Photo: Ruud Baan/Bernstein & Andriulli
M.I.A., official name Maya Arulpragasam, talks to Maxwell Williams for SPREAD|Artculture magazine. They meet at Village Recording Studios in Los Angeles as M.I.A. is putting the final touches on her third album, /\/\/\Y/\. The two discuss politics, her son Ikhyd, her label N.E.E.T. Recordings, and more. The topic of the ever ubiquitous Lady Gaga appears and M.I.A. weighs in saying, “Lady Gaga is someone who lives completely within [the industry]. That’s what you can get if you say ‘yes.’ I would have those outfits on and my hair would look like that and those are the songs I would sing. Everybody else on my label’s budget would get cut in order for my Grammy performance with Elton John to be banging.”
Photo: Ruud Baan/Bernstein & Andriulli
To learn more about M.I.A.’s new album and what she has to say about being dubbed “The Tamil Tigress”, check out issue 05 of SPREAD|Artculture magazine.
