MIA is still dealing with the repercussions of flipping the bird during the 2012 Super Bowl halftime show. She’s currently fighting a lawsuit brought against her by the NFL.
The National Football League is suing the singer for breaching her contract and tarnishing their good will and reputation. On Monday, however, the “Paper Planes” singer posted a YouTube video that shows exactly how she feels about the lawsuit.
MIA is proposing that the underage cheerleaders in the performance are more offensive than what she did. She said Madonna got them at an Indianapolis high school.
“If you look at them, they're wearing cheerleader outfits, hips thrusted in the air, legs wide open, in this very sexually provocative position," she said, THR reports.
"So, now they've scapegoated me into figuring out the goalposts on what is offensive in America, like is my finger offensive? Or is an underage black girl, with her legs wide open, more offensive to the family audience?"
She also said of the lawsuit that she used to laugh at it, but now “it's so boring, I don't even laugh anymore,” saying it’s a “massive waste of time and money.”
Daily News notes that MIA also said that the NFL just wants her to apologize “so they can slap me on my wrist, and basically say it's okay for me to promote being sexually exploited as a female, but then to display female empowerment through being punk rock."
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