MIA

"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

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.

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

"this video contains content from UMG. it is no longer available in your country."

what's the title of the song?

"her conceptualism is still there"

what

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

what a horribly formed song

"what"

i guess youd prefer someone like i dunno, brother ali where everything is 100% accurate/theoretically sound but 100% boring

no i just mean... what do you mean by "conceptualism" here?

hey it's another mia song that would be interesting except for mia's vocals

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.

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

generally p retarded tweet

MIA's my name, old skool revolution is my game

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web 2.0 at its best

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?"