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I know it might be a bit much to say Slumdog's a "Great Movie" in a music blog post title because I am not a film critic (yet). But last night I got into a long conversation with Lindsay about it and she agrees, so I'm just gonna say it's the Best Movie and you should see it ASAP. I made a forced reference to the Danny Boyle-directed heartwarmer when talking about Sigur Rós and how "Hoppípolla" is in the film trailer, but that was before I realized Maya's got a new song called "O Saya," with soundtrack composer A.R. Rahman, that turns up in the film. MTV praises Rahman's work on the OST for "mixing the disparate worlds of Bollywood and hip hop," which is true, but as you'll hear it's a more integrated and creative fusion than previous Hindi-hop exercises. Here's "O Saya":
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The feud between the NFL and M.I.A. is getting more heated and even more entertaining. To recap the action so far: M.I.A. flipped off the camera during the Super Bowl halftime show in 2012. Less than two months later, the NFL filed with the American Arbitration Association demanding $1.5 million and a public apology from [...]
While we all remember a lot of unhappy viewers reporting to the FCC during M.I.A.’s Superbowl performance a few years back. Now many peoples complaints of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ performance have surfaced as a way to prove that people will find a way to get offended by anything. The issues range from being [...]
submitted by Nick Feb 17th 2014 11:00 pm (stereogum.com)
On her 1989 debut Raw Like Sushi, Neneh Cherry, the Swedish-born and London-based daughter of jazz great Don, sang and rapped with dangerous levels of style and helped create a snarling-cool blueprint that people like Lauryn Hill and M.I.A. would, to some extent, follow. After 1996′s Man, she largely retired from music to raise kids. [...
submitted by Nick Jan 2nd 2014 09:00 pm (stereogum.com)
M.I.A. has had a messy couple of years: The Super Bowl flap, the great single with no album attached, the years-long wait for Matangi. And when stuff like that happens, the artist can usually share some blame with her management. Well, now M.I.A. is looking for new management. As SPIN points out, M.I.A. tweeted earlier [...]


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