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The music video for "Bucky Done Gun" was directed by Anthony Mandler.Filming took place in the Mojave desert.. It features Arulpragasam rapping aggressively against a desolate wasteland with erratic flags bearing her album artwork, erratically interspersed with scenes of her performing live in an underground nightclub, filmed in an artsy, guerrilla style.
M.I.A., Arthur Magazine (May 2005) Before the album's release, M.I.A. said that audiences found it hard to dance to political songs. This made her keen to produce music that sounded like pop but addressed important issues. "Sunshowers", with its lyrical references to snipers, murder and the PLO, was written in response to the Tamil Tigers being considered terrorists in some quarters. She said ...
—M.I.A., Clash M.I.A. attributes much of her success to the "homeless, rootlessness" of her early life. Due to her and her family being displaced from Sri Lanka because of the Civil War, M.I.A. has become a refugee icon. The EMP Museum's 2008 Pop Conference featured paper submissions and discussions on M.I.A. presented on the theme of "Shake, Rattle: Music, Conflict, and Change." She has ...
British rapper and singer M.I.A. has released six studio albums, two extended plays, three mixtapes, forty singles (including eight as a featured artist) and twenty-nine music videos. Born Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam, M.I.A. began her career as a visual artist and film-maker, and moved into making music after filming a documentary on the band ...
"So when I started this album, I really thought, "I don't know why I'm doing this, I don't know who I'm doing it for. I don't know anything. I'm out of this relationship, Timbaland, that dream and hope, is not gonna happen, and I probably don't even wanna make music."
Kala is the second studio album by British recording artist M.I.A. It was released on 8 August 2007 through XL Recordings.M.I.A. named the album after her mother and has stated that her mother's struggles in life are a major theme of the album.
Popular" was released as the album's second single on 12 August 2022. It was announced three days prior to its release and was accompanied by a video featuring M.I.A.'s "robotic double" M.A.I. [20] "Beep" was released as the third single from the album on 30 September 2022; the track also featured on the soundtrack of football video game FIFA ...
Piracy Funds Terrorism Volume 1, usually referred to simply as Piracy Funds Terrorism, is a mixtape produced by British recording artist M.I.A. and American DJ Diplo featuring vocal tracks intended for M.I.A.'s debut album Arular mashed up with samples of other recordings.