I.A.! WE LOVE YOU!
Well, A.Q.
Everyone in the world must be a retard, because no one knows who the hell she is. Probably because she has no talent and DOES NOT MATTER. Did that thought ever enter that pea brain of yours?
haha…this bitch is so full of herself. continue blaming everyone else for your problems, your record is trash and your rapping is weak. Diplo did you a big favor and all you can do is spit in his face.
Mel, #44: Most everything on the radio these days is garbage. She fits right in. You must be proud.
wonder why my post is now missing? I posted the lyrics… whatev. I hated the video, her lyrics but the music itself was upbeat and fun. BUT also old school rap. someone else said that, & I agree.
WAHHH WAHHH WAHH~~ EXCUSES EXCUSES,IF UR GOING TO MAKE IT BIG THAN ACCEPT OUR FAULTS AND QUIT BLAMING, LETTERMAN, MTV AND EVERYBODY ELSE OUT THERE. IF U WANTED UR VIDEO TO BE MORE HOW U WANTED IT, THAN BITCH U NEED DOUGH TO RODCE UR OWN SHIT, LOOK AT 50 CENT, NOONE CENSORS HIM AND HIS MESSAGE THATS BC HE HAS HIS OWN FINANCIAL BACKINGS, IF U HAD THAT THEN ONLY YOUR MESSAGE WOULD BE OUT THERE NOT THE 50 OTHER WHITE SUITS DICTATING UR CAREER. STOP BEING SO OBLIVIOUS AND SOUNDING LIKE A CRYING BABY, SECONDLY GUN SHOTS AND VIOLENCE DO NOT MAKE U HARD AND MORE LIKEABLE! STOP WHINING AND TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR CAREER AND REPRESENT YOURSELF. OR GET WITH THE RGHT PEOPLE!
No offense, BUT WHO THE F**K is this bitch anyway????????? NEVER HEARD OF YA SWEETIE and NO ONE GIVES A SHIT ABOUT YOUR DUMBASS VIDEO!!!!
No offense, BUT WHO THE F**K is this bitch anyway????????? NEVER HEARD OF YA SWEETIE and NO ONE GIVES A SHIT ABOUT YOUR DUMBASS VIDEO!!!!
No offense, BUT WHO THE F**K is this bitch anyway????????? NEVER HEARD OF YA SWEETIE and NO ONE GIVES A SHIT ABOUT YOUR DUMBASS VIDEO!!!!
FINALLY!! an artist not willing to compromise her artistic vision it is about fucking time!!!! M.I.A. don't let them fuck wit u. That shit on Letterman was TERRIBLE AWFUL
Some some some I some I murder
Some I some I let go
Some some some I some I murder
Some I some I let go
uhm, maybe this should be checked into!! MURDERER! She killed my ears with these lyrics!!
Sucks!!!! and Horrible!!!! are words that come to mind. ick.
Niggas are too stupid to use caps-lock.
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yo who the hell isd this chick?????????????
WOW….SHE SOUNDS LIKE A VERY ARTICULATE EDUCATED DUMB ASS!
SHUT UP AND GO BACK INTO THE JUNGLE OR DESERT WHERE YOU CAME FROM. POOR LITTLE GIRL….EVERYONE PICKING ON YOU! HONEY YOU HAVE A LOT OF GROWING UP TO DO AND A LONG WAY TO GO AND YOU JUST DO NOT HAVE IT……..I know get a job at McDonalds.
What a MESS this no good whore is.. BOO HOO you big baby.. NObody gives a shit about your or what you claim to be music.. YOU SUCK!!!
i saw her letterman performance and i can't believe they censored her like that! if you look at her face the first time they censor the gunshot sounds, you can tell that she had no clue they were gonna do that to her.
and to all the people that say she has no talent, WAKE UP! most of the top 40 american bullshit is filled with pretty people with no talent! they do not write their own shit, they just do what they're told. MIA writes her own shit and is making social commentary.
She's from London.
She's amazing, love the song paper planes . I SAW HER SHOW in los angeles, and she's totally hot , LOVE M.I.A!!!!
ID RATHER GO DEAF THAN HAVE TO HEAR THAT GOD AWFUL SONG AGAIN!!!! And she can NOT sing. God , if I knew you could sound like that and get on the radio , I'd have become a singer.
Wow, she's not white, blonde, filthy rich with multiple DUI's? She's clearly trash. HAHA.
I can understand why her music doesn't appeal to a lot of "mainstream" people, considering most of the drums she uses don't exist in american music. Though her lyrics are sparse, they are fucking packed with meaning, lots of slang that the average middle class joe probably won't understand. The song is about money and drugs, the politics and business of it, and the freedom and risk of the trade. The song is brilliant. She a great producer, visual artist, performer, she's great to her fans, maintains cultural/political identity and integrity. I think she's a fabulous role model.
But then again, i'm sure all the trophy wives, investment bankers, and spoiled 15 years olds are really in touch with what "real music" is. And no, making only $12,000 a year is not fucking poverty.
YOUR A DUMB JIGAWHOE MIA.. Your music (if thats what you call is ) SUCKS ASS and its god awful.. why dont you back to the plantation..
Re: THIS GIRL HAS NO TALENT –
wha?..
dude..she's sri-lanken….probably about as related to bin laden as you are..
her ol man was a tamil tiger from what i understand… if none of this makes sense, g'head and look it up on wikipedia…edumacate yerself
IF YOU LIKE THIS TRASH YOU GOT MENTAL ISSUES! SHE CANT EVEN SPELL AND WRITE IN PROPER ENGLISH! THAT'S WHY YOU SHOULD STAY IN SCHOOL!
She is a bitch. She is sabotaging herself. I went to a free concert she did at Tower in SF and all she did was talk about how much she didn't want to be there, how hung over she was and would rather be doing anything else, and how much she hated people who download her music for free and who come to her free shows. She said "how many of you are coming to the REAL show tonight? How many of you actually bought tickets? Raise your hand if you didn't steal my CD". I can understand not wanting your work to be pirated, but these were her fans and she blew us off becuase it was a free show. Didn't just blow us off, bitched us out. She shouldn't have signed on if it pissed her off so much. I make a point of telling everyone to steal her music now.
MTV is bullshit. In my book, they lost all credibility years ago. They started out a fledgling music video channel with real people leading it in good directions and then those people got older and the channel turned into crap. Has anyone seen any actual Goddamn videos on that channel as of the last 10 years? I know I haven't… atleast not outside of the realm of 2-4am and not while watching Totally Retarded Live. I fucking hate screaming teens.
Whatever Maya your lame thats why Switch dropped you like a bad habit. LOL. Funny cuz now he's working on Missy's new album.
too bad half the people that have commented don't know real music and are too consumed in the bullshit music that is pushed down your throats. why don't all of you educate yourself about M.I.A. and realize that she is way more educated with what is going on in the world and in a country she's not even a citizen of then half you dumbasses on this site will ever amount to be.
If YOU don't know who MIA is than you're a loser. Seriously, your really not cool.
Paranoia self-destroia!
BTW, I would totally wreck that chick…oh yeah…
m.i.a. is easily one the most powerful artists to appear in recent years, and half the comments above just bare testament to how incredibly ignorant and stagnant the modern music scene is. fair fucks to perez for giving someone like her the respect she deserves (btw. this song is easily one of the best of the year!!!!)
what is THIS LAME ASS SHIT
this bitch HAS A BORING LAMEASS SHIT VOICE OF FART
less see you after you sells some rekords, you too be a sellout and wear the chanel prada armani you stupid ass bitch make a noise now that you dont have shit.
DON'T WORRY M.I.A!! NO ONE IN AMERICA KNOWS WHO YOU ARE ANYWAY AND NO ONE EVER WILL BECAUSE MOST "MAINSTREAM" MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS THINK YOU SUCK BIG DONKEY BALLS. THIS SONG IS HORRIBLE!!
It seriously must be so nice to so perfect like all of your haters. Man, I wish I was as perfect as you. You never have typos, when you're typing in the heat of a moment with something you are so passionate about, you manage to type perfectly. Wow, you are all so amazing. STFU, all of you, seriously.
She is an artist who expresses where she comes from, what she believes in, just because it's not what you're used to hearing on the radio and what you're normally brainwashed to like, you think you hate it. It's fine, we all have different tastes. But MTV has been pushing her music, so in about a month you'll all start loving her because you'll be brainwashed to love her.
Get over yourselves. Let's see how talented you all are.
Re: Clementine – Thank you!! I am so disgusted by some of these people…it's 2007 and people are living way too much in the past
This bitch is wack anyway…….
this bit*h is wack anyway…..
Re: john – Agreed, 100%
Re: Shay – Agrre, again, 100%
AHAHA! I like that someone called her Muslim. She's brown, she must be Muslim, right. Idiot.
Great song. The people saying negative things about her because of her race / ethnicity have proved exactly what she's trying to get across in the song, too.
For those calling her Middle Eastern / Camel Jockey / Ni**er / etc … She's Sri Lanken. That's in Asian. Good show, though, chaps.
I'm just glad she's speaking out against this. Some people might just take the money they make from their ticket and concert sales and be done with it–at least she's standing up and speaking out against people censoring her own songs without her consent. I's be PISSED if I felt that I didn't have control over my OWN song.
i like her music but chick takes herself way too fucking seriously. also, don't diss MTV when they're the ones getting you PAID!
As for the amount of people disliking this song, if you don't like it, shut the fuck up! If all you want is empty, uninspired pop and rap, then listen to it and stop bothering other people because you think something else isn't as interesting.
Shut up, no one cares.
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck MTV.
Re: LOL –
i love mia!
Music today is an embarrassment. This damn trick sucks ass, I thought this was a crack head saying a cracked up nursery rhyme. I mean really, she actually thinks anyone gives a ish what she has to say? REALLY? Wow, well why don't you grow up a bit b/c sorry how old is this chick 18, 19, plz, her opinion and quite frankly don't mean shit, and I DON"T CARE!!!!! I really wish these brits would stay over on their own side.
For the real fans: Was that a beastie boys cameo in front of the food truck?
m.i.a. is dope, I CANT BELIEVE THIS GIRL STILL ISNT BIGGER THEN FAKE BITCHES LIKE ASHLEE SIMPSON OR BRITNEY.. IF SHE WHERE WHITE, SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN HUGE.. SHE IS MESMERISING! SHE IS AMAZING! I LOVE HER AND HER TRUH.. FUCK CENSORSHIP.. M.I.A IS TOO GOOD FOR THAT SHITVILLE MTV… MTV IS GETTING TO BE A MAJOR JOKE! PLEASE! i WANT M.I.A. TO MAKE IT BIG BUT ITS HARD THAT HER BROWN SKIN ONLY MAKES IT HARDER FOR HER CAUSE.. FUCKING RACISTS.. IM SERIUOS.. IF SHE WAS WHITE, SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN BIG BY NOW..
Sooo, let me get this straight.
They remove gunshots from her live performances, and video because it's bad.
But they don't remove, yet, encourage volumes of gunshots in video games, movies (about terorism, too), and CSI.
I don't fucking get this country, I swear.This song has less gunshots in it than one episode of a CSI, but because her father is part of a "scary" group, this is what they do! Pity
aww ! I LOVE YOU MAYA IM YOUR BIGGEST FAN &+ this sucks biq time - just qoes to show how the industry really is . i wish she wasnt censored .
M.I.A's music is garbage and so is this video!
Yeah, I used to type in all caps, too. Then I decided I didn't want a job bagging groceries.
It's Ecuador…E-C-U-A-D-O-R you dumbshit
M.IA. IS AMAZING! FOR THOSE OF YOU CURSING HER OUT FUCK OFF! SHE'S SENDING A POLITICAL MESSAGE. SHE'S EXTREMELY INVOLVED IN THE POLITICAL SCENE AND ACTIVELY GOES AFRICA AND THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. HER MUSIC IS POLITICALLY CHARGED AND AMAZING. HOT BEATS, HOT SOUND, HOT LYRICS.
WHY ARE YOU GUYS SO FUCKING RACIST ANYWAY? WHY ARE YOU ON A SITE THAT IS HOSTED BY A GAY PERSON? RACISM AND HOMOSEXUAL PREJUDICES ARE IN THE SAME CATEGORY. EVOLVE AND GROW THE FUCK UP!