Stepped away from the computer for a few minutes and this Lady Maya BBC radio rip just exploded the internet:
(via so many emails and all the blogs, but mostly Paranoid Youth, who sent it in first)
“XXXO” is slated for a Hype Williams-directed video, and the MP3 is available tomorrow via iTunes. The track comes from that forthcoming M.I.A. record that doesn’t have a title yet but does have a release date (6/29 via N.E.E.T./Interscope). While you’re waiting for that to drop, try looking for Maya at your local Sleigh Bells show.
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Sounds like gaga. Suddenly her complaints against her don’t really have much legs.
I don’t know if I’m alone in this, but from what I’ve heard so far…I’m pretty let down. I appreciate when artists take chances with their sound but this…just sounds lazy.
kind of boring, as far as m.i.a. goes. i agree with the first two posts.
Why does this sound like Gaga? Because it’s pop? With ….(gasp)….SYNTHS!?!?
Sounds like M.I.A. Pop, thru an M.I.A. filter . Love it.
WOW. Massive let down.
This is awful. I don’t mind some dance pop, but this sounds like cynical, why-not-me, by-the-numbers dance pop. So far, what we’ve heard from the LP is two for two on sheer laziness.
I dig this. I hear, “You want me be somebody who I’m really not” in the chorus, What if the song is just an exercise in what she’s “really not” (meaning, easy, commercial pop). It’s ironic in the way Paper Planes is ironic (promoting the stereotype that all immigrants just get high and cause violence).
Yeah but Paper Plates was actually fun to listen to
I like it… But wasn’t MIA just all over Lady Gaga for making “formulaic” pop music. Cause this song has definite Top 40 appeal/pop sensibility. Looking forward to the album.
okay, so has anyone noticed that this radio version is different from the one on her label site? go to http://neetrecordings.com/blog/ about halfway down the page and listen to that version. i’m wondering which song is the album version, cause this one sounds like it could be some kind of remix.
Thanks for the tip. Overall I enjoy this song. Just wish it was a little more raw. I guess I want her to be somebody who she’s really not.
Yes, it seems this is the RUSKO/BLAQSTARR version. Original has a different vibe.
I like ‘em both.
Fuck this dumb bitch.
This asshole seems to have some personal issues with M.I.A.
Fuck this dumb asshole.
MIA was not criticizing Gaga for making pop music that sells well/gets on the charts. Her comments were largely about the record industry as represented by Gaga trying to impose its old business model on a new DIY world. Yes, she was critical of Gaga’s representation of something weird and unusual just because of her fashion while her music is the same type of electro dance we’ve been getting for the last decade. She never said that type of music was bad in an of itself. No hypocrisy here at all.
That being said, the song is catchy and fun, but far from what I want from an MIA song. Born Free is closer to the agit-pop I fell in love with.
Just when you thought her new album was going to be on a more interesting tip…
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Interesting as in the opposite of your reply.
Whats with the repetitive lines it’s so Obviously pop rule cliche…make memorable lines without saying the same thing over and over like your on repeataTORRRRR ARHHHHH! Mi Matey!!!! would you like a drink of me ol ribburner !!!! yarhhhh
A really nice radio hit. M.I.A. has already done weird, so let her do something a little bit normal for once. I like this one more than “Born Free”.
more like SUXXXO
I love XXXO! It is nice that M.I.A. she is trying to something different. I am so tired of people acting like Lady Gaga is a goddess or something. Give me a break! This song is an electro pop song and don’t act like Lady Gaga is the first artist to use this sound. The electro pop sound is not new and it is a part of music.. I don’t see the problem here.
M.I.A XXXOO is dope.
Me likes to dance.
Me likes M.I.A.
Me likes this joint.
Fuck the haters.
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So the only two options are enjoying MIA or enjoying emo? Duly noted. Very enlightening.
I love it how when you say you don’t like something people immediately tell you that you’re a hater. I like M.I.A., I love both Kala and Arular, but I simply don’t like this song. It’s dull and uncreative.
gross. the (real?) version on the neet blog is a bit better, but both are pretty bad. born free was rather lazy stealing the beat from suicide, but at least it was better than this sub-top 40 for hipsters junk. funny she’s ripping lady gaga and then releasing this, and her attempt at provocation in the born free vid has made her vaguely political aesthetic as tired as gaga’s. going to have to spin arular to cleanse my palate after this one.
The is a dumb, repetitive pop song with really slick glossy production. Sound familiar?
The key to the song is the chorus. After the success of Paper Planes and Kala in general, MIA is expected to maintain artistic credibility, still, radio success.
“You want me be somebody who I’m really not.”–a pop ingenue. The songs dumb on purpose.
It seems, like most radio music, that this track could be made by anyone but it is idiosyncratically MIA. It’s ironic, meta, whatever.
Also, I really hate this attitude. I hate when people say stuff like “oh this song is bad on purpose” or “this movie is really cheezy and poorly done on purpose. It’s irony!”
I appreciate irony as much as the next guy, but if I were a die hard MIA fan and she came out with a song that was shitty on purpose just to make a statement on pop music, she would be minus one fan.
Time for me to jump on the train.
Even though I never really cared for MIA very much more than admitting that on a good day, she can have some pretty catchy/creative/clever songs, I’ve always wondered why everyone thought she was so great. This song and its reaction make me even more confused, because I honestly do not see that much of a difference between this song and any of her others other than a little bit slicker production.
Oh well. Guess I’ll just go listen to my emo shit because this song is snoozeville.
Have always been a fanboy, but this is heartbreakingly mediocre.. T_T
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/333297
amazing! thanks for the link
Seriously, that song is great. Feels like Ke$ha for hipsters who are pissed that [/\/\/\Y/\] went off the deep end. If that whole album is good, Uffie could be the real deal.
For tweens
Yeah, Uffie is great. It’s about time she released something besides singles
Could be better but still looking forward to it.
Agree with whoever said Uffie is for tweens. That single is booooring.
I mean really, comparing MIA to Uffie and Kesha??