btw lex this isn't about the German MIA
― Neanderthal, Friday, 9 September 2016 02:10 (seven years ago) link
Bah, I got excited for a bit that it was. I really loved her material back in the day, and I wonder why she hasn't done anything since Bittersüss, which was incredibly dope! And she had to suffer the indignity of some British singer stealing her artist name.
― Tuomas, Friday, 9 September 2016 06:18 (seven years ago) link
Listened to most of this while getting ready this morning and was not feeling it. :/ It's telling when one of the best tracks (Visa) is based around a 'Galang' sample.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 9 September 2016 16:57 (seven years ago) link
Oh my god this album is so bad that it actually makes me kind of upset
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 9 September 2016 21:20 (seven years ago) link
For someone who is so risk taking, the dull inoffensive mediocrity of this album is the most disappointing thing she could possibly do, like I would take an over ambitious flop over this any day. What HAPPENED???
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 9 September 2016 21:22 (seven years ago) link
It's a weird record. Half way through the album she just seems to give up. There's some decent stuff here but it all sounds so unfinished. If this is her last album, it's a weak way to go out.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 9 September 2016 21:32 (seven years ago) link
It all sounds like half-assed demos of someone else who likes MIA but has never made a record before
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 9 September 2016 22:17 (seven years ago) link
Also, a complete misuse of the angelic and idiosyncratic voice of Dexta Daps. That could have been anyone.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 9 September 2016 22:29 (seven years ago) link
politics? what's up with that?
― Treeship, Saturday, 10 September 2016 00:18 (seven years ago) link
the people's republic of swaggerstan
She has hinted this might be her last album and that she's not that interested in music anymore, that she wants to explore other mediums. So I guess this is how MIA's music career ends, not with a bang but a whimper.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 12 September 2016 21:35 (seven years ago) link
This is a disappointment after Matangi. The opening two tracks -released weeks before- made me excited for this but this just sounds very half-assed; The production is all over the place and some of these lyrics are terrible even by MIA standards. I really hope this isn't her swan song, would hate for her to leave in such a low note.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 12 September 2016 21:46 (seven years ago) link
my god, every interview or tweet or whatever I've read w/ her abt this album (not to mention all of the recycled lyrics/samples/themes) basically amounts to "I gave up"
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:23 (seven years ago) link
glad shes doing meltdown. though her interviews with all the nostalgia for 2004 make me worry a bit. lineup is decent. though i expected more non-western artists. no one from south asia? from the middle east? maybe it was just a programming difficulty. still, fun to have giggs, i wayne, dexta daps, etc at royal festival hall, lol.
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 15 June 2017 10:32 (six years ago) link
not 100% sold on dexta daps, though his weeknd+bawdy dancehall combo makes me think he will be fun.
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 15 June 2017 10:37 (six years ago) link
Anyone catch the doc
― ritual showdown (Ross), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link
Yeah, it's really good! Guy who did it went to St.Martin's with her and she pretty clearly trusts him 100% which means it's very much her side of the story, but it also means she gives him tons of footage of herself growing up in London, hanging out with Justine Frishmann, going back to Sri Lanka in 2001 and trying to get her family to talk about the war (she wanted to be a doc filmmaker before she became a pop star).
The stuff about her flipping the bird at the Super Bowl feels so surreal to watch, that amount of outrage and pearl clutching decades after the Sex Pistols went on Grundy...I'm not usually one for "huh, America sure is WEIRD" type sentiments but I've seldom felt this alienated from that culture.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 12:23 (five years ago) link
sounds so cool, thanks for the response Daniel
― montoya (Ross), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
The first ILM thread I ever read. Anti-nostalgist that I try to be, I won't read it. I love M.I.A. though.
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 02:17 (five years ago) link
Dude, me too! I found this thread in 07 and then became an on and off lurker until loneliness hit in 2K13 and I embarked on a posting career.
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 02:19 (five years ago) link
Looking forward to seeing the doc. Nice piece and rankings. Some days my rankings would be the exact opposite. She's nice like that.
― maffew12, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 02:21 (five years ago) link
Damn, i agree with the list too. MAYA over Matangi.
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 02:22 (five years ago) link
need the documentary
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 02:23 (five years ago) link
Arular and Kala are such treasures
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 02:25 (five years ago) link
The doc is interesting. It could use an edit but its a compelling watch.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 29 November 2018 00:49 (five years ago) link
i'm still quite proud of the fact that the first thread about her was started by me, getting her name wrong in the process as there was 0 anywhere about hermya 'gilang'.
― piscesx, Thursday, 29 November 2018 03:15 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTwH7u0PhOw New old song, "Reload"! um....... wow lol.
Documentary's online now! Gonna watch soon
― maffew12, Saturday, 15 December 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
Loved the documentary, especially the late 90s London stuff.
― piscesx, Saturday, 19 January 2019 04:42 (five years ago) link
yeah I didn't get all the way to the end, but the documentary is great (I saw it on Kanopy). Really makes the case for her as a pretty unique and important figure
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
thanks for the rec, I enjoyed the doc. Some quite candid scenes especially after the super bowl and with Justine Frischmann
― Graham Kendrick Lamar (cajunsunday), Thursday, 7 November 2019 22:29 (four years ago) link
I lol'd long and hard when she called giving the finger at the Superbowl "a spiritual gesture"
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 7 November 2019 22:31 (four years ago) link
this thread isn't about that MIA lol
― ت (jim in vancouver), Friday, 8 November 2019 00:09 (four years ago) link
(to begin with)
― ت (jim in vancouver), Friday, 8 November 2019 00:10 (four years ago) link
there are 30-odd threads about M.I.A. and only two or three about MIA, it's not like it's hard to pick one
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Friday, 8 November 2019 00:21 (four years ago) link
This thread has been about this M.I.A. for 6 years, I’ll be fucked if I’m scrolling through 30 other threads
― Οὖτις, Friday, 8 November 2019 01:13 (four years ago) link
Rapper and singer MIA - real name Mathangi Arulpragasam - with her MBE following an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace, London.📷Yui Mok/PA Images - contact us at https://t.co/MQUVTcSboi#MIA #Investitures pic.twitter.com/tt0t43E569— PA Images (@PAImages) January 14, 2020
― steer karma (gyac), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:18 (four years ago) link
All royal families should be abolished and locked up, along with all their dumb medals and titles. But if they have to dole them out, then sure, why not one for MIA. Who looks great there btw.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:24 (four years ago) link
She always does! State of that fucking Burberry stamp though.
― steer karma (gyac), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:24 (four years ago) link
Stamp's a bit much but you're right, she always does :)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:26 (four years ago) link
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 22:32 (four years ago) link
And yet :)
(I'd no idea before you mentioned it tbh)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 22:33 (four years ago) link
it has been about that MIA for years
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 22:33 (four years ago) link
this thread isn't about that MIA lol― ت (jim in vancouver), Friday, November 8, 2019 11:09 AM (two months ago)
― ت (jim in vancouver), Friday, November 8, 2019 11:09 AM (two months ago)
:)
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
Gah! :-S MIA shining brightly w/ her dumb spoils blinded me.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 22:59 (four years ago) link
14 of the 3,528 posts in this thread (less than .03%) are about that *other* MIA.
This thread is about M.I.A., no matter what sic says
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 23:07 (four years ago) link
there are 30-odd threads about M.I.A. and only two or three about MIA, it's not like it's hard to pick one― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Friday, November 8, 2019 11:21 AM (two months ago)
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Friday, November 8, 2019 11:21 AM (two months ago)
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 23:31 (four years ago) link
I can c+p posts from a couple months ago too
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 23:33 (four years ago) link
This is all very exciting guys but
https://i.imgur.com/3XiKMch.gif
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 23:51 (four years ago) link
lol
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 23:54 (four years ago) link
https://www.biography.com/.image/t_share/MTIwNjA4NjMzODA4MTI3NTAw/mia-farrow-9292027-1-402.jpg
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 14:28 (four years ago) link