Wednesday, February 18, 2009

I Flight Like Paper, Get High Like Planes


In summer of 2008 M.I.A's song Paper Planes suprised the world and made it onto the billboard top 10. This was after it was featured on a commercial for the hit movie Pinapple Express.

Kala


In 2007 M.I.A.'s album Kala was releases with minimal notice to it.

Arular


M.I.A.'s debut album was released in 2005 under the name "Arular" for her father who had that title in the civil war.

Fader Loves M.I.A.

For her next single release, "Sunshowers," Maya again hooked up again with Ross Orton and Steve Mackey who had furnished her so successfully with the insane electro-squelch and mangled beats on "Galang." Hitting the UK airwaves this past June, they pushed boundaries even further with hyper-minimalist production and a reworked chorus from Dr. Buzzards Original Savannah Band's track of the same name to create a hypnotic template for her to fire out her young-girl bravado, this time about guerilla warfare and the Tamil-Sinhalese civil war.

Sunshowers

For her next single release, "Sunshowers," Maya again hooked up again with Ross Orton and Steve Mackey who had furnished her so successfully with the insane electro-squelch and mangled beats on "Galang." Hitting the UK airwaves this past June, they pushed boundaries even further with hyper-minimalist production and a reworked chorus from Dr. Buzzards Original Savannah Band's track of the same name to create a hypnotic template for her to fire out her young-girl bravado, this time about guerilla warfare and the Tamil-Sinhalese civil war.