M.I.A. - KALA

I hope so, it feels like such a zeitgeisty album its a shame only losers like us know about it!

paper planes peaked at #4 on the billboard hot 100. i don't even know what those charts mean anymore, but i found that bizarre and actually sorta heartening.

i find this woman irritating beyond all explanation

bun b briiiiiiiiiiiiings it

Any further word on her retirement/non-retirement?

I heard she's currently recording with Blaqstarr a Tom Waits cover of 'way down in the hole'.

The retirement is/was temporary. She's currently expecting.

They reissued the album this week with a bonus disc containing 5 or 6 extra songs - not just remixes. Anyone know what those are?

1 Bamboo Banga
2 Bird Flu
3 Boyz
4 Jimmy
5 Hussel - MIA & Afrikan Boy
6 Mango Pickle Down River - MIA & Wilcannia Mob
7 20 Dollar
8 World Town
9 Turn
10 XR2
11 Paper Planes
12 Come Around - MIA & Timbaland
13 Paper Planes (Allstars mix) - MIA
14 Boyz (Akon mix) - MIA
15 Shells - MIA
16 Get It Up - Radioclit & MIA/Santogold/Gorilla Joe
17 Far Far - MIA
18 Big Branch - MIA
19 What I Got - MIA
20 Sound of Kuduro - Bukara Som Simesta & MIA

lol gorilla joe

http://static.flickr.com/46/167402212_c29e4d861a_o.jpg
i keep the purp by the pound

he's a hood figga

what're you gonna do

She was repping dancehaller Ward 21 in an ad I saw in a LA Weekly a friend brought me

So that Tom Waits cover has leeked already. Here's the video:

It sounds to me like some lost recording from Tricky's Maxinquaye. Can't say if this means I find it dated but Maxinquaye is a great album so I suppose it's a good thing.

ok I love this

Me too. Neat idea for the video too.

THE WIRE SEASON 6

nice, but it sounds kinda like an outtake from Blowback to me.

I'll see if I can find it again. There is an instrumental of "Paper Planes" around, so maybe someone just used that to do a version -- still, it would be kind of a weird choice for a west-African vocal group to sing over, and it appears that the instrumental Diplo put out there still has M.I.A.'s chorus on it, which this one didn't (though obviously they could just loop the verses) ... I should just track this thing down again.

― nabisco, Thursday, November 29, 2007 5:34 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

real late to the party here but did you mean this joint

nice

thank you, ethan :-)

http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/danny-boyle-on-slumdog-millionaire-and-the-smell-of-india/5013

You asked M.I.A. to do a song for the film?
We asked her if we could use “Paper Planes”, and she watched the movie and she was very generous, gave me very smart notes. I said we were going to do the music with A.R. Rahman, and when she was growing up, he was one of her heroes, so she sang on one of his tracks.

huh! tried to see that Sat. night but it was sold out (it's only on one or two screens in nyc so far)

that Esau Mwamwaya youtube is sweet

Okay I think "The Turn" is maybe an order of magnitude better than everything else on this album.

btw I was amazingly rong about this

13 Paper Planes (Allstars mix) - MIA
15 Shells - MIA
17 Far Far - MIA
18 Big Branch - MIA
19 What I Got - MIA
20 Sound of Kuduro - Bukara Som Simesta & MIA

These are the only tracks that made it onto my bonus track copy btw. I've listened to them all once and I like them all but might be completely, insufferably obsessed with "Big Branch" soon.

ethan your critique would have more weight if you'd actually give the stuff a listen - "fake dancehall" is beneath you

― J0hn D., Wednesday, September 5, 2007 10:11 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

cant believe i caught shit for this - im listening to the lady saw joint on this old 2003 dancehall comp & my co-worker just asked me "is this MIA"?

was hoping this was getting bumped as part of worldwide hipster day 2008

"cant believe i caught shit for this - im listening to the lady saw joint on this old 2003 dancehall comp & my co-worker just asked me "is this MIA"?"

This proves it then. It's just fake dancehall.

where did i say it's "JUST" fake dancehall

there's other fake stuff on there too

Fake stuff is good.

good fake stuff is good

was about to make that clarification

Good stuff is good.

we all agree!

whistle whistle blow blow
here we here we go go

This album is the worst.

This isn't the La Roux thread, dude.

Sorry to bring up p2k, but I was disappointed to see this only in the early 20s.

"mia is shit" troll

I was disappointed to see this only in the early 20s.

it's my own personal designated Album of the '00s. but i don't expect that to be a consensus view.

I will never for one second of my life understand people who prefer Kala.

Why?

prefer it to arular,you mean? better songs, more interesting production. (i like arular a lot too, don't get me wrong.)

The songs that fall down on Kala don't disrupt the flow of the album nearly as much as the songs that fall down on Arular, plus Kala doesn't have anything on it as aggressively annoying as "10 Dollar". Also, the more I played Kala, the more I liked the songs I found initially annoying, whereas with Arular I ended up disliking songs I initially liked ("Bucky Done Gun" being the big culprit there).

(from my perspective, namely wishing more of Arular was like "Amazon" and "URAQT", Kala was a massive step in the direction I wanted her to go)

the more I played Kala, the more I liked the songs I found initially annoying

this was especially true for me of "20 dollar" and "hussel."

but i still shut off the timberland track at least half the time.

timbAland, obv....

Arular doesn't HAVE any songs that fall down, top 5 album of the decade imo. About a third of Kala is sludgy and tedious and barely listenable. And Arular had better songs and production, some stuff on Kala seems undersketched and the whole album sounds dry and brittle where Arular sounded warm and colorful.

the whole album sounds dry and brittle where Arular sounded warm and colorful.

it's funny, that's almost the opposite of how i'd describe them. warm and colorful is exactly how i hear kala.

but i don' wanna fight, i love them both.