MIA

she must be doing some dates in london too i expect.

and i think there's a us punk bank by this name, too

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I've never seen her dj, but judging from her releases I'd wager she'll play on the softer and dreamier side of minimal house.

born free already being discussed somewhere already?
read yr. blogs

read yr blogs, ppl

does the synth just sound like suicide or is it a sample? song's alright.

How much of the new album did Rusko produce? If he did the whole thing, it's likely to be dreadful.

well this new song doesn't sound like it had anything to do with him, but it's still definitely dreadful

someone tells me this new track has was produced by suicide?

read yr threads

samples suicide def
but did they produce it

this is great anyway

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pretty sure it's just a sample. writing credit is her, martin and alan. it's gash, but they'll get some cash so that's great.

it's cash, but they'll get some gash so that's great.

I get that its cool to hear Paper Planes in indie discos nowdays, but can't she go back to the intense buzzy skeletal beats of Arular, they're so much more fun

Also, poor German MIA

iDig this. Arular is neanderthal MIA and...and that's saying something given her overall aesthetic.

Don't like the lo-fi karaoke thing on her voice in this particular song... I could see how it's supposed to fit with the punk aesthetic of the song but it just sounds like lazy production... hope the rest of the album feels less like a demo.

And it's a shame because the sample is good.

this is pretty weak imo

iDig this.

you just came sooooo goddamn close to a suggest ban you have no idea

ok this is awesome

I DONT WANNA TALK ABOUT MONEY CAUSE I GOT IT-GOT IT-got it-got it
AND I DONT WANNA TALK ABOUT HOOCHIES CAUSE I BEEN IT-BEEN IT-been it-been it

lol she has definitely been hanging out with Santigold

she does Santigold better than Santigold does

the buildup to this is great

between this and the clip of Gorillaz from The Colbert Report, I am very happy I followed a Pitchfork link today

In 2009, Time magazine placed M.I.A. in the Time 100 list of "World's Most Influential people" for having "global influence across many genres".

"genre influence across many globes"

do we even have entryist pop any more? she ought to be commended for such a leftfield move

collaboration with mika vainio and kk null awaits

she does Santigold better than Santigold does

Uh... Santigold >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> MIA.

ugh son

i would buy an album of MIA punk songs

Its modernist punk. It makes me interested. Sounds good.

Just sounds like bad Atari Teenage Riot. Nothing really new going on here.

I love the beat but those vocals sound really half-assed.

Except MIA hasn't done 'bad atari teenage riot' before. Its pop music. Did you expect some sort of Stockhausen experiment? What is new etc, etc...

she had this album called kala that pulled from some great honkies: richman, pixies, clash
She made them her own and made them parts of something great

thought she'd do suicide justice. she did not.

Shit. And here I was just thinking she went and made a song.

So can we get this straight: Is it 'Bad Atari Teenage Riot' or 'Bad Suicide'. Is someone going to say sounds like 'Bad M.I.A?' Prefer these kinds of influences than Beach #**!@$ Boys.

Prefer these kinds of influences than Beach #**!@$ Boys.

word the fuck up

not 100% sold on dexta daps, though his weeknd+bawdy dancehall combo makes me think he will be fun.

Anyone catch the doc

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.

sounds so cool, thanks for the response Daniel

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.

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.

Looking forward to seeing the doc. Nice piece and rankings. Some days my rankings would be the exact opposite. She's nice like that.

Damn, i agree with the list too. MAYA over Matangi.

need the documentary

Arular and Kala are such treasures

The doc is interesting. It could use an edit but its a compelling watch.

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 her
mya 'gilang'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTwH7u0PhOw New old song, "Reload"! um....... wow lol.

Documentary's online now! Gonna watch soon

Loved the documentary, especially the late 90s London stuff.

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

thanks for the rec, I enjoyed the doc. Some quite candid scenes especially after the super bowl and with Justine Frischmann

I lol'd long and hard when she called giving the finger at the Superbowl "a spiritual gesture"

this thread isn't about that MIA lol

(to begin with)

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

This thread has been about this M.I.A. for 6 years, I’ll be fucked if I’m scrolling through 30 other threads

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

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.

She always does! State of that fucking Burberry stamp though.

Stamp's a bit much but you're right, she always does :)

this thread isn't about that MIA lol

And yet :)

(I'd no idea before you mentioned it tbh)

it has been about that MIA for years

(I'd no idea before you mentioned it tbh)

this thread isn't about that MIA lol

― ت (jim in vancouver), Friday, November 8, 2019 11:09 AM (two months ago)

:)

Gah! :-S MIA shining brightly w/ her dumb spoils blinded me.

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

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)

I can c+p posts from a couple months ago too

This is all very exciting guys but

https://i.imgur.com/3XiKMch.gif

lol

https://www.biography.com/.image/t_share/MTIwNjA4NjMzODA4MTI3NTAw/mia-farrow-9292027-1-402.jpg

we created the spinoff thread for the German MIA, preserving the original posts in this thread about her, years ago: MIA aka Michaela Grobelny

hey can a mod add dots to the title so we can finally stop this pedantry every 6 months

I don't see how "MIA dots" is going to help anything

lol

the dots are already MIA

"MIA..."

This thread combing back with powa powa

Is this the thread for M.I.A.? Anyhoo new album OHMNI is out;

https://www.patreon.com/posts/35144818

New song, not new album.

No, this thread is for the German techno DJ/producer. The UK artist is called M.I.A. not MIA.

lol

FFS we repurposed this thread like five years ago and split off a new thread for the German producer back then.

MIA

And here's the spinoff thread that is absolutely booming with posts:

MIA aka Michaela Grobelny