A few months ago, I heard a rumor that after a long maternity leave, MIA was ready to play some shows again, and that she would be playing a concert in Brooklyn at a spot called Jelly Space as part of a series of summer concerts. Upon hearing this information, I went searching for MIA's website to confirm whether or not this information was true. Seeing as MIA has become huge since the release of her latest album Kala, and her single Paper Planes (the song from the Pineapple Express trailer), I located her site within seconds of typing it into Google, and I came upon what I think may be the worst designed page on the Internet. Aesthetically, the site looks like every terrible site from the nineties got together and swallowed large quantities of MDMA. Part of me thinks this seizure-inducing design is done on purpose because MIA likes to put on a "wacky/zany" image, and she can easily access the resources to have a very well designed page. Even ignoring the optical assault MIA's site unleashes, there is little-to-no navigation. The only way you can navigate the separate branches of the site is from the home page, after that, you have to rely on your browser's "back" button, and none of the pages even open in separate windows. This is especially annoying when you visit her "Photos" or "Videos" section, and you close the window thinking it is going to end up bringing you back to the page on MIA's site you were just browsing, but WOOPS, its gone, and knowing the patience and attention span of our generation, unless you were absolutely enthralled by whatever you were just doing, you're not going to open up a new window in your browser and return to her page.
You can check this eyesore out at: MIA
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