Last year's Clash-sampling, terror-ific "Paper Planes" found a second life this summer, thanks to Pineapple Express and a bunch of hot rappers. Maya tells Rolling Stone, "The way human beings hear stuff, it's like, suddenly a song sounds better to you because it's been in a movie." Sensing that we've heard enough shitty covers by now, Mad Decent recently declared the track dead. Of course, it is far from dead: Billboard Hot 100 has "Planes" at #9 (with a bullet?) and Kala gets rereleased with six bonus tracks next month. Among them is a remix of "Boyz" featuringJay-Z. You can download the MP3 here.
And as we mentioned on Saturday, Diesel threw a big international birthday party the other day, where a visibly pregnant Maya (relax, blogosphere) performed live mash-ups with N.E.R.D., Franz Ferdinand, and T.I.
Here's "Paper Planes" with Rye Rye and Pharrell.
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Congrats to M.I.A. and her fiance Benjamin Brewer. Do any of these atrocities come in onesie?
[Photo by Kyle Dean Reinford/BrooklynVegan.]
