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After being the subject of many a Campus Progress blog post, it’s only fitting that the release of M.I.A.’s second album, Kala, which drops today be announced here. I was gonna say something like “I’m bout to go run to the store and grab a copy now!” but that would be a lie. I been had that bootleg all summer.
After being the subject of many a Campus Progress blog post, it’s only fitting that the release of M.I.A.’s second album, Kala, which drops today be announced here. I was gonna say something like “I’m bout to go run to the store and grab a copy now!” but that would be a lie. I been had that bootleg all summer.
My two cents: many young hipster/progressive/eager-to-bash-things-that-blow-up-too-quickly-as-sell-outs folk might front like they are so over M.I.A. “Please,” I can hear Superduperficial proclaim, “world underclass dance music went out with Bedford Avenue.” I disagree. She continues to bring previously unheard voices (and this time does it without militaristic rhetoric) into the mainstream and her shit is tight to dance to.
I don’t write music reviews. Rolling Stone does. So does Pitchfork, although they do it in a “bizarrely self-involved and conflicted” manner.
Last time I posted the “Boyz” video. Here’s the making of it, which is not nearly as entertaining as the video which follows it, made by Sweatheart, of which Amanda Blank, who has collaborated with M.I.A., is a member.
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Also, do you support laughter? Go see Superbad.
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