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".
― nakhchivan, Friday, 23 April 2010 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
"genre influence across many globes"
― yo gotti or notti (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 April 2010 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― nakhchivan, Friday, 23 April 2010 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
she does Santigold better than Santigold does
Uh... Santigold >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> MIA.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 23 April 2010 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
ugh son
― The Reverend, Friday, 23 April 2010 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
i would buy an album of MIA punk songs
― imma sb (samosa gibreel), Friday, 23 April 2010 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Its modernist punk. It makes me interested. Sounds good.
― Hinklepicker, Friday, 23 April 2010 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Just sounds like bad Atari Teenage Riot. Nothing really new going on here.
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 23 April 2010 21:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I love the beat but those vocals sound really half-assed.
― adamj, Friday, 23 April 2010 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
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...
― Hinklepicker, Friday, 23 April 2010 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
she had this album called kala that pulled from some great honkies: richman, pixies, clashShe made them her own and made them parts of something great
thought she'd do suicide justice. she did not.
― Fellini.Kuti, Friday, 23 April 2010 23:10 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Hinklepicker, Friday, 23 April 2010 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Prefer these kinds of influences than Beach #**!@$ Boys.
word the fuck up
― it ain't trickin if yo gotti (The Reverend), Saturday, 24 April 2010 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
We don't like this? Cause it sounds pretty darn good to me!!!
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 24 April 2010 02:29 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― piping hot dish and a cup of chat (Stevie D), Saturday, 24 April 2010 02:51 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Hinklepicker, Saturday, 24 April 2010 04:44 (fourteen years ago) link
i like it fine. but i also like xtrmntr, which is really the first thing it makes me think of.
― women are a bunch of dudes (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 24 April 2010 05:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Santigold >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> MIA
wait waht? i have that santigold disc. never really registered for me. love MIA, tho, for the beats, hooks and lyrics.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 24 April 2010 07:45 (fourteen years ago) link
MIA is so infinately better than santi
― it ain't trickin if yo gotti (The Reverend), Saturday, 24 April 2010 09:59 (fourteen years ago) link
m.i.a. generally is better than santogold but this new song is way worse
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Saturday, 24 April 2010 10:00 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― it ain't trickin if yo gotti (The Reverend), Saturday, 24 April 2010 10:06 (fourteen years ago) link
this is the besssssssssst when u r drunk
― it ain't trickin if yo gotti (The Reverend), Saturday, 24 April 2010 10:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh hey it IS sort of like MIA + XTRMNTR now that you mention it
― piping hot dish and a cup of chat (Stevie D), Saturday, 24 April 2010 13:27 (fourteen years ago) link
This song is pretty great.
― o. nate, Saturday, 24 April 2010 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah I love this. I also like ATR and XTRMNTR and Suicide though.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Saturday, 24 April 2010 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, 24 April 2010 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
ok wtfff @ this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xD5xjahxac
― fag-amplitude (electricsound), Monday, 26 April 2010 11:00 (fourteen years ago) link
note: not really work or mind safe
― fag-amplitude (electricsound), Monday, 26 April 2010 11:03 (fourteen years ago) link
wow.
― The Reverend, Monday, 26 April 2010 11:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Intense. but I liked it
― van smack, Monday, 26 April 2010 13:32 (fourteen years ago) link
the kind of video senser would have made if they'd had the budget
tbh the music is about on senser's level too
― history mayne, Monday, 26 April 2010 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link
ah that video just makes that suicide sample even more intense.
― borntohula, Monday, 26 April 2010 14:12 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 26 April 2010 14:19 (fourteen years ago) link
expected her to not do something thats so familiar but the songs ok. bit too chemical bros/prodigy ish though. i expect better from her.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 26 April 2010 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link
good video though. and her conceptualism is still there. wonder what the sound of the album will be like.
sort of reminds of the 'windowlicker' vid with the distended length and american setting albeit with the avant-grotesquerie replaced by inane blackly comic quasipolitical challops
― nakhchivan, Monday, 26 April 2010 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
"this video contains content from UMG. it is no longer available in your country."
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 26 April 2010 14:38 (fourteen years ago) link
what's the title of the song?
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 26 April 2010 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
"her conceptualism is still there"
what
― history mayne, Monday, 26 April 2010 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
there ought always to be room in pop music for syncretists/dilettantes with a sense for the right wtf direction, even if u hate it u gotta have respect for her
malcolm mclaren would have wanted it this way
― nakhchivan, Monday, 26 April 2010 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link
what a horribly formed song
― cozen, Monday, 26 April 2010 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
"what"
i guess youd prefer someone like i dunno, brother ali where everything is 100% accurate/theoretically sound but 100% boring
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 26 April 2010 14:55 (fourteen years ago) link
no i just mean... what do you mean by "conceptualism" here?
― history mayne, Monday, 26 April 2010 15:01 (fourteen years ago) link
hey it's another mia song that would be interesting except for mia's vocals
― call all destroyer, Monday, 26 April 2010 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link
with a video for people who don't know about punishment park
not sure if anyone follow pitchfork on twitter, but she's tweeting there all day and it's possibly the most annoying thing she's ever done. not really sure what she's trying to accomplish by being so kayne/all-caps/obnoxious, when i've seen and heard interviews where she's a very normal, laid back kind of person.
― borntohula, Monday, 26 April 2010 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link
ann powers on twitter: "The #MIA vid works as a repositioning tool. Reaffirmng that old skool revolution is her biz even if bright colors and indie cred distract."
pretty sure "biz" isn't used ironically
― da croupier, Monday, 26 April 2010 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link
generally p retarded tweet
― history mayne, Monday, 26 April 2010 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
MIA's my name, old skool revolution is my game
― da croupier, Monday, 26 April 2010 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
R MY C/LOK KEYS REALLY REALLY REALLLLLLLLLLY OFFENDING U OK ILL TAKE THEM OFF ▖ ▗ ▘ ▙ ▚ ▛ ▜ ▝ ▞ ▟ ▀▖ ▗ ▘ ▙ ▚ ▛ ▜ ▝ ▞ ▟ ▀▁ ▂ ▃ ▆ ▇ █ #miap4k
― ksh, Monday, 26 April 2010 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
hey can a mod add dots to the title so we can finally stop this pedantry every 6 months
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 14:40 (four years ago) link
I don't see how "MIA dots" is going to help anything
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
lol
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 14:45 (four years ago) link
the dots are already MIA
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 15:07 (four years ago) link
"MIA..."
― fits, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 15:16 (four years ago) link
This thread combing back with powa powa
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link
Is this the thread for M.I.A.? Anyhoo new album OHMNI is out;
https://www.patreon.com/posts/35144818
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 23 March 2020 15:56 (four years ago) link
New song, not new album.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 23 March 2020 15:57 (four years ago) link
No, this thread is for the German techno DJ/producer. The UK artist is called M.I.A. not MIA.
― Tuomas, Monday, 23 March 2020 16:07 (four years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 March 2020 16:09 (four years ago) link
FFS we repurposed this thread like five years ago and split off a new thread for the German producer back then.
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 March 2020 16:10 (four years ago) link
MIA
― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 March 2020 16:10 (four years ago) link
And here's the spinoff thread that is absolutely booming with posts:
MIA aka Michaela Grobelny
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 March 2020 16:12 (four years ago) link