Power, Power0

I never listen to the radio. (Don’t worry Ira Glass, I don’t mean that kind of radio.) It just doesn’t seem worth it to surf around until you come across the last half of a song I really like only to find it is followed by something i equally loathe. Perhaps working at Best Buy for so long has aided in this feeling. Once you see what kind of people come in to buy a Seether album it becomes impossible to have disdain for the band simply because they suck. That being said, my girlfriend sent me a message last night when she was driving to tell me she heard M.I.A. on the radio, because she thought it was weird. I am not aware of how long radio considered her friendly and easily digestible music, but I was a little surprised. Even more surprised when she told me it was part of a stations nightly top ten request count down. Okay, so granted it was Paper Planes, and a lot of people know it and it’s in the trailer for that one movie (Pineapple Express? I think?) but it still seems weird. And here is my sole point in this post, M.I.A. on the radio must make pretentious indie hipsters ecstatic. This is the PERFECT thing for them to complain about in an effort to prove their credibility. They were already in a grumble when so many magazines and radio shows named Kala the best or one of the best albums of last year. Now, everyone get to work!

“I liked her before she was on the radio, you know, when she was still making music.”