M.I.A.

How would you describe her?
Imagine if James Brown and Missy Elliott had a lovechild that was raised by Mary Poppins’ leftist radical stepsister from Sri Lanka, and she’s bioluminescent. That would be M.I.A.
What?
Ummm. Yeh. Nevermind. Just come to the concert with me, it’ll be amazing.

see the video for “Galang”

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“She was like a frickin’ grenade that had shrapnel of cotton candy. Addictive, poisonous, cotton candy.”
“M.I.A. was looking at me during the middle of that song. We had mind sex. I want to have her babies.”
“Woah.”
What else can be said about her? Plenty. She’s been in the New Yorker, NPR, Pitchforkmedia (8.6).
Legend has it that she distributed her (illegal) mixtape “Piracy Funds Terrorism” underneath a fake Christmas tree in New York City. I’m not about to hit up Snopes to determine the veracity of such a claim. I just want to believe it. Is her father a terrorist/freedom fighter for the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka? I don’t know.
“Her music is the sound of a carnival, or a riot”. - The New Yorker
That sounds about right.

M.I.A. / Diplo - “URAQT”- Piracy Funds Terrorism