He emailed me about that that's why I know that section's missing."ĭoes she know who removed it? "I have no idea." MIA on why her new album is un-Googleable "I haven't actually read it in detail but … I thought it was interesting that the section on Diplo got removed when we stopped working together.
Is there anything on here that is incorrect? "Are you working for Wikipedia?" she laughs. We whizz through the sections on her time working with Elastica and meeting electro sex pest Peaches who encouraged her to make music – all true.
He said that his house got burgled and someone took it, though." So, somewhere in London a burglar is sitting on an original MIA print? "Yeah and he's probably, like, peed on it or something and couldn't give a shit," she jokes. In the "Art and Film" sub-section it says, " Jude Law was among early buyers of artwork" after her stint at St Martins. As Wikipedia is notorious for its user-generated inaccuracies and also prone to sabotage, has she – as someone with form in using the net to set the record straight – ever doctored her own entry? "No," she insists. And I'd make the font a bit more interesting." If you've ever seen the fluoro overload of her own website or Twitter page this should come as no surprise. "I hate my Wikipedia page," she announces as soon as it loads up. It's fairly generic, detailing everything from her name in Tamil script to her love of Harmony Korine and radical cinema. So why do you have to let someone like Lynn shit on you?"įirstly, we ask her to pull up her Wikipedia entry. "This is the new way to interpret the news for artists because we have got the internet, we have got Twitter, we have got all our fans right there. "This is the new shit," she says unabashedly. MIA responded by posting the writer's mobile number on Twitter and uploading a clip of the interview online.
We meet 10 days after the music blogs have gone into meltdown following her " trufflegate" feud with the New York Times after its writer Lynn Hirschberg suggested MIA wasn't as 4REAL as she claims. In reality though, as with MIA's music, a single answer can see her head off across continents on dizzying tangents, and encompass pop references, multi-layered political rants, occasional bouts of paranoia, identity politics, and what was the question again? On paper this sounds like a straightforward process. Seven years after her first single Galang spread across the web like an art-school-incubated virus – confirming her status as one of the first pop stars of the digital age – she's back with /\/\/\Y/\ (or Maya, for those who can decipher the slashes), and the Guardian has asked her to talk us through her online presence in an attempt to sort fact from fiction. "Mathangi 'Maya' Arulpragasam (born 18 July 1975), better known by her stage name MIA, is a Sri Lankan/British songwriter, record producer, singer, rapper, fashion designer, visual artist, and political activist." And right now, perched on a sofa at the XL Records office in west London, staring into her gold Apple MacBook, MIA is reading the above words on her Wikipedia entry.
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