M.I.A. was profiled in the New York Times on Sunday. I am a mild fan of hers. I have her Paper Planes album. When I saw the cover picture, the article and the fashion spread, I assumed that it was going to be a love letter to her. Not so. The author deftly mocked her throughout the article pointing out that she has no musical talent. In fact, she's tone deaf. Maya also has a sophomoric knowledge of politics. New York magazine pulls out all the delicious jabs.
New studies show that people get happier after they hit 50. It's about that time that the kids head off to college, right?
Yes, I have studied the New Yorker's Top 20 writers under 40 list and hated each and every one of them. Have I actually written any fiction in the past twenty years? No. But that's besides the point. That's why I appreciated Ten Affirmations for Fiction Writers.
Apt. 11d 
50? I’m not 50 yet and my kids are almost done with college (well, bacc anyway–grad school next). Heck, I’m a grandmother. You must have had your kids late–I had my first at 25, he had his first at 20 (as a married college student).
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Apparently, the author was the one who ordered the truffle fries:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/scocca/archive/2010/06/01/m-i-a-posts-new-york-times-interview-clip-truffle-fries-scandal-deepens.aspx
Kind of bullshit to order truffle fries then bust on your interviewee for eating them.
There was some questionable quotation juggling as well. The NYT did a correction:
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/pageoneplus/corrections.html
The author deftly mocked her throughout the article pointing out that she has no musical talent. In fact, she’s tone deaf.
She co-wrote and sings this:
That equals musical talent to me. My kids love that song.
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