MIA

okay just to be clear... MIA has a song called LET ME HUMP YOU? lol

Blaqstarr ft. M.I.A. but it's on the M.I.A. mixtape, yeah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPEceX46ImU

Also, as much as I love Beyonce, hearing Maya intone "A Hustler is a female version of a Hustler" in 'You My Love' is something I will never get tired of.

So Japan seems to be a new name to her producer roster. Anyone know about him/her/them? My googlefu seems to be lacking..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6o12Jo2V-A

Fun unreleased /\/\/\Y/\ track.

I'm a bit behind the times, and only discovered on saturday that "Jimmy" is just MIA singing over a Bollywood track of the same name. I found the original lost a bit by not having her vocal on it.

From Twitter just now:

_M_I_A_ M.I.A
i think story told and born free are the best songs i eva wrote, one makes me cry and the other make me try
14 seconds ago Favorite Retweet Reply

That's why I like Story to Be Told as well - it's where autobiography meets polemic, very movingly.

She did polemic autobiographical better on MIA from Arular imo. Born Free is a good 'get you going song', it's fun to run to.

Fun unreleased /\/\/\Y/\ track.

yay Digital Underground references

like Zig Zag! it's from '03 according to P4k. she's the master of putting the wrong songs on the albums it seems sometimes.

okay now that I'm in the mood for this, this is hot

2003? That's even before Piracy Funds Terrorism. And that sounds a lot more produced and better than PFT.

whoops. recording for Arular was apparently in '03, so I guess it's an Arular track. I guess it could fit.

She puts a lot of good songs as bonus tracks, which kind of annoys me since I have to go hunting for them. URAQT, Big Branch, Illygirl are some of her best tracks and all are Japan only or iTune bonus tracks.

"URAQT" is on the American rerelease of Arular, and "Big Branch" is on the rerelease of Kala.

(by which I just mean it's not like these tracks are actually hard to find!)

Caps Lock is a fave too; another of yr extra/ japan only jobs.

Diplo still doing a thriving line in slagging off MIA

"She’s not an easy artist to criticize because she’s very left-leaning, she’s progressive, she’s a woman."

I would say last year disproved his "not an easy artist to criticize" thesis.

http://www.wwd.com/eyescoop/boys-night-out-with-diplo-3610252/print/#/slideshow/article/3610252/3610294

Her biggest fan = Nic Roberts! http://www.nicolaroberts.co.uk/2011/05/read-nicolas-first-twitter-chat-in-full/

think i'd rather have Nic on my side than Diplo.

who is your fave artist at the moment? #beatofmydrum x
@_jessmay My favourite artist at the moment is @diplo

although it seems she likes both!

Her favourite Girls Aloud single is The Promise? smdh

well hasn't she been working with major lazer?

diplo's always been an annoying little bitch and "still slagging off your ex" after how many years is never a good look, no matter how many grains of truth there may be in it

From Twitter:

maura maura johnston
if a woman talked public smack about her ex as much as diplo talks shit about m.i.a. she would be branded as a psycho hose beast
1 minute ago

^ real talk

That Diplo is a complete douchebag isn't exactly news, is it?

I've taken it as a given for years

“Maya left herself open for attacks,” he says. “She’s not an easy artist to criticize because she’s very left-leaning, she’s progressive, she’s a woman. She’s good in a lot of aspects, but when it comes to die-hard, facts-on-the-ground politics, she’s at zero. She’s nothing. I told her at the beginning of the third record, like, do not bring politics into this. Obama’s the president, for one. You just can’t glamorize terrorism, it’s not cool.…You can’t hide behind that sh-t. But she totally did. She didn’t have a plan B. I told her from the beginning, it’s not going to work. And Lynn Hirschberg just ate it up. If she didn’t, the critics would have ate her up anyway because the record wasn’t good.”

Haha, as if Obama being prez means shit is all good.

MAYA is actually a dope album if you cut like 1/3 of the songs off and include the bonus tracks.. some of her best stuff actually

MAYA is actually a dope album as it stands.

the bonus tracks are better than most of the songs on the standard edition though ("internet connection," "CAPSLOCK," "illygirl")...

Reverend OTM. And whenever someone says "Don't bring politics into this," that usually means politics needs to be brought into it.

I didn't like the bonus tracks tbh, they all seem v undercooked compared to the album proper.

"CAPSLOCK,"

read this as "COCKSLAP," what is wrong w/ me??

finally watched Born Free after having avoided it for months now (out of fear that it would undermine my pretty positive of her when I don't listen to the lyrics)

= mistake

guesting on Madonna's new album supposedly.

Huh:

MIA has confirmed that she will be performing with Madonna and Nicki Minaj at the halftime show at the 2012 Super Bowl in Indianapolis on February 5.

MIA's fourth album, which is the follow-up to her 2010 record 'Maya', is rumoured to feature contributions from Swizz Beatz, Cataracs and Chris Brown.

okay I'm gettin off this bus

her and MDNA are bezzie mates now as we used to say in Liverpool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npzcezjGMTg

if the rumor pans out, I'm off the bus too

Yeah. I already heard the rumour and I'm already KMT about the whole thing.

Honestly, Cataracs might be enough. I don't dislike their role in Dev or G6 or whatever, but it just seems like a wrongheaded move.

I really liked /\/\ /\ Y /\ and there were a bunch of fruitful directions on Vicki Leekx. This isn't one of them, imo.

at least "Bad Girls" is dope tho

yeah I like all her albums a lot, maybe MAYA the most tbh. but this does not sound interesting.

rumore doesn't sway me, will wait and see

Bad Girls is dope, but of the two tracks off Vicki Leekx that felt like actual songs, 'GEN -N-E-Y' felt like something she hadn't really done before.

Bad Girls is awesome, but it could have slotted in no problem in KALA.

this isn't bad

you are using the wrong thread again >>>:( is it so hard to start a new one

Still fighting the good fight

I feel like I've heard that song from countless other people before. I hope she isn't try to step back from doing "difficult" songs like she did with her mixtape and last album. Why all of a sudden there is an expectation of her being commercially successful?

*Looks at Wikipedia page of "Paper Planes"*

Oh shit the song was that popular???? Well OK then.

haha

You are using the wrong thread again >>>:( is it so hard to start a new one

Man seriously stfu about this o.g. thread had like twelve posts, half of which were all "which MIA r we talking bout", then 2k posts on M.I.A. followed years later. This thread is M.I.A.s now.

*angrily munches Caesar salad*