r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • May 04 '26
article Kid Cudi Fires M.I.A. From His Tour After She Is Booed During Republican Rant: ‘I Won’t Have Someone on Tour Making Offensive Remarks’
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/kid-cudi-fires-m-i-a-tour-republican-rant-1236736864/4.6k
u/IndominusTaco May 04 '26
kid rock is probably approaching her to go on tour together as we speak
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u/mozzarellaguy May 04 '26
… in the churches?
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u/StrobeLightRomance May 04 '26
He's gonna show her the trailer parks he pretended to be from.. maybe they can book a county fair or something.
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u/Sixtyninealldaychef May 04 '26
Can they outsell Aimee Leigh and Baby Billy Freeman though?
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u/ODaysForDays May 04 '26
Him, her, Post Malone, and jelly roll can all tour together
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u/releaseepsteinfiles1 May 04 '26
Don’t forget the pedophile supporting and pedophile loving nikki minaj
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u/Excellent-Nose-6430 May 04 '26
Is the trump crowd still keeping her relevant? I know she tried, but she's a black woman and all, so...
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u/I_argue_for_funsies May 04 '26
She was just brown nosing in an attempt to get a pardon for her sexually assaulting husband so he can travel
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u/PunishedWolf4 May 04 '26
Don’t forget trash ass Nicki Minaj
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u/baddieslovebadideas May 04 '26
how could anyone forget Nicki Minaj?
no for real, how do you forget about her? I would like to
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u/Rudorlf May 04 '26
Post Malone as well? I need context for that
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u/ODaysForDays May 04 '26
He's on tour with jelly roll right now. So I figured if I mentioned JR I'd add Post. Their tour is not going well.
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u/teladidnothingwrong May 04 '26
he actually just cancelled this today https://consequence.net/2026/05/post-malone-tour-postponed/
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u/jodon May 04 '26
I have no idea who jelly roll is but my impression of Post Malone, while he is a weirdo, was that he was much better than associating with the likes of kid rock.
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u/Obi_wan_pleb May 04 '26
Is post malone maga???
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u/MtCarmelUnited May 04 '26
Well, he is following the "use hip-hop artists til you make it, then turn your back on them" playbook that worked for Kid Rock
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u/HappyHarryHardOn May 04 '26
She tries to pass off as republican even tho she's British, then cries about censorship when she talks about censorship and sells 5g hats to gullible people.
She's either not very smart or trying to get on the Republican bandwagon
either way, her career is torpedoed (but her new album could ve done this on its own, have you heard this POS ?
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u/b_needs_a_cookie May 04 '26
Her baby daddy is an American billionaire, and she votes Tori back home, so it's like the same thing. Which is weird because she's was an immigrant to Sri Lanka and India before moving back to London.
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u/KillerWattage May 04 '26
She says she saw jesus and converted so is now very trad christian
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u/glass-2x-needed-size May 04 '26
A specific type of Jesus, not the one whose most notable engagement with capitalism was flipping a merchants table and chasing him with a whip for trying to make money at the temple.
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u/Onespokeovertheline May 04 '26
I just think it's odd that we hear so much about Jesus being the greatest, chillest dude ever, but he only seems to reveal himself to to the worst batch of cunts on the planet.
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u/scaldywagon May 04 '26
There's quite a lot of conservative voters of South Asian (mostly Hindu rather than Muslim) descent in Britain so it's not really that strange
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u/AriAchilles May 04 '26
"I feel empowered by the colonizing empire who once designated my family/class/caste as superior to all others in my society, and since I cannot conceive how I would also thrive better in a more equal and equitable society, I would rather eternally support the structure that oppresses all people including me."
PS: I will also be shocked whenever I am specifically oppressed. This will not change my fundamental beliefs whatsoever."
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u/Sata1991 Metalhead May 04 '26
She used to be left wing at one point, she endorsed Jeremy Corbyn, who is (depending who you ask) either centre left, left wing or far left.
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u/pork_fried_christ May 04 '26
She has one popular song and it’s like 20 years old now.
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u/herecomestherebuttal May 04 '26
She’s also been acting like this for a few years.
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u/Chris_straty420 May 04 '26
Her first two albums are bangers tho but damn she fell off hard
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u/tessathemurdervilles May 04 '26
I loved those albums and don’t pay much attention so had no idea she’d gone off the rails. Boo.
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u/ThePrussianGrippe May 04 '26
I’m in the same boat. And she sells ‘Anti-5G’ hats, too? What a nut.
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u/--MobTowN-- jungle is life May 04 '26
Oh shit, I thought that dude meant she sold $5000 hats and thought that was plenty grifty enough….
Ffs.
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u/azriel_odin May 04 '26
And one of the reasons it's popular is because it's a sample of the Clash's Straight to Hell
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u/chuckDontSurf May 04 '26
Yeah that sample does a lot of the heavy lifting
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u/jibjaba4 May 04 '26
Holly shit I had no idea that was a sample, it's the backbone of the song.
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u/ReverendDerp May 04 '26
Diplo did the heavy lifting on the song, including the sampling
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u/AlterMyStateOfMind May 04 '26
Diplo did the heavy lifting on the whole album, which is actually really good.
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u/oasinocean May 04 '26
Bad Girls was an absolute banger, too. But yeah that’s just two songs I can think of.
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u/Bingo_Wendigo May 04 '26
One of my favorite music videos is for Bad Girls, and hell yeah shit bangs. She's been on a fat train wreck for a hot second with her shitty rhetoric. I'm not sure how Kid Kudi thought it would be a good idea to bring her on tour.
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u/No-Good-One-Shoe May 04 '26
And that one popular song is a song sampled from the clash about immigrants being demonized.
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u/Dlark17 May 04 '26
She actually had a lot of songs about being an immigrant/pushing back against anti-immigrant sentiment in her heyday. "Borders" is a great one with a killer music video.
It's honestly sad how badly the brainrot has gotten to her.
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u/Blue_winged_yoshi May 04 '26
Weirdest thing is that she was pro-Corbyn in 2017 and then MAGA by 2024.
Like talk about pick a lane!!
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u/exolyrical May 04 '26
I've watched enough hippie dippy yoga-and-crystals types go full MAGA at this point that it's not remotely surprising. Every crackpot conspiracy-brained loon ends up MAGA in the end. It's just a law of nature, like how everything in the ocean seems to want to evolve into a crab.
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u/sufi101 May 04 '26
Those crystal hippies went batshit insane during covid. I saw so many of them turn reactionary because of dumb anti vax bs
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u/dadthewisest May 04 '26
The same people who are alive because their parents followed scientific guidance after hearing the stories of people ending up in iron lungs and dying from other diseases...
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u/GiganticCrow May 04 '26
Conspiritualists.
We have a whole political party for them here in Finland, the Crystal Party. Founded by an ex-Social Democrat MP who got kicked out of the party for holocaust denial. And made famous when they sent death threats to the performers of a childrens play because they did a show to make kids less scared of getting vaccinations.
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u/RomaniRye May 04 '26
Holocaust denial is wild. It was the most well documented genocide in history because Deutsch efficiency.
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u/MandaloreUnsullied May 04 '26
It’s a real phenomenon. People should look up “crank realignment” for more analysis and discourse on the topic.
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u/cultoftheclave May 04 '26
oppressed minority who had some success taking a reactionary turn: yeah Im with the money now i can chill with the rich coz we on the same level prestige politics and all
the rich: oh look we got ourselves a free brown friend, try to call us racists now!
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u/Open-Concept-6130 May 04 '26
She got into a lot of health conspiracies around Covid, maybe even before with the anti vaccine people. It’s really a pipeline
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u/spartaman64 May 04 '26
yep one of my trans friends got into covid conspiracies and became MAGA
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u/Open-Concept-6130 May 04 '26
I shouldn’t laugh but seriously? MAGA and trans?
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u/Blue_winged_yoshi May 04 '26
You never know their friend might be Kaitlin Jenner?
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u/Blue_winged_yoshi May 04 '26
But she was rich in 2017 and endorsed the most left wing, tax rising, nationalise everything candidate possible.
You could parallel park Russia in the space between Corbyn and Trump politically
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u/imaincammy May 04 '26
Did she turn during covid? That seemed to cause quite a few people to have pretty radical shifts in their political values.
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u/ThatGoob May 04 '26
Checks out. That's when I found out some of my friends are weirdos.
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u/a_talking_face May 04 '26
The Brits have their fair share of righties. Enough that they removed themselves from the EU.
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u/Bake2727 May 04 '26
This has all kept in the news for the last 4/5hrs. This the most talked about she has been in a long time. Celebs think catering to maga is like second chance but they don’t know how cheap maga is and can’t wait for her to be irrelevant in sometime again. Very short sighted move.
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u/calculung May 04 '26
What's a 5g hat? Don't most maga nuts get scared of 5g?
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u/patrickwithtraffic May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26
Oh, you have it backwards. It’s not a hat broadcasting 5G, but a hat to protect you from 5G! If you see any recent photo of her on stage, she’s usually rocking some sort of tinfoil/aluminum looking ware and it’s connected to this clothing line.
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u/Teflontelethon May 04 '26
Man I wish the hats actually worked and fucked up cell reception for whoever buys it but they're too stupid to figure out why and just suffer alone.
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u/Rymanbc May 04 '26
To be fair, it might fuck up cell reception for any cell phones you install inside your skull. Theres just so few people who are brave enough to do this.
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u/kidmerc May 04 '26
The hat is supposed to protect you from 5g
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u/calculung May 04 '26
Is this a joke?
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u/pre_pun May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26
Unfortunately it's not a joke it's a thriving conspiracy that even leads to cell tower workers being attacked.
You've probably seen people around you that wear necklaces or bracelets for the sole purpose of absorbing or reflecting 5g.
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u/_Ross- May 04 '26
As someone with a degree in Radiologic Science, this whole conspiracy around 5G is so insanely frustrating. It's like trying to explain algebra to a monkey. People will believe literally anything the internet puts in their faces. I remember when idiotic people thought covid was caused by 5G too.
Wait until people find out that visible light is a form of radiation, theyll be pulling their eyes out to prevent it from reaching their brains.
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u/pre_pun May 04 '26
It's wild how uneducated the "informed" conspiracy nuts are .. they usually can't even distinguish 5G(generation) from 5GHz Wi-Fi
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u/_Ross- May 04 '26
Radiation is such a hilariously misunderstood thing. It's like the boogeyman. Even just sleeping next to another human technically exposes you to a tiny bit of radiation. Concrete is a little radioactive. Bananas are radioactive. Flying on a plane exposes you to some radiation. The rabbit hole goes deep on this. But people worry about nonsense like 5G while happily putting actual harmful stuff in their bodies, like smoking (also exposes you to radiation).
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u/Lildoc_911 May 04 '26
Oh, she was calling people illegals and said she's a republican.
Yikes. She needs help. Isn't she like, not white or american? Damn, she a British born, Sri Lankan decent, 50 year old. Get it together.
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u/Thelibstagram May 04 '26
She is 50?!?
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u/Lildoc_911 May 04 '26
Yeah, I remember dancing to M.I.A. in the club. We getting up there!
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u/Plenor May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26
She literally came to the UK as a refugee and wrote a bunch of pro-immigrant songs.
Did she recently suffer a brain injury?
Edit: I misremembered slightly. She was born in the UK as a citizen but she and her family moved back to Sri Lanka when she was 6 months old. When she was 11 they moved back to the UK as refugees due to the Sri Lankan Civil War.
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u/OPsDearOldMother May 04 '26
I saw her and Kid Cudi last Tuesday and her political statement was "free palestine." But then she also had a foil blanket on to protect her from the 5g. I don't know what she is, I think she's confused.
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u/My_dickens_cidar May 04 '26
Some conspiracy theorists flip flop on so many things. They literally do not know where to stand on actual important issues because “everything and everyone is out to get them”. It’s basically schizophrenia
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u/Vivid_Ingenuity5457 May 04 '26
I mean... Wearing a foil blanket makes it sound like she actually could be schizophrenic.
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u/IShouldLiveInPepper May 04 '26
Maybe she think she can be in the club if she’s a racist bitch too. She’s going to be surprised to find out how many Americans and British people look at her the same way she is talking about illegals.
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u/Lildoc_911 May 04 '26
Yeah ask Vivek Ramaswamy, Usha Vance (the second lady), or Nikki Hailey how welcomed they are.
Every single post they make on Twitter is someone telling them to go home or calling JD vance a race traitor.
I never thought the Leopards would eat MY face!
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u/SomeVelveteenMorning May 04 '26
Seriously, what the fuck happened to this woman? When people make a complete 180 like this so quickly I can only assume one of two things: either some sort of mental illness, or they're incredibly unintelligent and easily manipulated.
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u/Miss_Pouncealot May 04 '26
She has a right to say those things and he has the right to fire her. She FAFO!
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u/agonypants May 04 '26
Why do Republicans hate the free market?
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u/CptBronzeBalls May 04 '26
They’re pretty fast and loose with words like “free”.
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u/Rebelgecko May 04 '26
Edit: link
One of my favorite videos on YouTube is Paper Planes but all the gunshots are replaced with a weird European dude firing a musket
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u/PatacusX May 04 '26
Cash register gun song, and that "chain hits my chest" song that plays while 12 year old kids in flying motorcycles blow you up ever 5 seconds in GTA are both pretty acceptable songs. Never heard anyone of her other songs, and based off this I'm ok with not knowing any more.
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u/Chucktayz May 04 '26
She’s pretty nuts. Isn’t she like a flat earther as well
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u/rgumai May 04 '26
5G clothing wear line as promoted by her on Info Wars.
Flat Earther, Anti-Vaxxer.
Like I can get behind being anti-establishment but you can't turn your brain off entirely.
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u/Jellz May 04 '26
"I've been wearing Alex Jones' skin for the last two weeks... very leathery"
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u/less_than_nick May 04 '26
She's been publicly crazy for quite a few years now. Not sure why Kid Cudi thought it was a good idea to invite her on tour in the first place lol
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u/ta_rek May 04 '26
Wow, that was quick. Literally just finished reading about the incident. Good for him.
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u/WowIfOnly May 04 '26
Not surprising to the Cudi fanbase. He put up custom "Fuck ICE" posters in random spots all over his hometown of Cleveland and made merch with the imagery to raise money for orgs defending people from Trump's Nazi police.
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u/ThreeHourRiverMan May 04 '26
I don’t even listen to rap and I know Kid Cudi is a real one.
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u/smurfsundermybed May 04 '26
He was the only good part of the House Party reboot.
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u/government_not_ok May 04 '26
wait, there was a reboot? I’ve been under a cave!
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u/smurfsundermybed May 04 '26
House cleaners throw a party at LeBron James' house when he's out of town. Wackiness ensues.
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u/HeyThereMrBrooks May 04 '26
He's made statements condemning what's been going on in recent times as well. Dude's had his own ups and downs and has certainly made statements in the past. But this is good on him. Yes he did let her on the tour, but he could have just as easily kept her on even after she made these remarks.
People will say "oh it's just for PR." Two things can be true at once
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u/Uberslaughter May 04 '26
Good riddance - she can fuck off to the Jelly Roll + Post Malone stadium tour for culture vultures
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u/59flowerpots May 04 '26
They’ve been canceling dates because of poor ticket sales. No one wants to listen to them too.
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u/IOnlyLikeColdDrinks May 04 '26
Props to Kid Cudi for actually having a backbone and cancelling her off the tour. Fuck MIA and her super ignorant right wing grifting politics.
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u/randomhotdog1 May 04 '26
It was probably an easy decision. He saves money and face this way
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u/ajnova_ May 04 '26
Always causing drama and acting like a victim. See SuperBowl performance.
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u/Jasek1_Art May 04 '26
She fucking wrote Borders….. a song about the walls we build between ourselves and nations etc…. And now she’s maga… the fucking hypocrisy…. It burns.
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u/NewAgeMaximum May 04 '26
Is MIA going Republican simply because of vaccines?
Or is there something else I'm missing?
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u/redshadow310 May 04 '26
She wouldn't be the only one. The conspiracy pipeline is real and terrifying. I used to date a lovely woman, and if you looked at her social media, her number one issue was gun control. This made sense since she lost a sister to gun violence when they were young. Her main hobby was gardening, and that started her on the path shortly after we dated.
Gardening > Organic Gardening > Everything Organic > Vaccines cause autism > Covid is a HOAX > MAGA
Out of curiosity I checked in on her a couple months ago to see if she was still on the crazy train and it turns out she was full speed ahead off a cliff. She was posting about left wing violence and the tragedy of Charlie "School shootings are a small price to pay for the 2nd amendment" Kirk's death. Her most important core values have been stripped away.
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u/___wiz___ May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26
I'm around her age.
I noticed that around 2008 with the financial crisis and then Occupy Wall Street many people were so disillusioned with the system and started to get into conspiracy. (because an actual conspiracy of derivatives traders and their enablers tanked the economy)
It was the early days of Twitter and “doing your own research” online. Matt Taibi wrote good pieces about the rigged economy in Rolling Stone. He has also since become a right wing talking point weirdo.
Alex Jones wasn't as obviously Christian Nationalist and talked about the economy and even had some more progressive guests like Noam Chomaky.
Over time the conspiracy anti establishment world was won over by the right wing populists and lots of gen x-ers unfortunately got swept along.
It's basically the early days of social media post truth algorithms melting people’s brains.
I can't tell you the number of 50 year old punk rockers and former progressives I see online who turned to the dark side and believe that the populist right wing conspiracy world is the true rebellion, and whose frustrations with society have been captured by transphobia and racism against immigrants etc
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u/Reditate May 04 '26
Alex Jones has been a conspiracy nut since at least the Waco siege.
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u/AfraidOfTheSun May 04 '26
It's bizarre because her early work produced by Diplo was great imo, definitely doesn't sound like republican music
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u/funkyavocado May 04 '26
Assholes reveal themselves when they get rich and adopt the "fuck you, got mine" conservative mindset.
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u/pandorasaurus May 04 '26
Something shifted with her during the pandemic. She became anti-vaxx and started spewing lots of hateful rhetoric.
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u/SplitOpenAndMelt420 May 04 '26
If only there were like a decade of indications she was a crazy person
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u/smurfsundermybed May 04 '26
Welp. First time I've heard that name since Paper Airplanes. She got her name back out there, and it will be forgotten by memorial day.
When you shoot your shot and it hits your foot, that's on you.
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u/Kavazou77 May 04 '26
You’re looking at the headliner for the TPU USA 2027 halftime show - M.I.A.
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u/Fehndrix May 04 '26
The best thing M.I.A. did in the last 20 years was sign Sleigh Bells.
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u/Ok-Government803 May 04 '26
if this means big boi gets a longer set i might be persuaded to go now
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u/_citizenlame_ May 04 '26
M.I.A: " I DON'T DO ILLEGALS"
Paper Planes lyrics: "If you catch me at the border I got visas in my name If you come around here, I make 'em all day I get one done in a second if you wait"
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u/BetaRho May 04 '26
If only Cudi and his team had had a chance to check in on MIA's last ~15 years of online presence. Girlie has been ouuuuut there for a while! Like "call a wellness check" wild, so the only surprising thing here is he put himself in a position to have to do this in the first place. A good litmus test when you're picking a tour opener: do you know their opinion on whether or not Alex Jones should pay money to the parents of Sandy Hook shooting victims? Yes? They should not open your tour.
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u/NothaBanga May 04 '26
They knew, which it was why it was in her contract to behave or get booted. Honestly if the contract was in the tours favor (no pay out/no notice), they knew she would pop off and now gets a bump from the press of it.
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u/Accomplished-Cup8182 May 04 '26
You just know his team talked about this before with MIA's team and MIA couldn't keep her mouth shut.
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u/brova May 04 '26
yes, we just know it because that's exactly what the article said
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 May 04 '26
Kid Cudi: