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[funnymak09]

Or was there something big that I missed?

M.I.A. - Paper Planes

[DaKidFromHaiti]

DEFINITELY NOT a one hit wonder. She's one of the dopest artists out there today, her album Kala was ill and she's supposedly coming out with a new album this summer. Diplo described it as "Animal Collective meets Gucci Mane", I gotta say I'm excited about hearing what that's gonna sound like.

[funnymak09]

DEFINITELY NOT a one hit wonder. She's one of the dopest artists out there today, her album Kala was ill and she's supposedly coming out with a new album this summer. Diplo described it as "Animal Collective meets Gucci Mane", I gotta say I'm excited about hearing what that's gonna sound like.

I had no idea, I just have not heard her name much lately.  I actually didn't like the album when I skimmed through it initially; I might have to make a thorough listen.  When's the new album dropping? 

[Apocalypse]

OMG the radio wouldn't stop playing that.. day and night, night and day

[funnymak09]

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but is M.I.A. Indian?  And is she considered hip-hop or R&B?

[DaKidFromHaiti]

She's from Sri Lanka, I don't really consider her R&B or Hip Hop. She's more of an electro artist to me.

[Lil Bizzy Bavgate]

OMG the radio wouldn't stop playing that.. day and night, night and day

Damn, this is the first time I've listened to it and I already have a headache...

[funnymak09]

^^ You mean you never heard this when it came out a few years ago???  This was like the biggest song of 2007-2008.  Maybe you were MIA, lolz.

Quote from: Apocalypse on February 05, 2010, 12:48:42 am
OMG the radio wouldn't stop playing that.. day and night, night and day

[Apocalypse]

OMG the radio wouldn't stop playing that.. day and night, night and day

Damn, this is the first time I've listened to it and I already have a headache...

It got worse dude.. Around the same time that was released a song from Jay-Z and TI came out that sampled that "Swagger like us" line from this MIA song. It was repeated in the Jay-Z/TI song so much that u might fall asleep later that night with that line repeating over and over in your head. It was a dark time for music.

[Review God]

Good single and good album.


A succinct summation:

Kala [Interscope, 2007]
Less catchy and novel than 2005's Arular, this just gets stronger and more intelligent over time--compared to Arular, and also to Arcade Fire's Neon Bible or Radiohead's In Rainbows or, I don't know, Jay-Z's American Gangster. Where so many bands who consider tunes beneath them compensate with piddling portions of texture or structure, this record is full of things to listen to: zooms and scrapes and grunts and whistles and kiddie voices and animal cries, weird Asian drums and horns, down-home melodica and didgeridoo. Also, of course, bass bass bass--guitar, drum, whatever. The songs imagine and recreate an unbowed international underclass that proves how smart it is just by stating its business, which includes taking your money. The lyrics far cannier politically than those on Arular. But their proof is in the music. A+
--Xgau

[Malke]

She's gangsta.