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Santogold and M.I.A.

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Santogold and MIA

It’s been a happy New Year for Rolling Stone “Artist to WatchSantogold (née Santi White), who just returned from a British tour with M.I.A. to see herself on the cover of this month’s Fader. What sort of challenges might 2008 bring? “I do these detoxes where for 20 or 30 days I can only eat organic fruits or vegetables,” she says. “It makes you not even really be able to eat greasy food — you can, but it feels disgusting. By the end of the year [after not doing the detox for a while], I tend to crave fried food and chocolate all the time.” That doesn’t mean you’ll find her eating cheesesteaks like she did growing up in Philly (she now lives in Bed Stuy and has been a pescatarian for twelve years), but this week she did hit the vending machine at the Soho studio where she’s recording her debut self-titled album, out in April. [NY Magazine]
And, M.I.A. is the new Marc Jacobs model.


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Posted on January 11, 2008 7:01 PM

Comments (34)

you go girls
nah seriously i'm happy for em
and I look forward to the santogold ep/lp whichever, anything will suffice

Posted by snag | January 11, 2008 7:27 PM

sweet pic

Posted by Anonymous | January 11, 2008 7:30 PM

Santogold is a great example of the hypemachine .. ..

Caught her live a few times , and it wasn't good at all ..

Posted by Anonymous | January 11, 2008 7:53 PM

santogold can't hold m.i.a.'s jock strap.

Posted by Anonymous | January 12, 2008 5:41 AM

yea i saw santogold open for mark ronson - all she is really is a dulled down version of MIA to the finest detail haha.

nobody wants recycled MIA, especially when kala is so damn good.

Posted by Anonymous | January 12, 2008 9:33 AM

Can girls be douchebags? Cause i'm pretty sure that these two are

Posted by Anonymous | January 12, 2008 11:15 AM

yes they can, and these ones are. They are cute and dress nice but their music is uninspired and lame


Posted by Anonymous | January 12, 2008 1:58 PM

lame and uninspired are the first words that come to mind when i think of MIA, totally, you got it anon she's so run of the mill and boring.

Posted by brian | January 12, 2008 2:51 PM

"she is really is a dulled down version of MIA to the finest detail haha."

and you are racist

Posted by Anonymous | January 12, 2008 3:03 PM

Kala has two good songs , and the rest are trashio .. .

Posted by Anonymous | January 12, 2008 3:49 PM

How does Eddie Vedder feel about this?

Posted by Anonymous | January 12, 2008 10:34 PM

u guys suck these two are great

Posted by jaz | January 13, 2008 2:37 PM

all flash no substance

Posted by Anonymous | January 13, 2008 3:22 PM

eddie vedder is too busy listening to zeke to care

Posted by Anonymous | January 14, 2008 9:18 AM

No, Eddie Vedder is too busy wiping his ass with Santogold's side of the FADER!

Posted by boo | January 14, 2008 9:39 AM

another productive conversation!

Posted by A | January 14, 2008 10:11 AM

i wonder what the average age of bv commenters is. by the looks of this thread, i'm going to guess about twelve.

Posted by Anonymous | January 14, 2008 10:41 AM

what time does... oh fuck it

Posted by Anonymous | January 14, 2008 10:50 AM

Actually, Eddie Vedder is waxing his Golden Globe award! Congrats, Ed!

Posted by awardwhore | January 14, 2008 12:19 PM

i saw santogold open for architecture in helsinki over the summer in philly and they fucking rocked it. i dont know what you guys are talking about

Posted by glendora | January 23, 2008 11:27 AM

santogold performs well live.
mia does not perform well live.

Posted by Anonymous | May 3, 2008 3:03 AM

Two amazingly talented girls in my opinion. as far as the comments saying Santogold is a "dulled down version of MIA" to me they clearly sound different but have similarities of course, but that's just the creation of a genre. i'd love to hear more music of unique and fresh (at least for me) style.

Posted by Narayana | May 5, 2008 5:36 PM

is that song by ted leo even about MIA? i always thought it was about some girl named mia.

Posted by Anonymous | May 8, 2008 2:30 PM

well everyone's entitled to their oppinions, i personally think that M.I.A has not only a couple of good songs but more. My sister saw her live and all she said it was amazing also "It was bomb. Bomb. Bomb". I really like these songs from M.I.A's Kala (named after her mother):
Boyz, Paper Planes, What I Got, Jimmy and others like Galang and Sunshowers

I dont think that we can really say that her music is "uninspired" i mean maybe it is, maybe its not but can we really claim that? No, because we're not the ones creating these songs and some of us don't even know about her background.

And Santogold, i tried listening to her music but i really like M.I.A a lot better, but who knows maybe Santogold has something up her sleeve...

Posted by no one | May 24, 2008 6:03 PM

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Posted by Oliverq | May 25, 2008 10:02 AM

Whaddaya want, Oliverq, a cookie?

Posted by or is SPAM more to your liking | May 25, 2008 10:16 AM

i heard she was banned from the U.S. and a couple of days ago was her last time she was performing on the west coast. U.S let her back to perform but after that she cant come back...i heard it was because of her lyrics i guess her songs are really political and how she is against the war...but her music is good and they shouldnt ban her. i think her father is an activist and is a speaker? she's a refugee i know that

Posted by yeaah | May 25, 2008 11:22 PM

^^^^^

this happened quite a while ago, but thanks.

Posted by Anonymous | May 26, 2008 12:09 AM

i think m.i.a.'s songs are very good, i had to look up her lyrics though because in some songs it was hard to understand what she was saying...but man i love her music. and i love the lyrics.

Posted by hello | May 26, 2008 2:55 AM

get rid of the comments section on this website.

Posted by Anonymous | May 26, 2008 9:31 AM

wah.

Posted by anonymous | May 30, 2008 10:34 PM

dude...they both rock hardcore and those who said they don't and they were uninspired go back and listen to your hinder and nickleback hahaha

Posted by Anonymous | October 5, 2008 7:31 PM

dude.....you're a day late and a dollar short on a posting that was from 6 months ago.

way to stay current.

Posted by Anonymous | October 5, 2008 8:10 PM

haha thanks. I sorta just recently discovered Santogold so that doesn't help haha.

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2008 7:21 PM

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