how do you think this new m.i.a. single is gonna be?

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MIA is set to return with a new single to be called 'Bird Flu'.

The singer has been recording in Trinidad and India for the past six months, and, despite the rumours she would be recording with Timbaland, she confirmed that she is set to produce the follow-up to 2005's 'Arular' herself.

"This beat is going to kill everyone," she said on her Myspace blog of the new single, adding that the video for which was shot "out there in a fishing village in south coast of India".

"The village was hit by a tsunami, but they still were in good shape," she added. "We practically moved there and had the craziest time going out fishing everyday. I always used to say that one day I'm going to run away and marry a fisherman and live happily ever after and I thought, damn, I was close to seeing the reality of my plan B."

She added that the local population had influenced the clip.

"We discovered an amazing boy who can outdance anything I've ever seen," MIA explained. "He invented me the bird flu dance."

A release date has yet to be confirmed.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Thursday, 28 September 2006 06:04 (nineteen years ago)

what's the chances someone overheard her saying she'd be recording in trinidad and went, "WOAH, she's recording with timbaland???"

― H2-H4 (H2-H4), Thursday, 28 September 2006 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

i luv her but bird flu is a bad title

― jergins (jergins), Thursday, 28 September 2006 06:15 (nineteen years ago)

Naming a dance song "Bird Flu" is wrong on a few levels. If something does happen it will seem to be in worst taste than it originally was and if nothing happens regarding the bird flu it will date the song incredibly. What was the thinking behind it? "Bird flew might soon be sweeping the nation...like my next single! Oh, aren't I clever!"

― Cunga (Cunga), Thursday, 28 September 2006 06:17 (nineteen years ago)

it makes me think of her obviousness on the 'i got grapes' remix:

i keep my shit hidden like bin laden
x12

not insightful, just referential, but not in a way that means anything.

― jergins (jergins), Thursday, 28 September 2006 06:21 (nineteen years ago)

get 1x Dizzee remix

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:36 (nineteen years ago)

i mean they're both on the same label ffs make it happen

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:36 (nineteen years ago)

she mentioned the timbo hook-up herself during visagate.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

Why would D. Rascal want to waste his talents on a no-hit wonder?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

why would mia want to waste her, etc.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

in the name of GREAT ART obv.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

there's already a bashment song & dance called bird flu this year... o well.

― rtccc (mwah), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

I'd like to hear Dizzee doing an Art Garfunkel remix, certainly.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 September 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

jergins otm

― occasional mongrel (kit brash), Thursday, 28 September 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

big deal, far better rappers have tossed out 'i'm like' lines worse than that

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 28 September 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

Perhaps she'll blow herself up on a packed rush hour tube train to prove she means what she says.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 September 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

Well I'm looking forward to it. The lyrics aren't great on Arular either, but the music is constantly inventive and funky, and I like her crude barking delivery.

― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Thursday, 28 September 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

the bug should work with MIA.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Thursday, 28 September 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

You sure you're not mixing up M.I.A. with pub rottweilers?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 September 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

M.I.A. conspicuously absent on The Bug's latest project - http://myspace.com/ladybuglondon

Deize Tigrona not absent however. (Deize's single Injecao was the basis (at first uncredited, and now fully credited) for MIA's "Bucky Done Gone)

not that they haven't made up now http://www5.flickr.com/photos/moreno/55966172/ but still...

I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to this or not. I hope she's learnt to deliver her stuff better, not exactly dialling back the schtick though is she?

― dance dance counter-revolution (fandango), Thursday, 28 September 2006 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

article on the video and song:
http://www.schemamag.ca/archives/2006/08/sneak_a_peek_at.html

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Thursday, 28 September 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

"The village was hit by a tsunami, but they still were in good shape," she added. "We practically moved there and had the craziest time going out fishing everyday. . ."

See, she's a survivor, and she understand other survivors.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 28 September 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

to answer the thread title question: probably shite

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Thursday, 28 September 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

BAN MICKEY

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Thursday, 28 September 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

otm

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Thursday, 28 September 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

and who are you?

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Thursday, 28 September 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

The singer has been recording in Trinidad and India for the past six months

SIX FUCKING MONTHS?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 28 September 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

better than 6 weeks ala Daft Punk

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 28 September 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

er, theoretically...

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 28 September 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

i just don't understand why she types like that

― captain easychord (captain easychord), Thursday, 28 September 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

"I recorded me a wicked second disc"

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 28 September 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

down with the kidz write blog style innit bruv

art school graduate no need lern to spell

― dance dance counter-revolution (fandango), Thursday, 28 September 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

this beat gonna loosen you up like diarrhea!!

― dance dance counter-revolution (fandango), Thursday, 28 September 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

What's wrong with six months?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 28 September 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

crush blokes like Byzantine emparahs
ain't makin' faux pas like Ratzingah

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 28 September 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

this beat gonna loosen you up like diarrhea!!

sooooootm

― Confounded (Confounded), Thursday, 28 September 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

I be defecatin on yo microphone like infected birds passing on H5N1 through their saliva, nasal secretions, and feces.

― dance dance counter-revolution (fandango), Thursday, 28 September 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

snarking aside, I want to see this kids dance.

― dance dance counter-revolution (fandango), Thursday, 28 September 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

unbelievably stupid title for a single

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 28 September 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's renamed before it comes out, it's got people talking hasn't it?

― dance dance counter-revolution (fandango), Thursday, 28 September 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

i wonder if the kid is the kid in this video:
http://poplicks.com/2006/09/who-says-posting-videos-doesnt-count.html

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Thursday, 28 September 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

I predict it will be great!

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Thursday, 28 September 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

she didn't say anything like this when i saw her recently but then again it was actually in new york, part of america of course, where she was supposedly "denied" entry.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 28 September 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

^^^ when?

― captain easychord (captain easychord), Thursday, 28 September 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

couple weeks ago, at a cat power concert.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 28 September 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

I predict it will be great!
-- I.M. From Hollywood , Today. (later)

hi dere spencer chow

― jergins (jergins), Friday, 29 September 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

That Lady Bug shit is fantastic.

― matt the queeg (veal), Friday, 29 September 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

Little concerned that she's producing the whole album herself, but I remain optimistic.

― graf cycliz (graf cycliz), Friday, 29 September 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

(can't be worse than diplo)

― 0xDOX0RNUTX0RX0RSDABITFIELDXOR^0xDEADBEEFDEADBEEF00001 (donut), Friday, 29 September 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - it didn't hurt Peaches in the beginning did it?

― dang man listen to you all cock of the walk! (fandango), Friday, 29 September 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

same gear as well ^^^

― captain easychord (captain easychord), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

"she confirmed that she is set to produce the follow-up to 2005's 'Arular' herself..."

um, with a little help from diplo and timbaland and a lotta help from switch.

unless shes scrapped it all and started over... (highly doubtful)

― downtown81 (djbooth), Saturday, 30 September 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

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