MIA

I guess that's a briticism? I picked it up from my (distinctly non-british) dad.

The savage column was a pretty entertaining troll, I thought. And its not like he was without smart things to say about eminem and gaga in particular.

there are some other bad songs on that lis

All of those songs are bad.

I f/w a good 50% of them to various extents. I'm very surprised you don't like at least "Alejandro".

i fuck with a good four songs out of that 10

alejandro is top 10 of the year for me

dan savage is retarded

Isn't that rap now? All of these monotonous rap songs are playing in Panera Bread cafes and suburban basements all over the country. Usher, B.o.B.—they're today's Pat Boones, boring and safe—so... brown-bread.

http://fourfour.typepad.com/fourfour/2009/11/if-hes-black-he-must-rap.html

god, what a fucking unbelievable idiot

he writes like a racist seventeen year old

did he mention he was a theater queen?

Um...so having it in HQ makes a big difference, as opposed to whatever the shitty webrip we had before was. It's not as stellar as the first two albums, but it's far more impressive (and risky in some ways) than I initially thought.

Gotta spend more time with it to figure out what she's on about half the time, but the sonics are clicking with me...something about the oppressive and abrasive noise combined with the disgusting oppressive humid weather this week are a lethal combination.

connected to the google, connected to the government

I'm a big fan of the noisy shit on this one. Not sure how I feel about the more pleasant moments, though!

I listened to the tracks she has posted right now on her myspace page this morning. I think it has all or most of the tracks from the new album. I gotta say, I'm liking it. Definitely a pretty big departure in terms of sound from the previous two. The noisiness suits her well. It sounds modern, not just like some post-punk stuff getting recycled.

sounds like a hot mess imo

the first part of teqkilla always makes me think of that mr show sketch where the dalai lama is battle rapping at the fat kid's summar camp

I guess I kinda like the hot mess aspect of it on first listen. The tracks that sound like actual songs are the weakest part to me.

I need to spend more time with this though before I can really make any semi-intelligent comments about it.

god teqkilla is so awful

where the dalai lama is battle rapping at the fat kid's summar camp

a rap, a rap! a rap rap rap! heeeey! hoooo! heeey! hoooo!

I don't know why, but the song that she did with Sleigh Bells, Meds and Feds (where she used the riff that is already used on a song in Treats) really bothered me. The Sleigh Bells version made me much happier...

http://i27.tinypic.com/adp9gl.png

I lol'ed.

Five tracks plus a remix up on Spotify. "Teqkilla", UGH.

this album is great! yeah!

this album is fucking unlistenable. it sounds like something Tigerbeat6 would have buried in 2001

I dont think she'll have a hit w this, but im liking the industrial noisey feel!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDmFl0zfxTk

WTF is this...

This existed?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RN3peeoPbY

Gotta say good work MIA on burying that

stop whining

http://shadowwar.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/stop-whining.jpeg

/ \ / \ / \ Y / \ Got the pitchfork review that I was hoping Congratulations would get.

i thought that it was gonna get in the low 7s, like, this has some real shit, but some real bangers, and is generally not the greatest direction for her

but i haven't listened to the album yet and underestimated its terribleness

I thought the first single was garbage, but was embarrassed to say it cause the sample was for a cool band i was supposed to know about but had never actually listened to.

for = from

glad to have you back

NEVER FORGET 7/12

damn, THAT'S WHAT'S UP

Pitchfork overrated this piece of shit if you ask me

Man, I bet tomorrow's gonna be a fun day to be Hipster Runoff huh

Waiting for tomorrow's blogs to update is gonna be like waiting for Schadenfreude Santa

cant wait for mias tweets

i wonder if she'll let pfork take over HER twitter

oh man, i wish this album had appealing grooves!

I'll be watching all the hype machine blogs that posted glowing reviews of tracks that leaked pre-4.4.

good idea, makeitpop

Brooklyn Vegan notes that I totally called this shit.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2010/07/pitchfork_trash.html

lol @ perpetua criticizing the silly paranoid politics of "the message" and then calling "bird flu" a masterpiece

remember the good old days when m.i.a. lived in a mudshack and had fascinating, intelligent, nuanced political statements to make?

are you and BV tight

whos got perpetuas phone number, better DM it to maya right quick