NME is a UK magazine that probably hates Americans and most music from America, except for maybe the Kings of Leon and MGMT. They had some interview with M.I.A. that is getting 'mad blog coverage', from the Pitchfork Media to the Perez Hilton. M.I.A. is probably a D rate artist compared to Lady Gaga's social status perception, so it was probably a 'good move' for M.I.A. to 'talk shit' about Lady Gaga.

Basically M.I.A. called Gagerton an unoriginal copy cat ripoff artist sellout who is part of the major label machine. Both M.I.A. and Lady Gaga are signed to Interscope Records.

I am not sure what M.I.A.'s deal is. It seems like she just likes to 'talk shit' to stay in the news. I think she hates America, capitalism, and most of the people in our blessed nation, even Lady Gaga.

Do we still need record labels?
Are they even interested in making money from music anymore? Lady Gaga plugs 15 things in her new video. Dude, she even plugs a burger! That’s probably how they’re making money right now - buying up the burger joint, putting the burger in a music video and making loads of burger money.

Do you think those programmes and the internet have destroyed the mythology around popstars?
I don’t know. Again, there’s Lady Gaga - people say we’re similar, that we both mix all these things in the pot and spit them out differently, but she spits it out exactly the same! None of her music’s reflective of how weird she wants to be or thinks she is. She models herself on Grace Jones and Madonna, but the music sounds like 20-year-old Ibiza music, you know? She’s not progressive, but she’s a good mimic. She sounds more like me than I fucking do! That’s a talent and she’s got a great team behind her, but she’s the industry last stab at making itself important - saying, ‘You need our money behind you, the endorsements, the stadiums’ Respect to her, she’s keeping a hundred thousand people in work, but my belief is: Do It Yourself.

How important are image and visuals to your music?
Very. But it’s not like “Haus of Gaga” (laughs). Me blindfolded with naked men feeding me apples and shit.

Would you ever make a record for a Twilight soundtrack?
They asked me. Luckily Jimmy [Iovine, chairmen of M.I.A.’s US label Interscope] had beef with the Twilight people, so he stepped in and told them to fuck off.

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Whose side are you on, M.I.A.'s or Lady Gaga's?
Is M.I.A. 'dead on' about Lady Gaga's unoriginality?
Is M.I.A. a hypocrite?
Is Lady Gaga more of a 'genius' for figuring out how to 'stay true 2 ur art' even if you are in the mainstream system?
Is NME an anti-American magazine?
Are yall 'over' M.I.A.?
Is M.I.A. kinda like an annoying blog that is negative about everything and only knows how 2 'talk shit'?
Is Lady Gaga a sellout?
Are all of the indie artists who were on the Twilight Soundtrack 'fucking sellouts'?
Should Americans boycott M.I.A.'s next album?
Should Americans boycott NME Magazine?
Is M.I.A. the poor man's Rihanna or is Rihanna the poor man's M.I.A.?

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