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Re: M.I.A. - Bad Girls
Apparently somebody shook her into having sense again after that AWFUL last release.
This new track has hit written all over it. Totally accessible, very streamlined, same vein as Paper Planes, this is a reboot song.
I wouldn't be shocked if the next album is a handful of these songs, and a handful of her songs, kinda like GaGa did with the last release. Some of GaGa's stuff on Born This Way was virtually unlistenable, while the other have was radio/iTunes-ready.
Re: M.I.A. - Bad Girls
It really is a fine line. Sometimes I think "what if I were an artist, that had popularity on that level, what would I do?"
There's certain things, certain music, certain sounds in my head that just inspire me that I LOVE and I would want to record and push. But I just know it wouldn't fly on a mainstream level.
There's other stuff i'd like to do, that others would probably really dig.
I think it's a fine line. You do enough of what you want to do, and you do enough of what everybody wants you to do. Make a hot single or two, hit 'em with a rocker, hit 'em with a ballad, make 'em buy the album... then force them to listen to the 15-minute "Halloween Theme" open to the album, and tell 'em to fuck off.
That's how i'd do it. 
I think some of these artists lose that concept. M.I.A. was one, Buckethead is another (although he seems to take that concept to albums, do one everyone wants, do one only he wants).
That's why I think Queen was so brilliant in how they did their albums. There's a little bit of everything on Queen albums, even their 80's catalog. You get to be experimental, you get the big rockers, the Freddie ballads, and then fuckin' Mustapha, then you're back to something cool. Beatles did it too.
I like that concept. I'm glad Axl does too.
