MIA

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?

every single one -- i find "sexy bitch" to be incredibly loud & off putting

i've often compared listening to david guetta to getting beat in the head w/ a sledgehammer

so xxxo is kind of a jam in spite of her

sexy bitch's chorus has that kinda distorted pinball synth but it's cooled by the minimal arrangement. xxxo is bursting at the seams with different sounds, drums switch up in a lot of jagged, fractured ways. it's not harsh blog house but definitely less palatable than dg. maybe not that much less, though, and i would be thrilled for it to be a hit.

it is pretty bloghouse

don't really get the david guetta comparison. "sexy bitch" is loud, but in a way that's more propulsive & tense than actually abrasive. and i guess there's something harsh about the clanging synth in "i gotta feeling", but it doesn't get in the way of the pop, and there's still plenty of room in the mix. in comparison, "xxxo" is nearly noize. angsty static beats, samples of what sounds like breaking glass, a shrill edge to every element.

i'm not comparing it to "xxxo" -- just saying that i think there are things that i classify as "abrasive" that get played on american radio

i.e. swizz beatz

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

^^^^^ "tap-tap-tap that bed to the wall"!

i had no idea that "paper planes" interpolated anything, clash or wreckx-n-effect, until this thread!

how have you never heard "Rump Shaker"?!

^^^

i have heard "rump shaker", i just never clocked that it was an interpolation!

i haven't heard whatever clash song it is though (neither do i have an interest in doing so)