MIA

read yr threads

samples suicide def
but did they produce it

this is great anyway

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pretty sure it's just a sample. writing credit is her, martin and alan. it's gash, but they'll get some cash so that's great.

it's cash, but they'll get some gash so that's great.

I get that its cool to hear Paper Planes in indie discos nowdays, but can't she go back to the intense buzzy skeletal beats of Arular, they're so much more fun

Also, poor German MIA

iDig this. Arular is neanderthal MIA and...and that's saying something given her overall aesthetic.

Don't like the lo-fi karaoke thing on her voice in this particular song... I could see how it's supposed to fit with the punk aesthetic of the song but it just sounds like lazy production... hope the rest of the album feels less like a demo.

And it's a shame because the sample is good.

this is pretty weak imo

iDig this.

you just came sooooo goddamn close to a suggest ban you have no idea

ok this is awesome

I DONT WANNA TALK ABOUT MONEY CAUSE I GOT IT-GOT IT-got it-got it
AND I DONT WANNA TALK ABOUT HOOCHIES CAUSE I BEEN IT-BEEN IT-been it-been it

lol she has definitely been hanging out with Santigold

she does Santigold better than Santigold does

the buildup to this is great

between this and the clip of Gorillaz from The Colbert Report, I am very happy I followed a Pitchfork link today

In 2009, Time magazine placed M.I.A. in the Time 100 list of "World's Most Influential people" for having "global influence across many genres".

"genre influence across many globes"

do we even have entryist pop any more? she ought to be commended for such a leftfield move

collaboration with mika vainio and kk null awaits

she does Santigold better than Santigold does

Uh... Santigold >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> MIA.

ugh son

i would buy an album of MIA punk songs

Its modernist punk. It makes me interested. Sounds good.

Just sounds like bad Atari Teenage Riot. Nothing really new going on here.

I love the beat but those vocals sound really half-assed.

Except MIA hasn't done 'bad atari teenage riot' before. Its pop music. Did you expect some sort of Stockhausen experiment? What is new etc, etc...

she had this album called kala that pulled from some great honkies: richman, pixies, clash
She made them her own and made them parts of something great

thought she'd do suicide justice. she did not.

Shit. And here I was just thinking she went and made a song.

So can we get this straight: Is it 'Bad Atari Teenage Riot' or 'Bad Suicide'. Is someone going to say sounds like 'Bad M.I.A?' Prefer these kinds of influences than Beach #**!@$ Boys.

Prefer these kinds of influences than Beach #**!@$ Boys.

word the fuck up

We don't like this? Cause it sounds pretty darn good to me!!!

It is kind of zzzz but I love the Suicide sample a lot. Just wish there were more, like, melodies and tones and stuff and not just noise.

It's the best thing I have heard all day- ahead of my kids persistent whining, the sound of pork frying and a hippy, gypsy Dylan at a park down the road. More melody than all three too.
Don't listen to them M.I.A.
Keep up the good work.

i like it fine. but i also like xtrmntr, which is really the first thing it makes me think of.

Santigold >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> MIA

wait waht? i have that santigold disc. never really registered for me. love MIA, tho, for the beats, hooks and lyrics.

MIA is so infinately better than santi

m.i.a. generally is better than santogold but this new song is way worse

sorry but no, I have been rocking the fuck out to this all fuckin day, when I have been bumpin gang starr for old times sake

this is the besssssssssst when u r drunk

Oh hey it IS sort of like MIA + XTRMNTR now that you mention it

This song is pretty great.

Yeah I love this. I also like ATR and XTRMNTR and Suicide though.

i have that santigold disc those MIA discs. never really registered for me. love MIA Santigold, tho, for the beats, hooks and lyrics.

See, this is my experience.

ok wtfff @ this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xD5xjahxac

note: not really work or mind safe

wow.

Intense. but I liked it

the kind of video senser would have made if they'd had the budget

tbh the music is about on senser's level too

ah that video just makes that suicide sample even more intense.

not feeling the video - there's no reason for it to be 9 minutes long ans for all the viscera there's a pointlessness to the entire concept

(I'd no idea before you mentioned it tbh)

this thread isn't about that MIA lol

― ت (jim in vancouver), Friday, November 8, 2019 11:09 AM (two months ago)

:)

Gah! :-S MIA shining brightly w/ her dumb spoils blinded me.

14 of the 3,528 posts in this thread (less than .03%) are about that *other* MIA.

This thread is about M.I.A., no matter what sic says

there are 30-odd threads about M.I.A. and only two or three about MIA, it's not like it's hard to pick one

― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Friday, November 8, 2019 11:21 AM (two months ago)

I can c+p posts from a couple months ago too

This is all very exciting guys but

https://i.imgur.com/3XiKMch.gif

lol

https://www.biography.com/.image/t_share/MTIwNjA4NjMzODA4MTI3NTAw/mia-farrow-9292027-1-402.jpg

we created the spinoff thread for the German MIA, preserving the original posts in this thread about her, years ago: MIA aka Michaela Grobelny

hey can a mod add dots to the title so we can finally stop this pedantry every 6 months

I don't see how "MIA dots" is going to help anything

lol

the dots are already MIA

"MIA..."

This thread combing back with powa powa

Is this the thread for M.I.A.? Anyhoo new album OHMNI is out;

https://www.patreon.com/posts/35144818

New song, not new album.

No, this thread is for the German techno DJ/producer. The UK artist is called M.I.A. not MIA.

lol

FFS we repurposed this thread like five years ago and split off a new thread for the German producer back then.

MIA

And here's the spinoff thread that is absolutely booming with posts:

MIA aka Michaela Grobelny

Lol, no thread revive for M.I.A.'s new Christian album? The NY Times hasn't forgotten her:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/arts/music/mia-kid-cudi-tour-interview-popcast.html

You couldn’t pay me to listen to that

The review in Pitchfork compared it to - who else? - that other spiritual seeker Alice Coltrane

Call me crazy but… I kinda like this album !

djp otm

I wonder did she sell many of those tin foil hats on her website that time

The review in Pitchfork compared it to - who else? - that other spiritual seeker Alice Coltrane

― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Saturday, June 6, 2026 5:26 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

spiritual tin foil hat jazz

The Popcast interview was a complete mess and felt uncomfortably voyeuristic. Sampling the album, the thing just feels like a predictable waste of time. If I'm wrong, and she poured herself into these songs, then she's officially run out of ideas. I ducked out at "Does money make you happy? Does money make you love me? Does money kill poverty? Does money solve worry?"