no other mainstream musician is doing what M.I.A. is doing. kanye once tweeted something along the lines of, “M.I.A. is from the future. our present is her past,” and he’s right. this kind of DIY aesthetic, like .net art meets punk meets pop culture, is something that other musicians are just starting to catch up to, but M.I.A. has been doing it for the past ten years (and more, if you count the time before her music career even took off).
M.I.A. has infiltrated pop culture and has never once been apologetic about her subversion of the culture she has integrated herself into so well, and has never played into respectability. that’s not to say that musicians of color who play into respectability politics are less-than, as they’re only trying to protect themselves in a hostile white world; just to say that it’s incredible that she has somehow managed to evade that. she is in the western world, using western motifs, but using them to communicate the experience of a refugee, an immigrant kid, an outlier.
you don’t often see sri lankan women stirring up the masses on TV, because it’s not accessible for us brown girls from war-torn countries, but M.I.A. has managed it. radio hits like “bad girls” and “paper planes” maintain their political statement with danceable production by diplo and the like; her songs are pop culture-friendly and incredibly subversive and inflammatory to the mainstream all at once — rather than the pop influence watering her message down, it has only added more power to that message.
M.I.A. is a visionary. M.I.A. will be remembered when many others in the current pop canon are forgotten. M.I.A. is some kind of goddess walking among us.
Be careful when opening loosely packaged ToBILLrone’s as Bill’s may have shifted during transit and become aggravated.
If you’re a cop who genuinely feels your life is threatened by a skinny 14 year old girl in a bikini and some other teens at a pool party no fucking way are you cut out to be a cop.
If you’re a cop who genuinely feels your life is threatened by a skinny 14 year old girl in a bikini and some other teens at a pool party no fucking way are you cut out to be a cop.
Dogs are the literal best and let me tell you why.
When my parents are out of town, my pup Remmy sleeps downstairs with me. I don’t mind because the basement is chilly sometimes and he’s a fuzzy little space heater. But he always does this weird thing and I didn’t figure out why until last night.
I’m a stomach-sleeper, while the rest of my family are back-sleepers. So Remmy has taken up this very different behavior with me (my family says he doesn’t do it with them). It always takes me a while to settle down, but when I do, Remmy takes his head off of his paws and rests it square in the center of my back.
So I’m thinking, “What’s the point of that? It can’t be comfortable. It cranes his neck in a funny way, and besides, every time I breathe his head goes up and down. That’s a weird thing.” So I formulate a hypothesis, and test it.
Last night, I got comfortable, Remmy put his head on my back, I waited a while, then I held my breath. It took him a while to react, but when he did, he fuckin lost it. He started whining and yipping, and repeatedly licking my face and hands. And I was like oh my god.
Conclusion: my dog noticed that I slept in a way that was different from the rest of my family, thought “that kid is gonna die” and made sure that I never stopped breathing in the middle of the night.
Dogs are fuckin smart as hell. What a wonderful animal.
I went to this pole dancing class with my homegirl K the other day & we were in there with a bunch of housewives and their hubbys were watching and talking in the waiting room. We’re having fun laughing and what not learning how to swing around and pick ourselves up and hang upside down and what not. this one housewife (you know the ones that make snicker doodles for bake sale n shit) approached us and said “you two shouldn’t be here! Our husbands can see us right through that window and we don’t need you two coming in here and trying to wreck our marriages.” So at this point K and I are looking at each other like
And she’s clearly upset about it she’s redder than a habanero pepper at this point and she’s like do you have anything to say about yourselves? Are you happy that you can be the potential cause of several divorces? Blah blah blah. K and I are laughing hysterically at this point and I told her “maam, we aren’t here to ruin your marriage and if you think we are then you have problems in your marriage that are already present.” Before I can even turn around K bursts in with “plus your husband has had his eye on your friend with the Roshe Runs on anyways so looks like either A. He’s scheming on her or B. They’re already fucking and you didn’t even know it.
By this point the woman is just like
The woman breaks down crying and runs out the studio and the real drama unfolded right before our very eyes turns out her husband and her friend have been having an affair since 2007, her now ex bff’s husband is trying to fight the other dude saying “you’ve been fucking my wife?” Cops get called they’re trying to separate the two men who are now in a huge brawl. The other two cops (backup) are questioning everybody else and they can’t find Roshe Run girl because she disappeared in the midst of all the chaos.
Anyways long story short, the two men were arrested for disturbing the peace and I learned never to go to a pole dancing class in the Wonder Bread suburbs ever again.
hey other cis people: yes, caitlyn jenner looks stunning in her vanity fair debut but let’s remember that saying stuff like “she looks better than I do!” or along those lines implies that by default trans women are inherently less attractive than cis women/have higher standards to adhere to. im seeing a lot of this so please try to be mindful!
