that was an unnamed source "close to the singer", saying something to some tabloid.
Yeah, my mistake.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
some dude OTM, lol
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
FREE RYE RYE
that albums never coming out, is it
― Raymond Cummings, Thursday, 9 February 2012 12:01 (twelve years ago) link
interesting how neither Madge nor MIA have said owt 'official' either way. clearly 2 ladies who know how to play the meeja game.
― piscesx, Thursday, 9 February 2012 12:29 (twelve years ago) link
damn, bad girls is really a jam
― drop these whiners on a island (Surviver style) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 2 March 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
yes, yes it is
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Friday, 2 March 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
you have inspired me to bump the Vivki Leekx mixtape again
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Friday, 2 March 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
Maya mostly kills, it's just the three sluggish songs on the middle ("It Takes A Muscle", "ItIz What It Iz", to a lesser degree "Story To Be Told") that make it seem interminable
OTM - it sounds like she was able to afford a higher grade of weed circa MAYA. The world doesn't really need MIA doing stoned-out cod-reggae jams though.
― o. nate, Friday, 2 March 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
still love it takes a muscle fuiud
― Totes le Héros (contenderizer), Friday, 2 March 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
^
― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Friday, 2 March 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj2UfxwwB-Q
― young drometheus (dayo), Monday, 19 March 2012 12:27 (twelve years ago) link
man, that was definitely not not worth the wait
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Monday, 19 March 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
at least Lex will be happy
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Monday, 19 March 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
He won't, this is a different German act from the one at the thread beginning.
― if, Monday, 19 March 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
at least it's closer!
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://open.spotify.com/album/1JV2adHIREQSZWTCrn6CbW
this is fucking great
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 3 August 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/52360-mia-fights-back-against-nfls-15-million-fine-for-super-bowl-middle-finger/
― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Thursday, 19 September 2013 20:48 (ten years ago) link
Now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, M.I.A.'s legal team is planning to "go public with an explanation of how ridiculous it was for the NFL and its fans to devote such furor to this incident," says her lawyer, Howard King, "while ignoring the genocide occurring in her home country and several other countries, topics she frequently speaks to."
-___________________-
― dyl, Thursday, 19 September 2013 21:22 (ten years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24671871
― badgers moved the goalposts (dowd), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 09:32 (ten years ago) link
She even got help from Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on Attention."I was struggling with this song, trying to write lyrics that contained the word 'tent'," she says."There were only so many on my list - I had about 30. Julian Assange came into the studio and took my computer and basically decrypted the whole of the internet, and downloaded every word in the whole of the language that contained the word tent within it. He gave me, like, 4,000. And I finished the song."He doesn't get a writing credit," she says, "but he gets a thank you".
"I was struggling with this song, trying to write lyrics that contained the word 'tent'," she says.
"There were only so many on my list - I had about 30. Julian Assange came into the studio and took my computer and basically decrypted the whole of the internet, and downloaded every word in the whole of the language that contained the word tent within it. He gave me, like, 4,000. And I finished the song.
"He doesn't get a writing credit," she says, "but he gets a thank you".
He'll get the last laugh when he leaks the album early.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 14:08 (ten years ago) link
lol
― dyl, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 16:01 (ten years ago) link
New track:
https://soundcloud.com/miauk/canseecando
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Sunday, 8 March 2015 17:30 (nine years ago) link
not bad!
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 8 March 2015 18:35 (nine years ago) link
This is so great!
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 9 March 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/11/27/1448625960087/31f74e9a-61f9-46d9-81b6-97a6ae8edfdf-bestSizeAvailable.png?w=620&q=85&auto=format&sharp=10&s=174c61bb463dbebdeeb16430aa81914f
This is literally the most predictable thing that has ever happened.
― Matt DC, Friday, 27 November 2015 15:55 (eight years ago) link
Yep. "Borders" video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgCosj_Y9lw
― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 November 2015 17:10 (eight years ago) link
walking on water!
― lex pretend, Saturday, 28 November 2015 12:04 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1dRgYgZ5U0
― Fetty Wap Is Strong In Here (cryptosicko), Saturday, 28 November 2015 12:54 (eight years ago) link
i love/hate the blase-blase trollfaceness of the lyrics
― big WHOIS aka the nameserver (s.clover), Sunday, 29 November 2015 01:43 (eight years ago) link
it's conflicting bc as never-in-doubt as this aesthetic is for m.i.a. it also feels very necessary right now, even filtered through her ego. and it really works as a song. the most coherent, tasteful way to approach the issue, no, but still necessary bc any pro-migrant view in pop culture, mainstream opinion etc is so hard to come by
― lex pretend, Sunday, 29 November 2015 12:05 (eight years ago) link
ego whats up with that
― big WHOIS aka the nameserver (s.clover), Sunday, 29 November 2015 19:59 (eight years ago) link
lex otm
― The Reverend, Sunday, 29 November 2015 20:54 (eight years ago) link
otm whats up with that
― big WHOIS aka the nameserver (s.clover), Sunday, 29 November 2015 20:57 (eight years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/66241-afropunk-organizers-defend-mia-keep-her-on-festival-bill/
Organizers announced today that M.I.A. is still headlining Afropunk's London festival despite backlash over comments she made about the Black Lives Matter movement. In a statement, Afropunk wrote, "To us, the fact that M.I.A.'s comments sparked dialogue about a global view of the Black struggle is not a failing," later adding, "The debate is healthy and as people who have long been silenced, we refuse to participate in silencing of other voices." They continued, "We hope that this event also brings to light the experiences of black Brits, immigrants and refugees in the UK, who are continuously erased."
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 23 June 2016 21:10 (seven years ago) link
the new single is very good.
i'd probably still support her if she, say, shot someone in the middle of fifth avenue.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 19:27 (seven years ago) link
new album out today! Reviews have been mixed but it has some enjoyable moments imo
― art baengels (monotony), Friday, 9 September 2016 01:41 (seven years ago) link
OMG IT'S OUT?!?!?!?!
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 9 September 2016 01:49 (seven years ago) link
yessssss finally good news in this hellish year
― Treeship, Friday, 9 September 2016 02:07 (seven years ago) link
btw lex this isn't about the German MIA
― Neanderthal, Friday, 9 September 2016 02:10 (seven years ago) link
Bah, I got excited for a bit that it was. I really loved her material back in the day, and I wonder why she hasn't done anything since Bittersüss, which was incredibly dope! And she had to suffer the indignity of some British singer stealing her artist name.
― Tuomas, Friday, 9 September 2016 06:18 (seven years ago) link
Listened to most of this while getting ready this morning and was not feeling it. :/ It's telling when one of the best tracks (Visa) is based around a 'Galang' sample.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 9 September 2016 16:57 (seven years ago) link
Oh my god this album is so bad that it actually makes me kind of upset
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 9 September 2016 21:20 (seven years ago) link
For someone who is so risk taking, the dull inoffensive mediocrity of this album is the most disappointing thing she could possibly do, like I would take an over ambitious flop over this any day. What HAPPENED???
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 9 September 2016 21:22 (seven years ago) link
It's a weird record. Half way through the album she just seems to give up. There's some decent stuff here but it all sounds so unfinished. If this is her last album, it's a weak way to go out.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 9 September 2016 21:32 (seven years ago) link
It all sounds like half-assed demos of someone else who likes MIA but has never made a record before
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 9 September 2016 22:17 (seven years ago) link
Also, a complete misuse of the angelic and idiosyncratic voice of Dexta Daps. That could have been anyone.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 9 September 2016 22:29 (seven years ago) link
politics? what's up with that?
― Treeship, Saturday, 10 September 2016 00:18 (seven years ago) link
the people's republic of swaggerstan
She has hinted this might be her last album and that she's not that interested in music anymore, that she wants to explore other mediums. So I guess this is how MIA's music career ends, not with a bang but a whimper.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 12 September 2016 21:35 (seven years ago) link
This is a disappointment after Matangi. The opening two tracks -released weeks before- made me excited for this but this just sounds very half-assed; The production is all over the place and some of these lyrics are terrible even by MIA standards. I really hope this isn't her swan song, would hate for her to leave in such a low note.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 12 September 2016 21:46 (seven years ago) link