M.I.A.
 

i just heard arular today and im hooked already.
im very new to this kind of music. if anyone can point me in a good direction from here id be happy.

What took you so long?what took you all night?

dunno.
i heard about her ages ago but never got round to listening.
then i saw nicfits post in the "recent favorites" thread and checked it out.
its great.
any recommendations then porkmarras?

Well,i'd get into our lady la sovereign next and so forth.

I'd light the cd on fire and completely forget about her.

ha ha,i already told wax to check lady assss ooohhh veeeeee,pork!
so,you "londoners" and so on,any other name worth checking? maybe shytsie (sp)?actually i do not know why,but i can only imagine music like that with a feminine "vocalist",but i assume there are male emcees too...aaay?
p.s. october 13th new lady SOV album on jay z label...argh.

this sounds a bit too KKKesque.ha ha.

Lethal Bizzle next.

I assume that you are familiar with Dizzie Rascal already.

I liked the album a lot at first. It seemed fun and had a unique blend of influences and beats from Grime to Dance Hall to Brazilian street etc. But for some reason it's luster wore off fairly quickly. And I don't think that had do do with her opening for Gwen Stephani. I'd still hit it though. Both of them actually.

yeah, know dizzie rascal.
im more interested in female vocalists though.

Yeah, the appeal of the MIA album wore off quite quick for me as well and some songs became just plain annoying. Lady Sovs appeal lasted longer though but she's taken way too long to put out the album (still not out yet right?)

oct 6th i just read.
as i say, i just got into this today, so i cant tell how long it might carry on sounding good.
anymore names to throw in?

welcome to 2004

^^^^??

that album is from 2005, no?
also......... what?

I get MIA songs stuck in my head a lot, some of my friends are really into her.

PIRACY FUNDS TERRORISM = 2004

lawl, noob

mia's piracy funds terrorism was released in 2004.
thats what im talking about

I have that Galang song on the computer, it's annoying now but fun to listen to everynow and then. Same with Lady Sovergien, they get old really quick. Does anyone know who the 3 british girl rappers who they were comparing to the beastie boys?

The All Music Guide recommends...

Neneh Cherry
Ms. Dynamite
Missy Elliott

well, i was talking about aruiar.
tit.

sorry, i don't like reggaeton.

What is reggaeton?

How is Lady Sovereign related to M.I.A.? I've only heard Love me or Hate me, and those were the days, but both sound nothing like M.I.A. to me.

Lady Ass, I like that.

http://www.myspace.com/mia
bau bau full album streaming

Ooo! Thanks ^_^

A couple of songs on the new one made me cry. Of joy, that is.

name them, name them!

paper planes is my fave.

sorry, her music is crap.

sorry, I like it even if you don't :) .

sorry, you are crap :D

i'm not going to say anything because i'm going to be called racist and that i hate hip hop but yeah i don't like music that's all just monotonous drums while some chick who thinks she's in hezbollah is going "rama mellah rama rama rama mellah" for fucking three minutes straight in every song she does. her only progression was that in the first album it was the dum ca-dum-da dum reggaeton drum beat and now it's some african polyrhythm.

just what i hear.

boring

she's really pretty, and hot


i'vent heard the last album but i would say the bigger force behind her is kuduro and she made an elegant use of it.
(acabei de reparar no que escrevi e, no toca a analogias com o traseiro da m.i.a, devo dizer que não foram intencionais).
kuduro is a growing movement and and a relativly new musical genre that seems to be finnally emerging in occidental cultures with a surprising success.
take an example from this little portuguese group that literally came from nowhere and now during this year made an huge success all over europe and are getting ready to take over the world.
not my favourite music genre, i'm dont even like it, but it's defenitly interesting. i am not a preconceptuous person.

yeah, man, it's just a matter of tastes, stripping down the songs to the "actual components" does not diminish my enjoyment (is that a word?), I could even like a song done with burps over a 4/4 dance beat. It's just that I like it, no need to find "logical" reasons for that.

Chuck Norris is THE S***, for sure.

that i respect.

Mine too.