The Thousands

I’ll be the first to admit I’m paranoid. I’m convinced that someone is watching my every cyber-move in our real-life interpretation of 1984. I avoid virtual socialising, dismantled my phone and tore the chip out of my passport that they warn you not to tear out. And by ‘they’ I mean ‘he’ – ‘The Man’.

Now what better person to hit out at the contemporary ‘Man’ than a modern woman; a modern Sri Lankan woman; a modern Sri Lankan refugee woman with ties to Tamil militants? MIA has been causing all kinds of trouble by bugging her own interviews and tweeting a New York Times journo into a very uncomfortable corner.

Taking the mantle of radical chic into the dub-step delirium of information overload and fragmented realities, /\/\ /\ Y /\ is the mind-scrambling dystopia we all sadly endure without even realising it. MIA’s brought culture jamming guerrilla warfare to music and pissed off a whole lot of people. But for all her political ambiguity and dirty tactics, MIA is saying what nobody else cares to and she’s doing it to some really sweet beats. I <3 her 4E\//\.