Let's discuss the new M.I.A. single: "London Bridge"

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It's burning up and making chart history.

A few weeks ago when it came on, I was disgusted. After playing it, a local dj said that he had never heard anything like it before. He called it a hot, groundbreaking record. Bleh.

Anyway, Fergie best summed up my reaction in the song itself: Oh shit.

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 05:15 (nineteen years ago)

Um....does MIA actually have anything to do with this? Or are you just drawing the comparison in sounds/styles/pronunciation of "London"? Anyway, it's a pretty okay track wasted on a shite song - Fergie apparently cannot write lyrics to save her life. And as if the words aren't half-baked and cliched enough, she even reuses a whole verse! Terrible and awkward.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

THAT m.i.a.?

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

What? London Bridge is not an M.I.A. song!

― Aditya (dan138zig), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it's actually going to be bought by people!

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

It was a joke! It sounds extremely similar to M.I.A.

Get it?!

But really, I was thinking about it last night, and the number of problems with this song is huge.

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, by the reactions of people, seems you didn't make it clear enough that it was a joke.

― Aditya (dan138zig), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

hahahaha awesome thread

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 10 August 2006 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, by the reactions of people, seems you didn't make it clear enough that it was a joke.

or, y'know, just wasn't funny

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 10 August 2006 07:51 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, it's not funny that one talentless bint making annoying music sells nothing, whereas another talentless bint making annoying music is going to sell truckloads.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 10 August 2006 07:57 (nineteen years ago)

Will.i.am is one of the most awful producers I have ever heard.

The bridge in the video is Tower Bridge, not London bridge.

Oh dear fergs.

― Rowlando for the kidz (Sam Rowlands), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

London Bridge looks dull though so you can't blame them for that.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 10 August 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

It's not produced by Will.I.Am, but by a certain Polow da Don.

― JoB (JoB), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

hahahahaha seriously I love this thread

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

p.s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvrPScg3B94

(I also :heart: this thread)

― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 10 August 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

It reminds me more of Missy than M.I.A.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 10 August 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Some of the vocals must have been "informed" by "Galang", production-wise though it doesn't sound so M.I.A. to me.

― JoB (JoB), Thursday, 10 August 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

But really, I was thinking about it last night, and the number of problems with this song is huge.

-- Tape Store

Oh Snap!

― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

God, I suck.

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

She certainly helped herself to M.I.A.'s trademark shtick of ending each phrase with a li'l yelp.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.celebrities.pl/kirstie_alley/kirstie8.jpg

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

(and when I compare "London Bridge" to M.I.A., I was referring to Fergie's vocals moreso than the production...)

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

― Confounded (Confounded), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Countdown to the pisspants picture? (It's the only way to feel that god or karma or something indeed exists).

― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 11 August 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

Is the London Bridge a metaphor for her vagina? Or does Fergie want to go down every time "you" come around?

― js (honestengine), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

urbandictionary.com

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

video directed by woody allen

― Ari El-Pincus (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

I always thought that if it transparently resembled anything, it was "Hollaback Girl." except I like "London Bridge" way more than that (or anything by M.I.A. for that matter).

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Friday, 11 August 2006 02:17 (nineteen years ago)

I like/am highly amused by her attempts to bite lyrics and flow from a few other pop-crunk hits but hardly gets ANY of them even close to right, simply dropping them all over the track like half-chewed bits of burger instead.

― fandango (fandango), Friday, 11 August 2006 02:25 (nineteen years ago)

getting*

― fandango (fandango), Friday, 11 August 2006 02:26 (nineteen years ago)

Wait...In what way does this sound like M.I.A. that "Maneater"-as-fellated-by-ILM does not?

― The future of Rodney got a -- (R. J. Greene), Friday, 11 August 2006 04:47 (nineteen years ago)

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