MIA

i actually thought the driving force behind paper planes' success was how it repurposed the lyrics from that wrecks-n-effect song. it was a clever nod to past and present culture.

― Daniel, Esq., Monday, May 3, 2010 2:55 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah i feel like way more people IDed that part of the song than the fact that it looped an instrumental bit from a Clash song that wasn't "Rock The Casbah" or "Should I Stay Or Should I Go"

woah the Chemical Brothers track before this is fricken HOT

oh and btw fucking love "XXXO" after 3 seconds

I feel like her pop/accessibility factor ramps up by a factor of 10 with each album she puts out.

Ha - wasn't she just trashing Lady Gaga in a big interview? This sounds like a Lady Gaga b-side. (I liked "Born Free," though).

repurposed the lyrics from that wrecks-n-effect song

never noticed this tbh

xxxo isn't doing much for me, though the "you want me be somebody who i'm really not" hook is great. with becky in liking born free a lot better, though it's main point was that vegarev = god.

is it available in a format that doesn't include me waiting for a podcast to load and skipping forward to 25 minutes in yet?

yeah, "radio rips" variously available. suspect/hope that the official version will sound a lot better.

(xpost) yes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbKRwnAYPjI&feature=player_embedded#at=60

thanks

lol "hottest record in the world"

this song is more controversial than 'born free'

The intro is killer, but then the rest sounds kind of meh to me. Also slightly bothered than she doesn't seem to be able to catch up with the lyrics, maybe she should have used less "x"s.

the delayed "-oh"s in the second half of the chorus are obv intentional and are good and cool

this is about a million times better than born free though

M.I.A. would probably be disappointed to learn that I like this track so much because it reminds me of Lady Gaga. oof.

why does it remind people of lady gaga? omg it's poppy, wow i forgot lady gaga is the only pop artist out today. the production on this track is what really elevates it in my opinion -- at the very least more interesting than anything redone and rob fusari have done. it actually somewhat pains me to have to make that comparison, really.

ps, i do love that chemical brothers track right before it.

repurposed the lyrics from that wrecks-n-effect song

never noticed this tbh

― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier)

really?

wrecks-n-effect: ALL I WANNA DO IS ZOOM-A-ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM, AND A POOM-POOM, JUST SHAKE YA RUMP
mia: ALL I WANNA DO IS (BOOM!-a-BOOM!-a-BOOM!-a-BOOM!) AND (KKKAAA CHING), AND TAKE YA MONEY

i don't hate mia like most of you but man the twitter and iphone references are just like guuuuhhhhh

yah she also had a more direct rump shaker quote earlier on a bangladesh beat "Hit That"

damn, I forgot about "Hit That". such a banger!

that is barely a wrecks n effect reference. "all i wanna do is" is a reference?

no one claimed ppl were RECOGNIZING the clash sample, quite the opposite; its just a super catchy track

i thought the parallel was obvious the first time i heard the song. maybe i was mistaken, and that wasn't what mia was going for, but it certainly seemed that way to me (and, as i say, that was the most compelling aspect of the song for me).

it's def a reference, when u see she has history there it's undeniable, but whether a large number of ppl responded to it, well no unless there's some huge collective pop culture subconscious out there that got it, which there isn't.

no one claimed ppl were RECOGNIZING the clash sample

OTM, some ppl who did and who previously said lol mia will neva b popular now said oh well that's just cuz of the clash iirc

"xxxo" is really awesome -- hope this is a huge pop hit this summer in the US

it sounds more like annie or something than lady gaga

i think annie should have the first huge US pop hit that sounds just like annie.

both annie and mia are cute tho, so either one can have the hit, i suppose.

yeah, the wrexx-n-efx hook is way more important to its success than the clash sample

no

let's just not talk about this anymore

i had no idea that m.i.a. was in the studio with bangladesh -- they could really do some good stuff together, altho this is a bit too disjointed and stagnant for my tastes

b/w "xxxo" & "space odyssey", i've pretty much loved the two joints off this album not named "born free"

j0rdan, "Hit That" is pre-Kala

can't see something so abrasive being a huge US pop hit

I wish I could listen to this. :(

No sound is killing me

"xxxo" is abrasive?

yeah - harsh tones, angular construction, awkward vocals. it abuts my ears.

get that it's being all smooth & poppy w/in the framework of her sound

not getting how "sounds like annie" and "abrasive" come into play together... other than maybe at the OG "sounds like lady gaga"

who is, of course, all the fuck over US pop radio

i was just listening thru my laptop speakers but it didn't sound that abrasive, will listen on headphones when the cdq leaks

production is pretty abrasive. like, frantically cluttered to the point of abrasion.

yeah, i guess it's not much more abrasive than gaga, but gaga does a better job of making the harshness part of the pop. here the jaggedy bits stick out as obstacles. not criticizing or saying i don't like it - the more i listen the more i do. but i would place no money on this being as big as paper planes. not that i'm any kind of pop psychic.

I can't really get into anything beyond Paper Planes... she had some ultrafuckinggreat-creative-spark and then subsequently lost in on everything she made thereafter.

this isn't really that abrasive... i mean maybe the drums? but i mean, american radio still plays new beats by swizz beatz, so idk

there are like a gazillion pretty distorted synth lines going off every half-second

is it really more abrasive than david guetta beats?

i'd say so. i don't know, what popular abrasive david guetta beats are you thinking of?