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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’ (variety.com)
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[–] 0 points 4 months ago (9 children)

I'm sorry I can't prove to you that I don't know any of that shit, but I simply don't. I've heard one song and she didn't even write the only part of that song that interests me. I actively listen to MIA the same amount I actively listen to Beyonce or Taylor Swift, which is to say not at all, but I can still list like a dozen tracks from each of them. If she was truly that objectively influential on all of society, why don't I know more of her work? And more importantly, why is she opening for Kid Cudi?

Now if you're Sri Lankan, I could see how that might affect your perceptions on this subject. I'm not and all I know is the one track that got really big where I'm from 🤷‍♂️. Again, sorry I guess.

Just saying, your view of reality is not the same as everyone else's, and it's never going to be.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    you seem to see popularity as the only form of success or influence for a musician

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    You seem to see personal opinion as universal truth.

    The only argument you've actually made is that two of her albums were popular, and now you're implying that's not a good measure of influence 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    not what i said, i said they were critically acclaimed. i should have known trying to educate you on this would be pointless, too blinded by hate

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Lemmy won't let me expand the conversation to reply to the appropriate comment, so I'll just put it here. Yes, Throbbing Gristle is influential to the industrial music movement. Does that make them universally influential? Of course not, most people haven't even heard of the genre, much less the artist. Likewise, MIA can be extremely influential within her genre without having much affect on the world at-large, and can still be accurately dubbed a one-hit wonder. In this whoooole thread I still haven't even heard what her other hits are, so the epithet certainly still applies for me. Wu Tang and the Kinks permeated culture so effectively that they're still popular all over, I don't even agree with the premise that they're unpopular. Like, if the Kinks could magically reunite and tour again, do you really think they'd be opening for washed-up mediocre rock acts?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    xxxo, bad girls, galang, bucky done gun, and jimmy all reached the charts. i dont think you can call her a one hit wonder when 2 of her albums are great. skee lo is a one hit wonder. m.i.a. is not. and her influence does permeate culture as multiple artists who got big in the mid 2010s up to now cite her as a direct influence. her style of music has continued to get more and more popular. "brat" took over a whole summer not too long ago, and charli xcx cites m.i.a. as a major influence on her music. you can not like her music, you cannot downplay her importance, which is what you have done since the first comment

    also, funny that there is actually a reply limit on lemmy, i never knew that

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    See, that's all I wanted, some data! Although I don't know any of those songs or what a skee lo is, I believe you, MIA is culturally significant. It's just too bad she's a fascist, now I'll never listen to any of it.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    skee-lo made "i wish" which was a popular rap single in the early 90s

    the album is actually not bad but he didnt really have anything other than "i wish" and for the black community one or two other songs that got playtime

    edit: also, you dont have to listen to her, but youd be missing out on some important albums and her lyrics still ring true and hit hard, even if shes gone the opposite direction in her life (examples being 10 dollar, atention, illygirl, born free, all of the kala album, vicki leekx)

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Critically acclaimed=liked by humans=popular Lack of exposure and interest≠hatred

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    so based off what you said, throbbing gristle would have had no influence over industrial music, because they aren't popular at all and other industrial acts are. the kinks arent too popular nowadays, im guessing they had no influence either right? wu tang clan hasnt had a hit since forever ago, guess they had no influence over rap music either.

    you see what kind of uneducated mess youre saying?

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