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Why most artists (even great ones) should avoid talking politics

Because they come out sounding like idiots:

Anybody who is called the government is right. And anybody who isn’t called the government is not right… And you know, all governments are connected to Google, and all governments can shift their search engines so only what they want you to see comes up… I want kids to be aware of this digital circumstance… Everyone on the Internet is like, “Oh my God, come and join Facebook!” They’re all so optimistic… and really, everyone is fucking you up behind the screens. And I don’t like that. It makes it difficult for me to interact with my fans knowing that. Google and Facebook were developed by the CIA, and when you’re on there, you have to know that.

—M.I.A. in Nylon

Don’t even get me started on her Believer interview with Joshua Clover. Sheesh.

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One Response to “Why most artists (even great ones) should avoid talking politics”

  1. Matos W.K. says:
    July 1, 2010 at 10:41 am

    I thought it couldn’t be worse than Rick Moody writing a history of the drum machine. Then I read Clover’s bio.