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
Oh really…she's retiring?…Welp…time for me to go jump off of that bridge, or do tha trick with my jugular and just end it!….Good bye, cruel, cruel world…
PUBLICITY STUNT!!
AHHHHH I thought that was SANJAYA!
Considering she's pushing 30 and getting married, isn't it about time to retire?
sanjia?
noooo that cant be true!! I have a ticket for an other show she is giving in Belgium, like aaaaaaaaaaaaah noooooooooooo. whyyyyyyyyyyyy. this is even a worse report than that stupid sneaker song.
NOO WAY!! i'll be sooo upset!
Wow. I can't believe that she is one of the best. I love her music.
Maybe if you were smart enough to look up accurate reports she is just cancelling the rest of her European tour due to exhaustion and is already working on her new album
Let her retire. She BORES!
Thank God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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that's weird she's supposed to play at EXIT this year!!!
Re: kk – perhaps, perhaps you are.
So what!
Tooooooo sad… She is the greatest! Genius like M.I.A. are unique! Please M.I.A. don't doooo this, your fans will miss u a lot!
please, she is not retiring. she said something similar in brooklyn. she was saying this is my last of the tour, that she was not heading to europe. she didn't imply that she was RETIRING though. this is just a bunch a cockamanie bull shit! haha.
She canceled her European tour or at least the dates in Portugal, so I'm guessing is, sadly, true.
SHE SAID THE SAME THING AT THE NY SHOW 2 WEEKS AGO! I THINK SHE'S JUST CANCELLING HER EUROPE TOUR NOT RETIRING
OMG NO SHE CANT BE RETIRING! SHE HAS TOO MUCH TALENT TO STOP THIS YEARLY!!!!!!!! noooo i need her music!
Kinda young to retire. I mean I only heard of her like maybe 2 years ago if that?!?!?
uuugggghhhhh, i havent even got to see her preform!!!
hey jon!
guess what?
you're a loser who needs to get a life.
if you have anything negative to say seriously
write it on a piece of paper and shove it up
your asshole. that might work!
yo whoevers dissing m.i.a need to shut the fuck up
shes amazing and if u say u dont like her music whatever but dont disss her other stuff like her race and looks and stuff like that
M.I.A. is gorgeous and one of the only things good in the popular industry right now so i hope it isnt ture
Re: JON –
wow you're douche. seriously.
hm i have a suggestion for you
if you have something negative to say
write it on a piece of paper and shove it so
far up your butt that you'll be too preoccupied
to sit here and go off at M.I.A kaye thanks.
Good thing I saw her in brooklyn a week ago
SAY IT AINT SO!!!
ummm….who is she???
Please, Please, don't retire. I hope its a joke but M.I.A. isn't one to joke. Arular was amazing and Kala was even better. Kala is one of my favorite albums of all time. She needs a third album at least.
NOOOO! She's awesome! Maybe she just wants time with her new fiance and to think about a family. But still she better keep making records from her house or some shit. It will be sad if she's really gone forever
no disrespect, but am i the only one who thinks that picture looks like sanjaya
Yeah i went to her concert and she said that i was sooooo bummed i love her and she is great in concert!!!
Thank you Mary-Kate and Ashley!
The press tent at Bonnaroo is a valuable source of information for unconfirmed celebrity gossip, among other things. Here's the latest juicy tidbit.
M.I.A. had apparently canceled her gig yesterday until she learned that the Olsen twins were flying in especially to see her. This would explain why she kept referring to the event as her "last show." If this is in fact true, thank you Mary-Kate and Ashley for throwing your celebrity weight in the right direction.
VillageVoice~
OMG…MIA noooooo!!! You can't!!!!
ITS ABOUT TIME!! .. SHE SUCKS SOOOOOOOOO BAD
well she cancelled her gigs in europe…so maybe it is true.
my heart is breaking.
the m.i.a gig i was suppose to go to this month is cancelled!!!! ????
wtf i thought it was sanjia?
I saw her show in mc carren park, brooklyn this month where she made the announcement that she was cancelling her european tour and "that this will be my last show for this album" didnt sound like she was retiring to me…I think she would make a bigger deal out of it if it was her last show ever.
you should do a separated at birth with sanjaya and her picture
who is she anyway???
Well she told the canadian press that she was going to move to Montreal once she and her million-heir fiance get married. I live in Montreal….so I dont mind!!! Her future in laws live one block away from me!!! so maybe it is true
NOOO. my favorite artist.
UM, WHO GIVES A FUCK?
MIA has HOT music!
Say it aint' so!
" Galang, Galang…get down…"
She´s also cancelled her concert at this summers ROSKILDE FESTIVAL
NOO! THIS CAN'T BE TRUE. M.I.A. IS WHAT MUSIC TODAY SHOULD BE ABOUT. There's nobody like her!!
separated at birth from sangina???
Awww, I love M.I.A.!
Bucky Dun Gun rocks! Especially the remix of it with New Order. Search MIA vs New Order on YouTube! You'll love it!
I think M.I.A. meant her last gig in the U.S. , not her entire career….
she said in baby baby baby magazine that maybe she won[t get a new visa to travel again to the u.s. in the future…so maybe that=s what she was talking about. O_o
wow like i missed her concert because of work… OMG this cant be foreal
perez you stupid cock, she never said she was retiring. since you're suddening BFFs with her, you would know this! she canceled her european tour due to exhaustion. stop twisting her words to get hits on your website. she even said she's WRITING SONGS AGAIN OMG! that does not equal retiring in my opinion.
good. off ya pop you twat
i literally just got back from bonnaroo tonight, and yes, she did say that she was retiring at the concert–and if thats true she left with an amazing performance
NO! this cant be. this is a tragedy. what? she got engaged to some rich dude, so now she doesn't need to do anythin??? i cant't believe it. she's an artist and artists dont fucking retire!!!! traitor. ugh.
Does she still support Hamas?
Re: JON – u fucking rednecked hillbilly, go educate urself, and maybe take a walk outside ur trailer once in a while.
Re: JON –
are you retarded? shes not black first of all and she cant vote cause shes from the uk and was born in sri lanka
ok she canceled a ton of shows, because she's worn out. she's not retiring, she's just taking a break. jesus christ, get your story straight before you piss so many people off.
maybe she was talking about her tour for kala because shes so awesome and basically did TWO us tours and 2 euro tours
idkk but shes going to record and put out her album instead of doing the rest of her european tour
she better not retire , she has so much to give
Her myspace says she's performing in Serbia in July.
That is what happens when you marry a rich man! You dont have to work anymore!
WHY?! Love love love her…. so much bad music and she is amazing live…. very very sad.
Wow I started to like her like her just 6 months ago from seein her on your site but before your site I did not ever even hear of her.But I just found out who she was a few months ago n now she's done.How long has she been around?
NOOOO!!! she hasn't even come to New Zealand
i was there and she said, 'thanks for coming to my last show" as in the tour shes on, thens she said "ill be back"
Seperated at Birth:
M.I.A. and Sanjaya
Seriously doubt it was her last show, since she is scheduled to play the HOVE festival in Norway June 25th…
It might be true yall….. She was supposed to play Roskilde Festival in Denmark next month - but she cancelled, and not only that show but ALL the european shows…
we were at bonnaroo and M.I.A.'s performance . . . she's not retiring, she meant her last gig in the U.S. for a little bit because they are kicking her out. She did say she will be back!
she says every show is her last show.. ive seen her four times in NY, each time.. she said it was her last show. i HIGHLY doubt that bitch is retiring.
i saw her a couple months ago. SHE SUCKS live. no big loss here…
NOT TRUE!!! M.I.A. is scheduled to appear in early July on Open'Er Festival in Poland (Poland, Europe
). So that was hardly her last gig…
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! i've only seen her in concert once and that was NOT enough!
Say it ain't so. I LOVE M.I.A
quote:
"I physically have to stop for a second'. It’s too insane. I was losing a sense of just, like, reality, you know what I mean? I think for an artist like me, it’s so important for me to be in the streets and go to the same shop every day and see the same people and, like, communicate. And it’s really difficult to do that when you’re in the city every day for 24 hours. Like, I love connecting with my band, but I want to actually help them and be a part of peoples’ lives. Which is really hard when you’re on tour."
OMG!!!! If it's true I'm so glad I did go to her show last time she performed in my town.
I hope she was joking. There's such a small number of great artists that also knows how to perform. No no no, it's gonna take me time to swallow that.
i was there and i think she might have ment in the united states because her visa is being revoked. she also added that they arent going to get rid of her that easily.
From XL RECORDINGS posted on June 11th, 2008
"I'm canceling because I feel like physically I just have to stop for a second. It's too insane," M.I.A. told NYMag.com. "I was losing a sense of just, like, reality, you know what I mean? I think for an artist like me, it's so important for me to be in the streets and go to the same shop every day and see the same people and, like, communicate. And it's really difficult to do that when you're in the city every day for 24 hours. Like, I love connecting with my band, but I want to actually help them and be a part of peoples' lives. Which is really hard when you're on tour…It takes a lot out of you, physically. I make club music, which means I'm clubbing every night for, like, six months. Know what I mean? So now and again you finally just want to be gardening and get your nails done or something like that."
Although M.I.A.'s label can't confirm anything at the moment, it seems that all of her European festival dates in June and July, as well as her set at Bonnaroo on Friday, have been called off. (An email to Bonnaroo's publicist has not yet been answered.) According to NYMag.com, she called her June 6 show at Brooklyn's McCarren Park Pool her "last show."
In more hopeful news, the singer hinted at a forthcoming record to NYMag.com: "I've been writing on tour. I'm really into writing new songs. I'm going to put out a new record instead [of touring]. At the end of the day, I'm here, you know."
She's preggers, apparently????
JON and John are idiots. First of all, she's not black. She's an amazing artist and one of the few rappers with something legit to say. Maybe you guys should listen instead of going hunting with your white trash friends and voting for Bush.
Dont think its true, shes on the list of artists play @ electric picnic (an Irish music festival) this summer!! Cant wait to see her!!
i'm PRAYING this is not true!!! One of my fave artists of all time, I love her. She's so talented… it will break my heart if this is true. Not only are her songs amazing and original, she stands for the right issues.
Well, her live shows SUCKKKK, she is horrible .. like lost on the mic. …. yes @ the final studio album she sounds great but live .. SUCKSSSSS
Retire? Don't you have to put in about 20 years to do that? Otherwise it's just called QUITTING!
WTF!!!! this better not be true. i effin love her! she my number 1!
actually she didnt say she was retiring, she just said she was returning home becasue her visa was almost up, so it was just her last show for now in America !!!
OMG she absolutely cannot retire
i fucking love her soo much…best show ive
been to && best music ever…i knew her
being engaged was a horrible thing!
i was there, she said it. she's the shit. maybe she'll "retire" like jay-z.
Hey! Just came back from Bonnaroo, where she made this announcement, and what she MEANT was that she was denied a Visa from the US and she has to leave the country and won't return till she is granted one. NOT RETIRING
OMG im so sad! i love M.I.A
… seriously…
It really makes you look like an ignorant prick when you decide that MIA looks like Sanjaya. Wow… two middle eastern singers with long hair and good skin, must be the same person! Get a grip.
Also I've heard different ideas about her "retirement" and whatever she chooses to do, good for her.
Her music is unique and at times politically stimulating yet always dancehouse banging. Her artwork is fabulous. And her general modesty is refreshing.
who cares if she is getting married? who cares if she is pregnant? and she isnt Britney so I suppose it's not a big shock this thread has jus under 200 comments… at least 20 of which state "who is she?".
Um it's not like Perez comments back…
so fucking google her fucktards.
she was absolutely TERRIBLE/BORING/YAWN at coachella. And im a huge M.I.A. fan (for a few years now!!!) I wonder why she is retiring though.
She's having problems with her visa so she can't stay in the states and finish her tour. She meant this is her last show of the tour. Also she only said it once. And if you weren't there you missed out major. It was AMAZING!!!
NOOOO I am hoping and praying this will turn out to be false….she's a brilliant artist and I love her!!!!!! She can't stop now!!!!
i was at bonnaroo and she did say that but its because she is being deported. she didnt get a work visa to stay here.
i was at bonnaroo this weekend, and MIA's show was SICK. i assumed when she said that she meant the last show of the tour.
HEY ya'll! MIA is NOT retiring. i was in the audience at the Bonnaroo show. shes only said it was her last show b/c she does not have a US visa. she was denied one b/c of her political view or some bullshit like that. shes only here with her passport so shes getting kicked out b/c her visitation has expired. i think shes working on getting a Visa again so she can come back to the US. no worries!!! MIA is the shit, and she knows it. she yelled "IM MIA, AND IM THE SHIT!" a bunch of times at the concert. it was wild. never fear my friends! she'll be back! she's just gotta work on getting her VISA to the states
its true, she cancelled all her gigs
NOOOOOOOOOOOO