MIA

check out this fanmade Sleigh Bells video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JtxEygTiDw&

be a bigger dick, please.

vickileekx.com

new mixtape. pretty good all around - a couple of those demos and a bunch of new stuff. all one mp3, but if you look around you can probably find split tracks.

christ I finally get around to hearing MAYA last week and now there's already something else out

I am old

(MAYA is awesome btw, surprised at how much hate it got)

The hate for MAYA was pretty mystifying.

defying expectations is risky

I kinda dig that she made a noisy abrasive album, the level of sonic detail is really engaging to me. I'm more forgiving of sloganeering than others tho

really the only places where the album loses me is where she pulls back on the noisiness ("It Iz What It Iz", "It Takes A Muscle", to a lesser extent "Tell Me Why" and "Space")

yeah those seem like a really intentional respite from the chaos, like there needed to be a break

I like It Takes a Muscle tho

I buy it most from "Space"

"Space" is totally in my top tracks of last year list.

really the only places where the album loses me is where she pulls back on the noisiness

otm ^^

"it takes a muscle" i never want to hear again in my life

took about 4-5 months off from listening to this and still love it. and yea the noisiest bits are the best.....

just getting around to checking out the Vicki Leekx mixtape, which starts out very very well

Definitely liking the mixtape. It has a few weak spots, but very enjoyable overall.

after an interruption due to work (lol) I'm 6 minutes in and this is great

so yes, this is great

also great: "Internet Connection (Huoratron Rum Aid Remix)" (currently playable on Pitchfork)

once it all clicks in around the 2 minute mark... holy hell

"Space" is so pretty.

ugh why do people keep bumping this thread to talk about that m.i.a.? it's not like there's a shortage of threads that are actually about her.

You might want to complain to someone who cares.

you might want to start caring

it's like me going into any old random thread to talk about a completely different artist

Which I wouldn't have any problem with.

suspect you would, but anyway. michaela grobelny.

http://i2.kickasstorrents.com/artists/2288922.jpg

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/7178029/mia++sub+static.jpg

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/10520105/mia.jpg

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/7178097/mia++sub+static.jpg

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/24116155/mia++sub+static.jpg

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/29697735/mia++live+in+Portugal.jpg

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/7177993/mia++sub+static.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3078/2331096551_c84461bab2.jpg

http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/16/l_87cad90db0f848b454b08e64d159a78b.jpg

This is her, right?

http://www.behindthehype.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/mia420.jpg

boy, lex, that's really telling 'em...something

yea yea it's confusing that this thread started about one Mia and ended up about another, but like....that happened years ago, kind of weird to just start complaining about it now.

unless you're really dying to talk about german Mia right now.

ok not years ago more like a year ago, but geez who cares

Taking sides: M.I.A vs M.I.A vs M.I.A. vs MIA vs MIA vs Mia vs

i complained a year ago as well. just because you guys don't care about the german mia doesn't mean people who actually like her shouldn't care about her thread being hijacked? especially when there's NO SHORTAGE of m.i.a. threads to bump - why the FUCK would anyone choose this one?

otm

and thread bombing was the best way to respond? i'm sure a mod request to split the thread is possible, it's been done before (re: the opening of The-Dream Love King thread originated elsewhere iirc).

posying a few images of the artist whose thread this is, is WAY less obnoxious than the multiple posters who've just gone "don't give a shit" about hijacking it

*posting

lex otm itt

i actually suspect forks probably didn't notice at first when he revived a year ago, given the confusion between MIAs IN THE ORIGINAL THREAD

the thread had also been dormant for six years prior to its revive. the names are MIA and M.I.A., it's at least understandable, it's not like someone revived a Michael Jackson thread with posts on Hootie and the Blowfish

original intent of this thread seems a lost cause. the debate is now just comedy. i mean it's like 2990 maya poasts vs?

anyway, i've enjoyed vicky leakx. it's clearly something of a retrenchment, a reestablishment of her core sound, perhaps in response to negative reactions (and poor sales), but i've always liked MIA-sounding maya, so i'm cool with that. also seems pretty sketchy, experimentally defaced, and nothing jumps out as an obvious hit except maybe "let me hump you" & "bad girls", but i like basically every fragment on here. be interesting to see what survives to the next album, and in what form...

yeah but the appropriate response there is "oh sorry i'll take it to one of the MANY threads for m.i.a." not "tell it to someone who cares"

i guess i'll see forks in his tonetta thread, talking about toni braxton

not saying that a mod decision to somehow break this into two threads would be unwelcome. dunno that that's even possible, but there's a clear break before the recent revive...

i guess i'll see forks in his tonetta thread, talking about toni braxton

― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Wednesday, January 19, 2011 4:49 AM (24 seconds ago) Bookmark

can't imagine anyone who cares about tonetta not being pleased by this.

i'll post about anthony