i remember in 2018 watching the doc about MIA and, although I had not spent any time with her work, finding it so fascinating - there seemed like enough for whole separate docs about her dancing, her fashion choices, her politics, her artistry choices, her early adulthood spent trailing around after Justine Frischmann with this big awkward privilege/wealth/success gap in their friendship… Given how she has been since, I never will revisit it, but I wonder what indications were in there of the turns that have followed
I remember the NYT article well and the vivid, somewhat negative portrait it painted of a complicated person. Didn’t realize it was Lyn Hirschberger. And sad to see M.I.A. drift into upside-down world.
i remember in 2018 watching the doc about MIA and, although I had not spent any time with her work, finding it so fascinating - there seemed like enough for whole separate docs about her dancing, her fashion choices, her politics, her artistry choices, her early adulthood spent trailing around after Justine Frischmann with this big awkward privilege/wealth/success gap in their friendship… Given how she has been since, I never will revisit it, but I wonder what indications were in there of the turns that have followed
I remember the NYT article well and the vivid, somewhat negative portrait it painted of a complicated person. Didn’t realize it was Lyn Hirschberger. And sad to see M.I.A. drift into upside-down world.
Excellent article. Very cogent and discerning. Thanks for this! I am smarter than I was five minutes ago 🤓