Just when I thought there could be nothing more dreary and fake-hip/"edgy" than the SuperBowl Halftime Show including the "gesture" (yawn)-- you find something!

Music and performances and videos in the last many years have just become so dreary. So tedious. So predictable, so boring.

Um, that commercial with Elton John (who has real talent, or had real talent)-- why wasn't he dressed as a Queen? Was that the "in" joke dressing him as a King? Tedious. Boring.

When M.I.A. was six months old, her family moved to Jaffna, a Tamil town in northern Sri Lanka, where her brother Sugu was born.[2] There, her father adopted the name Arular and became a political activist and founding member of the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS), a political Tamil group that worked to address systematic discrimination against Tamils, a visible minority on the island, through the establishment of an independent Tamil Eelam, a country in North Eastern Sri Lanka.[3][4][5]

The first nine years of M.I.A.'s life were marked by displacement caused by the Sri Lankan civil war.[2] Her family went into hiding from the Sri Lankan Army and M.I.A. had very limited contact with her father during this period. M.I.A. has described her family as living in "big-time" poverty during her childhood, but also recalls some of her happiest memories from growing up in Jaffna.[2][6][7] M.I.A. attended Tamil Hindu and convent schools such as the Holy Family Convent, Jaffna where she developed her art skills — painting in particular — to work her way up her class.[8][9] During the civil war, she notes as "bullying exploitation" the way soldiers from Sri Lanka's military would put guns through holes in the windows and shoot at the school.[9] Her classmates were trained to dive under the table or run next door to English-language schools that, according to her, "wouldn’t get shot".[9] She had lived on a road alongside much of her extended family, and played inside temples and churches in the town. M.I.A.'s family relocated to Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India where they lived in a derelict house and received sporadic visits from M.I.A.'s father, who was introduced to the children as their "uncle".[2][10] The family resettled in Jaffna temporarily, only to see the war escalate further in the north east and M.I.A.'s school was destroyed in a government raid.[5][11] After experiencing violence at the hands of soldiers, M.I.A.'s mother moved with her children back to London in 1986 where they were housed as refugees.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.I.A._%28artist%29

Great but somewhere along the line she missed the course on manners, guess their MIA, she's a joke.

Is anyone still even offended by the middle finger anymore? Just seems...I dunno...too cliche to be taken seriously.

Heck, I didn't even notice it.

I was in a room with five other people watching the halftime and no one mentioned or saw it.

No one saw it at my place either. When I watched the playback later I thought it was an index finger. Pretty much ho-hum for me. Getting flipped off by some rapper is not on my register of things to worry about.