M.I.A. | maya album + VICKILEEKX (Mixtape)

[Coin-Operated [Boy]]

Her rise to mainstream eminence changed the scope of her career forever so this upcoming album will be precarious and critical. Space Odyssey is an affirmative indication of the works nonetheless and it seems that she continues to be as adamant as ever.

[**βécky**™]

Album release date: June 29

[CammyCan]

Yesssssss.

[laguy03]

I can't wait to hear new music from M.I.A.!

[JenkseyArt]

M.I.A. Album News



M.I.A's new album will be "a total departure" from her established sound.

The Sri Lankan born singer - real name Maya Arulpragasam - has been working with producer Diplo on her third album - which it was announced at the weekend will be released on June 28 in Europe and June 29 in the US - and he promises he has drawn from a well of diverse musical influences to create tracks for the album.

Diplo - who collaborated with M.I.A on her breakthrough single 'Paper Planes' - said: "On the new record I've just done for her - which might be the single - I sampled a bunch of gospel-y, old-school, Alabama, weird, Sacred Harp singers.

"It's turning into an Animal Collective kind of record, which represents a total departure from what you would expect from her, but that's where her head was at."

"She just had a baby so she was on this elated mood. With her it's always sort of random, whatever you think was not going to be productive - that recording ended up being a really shitty demo and then it turned into a big song."

US born Diplo also defended his practice of sampling to create records, saying although it upsets some musicians, it helps give the sampled music a new context.

He added: "I think everyone who plays an instrument and comes from a real musical background is a bit perturbed by sampling in general. It might be ignorance to begin with - but always, when we sample, I try to be making statements.

"I think 'Paper Planes' is a good example because it's a song that represents Maya's attitude. It sampled a Clash record - the goal is to try to reach people and give the song more depth. It's hard to pick up on it, but if you do dig into it, people are like, 'Damn, that's an all-around song now' when they understand the sample source.

[galvanize]

Studio version of "Born Free" has premiered:



LOVE it - great choice for a first single!

[@DiegoMarcondes_]

boooooooooooorn freeeeee! bo bo bo bo borrrn free!
Addictive!

Really crazy, sounds like Jack White, Josh Homme production!

[Mic Technique]

This is M.I.A. in a nutshell. I could only dream of being the iconoclast this woman was destined to be from the womb. Beautiful.

[Deleted]

Hated it at first, by the end I was ready to put it on repeat. It's exactly what I expected and a complete surprise at the same time. Typical Maya.

[Dalliance]

Apr 23, 2010 11:42:46 GMT -5 @backintime said:

Hated it at first, by the end I was ready to put it on repeat.

I'm the opposite: I was hooked instantly at the arrival of the crushing drums.

[Coin-Operated [Boy]]

An emphatic yes!

[CammyCan]

It really is a departure from what she usually does...I'm in love. It's like war in song form.

[blue in moonlight]

Noooo! I didn't hear it before it was removed.

EDIT: Found it!

[**βécky**™]

It's really noisy, but I love it.

Artwork:

[itsaboutart]

i love her so ridiculously much
i love born free have been playing it non stop
i got bored and decided to record a demo inspired by her
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IiA5sqcwBo

[**βécky**™]

track listing according to Pitchfork.

[laguy03]

Music video for "Born Free":
vimeo.com/11219730

Tracklisting (posted by M.I.A. on Twitter):

[libri]

Excellent video! A grammy nom is in the bag, I think. It's better and more ambitious than the song itself. Wonder if it's inspired by the South Park's 'Ginger Kids' episode.

I do like the song, but I don't think it's something I'd listen to regularly. It's too noisy.

[Active Aggressive]

I watched that video. I had to show it to my roommate. We are both traumatized. And people say GaGa is controversial. LOLOLOLOLOOOL

[Minimalism]

Damn, that video is as jaw-droppingly intense as The Hurt Locker. Damn. :o

[CammyCan]

She would release that.

Amazing.

[libri]

Apr 26, 2010 21:00:41 GMT -5 Active Aggressive said:

I watched that video. I had to show it to my roommate. We are both traumatized. And people say GaGa is controversial. LOLOLOLOLOOOL

IKR. It makes Telephone seem PG. LOL

Heh, I also noticed that it's about the same length as Telephone's. I wonder if the video is how they'd always planned it and M.I.A.'s team just used the NME interview to set the stage for comparing and contrasting. I just found it curious that she kept coming back to talking about Gaga without the interviewer's prodding. Or the video is the way it is as a bit of a reaction to and/or a dig at Telephone. 'You wanna use sex/nudity/violence as a social commentary? Here's how you do it!'. Or perhaps I was just over-thinking it. LOL

I don't really care about the bitch fights, it's kinda amusing actually LOL, and she did make some valid points. But I do find it a bit hypocritical for M.I.A. to bitch about major labels and their money and how it's better to 'do it yourself' when she herself is on the same major label as Gaga's and a video like this sure as hell needs a major label's money and resources to be made. And her setting herself up as a rebel/revolutionary/street kid/anti-popstar is also a bit of a construct, just in a different way.

[Mic Technique]

Can't wait to show my nieces!

Apr 26, 2010 22:46:54 GMT -5 Minimalism said:

Damn, that video is as jaw-droppingly intense as The Hurt Locker. Damn. :o

Except better.

[Mpol]

WOW.

Amazing.

Scary.

REAL.

[popindustrialist]

YouTube vows to keep pulling the vid due to "gratuitious violence", which I'll assume based on seeing the vid means "we object to the political content".

[**βécky**™]

“XXXO” is the lead single, arriving on iTunes May 11th.

“I just feel like ‘XXXO’—it is what it is,” she told Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1. “It’s kinda [about] being disconnected in L.A. and not having cell phone service or just not being able to kinda leave there for 18 months.”

Hype Williams is directing the video.

[orchbellzbab]

I knew born free would be just a little teaser, kind of like bird flu... still an amazing song and definitely is doing its job of getting people talking! I wonder if XXXO is that song about being "down like your internet connection"

[**βécky**™]

www.bbc.co.uk/6music/news/20100427_mia.shtml

Rusko has some cool things to say about M.I.A. and her new album

M.I.A's call for title helpDubstep producer Rusko says Maya's varied new album features sung love songs
27/04/2010Georgie Rogers

British rapper M.I.A has posted on twitter a picture of the tracklisting for her as-yet-untitled album and called on fans to give her album title suggestions.

Dubstep maestro Rusko produced her latest offering and spoke of how they got "carried away" musically during epic 30-hour long recording sessions.

“It sounds like a rock band trying to play dubstep songs,” he said of the album backstage at Coachella Festival in the States earlier this month. “The whole idea of the record was to freak people out."

“It’s crazy. It’s like mad distorted and hectic,” he added. “She’s super creative. She’s one of my favourite people I’ve ever worked with. While she’s writing words, she’s drawing pictures and artwork.”

Branding Maya Arulpragasam a ‘visual artist’ Rusko said they were experimental in the studio.
"She[M.I.A]’s got a kid, a little one year old baby, and we recorded his heart beat. We’d just think of crazy ideas."

Rusko
“She makes the picture before the lyrics,” he explained. “It’s all one big package. It’s kind of all a bit crazy. She’s got a kid, a little one year old baby, and we recorded his heart beat. We’d just think of crazy ideas.”

The record was completed in a rented studio in Hawaii and Rusko, who played guitar and piano on it, said it’s really varied.

“Every track is something you don’t realise, so there’s something that just sounds way crazy and you can’t understand it, but then the next track is a love song with a piano and perfect singing, no rapping but perfect singing.”

A title?

M.I.A has asked her fans for some album title aid and Rusko unveiled an early working title.

“We wanted to call it Complications because it took so long,” he laughed. “It wasn’t a nightmare, but we’re both perfectionists. I’m like a mad perfectionist so the final versions we sent off were version eight and version nine. They’d all been changed and changed, but that’s good.”

You can see the controversial video for its first taster Born Free, directed by Romain Gavras, at her official site, although it's been pulled from YouTube in the US and UK.

Rusko and M.I.A have a combined three-month tour in the diary at the end of the year.

[SHOOTER]

[Rich]

hope this album is another success for her.