Pop Star M.I.A Removed from Music Festival for Giving Interview with Candace Owens

Pop star M.I.A. was removed from the lineup of the music festival Field Day for giving an interview with Candace Owens.

While announcing M.I.A. was canceled from the event, the festival cited her โ€œonline commentsโ€ which โ€œcould be viewed as being quite contentious.โ€

โ€œAfter discussing it with AEG, the consensus is that in light of the online activity, we cannot continue with the offer,โ€ the festival told M.I.A.

“We have not taken the decision lightly, but we must consider the wide risks to the festival and its stakeholders.โ€

M.I.A. responded on Twitter, saying: โ€œโ€˜In light of her online activityโ€™ like what accidentally launching a missile on an innocent village, or me scamming billions of dollars from people or running a sex scandal?

“No, it was your lil tweet. How Naughty.

“Festival stakeholders want musicians to be boring Puppets,” she added.

โ€œHow dare you Field Festival?” she said in an earlier post.

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“Iโ€™m literally an Artist who is been given aย  medal for speaking up.

“Now you are going to pull my show because of your stakeholders?

“Your stakeholders are not happy I point out hypocrisy in a tweet?

“But are happy if I support war murder sex drugs?”

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“The Uk has a brown PM,” she continued, in reference to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

“A brown person wrote that email to a brown artist because I went on black conservative show, pointing out all poor people should be unified: Make this make sense.โ€

The pop star told Candace Owens that her record label and other handlers were not happy when she started speaking out about human rights abuses and war crimes in her native Sri Lanka.

She said: โ€œThey wanted me to be like, โ€˜I came from a mud heart like me now, you know, Iโ€™m driving a Bentley, and Iโ€™m so happy Iโ€™m liberated.โ€™

“And that was the narrative Hollywood wanted me to say.

โ€œBut money didnโ€™t mean sh*t, you know, when 150,000 people are getting bombed, and you canโ€™t speak about it.

โ€œAnd if you have to compromise that to achieve this status, it just wasnโ€™t worth it, you know, in a larger scale, not just talking about myself and my experience, but on a larger scale this level of censorship or gaslighting, I would say.

โ€œIt induces mental illness in people which I think is why itโ€™s been going up in society because itโ€™s so, itโ€™s so difficult because on the one hand, 99 percent of the people would have shut up and taken the Bentley route, you know, and become the billionaire.

โ€œAnd would have found it quite easy to make that compromise, you know, but for me, obviously, I have a very political dad and my family come from that, you know.

โ€œSo it was just not โ€” it was just not an option not to talk about it, because itโ€™s ingrained in the DNA of my music.”

Owens said: โ€œSo if you had simply forgotten who you were, you could have become someone else.

“So you caught a little heat when I tweeted you and said, โ€˜Hey, Iโ€™d love to have a conversation.โ€™โ€

M.I.A. said: โ€œYes, I think debate and conversations, you know, are threatened species and that we have to expand the idea, you know, and the need for debate and conversations, even if people disagree or agree, you know.

“And Iโ€™m here to have a conversation with you.

โ€œYou know, there might be things we agree on and things we donโ€™t agree on, but that doesnโ€™t mean that I have to completely shut you out of my life, you know, or you completely deny my voice, and I think thatโ€™s what itโ€™s about, like this should be an inspiring thing for people.โ€

 

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