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June 11, 2007

New M.I.A. Video - "Boyz" & Kala Cover Art

Miss Arulpragasam returns after having raided the Photoshop color palette pantry with a busy-bright and epileptically challenging clip for the quirk-sampled bhangra-banger "Boyz" -- the third track we've heard from Kala -- shot in Jamaica with the help of a limber danceline and lots o' special fx. If watching the vid makes you seize up, then definitely don't visit her new site.

Kala is out in the UK on 8/21 via XL, on 8/22 in the US via Interscope. Tracklist (and the Kala cover) after the jump.

01 "Bamboo Banga"
02 "Bird Flu"
03 "Boyz"
04 "Jimmy"
05 "Hussel [ft. Afrikan Boy]"
06 "Mango Pickle Down River [ft. the Wilcannia Mob]"
07 "20 Dollar"
08 "World Town"
09 "The Turn"
10 "XR2"
11 "Paper Planes"
12 "Come Around [ft. Timbaland]"
"20 Dollar" = the sequel to "10 Dollar"? What can you get for a 20 dollar? Anything you want x two, we guess. Anyway, feast your eyes on Kala...

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Is this one for SNES or just regular NES?

Posted by: matt P at 06/11/07 4:35 PM | Reply
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why doesn't she look hot on the cover

Posted by: Ty at 06/11/07 4:38 PM | Reply
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Haha, matt P that was gold!

Posted by: red at 06/11/07 4:54 PM | Reply
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Wow, that video offends senses I didn't even know I had.

I can't even say I dislike it. It's just an absolute clusterfuck of nonsense. Which is oddly intriguing in its own way.

Posted by: KingHater at 06/11/07 4:56 PM | Reply
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Ugh. That cover reminds me of tetris, or vomit, not sure which.

http://prettymuchamazing.wordpress.com

Posted by: Luiis at 06/11/07 4:59 PM | Reply
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The Fader blog has a few videos up from her recent performance at the Radio1 Festival last month, with videos of her doing "Jimmy", "Hustle" and "Bamboo Banger"; all tracks from her new album. But the only one still up is the vid for "Hustle".

Posted by: malatron at 06/11/07 5:00 PM | Reply
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oops. swear I HTML'ed that link in. No matter, here is the link to the Fader post.
http://www.thefader.com/blog/articles/2007/05/29/video-mia-bamboo-banger

Posted by: malatron at 06/11/07 5:10 PM | Reply
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Where´s "Hit That" on the tracklist?

Posted by: teco apple at 06/11/07 5:10 PM | Reply
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we have heard three tracks, but hit that isn't on kala. it's boyz, bird flu, and xr2.

Posted by: megatron at 06/11/07 5:19 PM | Reply
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true, "hit that" isn't kala'd. fixed, thanks guys.

Posted by: amrit at 06/11/07 5:23 PM | Reply
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Yep, I think "Hit That" was an Arular B-side or a castoff from those sessions.

Posted by: G3K at 06/11/07 6:13 PM | Reply
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That was pretty horrible. Her old stuff was much more ear friendly. This just wants to irrate me and cause my eyes to want to turn around and look inside my own skull to save themselves.

Posted by: Alex D at 06/11/07 6:30 PM | Reply
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holy fucking headache!

Posted by: dennis at 06/11/07 9:42 PM | Reply
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Meh, at lease one of her good songs made it to this mix tape
http://prettymuchamazing.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/pretty-much-amazing-the-mixtape-volume-i/

Posted by: Luiis at 06/11/07 10:47 PM | Reply
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Mango Pickle Down River has to be one of the songs Diplo worked on when he was in Australia last. The Wilcannia Mob are a hip-hop group consisting of 4 Aboriginal teens from the outback.

This album should be shit hot.

Posted by: Jono at 06/12/07 1:13 AM | Reply
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hey i love M.I.A. and i can't wait for her album to come out but doesn't this song kind of sound exactly the same as Bird Flu? I haven't heard a new song with her actually saying more than like 10 words over and over again, I hope she has more lyrical songs because i love her lyrics, like in Amazon and 10 Dollar.

And the song featuring Aboriginal teens seems really awesome!

Posted by: Sophie at 06/12/07 3:44 AM | Reply
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"Wow, that video offends senses I didn't even know I had.

I can't even say I dislike it. It's just an absolute clusterfuck of nonsense. Which is oddly intriguing in its own way.

Posted by: KingHater at June 11, 2007 4:56 PM"


I Love you kinghater. You took the words out of my mouth. Dying of laughter. Terribly pointless and irritating song. Sort of a big WTF if you ask me.

Posted by: wtf at 06/12/07 9:23 AM | Reply
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cela c'est ce qu'on appelle le NXTLVLSHT

Posted by: artmusiche at 06/12/07 10:58 AM | Reply
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Peut-etre...mais des fois quand les artistes essaient de faire le NXTLVLSHT, ils pouvent trouver qu'ils avait fait la merde par accident.

(Pardon, ma francias...ce n'est pas si bon.)

Posted by: KingHater at 06/12/07 11:48 AM | Reply
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Represent Sri Lanka girlfriend.

Posted by: Amy D. at 06/12/07 11:19 PM | Reply
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wicked wicked video
big tune!

'Come Around' been making rounds too...

Posted by: tttt at 06/13/07 1:30 AM | Reply
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Damn. Flashback to 1991.

Posted by: Jessica at 06/13/07 12:46 PM | Reply
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Love her or hate her, at least she's doing her own thing. The first time I heard "Arular" I just flat out didn't get it. Then all of a sudden it became THE album for my summer back in 2005. I love her. And I read somewhere that she used to live with a famous British fashion designer, so her choice to wear Hypercolor and Zubas is part of her whole image I guess. Whatever that's supposed to be.

Posted by: SonYEAH! at 06/13/07 8:13 PM | Reply
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She's an idiot. Her 'design skills' are pathetic, her videos and website are grotesque and her music is bland dross. She's a cocktacle.

You should listen to Dido instead.

Posted by: Willger at 08/22/07 8:47 AM | Reply
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