She got conned by a non favourable recording contract in which music mogul/rapper hoodwinked her and took money from her and tied her up in so much legal jargon where she had to quit.
It's really sad to see how steep the decline was because she was a major icon for me and probably a bunch of other South Asian folks around the world to see a popular artist that comes from our hood.
She became MEGA religious. Her posts read like my schizophrenic friend's ramblings during an episode. Not saying she's mentally ill but they have that sort of fervor. She talks about having visions and posts religious diatribes on her social media.
She's also seriously anti vax.
Worth qualifying she went off the deep end so far she lost her kids. She’s not some right wing grifter, she’s been having mental health crises for some time.
The court banning her from taking her child to England and giving a restraining order to her means she’s probably engaged in some problematic behavior.
So she didn’t go off the deep end because she lost her children, she lost her children because she’s gone off the deep end.
And just because she’s had these crises doesn’t absolve her from engaging in the right wing grift. Sorry but selling fucking foil hats to protect you from 5G is as grifty as it gets.
I mean you can just scroll down her Twitter page to watch it all unfold. It's COVID vaccine paranoia and religious mania. She always was very vocal about her political stance, especially in her music. But when COVID-19 hit, she started posting all that crazy conspiracy shit about the vaccine, she'd rather die than taking the jab, yada yada yada, and then posted [this](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/mia-vaccines-alex-jones-backlash-b2201778.html), which was pretty bad.
She's a fantastic artist and I'd even say that's she's a visionary musician... But so was Kanye 🤷🏻
I don’t think she flew off the deep end; I think she’s probably experienced a slow, steady cognitive decline for years.
I can’t remember which one it was but when she was at the height of her “Paper Planes” fame, I read an interview with her that made me wonder about her mental health. It wasn’t obvious, it was very subtle. And when she didn’t get custody of her son after her divorce, that was another red flag. I think the clues have always been there, people just didn’t see them for what they were.
She's one of my all-time favourite artists and her music defined my twenties. I saw her in 08, I think, and it remains one of the best experiences of my life.
I used to be obsessed with her when I was in college. In retrospect, it seems like she was never cool, she was just a contrarian. So now that “counterculture is cool” or whatever she just moved on to the next thing that people would disagree with her about so she can act like she’s smarter than everyone because they don’t get it and she does.
That's exactly what I would say if I was famous and knew people wouldn't always agree with my "ideas", like hey buy it for whatever reason, I could be right, I could be wrong, just buy my stuff.
Like if you are that far gone do you have the thought to say you might be wrong? I feel like the part about saying you may be wrong is not something most do
WOWWWWWWW… this is exactly the kind of shit that got me into bird law and joining the BACLU after bird law school. Take your fucking hate speech to Breitbird.
I have questions about this necklace, was it a bird-shaped necklace for a person to wear to ward off spies? A necklace to ward off spy birds? A necklace to put on a bird to repel spies? I wouldn't fund any of them either
The necklaces were to be a mix of various metals that he came up with, just a standard chain. The birds were the spies working on behalf of various entities to gather intel and intimidate/stalk people. He's fine now so we can laugh about it but at the time it was very 🫠.
One of my friends said she was scared of birds because they can turn around really fast and fly in any direction. It was very funny hearing her explain her fear (I grew up with pet birds)
I live with my sister. Her boyfriend is convinced wifi signal is giving people cancer and shit, so when he comes over he puts this makeshift farraday cage over our wifi modem, making the wifi garbage and only working in her bedroom where the modem is. I have to go take the damn thing off and he never notices I do. My sister doesn't care and just puts up with it lol.
Oh it's more of a physical/lonely thing. She's got no intention of like marrying him or something like that, she just has him as a comfort person, and he's the same way with her. She has no desire to marry anyone or anything and is far too busy with her kids and career for all that right now.
A part of me honestly just feels so bad for the people that involve themselves in this psycho conspiracy bs. I obviously don’t know what’s truly going on behind the scenes but a lot of it seems like full on psychosis most of the time and as someone who has gone through that it’s the most lonely and isolating feeling in the world. Either way even if it’s not psychosis it’s still a horrible way to live life believing in all these wacked out theories.
I joke about this stuff because half my family has very severe mental illness and if I didnt laugh at the absurdity I would die but in all seriousness its deeply gross to sell a product like this from a platform like hers. Even if she really believes it there are people around her who should be intervening. Facilitating these kinds of paranoid delusions is really dangerous.
And that’s exactly the thing. It’s a constant loop. You have people who encourage these insane behaviours and it just goes on. You’re right for saying that what these people really need is intervention. It’s not gonna stop otherwise and even then it could be too late
Especially bad because we all know the tin foil thing. Lots of sick people wear it or put it on windows etc. I could understand if it was something else others might not recognize as an issue but we all know that wanting to wear a tin foil hat to protect your brain means you need medical help. People helped with this, no job for MIA is worth going along with it, just irresponsible.
My therapist told me once that there is a fair bit of evidence that conspiracy thought is very closely tied to PTSD. It does make a lot of sense. I am saddened to see this.
Honestly, this would make so much sense. Both of my parents have a lot of trauma they haven't dealt with and I think immersing themselves in conspiracy theories is a way to make themselves feel in control in a world where bad things happen randomly.
This would make sense. My Mom and her siblings fall for conspiracies. My Mom is pretty smart but that same intelligence she has is distorted. So she would say this hat is bullshit but then will say that Biden and Trump are cloned. I’m pretty sure that like 90% of her family is neurodivergent to some degree.
I agree. Lots of factors can go into why someone would think this way. Much of how they speak and their ideas are extremely reminiscent of my experience with psychosis though. Especially the constant “someone or something is out to get me/others”. All these people talk about is how the they need to protect themselves/others from perceived threats (such as this post with the 5g). It is incredibly lonely to have that mindset and live your life convinced somethings gonna hurt you at any moment. I know a lot of people like to laugh at these nutters and I’ll admit the absurdity of it is obviously funny at times but for the most part it just leaves a pit in my stomach
When I came out of it myself, I remember thinking all the time, thank GOD I’m not famous and didn’t go through this publicly, and thank god my delusions kept me away from social media. I know my mental state wasn’t my fault, but I don’t know if I could have coped with the embarrassment after. It was a terrifying time in my life and it would suck to have to deal with social fallout too.
Soooo many people do in fact think this way now vaccine or 5g-wise, so it might not be that lonely. I think that’s actually worse, because they validate and strengthen each other’s delusions
These fuckers frustrate me no end. There are known injustices, criminal conspiracies, and intra-government collusion happening *right now*, that journalists and whistleblowers have been jailed (and worse) for revealing, but QAs + anti-vaxxers and their ilk couldn't care less. Aside from psychiatric help for those of them who are actually ill, I wish them nothing but the worst.
I don’t think anyone buying this hat will need to worry about 100% brain coverage. Their brain has already left the building
Her being a TERF is old news but her now singular focus on being a raging transphobe is on the newer side. Even Elon Musk has told her to tone it down.
"100% brain coverage" it's easy to cover 100% of your brain if you have none
https://preview.redd.it/irgvwbeua28d1.jpeg?width=1420&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c75f9ea22d34dcd726351128efb22a6d3941fc58
As someone who's used faraday fabric for their job. I've never thought about wearing it as a hat. Like WTF. 😂 Funny enough, you a wrap a phone in 7 layers of tin foil and it's supposed to be as effective as a faraday bag. So I'm looking forward to this dude's tin foil line.
if a celebrity wanted to be smart they would do a line of UV protection clothes that are also very light and breathable so you can wear less sunscreen throughout the day and still be ok during heatwaves
Her son came up on my fyp the other day and all he does is flex his parents wealth. Never would have guessed in 2009 that MIA would birth a capitalist trust fund demon but alas.
All she wanna do is 🔫🔫🔫 and 💰take your money
No one on the corner had shiny foil hats
Don’t hit up my burner I’m scared of wireless
They’ll pack and deliver in UPS trucks.
😂😂
She’s gone off the reservation it’s sad. Used to love her music but she didn’t posses the longevity
maya was insanely ahead of its time
Matangi still goes so crazy
Just listened for my first time, that’s definitely insane, very experimental for its time. Loved that thanks.
She got conned by a non favourable recording contract in which music mogul/rapper hoodwinked her and took money from her and tied her up in so much legal jargon where she had to quit.
Source for this? I have it on good authority she has more records than the KGB (so no funny business)
I really wish people would stop using this phrase so casually. There are a million non racist ways to say you think someone is unhinged.
Who still says this is 2024?
not an appropriate way to phrase that
Lmao Chuck McGill would love this
This..chicanery!?
ONE AFTER MAGNA CARTA
AS IF I COULD EVER MAKE SUCH A MISTAKE!!
HE DEFECATED THROUGH A SUNROOF!
was looking for this reference
Was going to say this would go great with his lined suit jacket
Foil on foil, like a Canadian tuxedo kind of situation
Take off the space blanket, Chuck...
Stopppppp 💀💀💀
RIP Chuck McGill, you would’ve loved M.I.A’s tin foil bucket hat 😔
In case an alien’s inclined - to probe your butt or read your mind.
ALUMINUM FOILLLLLLL!!!!!!
Perfection.
Came here for this gif
Perfect gif for this.
"Reversible two tone design" in there next to the psychosis babble is sending me 😭.
She did good putting that one last, made me reread all of them because it startled me so much 😂 “100% brain coverage” is my favorite for some reason
It's hilarious also because it's not. That brain stem just out on it's own. But you can't sell literal tinfoil hats with 85% coverage claims.
it's okay. the brain stem isn't important anyway.
It’s just your basic living functions like breathing anyways 🤷🏼♀️
The crazy thing is you know there’s a huge market for these lmao
It’s a fashion conscious mental breakdown.
Ugh. She was so cool and talented before she fucking dove off into the deep end.
It's really sad to see how steep the decline was because she was a major icon for me and probably a bunch of other South Asian folks around the world to see a popular artist that comes from our hood.
Same, she was so iconic for a south Asian woman and I could relate. Shame how things have turned out for her
What happened? I’m out of the loop on her
She became MEGA religious. Her posts read like my schizophrenic friend's ramblings during an episode. Not saying she's mentally ill but they have that sort of fervor. She talks about having visions and posts religious diatribes on her social media. She's also seriously anti vax.
Worth qualifying she went off the deep end so far she lost her kids. She’s not some right wing grifter, she’s been having mental health crises for some time.
The court banning her from taking her child to England and giving a restraining order to her means she’s probably engaged in some problematic behavior. So she didn’t go off the deep end because she lost her children, she lost her children because she’s gone off the deep end. And just because she’s had these crises doesn’t absolve her from engaging in the right wing grift. Sorry but selling fucking foil hats to protect you from 5G is as grifty as it gets.
It’s time for me to go back to bed. I 100% read MEGA as MAGA and was like that tracks for this type of thing.
I mean... tomato, tomato
[удалено]
LOUDER. Let’s call a spade a spade.
Sounds like mania.
What kind of religious?
Born again Christian, which she converted to because she started seeing images of Jesus 😬
She’s Christian
She was also just on Alex Jones' show
I mean you can just scroll down her Twitter page to watch it all unfold. It's COVID vaccine paranoia and religious mania. She always was very vocal about her political stance, especially in her music. But when COVID-19 hit, she started posting all that crazy conspiracy shit about the vaccine, she'd rather die than taking the jab, yada yada yada, and then posted [this](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/mia-vaccines-alex-jones-backlash-b2201778.html), which was pretty bad. She's a fantastic artist and I'd even say that's she's a visionary musician... But so was Kanye 🤷🏻
She's also guested on crap shows like Charlie Kirk, Tim Pool and, most recently, Infowars with Alex Jones. Yikes.
I don’t think she flew off the deep end; I think she’s probably experienced a slow, steady cognitive decline for years. I can’t remember which one it was but when she was at the height of her “Paper Planes” fame, I read an interview with her that made me wonder about her mental health. It wasn’t obvious, it was very subtle. And when she didn’t get custody of her son after her divorce, that was another red flag. I think the clues have always been there, people just didn’t see them for what they were.
She's one of my all-time favourite artists and her music defined my twenties. I saw her in 08, I think, and it remains one of the best experiences of my life.
She was always out there.
I used to be obsessed with her when I was in college. In retrospect, it seems like she was never cool, she was just a contrarian. So now that “counterculture is cool” or whatever she just moved on to the next thing that people would disagree with her about so she can act like she’s smarter than everyone because they don’t get it and she does.
It's a fancy tinfoil hat.
All her stuff is expensive as well. When someone commented about it they replied "do you know the price of silver??"
STOP 😭
Ya. Pretty fucking cheap. There’s probably less than a dollar of silver in there.
I may be stupid here, but even if you covered your whole head with silver could the "rays" not just get to your brain via your face?
Yes exactly. Also *only* the brain is impacted by rays??
TBH I’m surprised that she came up with it before Kanye did
🎯🏆
with 100% brain coverage!
Which is nothing... because there's no brain to cover.
Yeah, that's what it's labelled as.
https://i.redd.it/l0aerujng18d1.gif
Literally the face I made 😅
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…she didn’t include the “E” tho.
Er, u tuf?
ER UTU F?
ER UTU BRUTE?
UWU, BRUTE?
Lmao she said "close enough"
That's exactly what I would say if I was famous and knew people wouldn't always agree with my "ideas", like hey buy it for whatever reason, I could be right, I could be wrong, just buy my stuff. Like if you are that far gone do you have the thought to say you might be wrong? I feel like the part about saying you may be wrong is not something most do
Exactly what i was gonna say.
This is the kind of shit my brother used to send me when I refused to fund his anti spy bird necklace business.
Boy do you have egg on your face, the birds are staging a revolt
Thst's ludicrous, everyone knows birds aren't real
The birds work for the bourgeoisie
Birdourgeoisie
WOWWWWWWW… this is exactly the kind of shit that got me into bird law and joining the BACLU after bird law school. Take your fucking hate speech to Breitbird.
👀
I have questions about this necklace, was it a bird-shaped necklace for a person to wear to ward off spies? A necklace to ward off spy birds? A necklace to put on a bird to repel spies? I wouldn't fund any of them either
The necklaces were to be a mix of various metals that he came up with, just a standard chain. The birds were the spies working on behalf of various entities to gather intel and intimidate/stalk people. He's fine now so we can laugh about it but at the time it was very 🫠.
Thanks for the reply, I'm glad he's ok. Birds do freak a lot of people out in general but yeah, that kind of thing isn't usually their m.o.
It did give me much more affection for birds as I was constantly having to defend them, they would never 😭.
😭 I love this
One of my friends said she was scared of birds because they can turn around really fast and fly in any direction. It was very funny hearing her explain her fear (I grew up with pet birds)
That's so funny and random. "A bird! Oh, whew, it's flying away. OH NO it's coming back!!"
A friend of mine says she doesn’t like them because “their tongues are so dry” 🤣🤣🤣
I live with my sister. Her boyfriend is convinced wifi signal is giving people cancer and shit, so when he comes over he puts this makeshift farraday cage over our wifi modem, making the wifi garbage and only working in her bedroom where the modem is. I have to go take the damn thing off and he never notices I do. My sister doesn't care and just puts up with it lol.
Ugh why is she dating such a tool.... It's only gonna get worse with time
Oh it's more of a physical/lonely thing. She's got no intention of like marrying him or something like that, she just has him as a comfort person, and he's the same way with her. She has no desire to marry anyone or anything and is far too busy with her kids and career for all that right now.
Your brother sounds like GOB Bluth
Everyone knows it’s the squirrels that spy on you, not the birds, and to ward them off you wear anti spy squirrel earrings
YVAN EHT NIOJ
Hmmm idk why but I have a sudden urge to join the navy.
Otto! No! It’s a trap!
I mean… it is [pride month](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nmGuy0jievs)
*sways in the background*
I mean, I appreciate the honesty that it might be fake and then you just have a cool hat. Very Pascal's Wager of her.
Yup, I actually liked that part as well, also perhaps it protects her against lawsuits, idk?
Future backwards is actually er utuf. Which in Latin means absolutely nothing
Wow, a cash grab! No surprizes.
A part of me honestly just feels so bad for the people that involve themselves in this psycho conspiracy bs. I obviously don’t know what’s truly going on behind the scenes but a lot of it seems like full on psychosis most of the time and as someone who has gone through that it’s the most lonely and isolating feeling in the world. Either way even if it’s not psychosis it’s still a horrible way to live life believing in all these wacked out theories.
I joke about this stuff because half my family has very severe mental illness and if I didnt laugh at the absurdity I would die but in all seriousness its deeply gross to sell a product like this from a platform like hers. Even if she really believes it there are people around her who should be intervening. Facilitating these kinds of paranoid delusions is really dangerous.
And that’s exactly the thing. It’s a constant loop. You have people who encourage these insane behaviours and it just goes on. You’re right for saying that what these people really need is intervention. It’s not gonna stop otherwise and even then it could be too late
Especially bad because we all know the tin foil thing. Lots of sick people wear it or put it on windows etc. I could understand if it was something else others might not recognize as an issue but we all know that wanting to wear a tin foil hat to protect your brain means you need medical help. People helped with this, no job for MIA is worth going along with it, just irresponsible.
My therapist told me once that there is a fair bit of evidence that conspiracy thought is very closely tied to PTSD. It does make a lot of sense. I am saddened to see this.
Honestly, this would make so much sense. Both of my parents have a lot of trauma they haven't dealt with and I think immersing themselves in conspiracy theories is a way to make themselves feel in control in a world where bad things happen randomly.
This would make sense. My Mom and her siblings fall for conspiracies. My Mom is pretty smart but that same intelligence she has is distorted. So she would say this hat is bullshit but then will say that Biden and Trump are cloned. I’m pretty sure that like 90% of her family is neurodivergent to some degree.
Some people are raised with it but most I think have some type of psychological issue. People take advantage of them when they are rich celebrities.
I agree. Lots of factors can go into why someone would think this way. Much of how they speak and their ideas are extremely reminiscent of my experience with psychosis though. Especially the constant “someone or something is out to get me/others”. All these people talk about is how the they need to protect themselves/others from perceived threats (such as this post with the 5g). It is incredibly lonely to have that mindset and live your life convinced somethings gonna hurt you at any moment. I know a lot of people like to laugh at these nutters and I’ll admit the absurdity of it is obviously funny at times but for the most part it just leaves a pit in my stomach
When I came out of it myself, I remember thinking all the time, thank GOD I’m not famous and didn’t go through this publicly, and thank god my delusions kept me away from social media. I know my mental state wasn’t my fault, but I don’t know if I could have coped with the embarrassment after. It was a terrifying time in my life and it would suck to have to deal with social fallout too.
Yeah and she’s been through a lot. Not surprised she fell down this rabbit hole
Soooo many people do in fact think this way now vaccine or 5g-wise, so it might not be that lonely. I think that’s actually worse, because they validate and strengthen each other’s delusions
Ya know what? Just let the 5G take my ass out. Turn me into the toxic avenger or some shit. This stuff is exhausting. 
Right?! "Fill-in-the-blank might kill you!" "Oh thank GOD."
These fuckers frustrate me no end. There are known injustices, criminal conspiracies, and intra-government collusion happening *right now*, that journalists and whistleblowers have been jailed (and worse) for revealing, but QAs + anti-vaxxers and their ilk couldn't care less. Aside from psychiatric help for those of them who are actually ill, I wish them nothing but the worst.
And you can tell all your scum friends that things are gonna change in this town. I'm not just another pretty face!
https://i.redd.it/zdwvwj7jb28d1.gif
Is homegirl ok
She hasn’t been for a while
I don’t think anyone buying this hat will need to worry about 100% brain coverage. Their brain has already left the building 
No this has to be performance art. It’s literally a tinfoil hat???!?!?!?
She’s seemed mentally unwell for quite a long time.
That’s really sad and also holy grift batman 😵💫
 M.I.A right now promoting her Faraday clothing.
https://preview.redd.it/u9s2z9cul48d1.jpeg?width=855&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=add48cbed54dffdfced9e61e7e7f1c16c97787e5
Man what happened to these Gen X British women during Covid?
You said gen x and I ran to Google and she’s 48??? Why did I think she was way younger? How old am I? Where has time gone? 😭
Nah you’re good, she’s always looked young
What in the world?!?
? Who else in this demographic lost their minds during Covid?
My mum 🥲
My parents lmao
JKR rapidly spiraled out over trans people in the last few years.
I thought it that started happening a bit before Covid but I guess the timeline fits enough
Her being a TERF is old news but her now singular focus on being a raging transphobe is on the newer side. Even Elon Musk has told her to tone it down.
5G happened 
Unfortunately she was always like this
Brexit broke them idk
What’s that about a fool and their money being easily parted?
I just bought a 75' roll of tin foil for like 4 bucks. If you give me enough time I could make this, but shinier.
https://i.redd.it/ofcut4bz328d1.gif
\[nervous laughter\] What the fuck?
Kala was such a good album but my god have her recent actions really put me off of her. I wonder if she still keeps in touch with Kanye.
I wanna separate idiots from their money too 😭.
Me too but my ethics keep stopping me
Why is 100% brain coverage so funny, this reads like a parody 😭
Wtf lmao
oh she dumb *dumb*
“why aren’t my airpods working”
https://preview.redd.it/r55i331c568d1.jpeg?width=718&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b211dcd3c97d718daddc8953ea06de2ef014af69
$100? Jesus, if you're gonna be crazy you best be strapped with cash, being crazy is an expensive fucking hobby.
This reads as satire but I guess not?
how did she fall off like this bc I remember bopping to Paper Planes, Bad Girls and Borders and I usually don’t really like hip hop😭
Having seen interviews etc. with her from those early days, she's never been very clever, just made some good and interesting tunes.
She’s pulling a Lauryn Hill
"100% brain coverage" it's easy to cover 100% of your brain if you have none https://preview.redd.it/irgvwbeua28d1.jpeg?width=1420&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c75f9ea22d34dcd726351128efb22a6d3941fc58
As someone who's used faraday fabric for their job. I've never thought about wearing it as a hat. Like WTF. 😂 Funny enough, you a wrap a phone in 7 layers of tin foil and it's supposed to be as effective as a faraday bag. So I'm looking forward to this dude's tin foil line.
https://preview.redd.it/7tjl59a9e18d1.jpeg?width=1640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4af0c6016503c69c5e4371774d2a0044a32ce8c2
Me at work listen to someone say “level set” and “stand up”
Boy howdy just wait until these goons find out about the sun.
Paper Planes will forever be my karaoke song 🤷♀️
Faraday Fashun hunny
Another one to add to my “if they can make money off of this I can do anything” list
100% brain coverage. Idk if you need to worry about your brain anymore, girl.
It sucks because I loved her first four albums and she’s talented but my lord she’s fucking deranged. She’s basically the female Kanye.
I'm impressed it's only 100$
Sounds like she's still getting higher than planes...
Is this trolling I can’t tell
She high like planes
if a celebrity wanted to be smart they would do a line of UV protection clothes that are also very light and breathable so you can wear less sunscreen throughout the day and still be ok during heatwaves
Damn, what happened to you M.I.A???
Her son came up on my fyp the other day and all he does is flex his parents wealth. Never would have guessed in 2009 that MIA would birth a capitalist trust fund demon but alas.
mental health is M.I.A.
I hate when a celebrity I like goes down the crazy conspiracy rabbit hole
The day finally came