She knows how to keep the crowd pumped up and hyped. She was one of the best performers I had seen in a long while. The first time I went to an M.I.A concert (which wasn't to long ago) I was in awe of her stage presence. I think a lot of people don't think about this enough but M.I.A isn't the stereotypical "pop star." There is always a theme in her songs and something that she wants people to be aware of, which in fact makes M.I.A so unique in her style of music. This song and her debut hit "Galang" made me into an M.I.A fan pretty quickly. "All I wanna do is *Bang Bang Bang Bang* and *Cha-ching!* and take your money!" - A line from one of M.I.A's most popular songs "Paper Planes". Among all this amazing spectacle of bright lights, striking scenery and nonstop dancing songs, there was this woman who finally understood and used the best of both worlds. Then "Born Free" came and made us feel exactly that, that we were free, dancing along a noisy punk rhythm that blew our minds. That is that music unites us beyond cultural or racial differences. ![]() live, while more than 30,000 people pretended to shoot guns with their hands in the air while simultaneously singing the chorus of "Paper Planes" (an anthem of our generation,) that I understood completely her message. Her music it is not only good, it is smart. From dancehall to synth-punk, from the most organic drums to the most futurist electronica, she gave us homogeneous musical masterpieces. ![]() If you wanted to do something, she had probably already done it, in some way or another. Her visual aesthetics, her eccentric clothing and overall style were so shocking and authentic that they defined an era that will echo in future generations of artists and performers. to position herself as one of the most important exponents of alternative music. I started researching about her work, a London visual artist of Indian descent had to be really interesting. It was something I have never heard before, like listening the third world collide with the first one. “MIA DBT VIDEO UNBLOCKED !!! UMG THANKX,” she later wrote, with a link to the functioning video on her Youtube account.I remember the first time I saw the video of M.I.A.’s "Galang" on television. tweeted a link to the video on Monday morning, but, perhaps unsurprisingly, controversy followed after the link appeared to have been taken down by her record label. “My label has my video, they havnt uploaded for 4 days > they wont let me upload > whats is the point? smh,” she tweeted, followed by a spree of fan retweets that expressed support of releasing the clip. But the matter now seems to have been straightened out. The hallucinatory neon clip-art visual style (which also includes monkeys, dogs, a parrot, and people making out) is a perfect match for the song’s synth squelches and frenetic beats. drills home that point, showing various groups of individuals - some masked - showing off their weapons of choice. “This sounds like science fiction, but to some, it’s not so far-fetched.” M.I.A. ![]() “What if you could make weapons like these in your own home, using what’s called a three-dimensional printer?” narrates a voices at the top of the lo-fi video. Women Who Rock: The 50 Greatest Albums of All Time: M.I.A., ‘Kala’ In keeping with the rapper-singer’s typical style, it’s a politically charged clip, featuring lots of people making 3-D weapons. has shared a self-directed, uncensored video for “Double Bubble Trouble,” the dubby cut from her 2013 LP, Matangi.
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