One of the career pinnacles any musical artist can hope to achieve is to be asked to perform at the Super Bowl Halftime Show. These are often huge affairs, and while the artists aren't directly compensated for their performances, they often pour everything they have into their acts. The exposure to hundreds of millions of people is payment enough, and . The Halftime Show is an excellent opportunity for any artist, and M.I.A. landed a two-minute spot during Madonna's show for the 2012 game. It's not unusual for the Halftime Show to offer some memorable moments, but in M.I.A.'s case, her show is remembered for all the wrong reasons, and it didn't help her career., Mathangi Arulpragasam (Tamil: மாதங்கி அருள்பிரகாசம்; born 18 July 1975), known as Maya and professionally as M.I.A. (Tamil: எம்.ஐ.ஏ.; an initialism for both "Missing in action" and "Missing in Acton "), is a British singer, rapper, songwriter, record producer, and activist., Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam, better known as M.I.A., changed the game when she came on the scene in the early aughts. The British rapper's penchant for combining multiple genres of music.