The Whole Delivery

Headlining the releases this week, it's none other than the controversial Brit M.I.A with her third album "Maya." Also releasing albums this week are Korn, Sting, Intriguer, Drama Queen, and Innocence Mission . Also, just if you care, Usher has released finally the video for "There Goes My Baby." It's as expected, and actually pretty decent. Your first music thread.

No, there surely is not ........even with Rand Paul putting himself in late contention to retain his award.

Jimmy Iovine's willing ignorance to not mind M.I.A's dangerous statements is a disturbingly a characteristic of music label bosses nowadays to their artists In reading the fine article from Lynn Hirschberg that caused M.I.A to become a complete psychopath and ruined the accomplished journalist's life today, a key paragraph explains one underrated reason why "mainstream" music is in the sad state that it is in today. It is about the perspective from one of the true titan bosses of industry being okay with M.I.A's dangerous ignorant statements that contributed to exacerbating the Civil War in Sri Lanka. “Maya had all the pieces of the puzzle,” Jimmy Iovine, chairman of Interscope Records, told me. “When I met her, I thought, Who wouldn’t want to sign her? Her politics didn’t matter to me. The whole game is about waiting for that moment to move popular culture. Maya can move the needle. I want to go where she’s going to take me.” This is a legendary figur...

I respected MIA despite her BS support of the terrorists Tamils in Sri Lanka. But this really is a global black eye over here in the U.S. But that's not her number in that tweet. Instead, that is the number of the New York Times reporter who wrote the article that has made the already hot tempered artist even more angry. And so angry, that it lead her to do one of the most disturbing and insane things anyone could do, let alone a famous artist with a global outreach. Celebrity profiler/muckraker Lynn Hirschberg (she wrote the infamous 1992 Kurt ‘n’ Courtney profile in Vanity Fair , for one) learned that the hard way today when her recent New York Times cover story on M.I.A. displeased the singer enough to make her post Hirschberg’s personal cell number on her official Twitter . Guess what? That post by M.I.A has not been taken down off her page. In fact, that post is still there as of this post. Maybe it's the "militant leftist terrorist daughter 'Public Enemy...

The most controversial video since.......Eryaku Badu's video. But this 9 minute mini masterpiece is really something to witness, even hough no one under 12 should see it. My goodness, is it real and thensome. And I didn't even know she told her label to go screw themselves : Shortly after the British singer-songwriter announced the video's debut via Twitter, she was complaining about her label, Universal Music, railing "FUCK UMG WHO WONT SHOW IT ON YOUTUBE!" She hastily backtracked on her claim, however, and though the clip is justifiably flagged for potential innapropriateness, it's readily available on her own YouTube channel. Enjoy it.