Retiring!
Filed under: M.I.A.
We've gotten multiple reports from the Bonnaroo music festival in Tennessee this weekend that M.I.A. announced during her set that she was retiring.
Say it ain't so!!!!
Update: The New York Times is reporting about the retirement.
Apparently, M.I.A. told the crowd "This is my last show."
She said not once or twice but THREE times that she was retiring!
“Thanks for coming to my last gig,” she told the audience before she left.
Uhmmm…
WTF?????
We hope she was kidding!!!!!
Posted: June 15, 2008 at 12:53 am
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NOooooo!!! I love MIA!
1st finally!
Oh my gosh….FIRST!!!!!!
ahhh no!
Hey Perez- Congrats on the Hot Topic event in Vegas today. That is def. the highlight of my summer. Love you, babe. Love my new tees. Thank you for signing it.
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THIS BETTER NOT BE TRUE!!!! M.I.A. iz a GODDESS!!!!
so first!
I really hope its not true >.
First!
Who is she???
Oh! how i hope it isnt true!
Who cares?
hmm. if that is the case thank goodness i got to see her two weeks ago in philly. amazing show. amazing artist. hope it is not true.
Shut the fuck up.
What? Why? No! She's only put out two amazing albums. We need more!!!
she is a little weird
o no
NO I HOPE THIS IS A JOKE!!!!!!
SHE IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE ARTISTS - SERIOUSLY
I HAVE BEEN WANTING TO SEE HER LIVE FOREVER
first
1st
1sttttttttttttttttttt
i hope thats false
i love M.I.A.'s music
1st?
yep, she said the same thing during her show in brooklyn, but there's been rumors she's been leaving the music industry for a while.
you losers who are trying to get first are fucking stupid!
she's NOT RETIRING! she is only putting a stop to her tour because she's worn-out–old fucking news, jerkface!
mayb shiz preggers
It's not true. I can 100% confirm to you, it is NOT TRUE.
yep. she said the same thing at her brooklyn show, but hasn't she said before that she wasn't planning on staying in music for long?
NOOOOO!!!!! I LOVE M.I.A!!!!!!!
omg i will be SO SAD!!!!
WHAT????????????????? NO!!!
why does she look like Sanjia?
NO! She can't! Hopefully after some rest she'll be do some more! I haven't seen her live and I feel deprived of a kick ass concert lol. Both her albums have been so bomb…I'm praying this isn't gonna happen!
she looks like Sanjia!!!!!!!!!
i was at that show
she has sad stuff like that A LOT
like that shes gonna stop music
maybe it is the last ime shell say it though…
but it might just be a missunderstanding
ive been to two of her shows and the first show she said that also
i think she just means last show because she said she cancelled her europe tours
and she probably cancelled her europe tours because of her getting married
and the show where she said it was her last show was actualy a little bit dll on her part. I had a lot of fun and she was ively but she played for so little and barely any of her songs. The first concert of hers was amazing tho, she played like every song and it was cheaper and there were better oppening bands
idk if she would want a concert like the one i saw to be her last concert
id think shed gie it her all
GOOD, FUKIN LIBERAL STINKIN SKANK GETTO WHORE.ITS BLACKS LIKE THIS THAT SHOULD NOT VOTE
yupp, she said this at her mc carren park, brooklyn show last week.
LIBERAL WHORE. GOOD RIDENCE. WHY DONT YOU DRAG MOST OF YOUR ROTEN KIND WITH YOU. CURRY SKANK MUSLIM
WHAT?!
M.I.A. can't be retiring!
I LOVE HER!
she is the most amazing singer ever…
i know that she's for sure doing a clothing line and will most likely continue with her art but come on, she has to sing!
i just went to her concert on June 2nd and it was the best concert I have ever been to!
i hope she doesn't retire.. she's one of the only really good and original singers out there!
Re: amber – hahahhaa
she really does…i love her but thats funny
NO! She is my favorite artist ever!!!
Who the hell is this? Never heard of her.
Re: John – wow…you have big balls huh?
if m.i.a. retires, it's gonna be the end of what's left of real music. this is the saddest thing i've heard all day.
omg i love mia!
whyyyyyyyyy?
God, talk about twisting the truth. Its been widely covered, and what she said is she has cancelled her tour. That is all. No mention of retiring anywhere but on this website. If you read the source carefully:
“This is my last show,” the rapper M.I.A. announced from the stage of That Tent, “and I’m glad I’m spending it with all my hippies.” If, as she announced at least three times, it was M.I.A.’s last gig ever, she went out with a boom.
Last show of the tour. Not retiring.
Way to go, Perez. Fucking idiot.
:'(
Sanjaya (sp?) is that you?
what the hell? i hope shes kiddding!! and i hope this isnt cuz a lot of douchebag blogs are reporting that she's only marrying dude to get a greencard (her work permit is up really soon) and she wants em to think its not because of that.
i love love love love her.
at least santogold is on the up n up.
and we should care, why??
NOOOOOOO
i want to see her live SOOOOO bad
i wanted to see her here in minneapolis but i wasn't in town at the time.
i really hope to see her sometime soon
i LOVE her music and the political statements it sends
durrrrrrrrrrrr who cares? if she is popular with you people she will come back. jay z came back like 5 times. cher keeps coming back. doooood. whoooooooo cares!?!? she looks old, sounds monotone anyway. blah.
She's not retiring. She said that she is not gonna do her European tour and instead work on a new album. She said that it was too strenuous for her to continue this tour. Perez you're the one who needs to retire.
i saw her in brlyn last week & she said it was her last show saw well–i think she meant last show for a while…she can't be retiring!
I went to her show a few months ago. It was the best concert of my life. I had a blast. I really hope this is untrue.
I guess this is when Santogold takes over.
she's probably preggo
no its true, i rememeber reading it in a magazine article a month or so back. she mentioned something about wanting to retire from the music industry but i cant remember what else.
OMFG NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I never got to see her live! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Shes canceled all her appearances from her summer tour as well… so it might be true (sadly true).
The fuck is she? Never heard of her.
yeah so who is she?
shes a great artist…but all i can wonder is if any of her money goes towards fueling the civil war in Sri Lanka
I mean she is part of the Tamil Tigers… just listen to paper planes (what do you think it means)
THANK GOD! she opened for Gwen Steffani and SUCKED SUCKED SUCKED. I'd prefer to hear a f'n jack hammer at 5 AM
Re: Jessicunt –
anyone with half a clue about decent music.
Re: JON –
you're ignorant. she's not even american.
Your kidding me! I almost went to Bonnaroo to see her! And now she's retiriring! FUCK FUCK FUCK!
And if she did? Wouldn't wel be left with two amazing albums? It's not surprising - listen to the lyrics, read her words - the record industry is not aligned with her beliefs . . . if anything, she will produce her work independently and speak for the causes she cares for.
Re: JON – I think it's funny when people waste their precious time shit talking people on the internet, when they could be out campaigning about how much they hate everyone in the world except for them and their mother. Well, Jon, Fuck you and your mother.
she said that at the portland show too.
she's getting married
this better be a joke M.I.A can not go M.I.A
good music will die fo eva
Hope this is just a rumor….
Re: andy – so not you. ok
not true!!!! she was exhausted from touring which is why she cancelled her other tour. she is simply taking a break to rest!!
Sanjaya??
NOT COOL….
she has to enjoy what she does, i mean, it couldn't THAT good if she didn't…
she will make music again….no worries…
This destroys me….I LOVE M.I.A. too much. Her album Kala is my fave album to drop in the last five years…hands down.
Nooo! she was so fucking awsome at sasquatch this can't be true!!!!!
Re: Jessicunt – Ignorant perhaps?
she can´t retire!she has a gig in norway later on here in june,at the hove festival
Re: JON –
SHE is NOT black, F-tard!!!
omg this can't be true!! M.I.A is my world like no!!!!!!!
She's playing Exit Festival in Serbia, so i doubt she's retiring
maybe she is because her europe-tour is cancelled… sad
you fuck, she's cancelled her tour because of exhaustion. she's not retired, it's not her last mothereffin show EVER. this site just creates bullshit, unfortunately you have nothing to report to everyone who wants to declare first ever five minutes, therefore, shit must be created. i say, just join forces with heidi and spencer and try to make your collective 45 minutes of merit last as long as you can….
Re: John – just fuck off, seriously.
Noooooooooooooo MIA is amazing one of the few artist that invigorates my ear drums! But if she is retiring it is better to bow out gracefully on top of her game.
she pulled out of a festival in sweden thats in a couple of weeks or so, so maybe it is true.
she is performing in serbia 10-13 july on EXIT festival
I hope she was kidding as well as I have a ticket to her gig at the Roundhouse in Camden on July 1st……..WTF!
:-( I like her. If she needs to take a break from touring, that's her business. But I really hope she doesn't intend to exit the music business all together…
isn't that Sanjaya???
MIA is the truth people are not ready for her. some people never heard of her until she did paper planes. even the beats she makes are good.i hope she is not retiring cause i will be pissed. i watched a lot of her shows on you tube and she has a lot of energy. she was going to work with timbaland but i heard he was trying to change her image to sexy and she was not having that she says that she never started her career out with that image and she is not going to start now.
OMG, I HOPE THAT'S NOT TRUE ! but maybe is :s i'm from portugal, and she's already cancelled the shows she was supposed to give here :\
Who the fuck is M.I.A.?!??
She probably heard the Hudgens' horror song and spontaneously lost all will to create music of any kind
hmmmmmmmmmmm suspicious…….
NOOO! She is one of my Fav artists! there is no way she is retiring! pleaseeee!!!!!!!!
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!