MIA

So, it turns out that M.I.A. is living the good life with an heir to a fortune in California? She's not a rebel with guns fighting the talk that she writes about? Exposed in the New York Times as not quite what she projects, she now fights back against the writer. I like M.I.A., at least her first album. The second didn't move me, but some think it's a masterpiece.

Still, the concept of artist not being what they seem shouldn't surprise anyone. But it does with her because she's still considered a newbie artist. Maybe there are some that think Springsteen and Mellencamp are still living the life they sung about on their first few albums. But now they are rich and while that image is still there, they really aren't middle class anymore.

I don't think she's a fraud as some suggested, but next time you see one of her videos you'll think twice. Good on Lynn Hirschberg.