a little late

I love Diplo. Everyone who knows me knows that. However, something he said to Rolling Stone made me love him a little bit less. I don't have the magazine in front of me right now, but it's the issue from a week or two ago with Zac Efron on the cover. Towards the end of an interview with M.I.A., the conversation veered towards he failed relationship with Diplo (sidenote: it must be so annoying for interviews that are ostensibly about your music to turn to queries about your personal life, even when that ex-boyfriend has had a good bit to do with her music). They both seem to be in the practice of slinging barbs at each other and Diplo said something like about how their relationship didn't work because M.I.A. is a "pop star" and that (I am paraphrasing here) "if she worked in a sandwich shop [he] would have wifed her up and had some kids."

And that just strikes me as such an awful thing to say. It also gives additional weight to a lot of the complaints that M.I.A. has issued, particularly to Pitchfork, about how her role in the music is perceived by Pitchfork and other media outlets. Why does M.I.A. need to be the one to give up her career to make a relationship work? (Although, to be fair, I enjoy Diplo's music much more consistently than M.I.A.'s.) His comment also makes it seem like M.I.A. would have had little choice in the matter of wifing-up and popping out some offspring.

I realize that Diplo probably said that in a facetious manner, and I'm sure that Rolling Stone absolutely never takes comments out of their original context. One of the things I am learning about at my internship is to look at situations in terms of race, gender, and class and so I can't help but read into all of this a little bit more.

After all of that, I must say - I don't love Kala. The best song on it, by far, is "Paper Planes," which Diplo produced. He may be an ass but he is also really talented.