― lex pretend, Friday, 18 May 2007 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link
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― grimly fiendish, Friday, 18 May 2007 12:21 (seventeen years ago) link
oh yeah she seems to be intent on annoying the people uncomfortable with her vague poverty tourism schtick on arular even more - she is totally embracing it this time round. shoutouts to "third world democracy" and i'm sure i caught a ref to darfur :o
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― lex pretend, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link
at least "poverty tourism" and "third world democracy" admits to the existence of poverty and the third world.
hang on i'm a bit drunk but -- woah shit those things exist?!!! fuck!!!!!!!!!
― That one guy that quit, Friday, 18 May 2007 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link
"Boys" and "Bird Flu" remind me of Kate Bush's "The Dreaming" more than anything else.
― Tim F, Sunday, 20 May 2007 07:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyone experienced the crazy L£4kproof system this album has going on soulseek? What the dilly-o?
― avonhun, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link
is it like...you queue it up and it says the user is offline?. that's happened to me with songs off the new queens of the stone age.
― funny farm, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 02:52 (seventeen years ago) link
Okay there's a live performance up on YouTube now - the sound quality is pretty shoddy but I can already tell Jimmy is going to be awesome.
Hustle Boyz Bamboo Banger Jimmy
― Matt DC, Monday, 28 May 2007 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, anyone know who the male MC in the middle of Hustle is?
― Matt DC, Monday, 28 May 2007 15:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh boy. Can'twaitCan'twaitCan'twait.
― Standing In The Shadows Of Bob, Monday, 28 May 2007 23:10 (sixteen years ago) link
her live show just keeps getting worse and worse.
― funny farm, Monday, 28 May 2007 23:24 (sixteen years ago) link
but I can already tell Jimmy is going to be awesome.
ha ha, you've gotta be kidding. sounds like a campy "Dschinghis Khan" cover. ouch.
― Jeb, Monday, 28 May 2007 23:44 (sixteen years ago) link
"Dschinghis Khan" > Half the shit that gets <rep>ped around here.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 03:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Holy shit, the cover:
http://www.prefixmag.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/mia_kala_cover.jpg
― Telephone thing, Monday, 11 June 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
looks like it was done in ms paint?
― funny farm, Monday, 11 June 2007 23:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Uh-oh (she looks cute with her hair in a bob though).
― chap, Monday, 11 June 2007 23:04 (sixteen years ago) link
the 8-bit african-esque font is cool
― The Macallan 18 Year, Monday, 11 June 2007 23:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Also what purports to be a tracklisting:
01 “Bamboo Banga” 02 “Bird Flu” 03 “Boyz” 04 “Jimmy” 05 “Hussel [ft. Afrikan Boy]” 06 “Mango Pickle Down River [ft. the Wilcannia Mob]” 07 “20 Dollar” 08 “World Town” 09 “The Turn” 10 “XR2″ 11 “Paper Planes” 12 “Come Around [ft. Timbaland]”
Yeah, 6 sounds like a joke title to me too.
― Telephone thing, Monday, 11 June 2007 23:12 (sixteen years ago) link
i like 'Come Around', esp. her "dundadadun"isms and that menacing synth bass sound that drifts in towards the end.
― blueski, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 00:08 (sixteen years ago) link
no, wilcannia mob are this actual aussie rap crew who had a song called 'downriver', which i guess is gonna be that. (it sampled a digeridoo! it sucked! thanks minna!)
i can't BELIEVE they put afrikan boy on there as well. afrikan boy is this not-even-one-hit-wonder grime guy who raps normal over kanye instrumentals except for this one tune where he done a comedy african voice all about "one day i went to lidl, went to shoplift in lidl". all the supersuper mag type fashion hipsters mustve glommed onto it since.
is everyone gonna let tim get away with that dreaming comparison unmolested? altho actually, if mia ends up busting a mock aussie flow on track 6 he'll be scarily otm...
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 00:16 (sixteen years ago) link
"there goes a tenner" lol
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 00:21 (sixteen years ago) link
the video for boyz is lots of fun. i just wish the quicktime video would stop freezing up.
― funny farm, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 00:33 (sixteen years ago) link
this is pretty nice, too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3q5KQHUjxs
― funny farm, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 00:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah "Come Around" is an awesome track.
― van smack, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 00:56 (sixteen years ago) link
"is everyone gonna let tim get away with that dreaming comparison unmolested? altho actually, if mia ends up busting a mock aussie flow on track 6 he'll be scarily otm..."
Ha ha I wasn't saying those tracks were as good as "The Dreaming" or that MIA was using a dodgy cockney-Australian accent (I love this accent even though it only exists in films and that one Simpsons episode). But tell me that the chorus to "Boys" doesn't sound quite similar to Kate's "SEE THE LIGHTS RAM THROUGH THE GAPS IN THE LAND" vocals.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 03:41 (sixteen years ago) link
no, wilcannia mob are this actual aussie rap crew who had a song called 'downriver', which i guess is gonna be that.
not a crew, just some pre-teen country-town kids - none of them had ever rapped before or really had any interest in music, they recorded the one song on the prompting of Morganics, a dude who does lots of community outreach social work theatre activism grant money type stuff. Just this week he's released an album he produced for three homeless Tanzanian brothers.
anyway Diplo went and did some outback outreach work type stuff when he was in .au in February, this is likely a result of that.
― energy flash gordon, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 05:34 (sixteen years ago) link
nu rave cover! oof.
― pisces, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 09:05 (sixteen years ago) link
has this leaked yet? when can us mere mortals hear it?
― titchyschneiderMk2, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 11:06 (sixteen years ago) link
<I>Wilcannia Mob</I>
Oh, that's truly cool they're getting some MIA love.
― Mikey Bidness, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 12:04 (sixteen years ago) link
haha yeah i knew what u meant tim. and i just listened, and cannot disagree. 'sat in your laps' jungle drumz and proto-pharrell shoulder pops could fit too, if pressed.
i do like 'boyz' as it goes, but mia doesnt feel like the main attraction there. would repeat the old "it's the best basement jaxx in a bit" if it wasnt for the fact that the actual new bjaxx ep is some fucking amazing ruff oldskool hotness!
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 12:38 (sixteen years ago) link
(i never bother with side 2 of the dreaming usually, mind)
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 12:41 (sixteen years ago) link
taking it's TIME or what?
― pisces, Thursday, 5 July 2007 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
RIP. Hope you up there living in a mudhut in heaven now, baby doll
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 5 July 2007 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
yep.
― where u draw the liney, Whiney? (Ioannis), Thursday, 1 October 2009 21:33 (fourteen years ago) link
god that was so awesome
― the taint of Macca is strong (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 October 2009 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
otm
― The-Reverend (rev), Thursday, 1 October 2009 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
"Jimmy" got played at my wedding.
― existential eggs (Abbott), Friday, 2 October 2009 01:28 (fourteen years ago) link
ftr I like "Jimmy" a lot more now than I did when I first got the album but I'm still very likely to skip it and blast "Hussel" instead.
― a misunderstanding of Hip-Hop and contracts (HI DERE), Friday, 2 October 2009 12:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Loved Kala when it came out, gave it 4.5 out of 5 stars, I think, but did tend to skip over what struck me as less hooky tracks like "Mango Pickle" and "Hussel" (I also never liked "Boys").
Pleasantly surprised to re-listen all the way through recently and now adore most of the stuff I didn't care for initially. There's something offhand and, I don't know, visual (?) about "Mango Pickle" that I just didn't get initially. It feels more like a little scene from a movie than a song or something? Whatever, it really grabbed me this time. Also, the synth riff in "Hussel" kind of rules. "Jimmy" was the one that didn't hold up for me so great, though it's fine. Only one that still annoyed me for some reason (the vocals, I think) was "XR2." But overall the thing blows away the debut, from which I still love three or four tracks and can live without the rest.
― sw00ds, Friday, 2 October 2009 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link
the deadpan vocals on "XR2" are kind of my favorite thing about it
― a misunderstanding of Hip-Hop and contracts (HI DERE), Friday, 2 October 2009 13:30 (fourteen years ago) link
the one with the kids is fucking awesome and most of them are better rappers than she is
If there's a better one-line summary of "Kala", then I've yet to read it.
Funny how all the biggest MIA fans don't care much for "Mango Pickle", and vice versa.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 2 October 2009 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm a huge m.i.a. fan and i love that track.
so there.
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Friday, 2 October 2009 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
(and talking about whether she's a "good rapper" misses the point by so large a margin that it's not worth discussing.)
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Friday, 2 October 2009 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
true. who gives a shit whether she can rap or not? what's important here is that she's a credible performer/creates an exciting persona/etc. ultimately, what matters is the artifact(s), imo. prioritizing skillz, beats, flow, and all that shit is so '70s prog/fusion-minded it isn't even funny. she's not competing with Nas or Jay-Z, guys.
― a single man owns you (Ioannis), Friday, 2 October 2009 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
― history mayne, Friday, 2 October 2009 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Fuck this, I love "Jimmy," especially the part where she strains her voice trying to hit those high notes.
― Roman Polanski now sleeps in prison. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 October 2009 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, "Jimmy" was my favorite track when i first heard it. still sounds great too.
― a single man owns you (Ioannis), Friday, 2 October 2009 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Listening to Arular right now and it still sounds great, not tinny or thin at all.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 2 October 2009 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
So just to be clear, I do still love Arular; I just love Kala more.
― a misunderstanding of Hip-Hop and contracts (HI DERE), Friday, 2 October 2009 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link
never heard the MIA version, did she keep the original beat or just drop the kids vocals onto some Diplo track?
― New Wavves (sic), Saturday, 3 October 2009 12:50 (fourteen years ago) link
It's the original beat with a couple of extra flourishes dropped on it.
― a misunderstanding of Hip-Hop and contracts (HI DERE), Saturday, 3 October 2009 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link
put this on in the studio tonight after hours of mixing etc and it felt really good
― sonderangerbot, Sunday, 4 October 2009 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ at the studio awkwardness, and timbaland taking m.i.a. to task for not being able to sing harmony:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbE4-TfN82c
also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOBhrnOzwXw
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Friday, 23 October 2009 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ this ~ diplo: "Been in the studio with M.I.A. working on her new record. It's like Gucci Mane meets Animal Collective"
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 8 November 2009 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Roche brothers Roche brothers, Roche brothers Roche brothers
― kshighway1, Sunday, 8 November 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
http://villageatriversedge.net/the_community/imgaes/roche_bros.jpg
― kshighway1, Sunday, 8 November 2009 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
No idea why anyone feels the need to make an album that sounds like Gucci meets AC, but so be it. Maya's instincts aren't usually wrong. So long as it doesn't end up sounding something like this: Gucci Collective.
― wrapped up, packed up, ribbon with a donk on it (Alex in Montreal), Sunday, 8 November 2009 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link
You fuckin’ with a leaf house, I’m fuckin’ with a trap house, goofy motherfuckers too fruity like Mickey Mouse
^ this is the only good one imo
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 8 November 2009 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
don't know what the fuss, stuff like 'Lion In A Coma' isn't that far off previous MIA anyway (aside from the singing).
― modescalator (blueski), Sunday, 8 November 2009 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
pretty sure its not like a cover album r anything, soundz like yr typical "like radiohead ON ACID" record hype rhetoric tbh
― plaques (I know, right?), Sunday, 8 November 2009 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
pretty sure its not like a cover album r anything
Clearly. But the rhetoric is silly! And also, it doesn't sound particularly appealing!
― wrapped up, packed up, ribbon with a donk on it (Alex in Montreal), Sunday, 8 November 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
it sounds like diplo is just using two in-vogue acts as signposts
― nog right (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 8 November 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
but for what
― heart goin ham (deej), Sunday, 8 November 2009 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
is she gonna start rapping?
inquiring minds
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Sunday, 8 November 2009 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
New track with Rusko. I like.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqYdWNVyLiU
― Number None, Thursday, 14 January 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Sounds good. She needs to learn not to fill up every space on the song with her voice, tho.
― Moka, Thursday, 14 January 2010 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2010/01/mia_fuck_the_ne.php
― zvookster, Thursday, 14 January 2010 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
interesting. that's going to take a couple listens for me to wrap my head around
― The Reverend, Friday, 15 January 2010 05:05 (fourteen years ago) link
it's amazing
― J0rdan S., Friday, 15 January 2010 05:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Beautiful video.
― pithfork (Hurting 2), Friday, 15 January 2010 05:30 (fourteen years ago) link
part of me is waiting for reasons not to love her, and that part keeps getting disappointed. good song.
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Friday, 15 January 2010 05:50 (fourteen years ago) link
is this her verizon tech support song?
― More than 22 years have already passed after I obtain this DX7. (Future_Perfect), Friday, 15 January 2010 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
That one's called “I’m Down Like Your Internet Connection" apparently
― Number None, Friday, 15 January 2010 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone at/going to her album playback in Soho? It's starting right now if you're in town.
― Davek (davek_00), Thursday, 18 March 2010 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I really hope that Rusko track isn't evidence of a new direction.
― Maraca Son Sistema (Matt DC), Thursday, 18 March 2010 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
hype hype
― lex pretend, Friday, May 18, 2007 11:21 AM (2 years ago)
holy christ
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 18 March 2010 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
i am somehow ceaselessly fascinated that time passes
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 18 March 2010 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link
hoos hoos
― funky house septics, let me drain you of this (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 18 March 2010 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
"hype hype" is such a banger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZHJctcO_wM
(yeah, that's the same sticky on production who did "bad gyal", "your eye too fast", "look pon me" last year, uk funky heads)
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 19 March 2010 00:24 (fourteen years ago) link
friend of mine theother day called funky "big pimpin: the genre"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 19 March 2010 00:39 (fourteen years ago) link
oh, so i guess she didn't record a bunch of drummers in India for 'Bird Flu' like all those interviews claimed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcQyMmjMrP4
maybe the live drums did end up on 'Boyz', or maybe the recordings weren't usable but made for a better story then "we ended up just using a sample".
― expertly crafted referential display name (Jordan), Thursday, 12 November 2015 20:34 (eight years ago) link
nice catch
― skip, Thursday, 12 November 2015 21:01 (eight years ago) link