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M.I.A. uses MTV money to make kids clever
Posted: 06 Jun '08, 18:15
M.I.A. is to put her $50,000 fee for performing at last weekend's MTV Movie Awards towards the construction of schools in Africa.
She told onlookers at the ceremony: "They're giving me $100,000. Not bad, eh? I'm going to use it to build schools in Liberia. It costs $52,000 to build a school for 1,000."
So did she get paid 50k, or double that? Does it matter when it's going to a good cause? No, no it doesn't.
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Words can't express
how much I love this gurl
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ive really tried
but i just dont get whhy people go cray over mia....can someone please try and explain the attraction to me? Im not being nasty- i know loads of people who love it...but i can't see it and im wondering if there is a vital bit that im missing out on?
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*crazy
not cray.
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£100,000
or dollars or whatever is pretty fuckin good rates for someone who still hasnt broken into the mainstream!!
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Her music man,
it's all about her music. It makes me feel good, ya know? It's hard to describe how music makes you feel, but she's one of the few artists (yes, ARTISTS) who makes me feel great. Plus, she's obviously cool as a cucumber cocktail donating her fee to charidee.
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^^ amen
brother. i cant see The Pigeon Detectives doin anything similar.
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do you reckon she said
"what can i get for 100,000 dollar"?
Fizzy bovril- I know its the music im struggling with...
That Jimmy song, is it generally felt that that was a mistake on her part or did people like it.....
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i like it
ripping off where is my mind though...thats another matter.
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I you struggle with her music,
then I can't persuade you otherwise. If you don't feel it, you don't feel it. About the Jimmy song, you know, I feel she's a creative artist and, like the best of them, can go astray sometimes. I'd never judge her whole output on that one song though... Paper Plane, Bucky Done Good, Galang, BirdFlu, these are her best works.
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ok...illl give those tracks another try,,,
i think it must be the music because i have a 'mashup' of pull up the people and that Amerie one thing song, which is her vocal, and the amerie beats and i really like it....
Perhaps it just gives me the vice/american apparel skin tight trouser wearing feeling that i cant get past
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then theres me
i love the Jimmy song, not so big on some of the others. though Paper Planes is utter class
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yeah
what's all this beef with jimmy?
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personally
i just dont think its a patch on the original...
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Wow
A little behind the rest with this news piece, aren't we?
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what?
she got paid $100,000.
it costs $52,000 to build a school.
so she's possibly going to pay for two?
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One is better than none.
She could knock it down in 6 mon ths and I'd still love her.
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paper planes... aka the one with the clash sample? :P
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Fuck this...
im not MIA's biggest fan, i loved her first album when i was like 15, i think her second is okay at best, but this is a fucking cool thing to do. fuck you haters, get a life (or do a madonna and get an african child)
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How is it ripping of WISMM?
She uses one line and doesn't even say it the same way.
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Yup,
just lifts the riff straight out of "straight to hell".
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so?
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Erm...
...I don't see a single 'hater' above.
And I'm afraid that Madonna joke is extremely dated.
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crikey
Is this the new fangled 'sampler-ing' that all the kidz are talking about these days? Oh my, surely that should be illegal!
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