Yea, and what's up with t-pain getting added to the Siren lineup?

first 1/4 is mostly instrumental...

the MIA first album was fun for about 2 weeks...once the buzz faded, it was pretty worthless.

no one will care about the new album. she's not hip anymore so its doubtful people will flock to her.

boyz and bird flu are terrible non singles that were pushed as singles. THere is no Galang on this album. I was a fan, but count me bored seneseless

he had me until "rihanna". i agree that modern r+b is the weird hotness, although that's not exactly new (see Missy, Ciara, Neptunes, etc.) but you can't say that MIA sucks because she can't sing and then praise that rihanna. streisand she ain't.

did this leak yet?

First off. I personally like the tracks. One I know they work on the dance floor becuase I have spin them. These are dance tracks with experiments in sampling different sounds. It is not meant for uppity people who don't like to dance. But these are escape songs that's all. And to make them more than what they are, is silly.

Any inner city club in the world has music like this and is mean for escapism. Whether Dancehall, Gheto House, DC GO GO, Baile Funk, or Grime.

People hate what they do not understand.

That is my two cents.

did this leak yet?

hm, i think MIA opened the doors with her first album. brought something that has been around for a while to the mainstream (think Madonna).

but opening the doors lead to some far more interesting artists... I'd much rather listen to Bonde do Role or Santogold or Switch then MIA these days... even Timbaland on his own is better then these new MIA joints.

She needs to find an "unknown" producer and create something our ears aren't used to --- that was the success of her first album. I hate to say it, but she does have much talent on her own to float a project by herself (think Madonna).

hm, i think MIA opened the doors with her first album. brought something that has been around for a while to the mainstream (think Madonna).

but opening the doors lead to some far more interesting artists... I'd much rather listen to Bonde do Role or Santogold or Switch then MIA these days... even Timbaland on his own is better then these new MIA joints.

She needs to find an "unknown" producer and create something our ears aren't used to --- that was the success of her first album. I hate to say it, but she does have much talent on her own to float a project by herself (think Madonna).

oh and Tarik: i think the problem is people understand these sounds all too well these days... and know that others do it better.

i mean just look at deize tigrona's injecao . had that song made any impact in the states or the uk mia would've never had a career.

people flock to what is new to them.

I'm sickened from cyber-dysentery after reading so much verbal diarrhea. All commenters here belong in the "i take things way too seriously" or, "the ficklest of the fickle" categories. Both incredibly lame.

JRak's post seems to assume that Timbaland wasn't making mainstream R&B "weird" prior to M.I.A., which is just not true. Take a look at what he did for Aaliyah ("Are You That Somebody" with the inexplicable baby giggle) for one. The reason for M.I.A.'s rise has more to do with how she was introduced. The Diplo-helmed mixtape/CD she did rapping over popular tunes combined with the intense dancehall (another genre experiencing mainstream success at the time) of "Galang" made her a standout. She was riding the hype of the indie music press, and God bless her for it.

Now, if anything, she's suffering from the good ol' fashioned sophomore slump, unable to find a single that will remind people why she packed Summerstage just two years ago.

yeah, so all i gots to say about MIA is that her sharks at her record label shut down my blog twice by going to my host and having them flip the switch off without any notice... i mean, sure legally they can do that but its not cool. especially coming from MIA! didn't she tell everyone to pirate her shit? out of all music i've ever posted on the internet MIA is the ONLY artist who has ever given me shit... and shit on me... by taking 3 days to reveal contact info so i could get my site back up and running.

oh yeah, and they made me take down all my remixes of her shit too!? the ones that were unofficial releases! MIA you're a whore to the labels, you've sold out and hurt your fans...

but secretly i still like you. maybe.

I just check Siren's website and MySpace and saw nothing about T-Pain being added to the lineup

um, yea, exactly, tim and missy and neptunes have been making wierd shit forever. I see nothing in that linked post that is anyway "proof" that mainstream R&B is the new hipster music. I do like that rihanna "umbrella" single but rihanna and amerie better than Ed Banger??? please.

her shit's getting weak, but i'd still hit it.

I agree, for the most part. I definitely wouldn't rather listen to Rhianna though. "ella, ella, ella" that shit annoys the fuck out of me.

I loved MIA's first album but recognize that it had mostly to do with Diplo. I think she was really just a vehicle for some interesting sounds and fun beats. I saw her at SOB's two years ago and she was essentially booed off the stage because she is such a bad singer. She's simply an indie-beats Britney Spears, with good producers behind her; nothing more.

I think it'd be best for you to listen to the whole song!
It's rather ecstatic and fun for both genders,
also, it begins and ends really well,
rihanna's current single is disembodied and very much a good song gone bad, totally cop out ending

hey everyone thanks for killing my enthusiasm for this song. Jrak, i'm sure you're whipping up the nextest shit imaginable.

i never liked M.I.A. to begin with.

MIA is confirmed for siren festival now

uhh... didn't Neneh Cherry do this a decade ago already? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EQCOshGwPI

I liked her first album, still do, and am looking forward to the next one. Here's where the gap between popular music whores and die-hard fans gets wider.

I love it very much. Jamaican culture is all around us in parts of London and M.I.A's doing a nice take on the authentic ting...Typical how the trendy privileged lot get bored. I think she is an important musician and role model encouraging our youths in becoming politically conscious...I want ghetto kids to love her, not just trendy kids with no real empathy..

is it so last season to be from a war-torn nation...?
oh please, you new york hipster /slash emo slash wanna-be anything you think makes you unique and totally different is soo lame. Suddenly Hip-Hop is an area any you fools know anything about. M.I.A. is divine she's a hot dancer, she is smart, beautiful, talented and very original ---- and she even has substance, this I realize may be difficult to see from behind your crappy eighties fringe bangs and the cloud of cigarette smoke. Go back to Catpower we don't want you anyway. White wonder bread ain't got shit on multi grain.

lol