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Re: M.I.A. 3rd album release date, new song next week
If you want to know the release date for M.I.A.'™s upcoming album, it is written in the stars.
During Jay-Z'™s set at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival on Friday (April 16), a blimp carrying a digital billboard flew over the crowd advertising the 'Paper Planes rapper'™s appearances at the HARD Summer Music Festival in Los Angeles and New York, as well as the drop date for her third LP.
'New Album 6.29.10" flashed across the scrolling ticker as it soared above concertgoers. The follow-up to 2007'™s Kala will feature production from Rusko and Blaqstarr, and tentatively arrive on the same date as her protégée Rye Rye'™s debut effort Go! Pop! Bang!
Next week, M.I.A. will premiere a viral video for 'Born Free", a song she first debuted at San Francisco'™s Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival last August.
Re: M.I.A. 3rd album release date, new song next week
M.I.A's new album will be "a total departure" from her established sound.
The Sri Lankan born singer - real name Maya Arulpragasam - has been working with producer Diplo on her third album - which it was announced at the weekend will be released on June 28 in Europe and June 29 in the US - and he promises he has drawn from a well of diverse musical influences to create tracks for the album.
Diplo - who collaborated with M.I.A on her breakthrough single 'Paper Planes' - said: "On the new record I've just done for her - which might be the single - I sampled a bunch of gospel-y, old-school, Alabama, weird, Sacred Harp singers.
"It's turning into an Animal Collective kind of record, which represents a total departure from what you would expect from her, but that's where her head was at."
"She just had a baby so she was on this elated mood. With her it's always sort of random, whatever you think was not going to be productive - that recording ended up being a really s****y demo and then it turned into a big song."
US born Diplo also defended his practice of sampling to create records, saying although it upsets some musicians, it helps give the sampled music a new context.
He added: "I think everyone who plays an instrument and comes from a real musical background is a bit perturbed by sampling in general. It might be ignorance to begin with - but always, when we sample, I try to be making statements.
"I think 'Paper Planes' is a good example because it's a song that represents Maya's attitude. It sampled a Clash record - the goal is to try to reach people and give the song more depth. It's hard to pick up on it, but if you do dig into it, people are like, 'Damn, that's an all-around song now' when they understand the sample source.
Re: M.I.A. 3rd album release date, new song next week
She posted the track list on Twitter....
The Message
Born Free
Meds and Feds
LOVEALOT
Tequilla
It Is What It Is
XXXO
Tell Me Why
Story Told
Space
Only ten songs(we've heard two), and its only 30 minutes. A bit underwhelming, but as long as it's all killer, no filler it wont be a problem.
No album title, and she's actually taking fan suggestions to name it.
Re: M.I.A. 3rd album release date, new song next week
What was the other track, other than Born Free? I listened to that one, and it didn't wow me. She was actually what didn't wow me. Instrumentally I thought it was some great spacey shit. I'd like to hear more of the album, because even you as an M.I.A. fan said "it's good, but not her best" in reference to Born Free.
I'm wondering if it's like a UYI situation. KOHD & Bad Apples were some of the first things that hit radio way back in the day, and if you were to measure the UYI albums on those songs, it'd fail obviously.
