**βécky**™
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Post by **βécky**™ on Nov 9, 2009 22:54:11 GMT -5
It's probably a bit early for this thread, but oh well.. --MIA's new album is influenced by Animal Collective and US rapper Gucci Mane, according to producer Diplo.Diplo told Pedestrian.tv that he is one of a number of producers working on the album. He added that, along with Major Lazer partner Switch, he is set to finish off producing the album, having worked on four tracks so far. "[I've] been in the studio with MIA working on her new record," Diplo explained. "It's like Gucci Mane meets Animal Collective. I think there are a couple of people [producing] but we're going to finish it off, me and Switch. We've done like four tracks already."The new album will be the follow-up to MIA's 2007 album 'Kala'.
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Post by cool2themaxx on Nov 10, 2009 1:12:46 GMT -5
Yes please.
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Post by SHOOTER on Nov 10, 2009 3:11:08 GMT -5
That's a good look!
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Post by Sounds from the Other Side on Nov 11, 2009 6:04:39 GMT -5
Gucci Mane out of all people? Really?
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Post by MikeCheck12 on Nov 11, 2009 11:24:17 GMT -5
Can't wait for her new stuff!
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Post by busyboy on Jan 11, 2010 9:12:03 GMT -5
M.I.A. Teams With Blaqstarr, Verizon Workers for Summer DiscWhen Rolling Stone’s Brian Hiatt chatted with global party-starter M.I.A. for our decade-end issue (read his Q&A here), the 34-year-old singer revealed that after five months of work, she was putting finishing touches on her follow-up to Kala, due this summer. She did much of the recording with producer Blaqstarr, who she says “simply makes music that sounds good, and I needed that. I definitely needed to come to music on this album, to make music. I don’t want it to be gimmicky or silly or hipstery.” Saying she wants the album to be “honest,” M.I.A. admitted the globe-trotting she did recording Kala had a large impact on that album’s lyrics as well as sound. “The last album, I didn’t actually sit anywhere long enough for it to really be in my life and to really think about it. Now I’m putting out my next album, and the world has changed. I came up talking shit about Bush, and it’s great that it’s changed, but I don’t know how much it’s changed, and I’m exploring that. “I just want to be real, whatever that is,” she adds. “Even if my songs are shit, and if I have flaws and if I’m confused, if I offend people or if I don’t offend people, I might try to work it out in public, just so you know that it’s OK to think, that thinking’s not a dirty word.” M.I.A. promises different-sounding beats and both singing and rapping on the as-yet-untitled disc, noting, “I just stopped singing on the last one because I put more emphasis into production, so I was more about making beats and sang less on my last album.” The new tracks include “I Fight the Ones That Fight Me” and “I’m Down Like Your Internet Connection,” which actually features Filipino Verizon workers singing the hook. “I was having issues with my cable and wireless, and I was on the phone [with tech support] for three hours, and I thought, ‘Maybe this needs to be part of my music, could you just learn these lyrics and sing it down the phone to me?’ Ten phone calls later, I have Internet that sticks and a song.” www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/01/08/m-i-a-teams-with-blaqstarr-verizon-workers-for-summer-disc/
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Post by @DiegoMarcondes_ on Jan 11, 2010 9:25:41 GMT -5
“I’m Down Like Your Internet Connection,”
OMG Kinda funny! Cant wait
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Post by MikeCheck12 on Jan 11, 2010 10:59:41 GMT -5
Can't wait for this!
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Post by blue in moonlight on Jan 11, 2010 11:26:30 GMT -5
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Post by Kishi KCM on Jan 11, 2010 11:37:48 GMT -5
Summer??? Yes!!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2010 12:34:44 GMT -5
This sounds amazing. Scratch that, it will be amazing. That's just a fact.
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Post by SHOOTER on Jan 11, 2010 16:40:05 GMT -5
Can't wait!
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Post by d.t.m on Jan 12, 2010 0:14:28 GMT -5
So checking for this.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Jan 12, 2010 9:50:26 GMT -5
Everyone and their mamas need to be checkin for this. MIA has put out two of the best albums of the past decade. Truth.
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Post by Dalliance on Jan 12, 2010 9:52:23 GMT -5
Who is excited? I am.
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Post by That Skipping Rope. on Jan 12, 2010 15:11:15 GMT -5
M.I.A. took to Twitter yesterday to slate the New York Times in their selection of war-torn Sri Lanka as their #1 place to take a vacation to in 2010. She posted links to pictures of a mutilated child and a pile of dead bodies in response to the article.
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Post by **βécky**™ on Jan 12, 2010 18:09:45 GMT -5
Not the finished track, but if you want to hear "I'm Down Like Your Internet Connection.": www.twitvid.com/B54ED
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Post by Mic Technique on Jan 12, 2010 18:25:11 GMT -5
Everyone and their mamas need to be checkin for this. MIA has put out two of the best albums of the past decade. Truth. Srsly, OB. She's in contention for the artist of the aughts. Not the finished track, but if you want to hear "I'm Down Like Your Internet Connection.": www.twitvid.com/B54ED What's not to love?
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Post by SHOOTER on Jan 12, 2010 21:06:03 GMT -5
I'm in love!
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Post by @DiegoMarcondes_ on Jan 13, 2010 9:14:51 GMT -5
NEW VIDEO OUT OMG .
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Post by vinyl on Jan 13, 2010 14:21:28 GMT -5
Makin' it hard not to love her, eh?
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Post by Stephen on Jan 13, 2010 15:24:52 GMT -5
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Post by justfloating on Jan 13, 2010 16:37:56 GMT -5
cant wait
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Post by Mic Technique on Jan 13, 2010 21:30:46 GMT -5
Clearly. You sound thrilled.
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Post by busyboy on Feb 24, 2010 4:48:19 GMT -5
Album to be released in June, or so she tweeted.
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Post by Kishi KCM on Feb 24, 2010 9:57:00 GMT -5
Shes back, yass!
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Post by **βécky**™ on Mar 1, 2010 13:29:24 GMT -5
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Post by playeru on Mar 2, 2010 16:03:08 GMT -5
Her last album was more popular in US than in her native UK, right? :)
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Post by Mic Technique on Apr 7, 2010 12:36:40 GMT -5
M.I.A. talks about the industry right now, Lady Gaga, Kesha and the new musical underground“Sorrrrry,” M.I.A.’s been busy - very busy. So busy our interview happens 44 hours later than was originally scheduled. Maya Arulpragasam has valid reasons for living up to her stage name, though, she’s only just back in London after being marooned in the US for 18 months; “banned”, she says, from leaving. Maya is seen by the government of her native Sri Lanka as a dissident, publicly accusing them of “genocide” for their part in a 26-year civil war that ended last May. She claims they’ve been “pulling the strings” recently to make life difficult: disappearing visa applications and hacking into her Twitter and email accounts, “wishing all kinds of crazy illness on my baby and stuff like that”. “People used to come and park outside my house in LA,” she says. “I felt so powerless”. Add in a mother alone and made sick by similar visa bullshit this side of the Atlantic, and it’d be churlish of NME to rue a few hours spent twiddling thumbs. It hasn’t been all espionage and irritation, though - there was the arrival of that aforementioned baby, son Ikhyd is a year old now - and a new album too. Due out this summer, the follow-up to 2007’s Kala sees M.I.A. hook-up with dub-step hoodlum Rusko and rekindle her creative relationship with Wes Pentz, aka ex-boyfriend Diplo, for the first time since ‘Paper Planes’ (“it’s OK now, but was awkward at first,” admits Maya, now engaged to Ikhyd’s father Benjamin Bronfman). Last year also delivered an Oscar nomination for her music’s appearance in Slumdog Millionaire, while she’s recently signed Sleigh Bells and Blaqstarr to her own label, NEET. She also scooped a lot on Time magazine’s list of the ‘World’s 100 Most Influential People’, and this true star looks like she will continue to set the agenda into the next decade. We can’t wait to see what M.I.A. has in store for us… In future decades, how will people look back on music in 2010?I’m not sure, but music now should be like a sonic massage. You want to really feel it, internally. The police use sound cannons at public protests that explode people’s inside with a single note - human beings have to come up with the opposite of that. Which artists are you excited about in 2010?The new Sleigh Bells album epitomises how kids are feeling in America - so much energy, but nothing to do with it. Everyone wants you to be an apathetic consumer over there, so it’s cool to have some weird discomfort going on. I like that Alexis [Krauss, vocalist] used to be a nice girl in a pop band that never made it. She followed every step an American child usually follows - singing in the mirror, wanting to be Britney Spears, etc. - so for her to arrive at this noisy place is interesting. I’ve signed Blaqstarr ,too. He’s from Baltimore, and whenever he goes out a million screaming girls follow him. People are gonna hear his voice and suddenly be reminded of what’s human about us all. Do musical tribes still exist?There aren’t tribes any more - how can there be when we all live in computers, on social networks? People listen to and access music differently now, so the tribal thing has to be reformatted. What place does politics have in music today?I’m always encouraging people to be more vocal. Google’s more powerful than any government now - people think it’s God. They’re storing all our data and one day they’re gonna turn against us. That’s what my new album’s about - I’m living fucking proof that politics doesn’t work. Every time I breathe it’s documented on my computer and yet I’m still on some stupid list somewhere that says I’m a terrorist. Do we still need record labels?Are they even interested in making money from music anymore? Lady Gaga plugs 15 things in her new video. Dude, she even plugs a burger! That’s probably how they’re making money right now - buying up the burger joint, putting the burger in a music video and making loads of burger money. What do you think of The X Factor [British equivalent of American Idol]?Oh God, I’m so bored by it already, people need to get over it. X Factor shit’s irrelevant. I’m more concerned by how someone like Kesha can so blatantly copy Uffie. Everyone’s fine with it. Not a fucking lawsuit in sight. How do you think you’d have fared on the show?I would totally flop. Are you serious?! I’m not a ‘showbiz’ person. I got signed and made an album without playing a show. I scouted four different people to sing ‘Galang’ before I put it out as my own demo. Do you think those programmes and the internet have destroyed the mythology around popstars?I don’t know. Again, there’d Lady Gaga - people say we’re similar, that we both mix all these things in the pot and spit them out differently, but she spits it out exactly the same! None of her music’s reflective of how weird she wants to be or thinks she is. She models herself on Grace Jones and Madonna, but the music sounds like 20-year-old Ibiza music, you know? She’s not progressive, but she’s a good mimic. She sounds more like me than I fucking do! That’s a talent and she’s got a great team behind her, but she’s the industry last’s stab at making itself important - saying, ‘You need our money behind you, the endorsements, the stadiums’ Respect to her, she’s keeping a hundred thousand people in work, but my belief is: Do It Yourself. What’s more important to you - performing live or making records?Making records is my art, but if you’re an artist, questioning a lot of things it’s important to have that live space what you do isn’t gonna be twisted and manipulated. How important are image and visuals to your music?Very. But it’s not like “Haus of Gaga” (laughs). Me blindfolded with naked men feeding me apples and shit. Where’s today’s true music underground?In people’s hard drives and their brains, it just hasn’t been outputted yet. It’s really important to be physical, especially now so many of us have become typists and voyeurs. We need a digital moshpit like we’ve never seen, harder than how people were doing it in the punk era. We need that energy, but digitally. It’s coming. Who’s pushing music forward in 2010? Are people taking enough risks?Of course they aren’t! We have, what, a million songwriters? And probably three risk-takers. I like this guy DJ Borgore. He’s coming out of the Tel Aviv which has gotta be weird, and in terms of dubstep he makes the hardest shit. Who or what is the enemy of music right now?Money is always the enemy of music. Is it still possible for a musician to ‘sell-out’ in 2010?Back in 2003 I was in a bedsit, hand-spraying very 12-inch and just wanting to make art. Everybody gets turned into a product push so fast - these weird fucking ‘hipster’ parties promoting Red Bull or whatever. There’s a difference between saying ‘no’ to everything and ‘yes’ to everything. I’m not fucking Coldplay because I said ‘no’ to certain things. When I did my ‘selling-out’ show for MTV they made me a hundred grand and I built a school with it in Africa. Would you ever make a record for a Twilight soundtrack?They asked me. Luckily Jimmy [Iovine, chairmen of M.I.A.’s US label Interscope] had beef with the Twilight people, so he stepped in and told them to fuck off. What do you hope to be doing in 2020?I’m going to be an artist. Whatever I think an artist is in 10 years. I’ll be doing that.
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Post by **βécky**™ on Apr 7, 2010 13:31:34 GMT -5
^Awesome interview!
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