August 28, 2008 20:38

M.I.A.: 'I didn’t want to make music again'

She wanted to quit the business after Bonnaroo

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MIA has spoken out about her comments onstage at Bonnaroo in June, when she told the audience that the slot was her last gig ever.

The Brooklyn-based Sri Lankan said “It was my last ever show. And it still is. I stopped touring after that and I didn’t want to make music again. I was quite happy to just leave it all behind. I was happy with what I had achieved.”

As previously reported, the rapper cancelled her summer tour of the UK, and while onstage at Bonnaroo said “This is my last show, and I'm glad I’m spending it with all my hippies.”

But it seems she’s finding it hard to stay away from music, and is currently planning her new record after enjoying massive success with her song ‘Paper Planes’ in the US.

“With the success of ‘Paper Planes’, there’s pull for me to make another record. Even my mum believes in me more” she told Entertainment Weekly. “It’s a nice encouragement. But I was planning my life as a fishing woman on the outskirts of Cambodia. That’s a joke.”

She also says if she had permanently quit the music business, that a foray into the film world was likely to have been her next step.

“I think I would have gone and made a film. As an artist you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in a different way. I wanted to stay an outsider and prolong the process of getting accepted.”

--By our New York staff.
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