M.I.A. just released a self-directed video for the song "Double Bubble Trouble" off her 2013 album Matangi. Her record label, Universal Music Group, initially blocked the clip for "copyright grounds." But the ban has been lifted.

The NFL is trying to get M.I.A. to pay $16.6 million because she flipped the bird during her 2012 Super Bowl performance with Madonna. M.I.A. has some choice words in response, but the funniest is, "@madonna ummm ..... can i borrow 16 million ?"

A member of Pussy Riot, the Russian punk outfit that found themselves in prison after insulting Russian President Putin, has not been heard from by her family since she was transferred to a new prison 11 days ago.

Outspoken sonic collagist/"Paper Planes" sing-songer/truffle fries enthusiast M.I.A. is alleging that the Grammys ripped off a recent stage set of hers. On Twitter, she proclaimed, "IM KEEPING A STEAL LOG THIS YEAR HERE THE ONE FOR JAN / FEB >MIA $500 : GRAMMYS $5000000."

Roman Polanski's 1968 film Rosemary's Baby was among the earliest examples of the modern, post-Universal monsters phase of horror cinema, and yet it remains among the genre's most mature, least conventional offerings. A key factor in its endurance is described in David Konow's recent chronicle of horror's history, Reel Terror:

Last time agitprop pop star M.I.A. fought a journalist, she tweeted Lynn Hirschberg's phone number. This time around, M.I.A. accused Anderson Cooper of calling her a terrorist—and then backed down when Anderson turned out to be an M.I.A. whisperer. Apparently you just have to compliment her middle finger, and all will be forgiven.

Remember when M.I.A. flipped America off, and we pretended to give a damn? (Well, some of us didn't pretend.) Apparently this is a thing we're still talking about, because on Friday Madonna spoke to acclaimed journalist Ryan Seacrest about The Middle Finger Seen 'Round the World. MTV News has the full report.

The New York Daily News has an item today about Super Bowl finger-giver M.I.A. breaking up with her fiancé, Seagrams heir Ben Bronfman, and moving to London away from her three-year-old son. And what's that at the very end of the article? Is that... the original email from the gossip reporter to his or her editor?

Last night, a young British woman who goes by M.I.A. flipped the bird to 111 million Americans. Revenge for the Revolutionary War? Punk rock gesture? Involuntary muscle spasm? And who was that woman, anyway? We answer all your questions.

Did you catch the Super Bowl game on television? Perhaps you were one of the millions of fans who shared your opinions in the largest simultaneous outpouring of tweets in history. Mmm, illusion. Bathe in it.

Two photogenic teens from Miami who wouldn't look entirely out of place starring in a cable movie about the royal wedding (omgomg, just a few more hours!) have gone missing. Police are calling it "a modern day Romeo and Juliet."

When the media becomes the news, everyone is entertained. Media scandals are the best scandals of all, for their enjoyable mix of forced professionalism and palpable discomfort. Come; let us look back at the year's ten best.

A group of French art students put together a lip dub for those of us who aren't drinking the Bieber kool aid. Watch them perform The Turtles' "Happy Together" and segue into M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" all while remaining effortlessly hip.

Following a controversial video about ginger genocide, M.I.A. returns with a Middle Eastern-flavored internet doodle for her new poppy single "XXXO." We like her so much better when she's more beat-savvy musician and less shady activist (or phone-number-Tweeting diva).

[Fashion police are summoned to the scene of M.I.A.'s crime: sweat socks under metallic gold sandals, slashed denim, tie-dye, reflective sunglasses, and son Ikhyd in her arms. Will no one think of the children? Image via WENN.]

The thing that most people in the world want to know is, "What drives oversensitive, politically-muddled pop star M.I.A.?" Fortunately for everyone, she's finally answered this question. If you can figure out the following quote, wisdom is yours!

In your disputatious Thursday media column: M.I.A. wins an editor's note on her New York Times profile, Le Monde needs a rich friend, two high-profile retirements, and Nate Silver is moving up in the world.

M.I.A. was so pissed about her New York Times Magazine profile that she tweeted writer Lynn Hirschberg's phone number and then made a diss track about her. What a baby, right? Well. She had a good reason to be mad.

Just a few days after tweeting reporter Lynn Hirschberg's phone number in revenge for her pretty scathing New York Times Magazine piece, M.I.A. has released a song asking "Why the hell would journalists be thick as shit?" [Running Scared]

Today we looked at rapper M.I.A.'s big old hissy fit. This got lots of you commenters talking about how she is annoying. One commenter doesn't appreciate her political appropriation.