M.I.A. Tweets Reporter’s Phone Number
Posted by Rebecca Fiorentino | Posted in News | Posted on 29-05-2010
Tags: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Hirschberg, Lynn Hirschberg, M.I.A., M.I.A. Twitter, Maya, MIA, neetrecordings, New York Times Magazine, Paper Planes, Twitter
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M.I.A. tweeted (@_M_I_A_) New York Times Magazine contributor Lynn Hirschberg’s phone number to her thousands of followers Thursday after the journalist published a less-than-flattering feature story about her, according to CNN.
M.I.A.’s tweet read: “917.834.3158 CALL ME IF YOU WANNA TALK TO ME ABOUT THE N Y T TRUTH ISSUE, ill be taking calls all day [expletive].”
About an hour later, M.I.A., a.k.a. Maya, took to Twitter again to vent her lingering frustrations. “NEWS IS AN OPINION! UNEDITED VERSION OF THE INTERVIEW WILL BE ON neetrecordings THIS MEMORIAL WEEKEND,” she wrote.
Hirschberg opened her M.I.A. article by criticizing the recording artist’s 2009 Grammy Awards performance.
She wrote, “Maya, as she is called, was nine months pregnant (to the day), and while she was onstage rapping about ‘some some some I some I murder, some I some I let go’—in a black skintight, body-stocking dress, transparent except for polka-dot patches that strategically covered her belly, breasts and derriere—she began to experience contractions.”
Hirschberg continued, “The baby would just have to wait. The combination of being nearly naked, hugely pregnant, singing incendiary lyrics and having the eyes of the world upon her was too much to resist.”
After criticizing M.I.A.’s birthing routine for having her son, Ikhyd, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles instead of at her home in a pool of water as she “repeatedly announced he would be,” Hirschberg went on to criticize M.I.A. and her fiancé Ben Bronfman’s Los Angeles home.
“Before the Grammys, Maya and Bronfman moved to Los Angeles from New York, buying a house in very white, very wealthy Brentwood, as isolated and bucolic section of the city with minimal history of trauma and violent uprisings.”
M.I.A. is best known for her 2007 hit “Paper Planes,” which, according to Hirschberg’s article, is a rap song that infuses “rebellious, defiant lyrics” about her native Sri Lanka politics. To see for yourself, check out the video below, courtesy of YouTube.
But, according to The New York Observer, Hirschberg said that while it was a “fairly unethical thing to do,” she was not surprised that M.I.A. tweeted her phone number. “She’s a provocateur, and provocateurs want to be provocative,” Hirschberg told the newspaper.
The Twitter community had mixed reactions toward the M.I.A./Hirschberg feud. Some took M.I.A.’s side:
Others took Hirschberg’s side:
And some remained neutral:
So what do you think—is revenge on Twitter ever appropriate?
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