Art Imitating Life ... or Something

Charles Homans looks at MIA's pretty lousy political stances (namely, her support of the Tamil Tigers), before concluding:

I think this is a more damning indictment of politics than it is of M.I.A. -- whose music is, all things considered, pretty great, if not quite up to the precedents of London Calling or It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. Stitching an aesthetic out of politics is at the end of the day pretty harmless; assembling a politics out of aesthetics, not so much.

You're gonna want to check out where that link takes you.