{"id":493325,"date":"2020-01-31T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=945808"},"modified":"2020-01-31T06:00:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T13:00:15","slug":"m-i-a-creates-her-own-patreon-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/m-i-a-creates-her-own-patreon-account\/","title":{"rendered":"M.I.A. Creates Her Own Patreon Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/MIA-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/m.i.a\/\">M.I.A.<\/a> has launched her own page on the crowd funding platform Patreon, the artist announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019m doing a Patreon, because I make so much stuff and record so many things that aren\u2019t music and don\u2019t fit on other platforms,\u201d M.I.A. told&nbsp;<em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cI\u2019ve tried all the other platforms and it\u2019s like: this one is too mean and hateful, this one is too fake and self-obsessed, and this one just sells all your data to Cambridge Analytica\u2026 Hopefully, this one is going to be just right.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She went on, \u201c<\/span><span>I want to use the subscription money to feed back into the Patreon page; I want to really go and do a project that can help some people. Build a school or put on an exhibition, help upcoming artists or even build something you guys want me to build. It\u2019s evolutionary process. I want to get back to using the internet in a positive way; I don\u2019t want to be an influencer. I want to be a truth dispenser.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On the official page, M.I.A. states that she\u2019ll be traveling around the world with a camera this year and documenting her creation of new music, film and art for her Patreon subscribers.<\/p>\n<p><span>She writes, \u201cI also want to make this fun and random: It might be ASMR Sri Lankan cooking, or I might go and stay in a silent Ashram in India for a month and just not speak, or I want to interview interesting people, do some reporting, make clothes, make paintings, just see where it takes me\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Her Patreon subscription options currently include a $5 (Arular) tier and a $10 (Kala) tier. Subscribers to both tiers will gain access to unreleased footage from M.I.A.\u2019s documentary,&nbsp;<em>MATANGA\/MAYA\/M.I.A.<\/em>, as well as access to exclusive art, livestream archives, fan forums and video diaries. Kala subscribers will be able to view livestreams from M.I.A. in real time, join monthly Q&amp;A sessions and gain early access to exclusive content.<\/p>\n<p>Patreon has become a notable business platform for YouTubers, podcasters and other creative freelancers, but is less widely used by musicians; its most subscribed music channel currently belongs to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/amanda-palmer\/\">Amanda Palmer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/m-i-a-patreon-account-945808\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M.I.A. has launched her own page on the crowd funding platform Patreon, the artist announced on Friday. \u201cI\u2019m doing a Patreon, because I make so much stuff and record so many things that aren\u2019t music and don\u2019t fit on other platforms,\u201d M.I.A. told&nbsp;Rolling Stone. \u201cI\u2019ve tried all the other platforms and it\u2019s like: this one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-493325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 23:03:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}