Someone say something about this new M.I.A. video for "Bird Flu"

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Looks like she's on a mormon mission to teach impoverished nations about thrift stores.

www.myspace.com/mia

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

B-

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

OH SHIT.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

Some Chicken Noodle Soup ought to clear that up.

― EZ Snappin (EZSnappin), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

EZ wins.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

SUPER ROOTS 4

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

the tune is certainly missing in act(i)on...

― about:coffee (fandango), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

the song is pretty awesome to the max, if you ask me.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

the tune is certainly missing in act(i)on...
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/6987/yaaaaowkm9.png

― say it with blood diamonds (a_p), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah it's awesome, but if she wants to be a big popstar this song certainly isn't going to do it. Should've made one of those Timbaland collaborations the first single.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

Love the beat, where's the hook? Can't wait to hear what she does with Timbo... are those out there anywhere?

― jesse jarnow (bourgwick), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

Ugh, remove vocals and this is awesome

― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

Loving it.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

Love the beat, where's the hook?

the beat = the hook. sgreat. i like the part where the kids are yelling best, but mia's parts are good too.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

o the video. well. i guess she's got more right to third-world tourism than angelina. everybody looks like they're having a good time.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

The what the fuck was that? Surriously.

― The Reverend Rodney J. Greene (R. J. Greene), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

Definitely works better for me just hearing it than hearing it and trying to watch the video first time through. I would have thought YouTube allowed for clearer mixes!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

THAT BEAT IS UNFUCKWITHABLE

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

i think my favorite shirt in that is the one that has the flesh of watermelon going from mid-shirt up to the neckline, and green right below. makes me want to bite that little girl's head off.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

This is great!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

Wow this is way better than I imagined from the posts thus far!

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

It's got a schaffel swing to it, doesn't it. Hard to tell without more hi-hat action, but I bet it would mix in (Have to be pitched down though)

― tylero (tylero), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

eh.

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:15 (eighteen years ago)

would've liked a good bass sound personally (i don't appear to be getting tired of saying this yet).

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:33 (eighteen years ago)

yeah someone's kidnapped the chorus but i'm lovin it.

maybe the album will have like, melodious break-up ballads on and stuff.

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:49 (eighteen years ago)

"would've liked a good bass sound personally (i don't appear to be getting tired of saying this yet)."

You can tell that something uploaded on YouTube/MySpace doesn't have good bass sound?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:50 (eighteen years ago)

Dude Lonelygirl15 had such a horrible low end

― Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

That's a prett sweet track but it's SO not a single, and it's especially not a good dance track.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

Not keen on the vocals either.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

it's especially not a good dance track

it might be a challenge to transition into this during a hip-hop set, but come on! that beat would get a crowd stomping, real savage like.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

the internet refuses to stomp

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

that's m.i.a., teaching the indie kids to stomp again.

― marc h. (marc h.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

i had something to say about the shirts, but i don't want to be read as a viral marketeer.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

video styled by cassetteplaya

― rchinn (rchinn), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

if it wasn't for the dubious vocals this could almost be a matmos track. it would fit nicely on 'a rose has teeth...'

― m the g (mister the guanoman), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

and it's especially not a good dance track.

indian coworker came and watched the video w/me. she claims it's all filmed in South India and that it's traditional South Indian wedding (dance) music as the background.

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

new video with better resolution/bass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K8KvHxh1VI

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

what plays in South India DOES NOT PLAY ON INTENET, my freng.

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, but like a few hundred million don't know how to get down because a few hundred bloggers say so?

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

I heard the Timbaland collab was just a rumor, nothing more? I did hear something about Three 6, tho.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

you must have that backwards

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.I.A.#2006_.E2.80.93_present

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

http://mixonline.com/news/headline/ardent-mia-album-091206/

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

love it love it love it, just like i love bow wow wow and himesh reshammiya dance traxxx

love her watermelon shirt too

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, great track indeed.

― groovemaan (groove nihilist), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

wait, can we talk about how fucking stupid MIA myspace page looks? that's the most impressive part of any of this, imo.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

a mypsace page looking fucking stupid you say? (it IS painful tho yes)

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

AWESOME

― antidote against poisoning (lex pretend), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

grimey simey will, like, implode when he sees it :D

― antidote against poisoning (lex pretend), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

i rail against myspace all the time for the way it looks. it's just that MIA's page looks like a 16-year-old acid freek's page. which is not a compliment.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

why not? LET HER LET HER FREEK FLAG FLY MAAAAAN!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

the n0is3 board made him shave his moustache off

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

MIA's page is an ecapsulation of everything awful of Myspace, to the point where I think it's audaciously wow.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

if someone went on mia's myspace page and changed the letters "mia" to "vooredoms" or "black dice" at least half of you would be talking about how awesome it is

― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

what? is everyone here being ironic? people are saying it's awesome!

I still think it's garbage...

― about:coffee (fandango), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 23:16 (eighteen years ago)

just because she doesn't have taste doesn't mean she doesn't have style! i kinda dig the forced epilectic induction caused by her graphics.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 23:36 (eighteen years ago)

Page looks fucking retarded = great. Song's killer too, though lead single? WTF?

And hell yeah it's a "good dance track." Are you crazy?

― the new sincerity (Pye Poudre), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 23:49 (eighteen years ago)

Creating 8 separate accounts so that her designer could
spell BIRDFLU!:

undecided.

Paying a designer to create yr myspace artist page:

definitely lame.

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 23:49 (eighteen years ago)

fwiw you don't need 8 separate accounts to customise your friends display that way...

still lame tho'

― about:coffee (fandango), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 23:53 (eighteen years ago)

time for mashup with Doctorin' the Tardis.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 7 February 2007 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

why do you assume she had someone else do it for her?

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 00:02 (eighteen years ago)

please let my job title never be "myspace profile designer"

― UART variations (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 00:03 (eighteen years ago)

Does MIA use firefox?

― UART variations (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 00:03 (eighteen years ago)

paul simons ethnic tracks own dis bithc

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 00:23 (eighteen years ago)

My main problem with MIA is that everything about the way she's presented says "political" and "dangerous" and "avant-garde," whereas what I mostly hear in her vocals is "bratty princess."

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 00:38 (eighteen years ago)

But it's the bratty princess/avant-garde combo that's funny, eh? I would kind of like to hear a Black Dice remix of this.

― strom (strom), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 00:41 (eighteen years ago)

"grimey simey will, like, implode when he sees it :D "

he hates her now though.

this track fucking kills. not sure about her new rhyming style or the lack of a catchy hook (shes usually great with those) but i like the that this track just BANGS.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 00:44 (eighteen years ago)

"he hates her now though"

I kind of got the impression he always hated her.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 00:46 (eighteen years ago)

Why exactly are we supposed to give a fuck what Simon Reynolds thinks about anything anyway?

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 01:15 (eighteen years ago)

this track fucking kills. not sure about her new rhyming style or the lack of a catchy hook (shes usually great with those) but i like the that this track just BANGS.

confounded's ultimate youtube challenge: vids of u bedroom dancing to bird flu

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 01:33 (eighteen years ago)

interrupted my buju banton listening u fux

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 01:34 (eighteen years ago)

confounded's ultimate youtube challenge: vids of u bedroom dancing to bird flu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap3OZSEdVZk

― The Reverend Rodney J. Greene (R. J. Greene), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 02:03 (eighteen years ago)

(Althouugh, watermelon dashiki = extra points, of course.)

― The Reverend Rodney J. Greene (R. J. Greene), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 02:07 (eighteen years ago)

Damn!~
this is almost "do the ratchet" level badassness

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:14 (eighteen years ago)

black dice suck

― UART variations (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:42 (eighteen years ago)

they aight

― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:54 (eighteen years ago)

wow. this is excellent.

― josh. (disco stu), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:54 (eighteen years ago)

(but anyways i meant the design of the myspace and nothing having to do with the song. it goes without saying that mia is shite.)

― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:54 (eighteen years ago)

so she needs to go on tour with this hype girl and then a dude who just does sub-bass.

― josh. (disco stu), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:57 (eighteen years ago)

i was saying earlier, how this sounds like MIA produced by black dice.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 05:53 (eighteen years ago)

What's "XR2 Turbo" from?

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 05:57 (eighteen years ago)

super roots 4 more accurate

― Charmmy Kitty's Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 06:06 (eighteen years ago)

this should be as successful as her debut

― bobby bedelia (van dover), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 06:08 (eighteen years ago)

I see what you did there.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 06:12 (eighteen years ago)

whereas what I mostly hear in her vocals is "bratty princess."

how exactly does 'bratty princess' manifest in her VOCALS?
are you sure you're just not judging on appearances here?

― vita susicivus (blueski), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

she does come off like a bratty princess. its not hard to see why male critics love her so much - she often sounds quite coquettish and little-girly.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

Plus she's well hot.

― jimn (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

well yeah, that too.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:29 (eighteen years ago)

is there a release date for the album?

― groovemaan (groove nihilist), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/02/mias_bird_flu_the_most_prescie.html

yeah its good timing but she came up with the name months ago.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:35 (eighteen years ago)

God Tim Jonze is an utter cunt.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:39 (eighteen years ago)

people, it's just bhangra.

― anna s. (anna s.), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:41 (eighteen years ago)

well it is the most indian sounding thing shes ever done. this might actually get her some play at bhangra raves.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

she does come off like a bratty princess.

How exactly (we're talking on record here)? I don't get the 'little girl' thing either. I mean even if that is there (not convinced it is) it's not something picked up on re why I like MIA/idea of MIA.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

listen to her voice/delivery on bucky done gun. its that same lolita sort of thing (ex-)rappers like Amil do.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:52 (eighteen years ago)

Her delivery is massively the worst thing about her music...

― about:coffee (fandango), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

Her ~~delivery~~music is massively the worst thing about her music...

― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

the worst thing about MIA is her HATAZ

― vita susicivus (blueski), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

Haha that's one of the bests thing about her actually.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

I googled "poncy slaver" and the first rreturn was:
http://static.flickr.com/65/166195605_ca5ec2d4b0.jpg

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

Amazing beat. Still sounds like a parrot. Hit!

(Reminds me a bit of "Ant Rap", actually someone upthread said Bow Wow Wow which is obv onner-the-money.)

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

you say "sounds like a parrot" like it's a bad thing tom!

― antidote against poisoning (lex pretend), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

But just after that I said "Hit!". It was merely descriptive!

Maybe I have warmed to the parrot family over the last year or so.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

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