music-mix.ew.com
M.I.A. is not afraid of the NFL. Instead, she calls the league’s lawsuit demanding $1.5 million from her for flipping the bird during last year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show “completely ridiculous.”
In a YouTube video, the singer born Maya Arulpragasam calls the league’s lawsuit “powerful corporation d–k shaking” and that the cheerleaders who performed with her were more offensive to family audiences than her middle finger.
“If you look at them, they’re all wearing cheerleader outfits, hips in the air, legs wide open in this very sexually provocative position,” she says in the video. “Is my finger offensive or is an underage black girl with her legs wide open more offensive to the family audience?”
[showmyads]
And yes, M.I.A. flips the bird to the camera in the video, saying the league wants her to say sorry and show that “it’s okay for me to promote being sexually exploited as a female than to display female empowerment through being punk rock.”
