View Full Version : M.I.A.-Kala
TheY2DreProblem
02-13-08, 01:29 AM
Any one else heard this album? Thoughts? i think its fire :ohmy:
WordsonSteroids
02-13-08, 02:02 PM
:yes:
KayCeeGFNF
02-13-08, 03:55 PM
Love It!
skanky80
02-13-08, 08:59 PM
Top 20 of 07 for sure. Great album.
Mr. Papagiorgio
02-13-08, 09:00 PM
definitely one of the bests i've heard in a minute. paper planes is on repeat as we speak
Resurgence of the Soul Sample (thesoulsample.blogspot.com)
consistent queefs
02-13-08, 10:37 PM
i never get tired of listening to this album. one of the best albums to come out in '07.:yes:
Young_Hova
02-13-08, 10:44 PM
definitely one of the bests i've heard in a minute. paper planes is on repeat as we speak
Resurgence of the Soul Sample (thesoulsample.blogspot.com)
I fukk with that Paper Planes, that and the remix is fire
NOTaFreeEmailAccount
02-14-08, 03:17 PM
Great album. Better than Arular. I'm not saying she's the best artist in the world, but it's a shame that a forward-thinking, genre-blending female artist like MIA is basically ignored compared so something so nostalgic and gossip-laden as Amy Winehouse.
Great album. Better than Arular. I'm not saying she's the best artist in the world, but it's a shame that a forward-thinking, genre-blending female artist like MIA is basically ignored compared so something so nostalgic and gossip-laden as Amy Winehouse.
:confused:
ReallyBrickCity
02-14-08, 03:55 PM
somebody up the album so i can burn it for my girl
TheY2DreProblem
02-14-08, 04:33 PM
Im knockin on the doors of ya hummer hummer..
NOTaFreeEmailAccount
02-14-08, 05:25 PM
:confused:
In the real world she gets no promo.
She's sold less than 100,000 albums in the U.S.
And in the U.S. she's signed to Interscope.
MTV played "Boyz" exactly once.
Just because bloggers talk about her and various magazines will say she's got one of the top albums of the year means nothing.
I'm not saying Kala was 10/10 or 9/10 or anything, but they haven't even tried to market her. Even in the UK she's barely known.
How have people tried to build a buzz for her? They've passed around the story about how she couldn't get a US visa two years ago or something. Wow. No one cares about stuff like that until the singer is already known and has a hit song. Kala isn't a radio-friendly album, but they could have at least TRIED.
People know "Where Is My Mind?" by the Pixies because of it being used in Fight Club. As the lead single they could have chosen the song in which she interpolates those Pixie lyrics as a chorus. They could have tried something like that, anything other than basically ignoring her and letting fringe critics play up the "political" message of Kala, which is basically non-existent. It's more like, "Oh are you vaguely Leftist? Great, RollingStone will give you a glowing review and make you out to be some cool chick Che Guevara who rapzz! But, uh, no you can't get an article or cover and we aren't going to talk about you ever again... other than to mention you in passing during our year-in-review. Everyone else will be like 'Who?', and we'll feel like really smart hipsters because we like someone most other people don't even know about."
In the real world she gets no promo.
She's sold less than 100,000 albums in the U.S.
And in the U.S. she's signed to Interscope.
MTV played "Boyz" exactly once.
Just because bloggers talk about her and various magazines will say she's got one of the top albums of the year means nothing.
I'm not saying Kala was 10/10 or 9/10 or anything, but they haven't even tried to market her. Even in the UK she's barely known.
How have people tried to build a buzz for her? They've passed around the story about how she couldn't get a US visa two years ago or something. Wow. No one cares about stuff like that until the singer is already known and has a hit song. Kala isn't a radio-friendly album, but they could have at least TRIED.
People know "Where Is My Mind?" by the Pixies because of it being used in Fight Club. As the lead single they could have chosen the song in which she interpolates those Pixie lyrics as a chorus. They could have tried something like that, anything other than basically ignoring her and letting fringe critics play up the "political" message of Kala, which is basically non-existent. It's more like, "Oh are you vaguely Leftist? Great, RollingStone will give you a glowing review and make you out to be some cool chick Che Guevara who rapzz! But, uh, no you can't get an article or cover and we aren't going to talk about you ever again... other than to mention you in passing during our year-in-review. Everyone else will be like 'Who?', and we'll feel like really smart hipsters because we like someone most other people don't even know about."
She doesn't need to sell many records, and she never will. She's a regular festival headliner and sells out tours pretty much across the world (except in America) every year.
In the real world she gets no promo.
She's sold less than 100,000 albums in the U.S.
And in the U.S. she's signed to Interscope.
MTV played "Boyz" exactly once.
Just because bloggers talk about her and various magazines will say she's got one of the top albums of the year means nothing.
I'm not saying Kala was 10/10 or 9/10 or anything, but they haven't even tried to market her. Even in the UK she's barely known.
How have people tried to build a buzz for her? They've passed around the story about how she couldn't get a US visa two years ago or something. Wow. No one cares about stuff like that until the singer is already known and has a hit song. Kala isn't a radio-friendly album, but they could have at least TRIED.
People know "Where Is My Mind?" by the Pixies because of it being used in Fight Club. As the lead single they could have chosen the song in which she interpolates those Pixie lyrics as a chorus. They could have tried something like that, anything other than basically ignoring her and letting fringe critics play up the "political" message of Kala, which is basically non-existent. It's more like, "Oh are you vaguely Leftist? Great, RollingStone will give you a glowing review and make you out to be some cool chick Che Guevara who rapzz! But, uh, no you can't get an article or cover and we aren't going to talk about you ever again... other than to mention you in passing during our year-in-review. Everyone else will be like 'Who?', and we'll feel like really smart hipsters because we like someone most other people don't even know about."
How would you have marketed her? I mean she's critically acclaimed, Marc Jacobs model, "revolutionary", etc. Maybe if they put one of her songs in an iPod commercial.
TheY2DreProblem
02-14-08, 08:41 PM
New music (atleast new to me) on her myspace
www.myspace.com/mia
I couldn't give a rats ass if the American market hasn't taken to her, or if Interscope hasn't pushed her. If you've seen her perform live you'd know this chick has a f*cking swagger and a half. The album's f*cking heat.
http://www.zshare.net/audio/760032882f0241/ << Paper Planes (DFA Remix)
Dead End
02-14-08, 10:36 PM
Only on SOHH would people be bringing up sales, etc.
She's making good music on her terms. That's good enough. I don't need her to become some southern crackbaby ringtone imitation bull****.
The fact that she's somewhat ignored in Amerika means, to me, she puts out good music. Amerikans have horrible taste for the most part (Soulja Boy? Fergie? Justin Timberlake?)
Only on SOHH would people be bringing up sales, etc.
She's making good music on her terms. That's good enough. I don't need her to become some southern crackbaby ringtone imitation bull****.
The fact that she's somewhat ignored in Amerika means, to me, she puts out good taste. Amerikans have horrible taste for the most part (Soulja Boy? Fergie? Justin Timberlake?)
All those acts are popular elsewhere. At least Timberlake and Fergie I don't know if Soulja Boy is a big deal in the UK. The majority of every place has terrible taste.
Danny Banton
02-15-08, 01:12 PM
LOL at it taking less time for Amy to get a Visa.
AskariSTL//So
02-15-08, 02:10 PM
Only on SOHH would people be bringing up sales, etc.
She's making good music on her terms. That's good enough. I don't need her to become some southern crackbaby ringtone imitation bull****.
The fact that she's somewhat ignored in Amerika means, to me, she puts out good music. Amerikans have horrible taste for the most part (Soulja Boy? Fergie? Justin Timberlake?)
The American hate is unwarranted, last time I checked the majority of people everywhere have pretty pop musical taste, 50 Cent and Eminem sell huge overseas too...
Plus by the terms you use its clear you are cherry picking examples of bad rappers for your point, and using some contrived slang terms of derision "southern crackbaby imitation" whatever dude. Exactly what percentage of music would actually fall under that heading?
Dont snatch terms from record reviews or the headlines if you want to sound informed about what we actually listen to over here.
Plus saying MIA is unknown here is completely untrue, maybe she needs a different marketing strategy because she is actually pretty well known and if you have ever been in an American club in the last year, you have heard Paper Planes and other joints of hers.
That said MIA is dope and she has recieved critical acclaim over here, I dont know what you heard but SPIN, Rolling Stone, VIBE, and plenty of others have given her a cosign.
All those acts are popular elsewhere. At least Timberlake and Fergie I don't know if Soulja Boy is a big deal in the UK. The majority of every place has terrible taste.
Crank Dat was a big hit in the UK. I mentioned that on here before and some of the Brit posters got very :mad: like they were trying to keep it a secret or something.
MIA really isn't all that big in the UK, either, comparatively speaking. And she does pretty well in the USA. I saw her last year in a pretty big venue and it was sold out. She's not selling a ton of records, but not that many people are. So...yeah, not a very compelling argument to say it's an "Americans have bad taste in music" thing.
Dead End
02-15-08, 02:16 PM
The American hate is unwarranted, last time I checked the majority of people everywhere have pretty pop musical taste, 50 Cent and Eminem sell huge overseas too...
Plus by the terms you use its clear you are cherry picking examples of bad rappers for your point, and using some contrived slang terms of derision "southern crackbaby imitation" whatever dude. Exactly what percentage of music would actually fall under that heading?
Dont snatch terms from record reviews or the headlines if you want to sound informed about what we actually listen to over here.
Plus saying MIA is unknown here is completely untrue, maybe she needs a different marketing strategy because she is actually pretty well known and if you have ever been in an American club in the last year, you have heard Paper Planes and other joints of hers.
That said MIA is dope and she has recieved critical acclaim over here, I dont know what you heard but SPIN, Rolling Stone, VIBE, and plenty of others have given her a cosign.
i live in the US, and I don't care what you say, the majority of people here have a horrible taste in music. The most complete and utter garbage becomes immensly popular while actually talented individuals wallow in the underground or go completely unnoticed.
Hip-hop is the worst at this.
And by "southern crackbaby ringtone bull****", I mean Soulja Boy and the multitude of one-hit wonder, synth driven fecal matter that sells and gets played the most.
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i live in the US, and I don't care what you say, the majority of people here have a horrible taste in music. The most complete and utter garbage becomes immensly popular while actually talented individuals wallow in the underground or go completely unnoticed.
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The point is - in which country is this NOT the case?
AskariSTL//So
02-15-08, 02:47 PM
i live in the US, and I don't care what you say, the majority of people here have a horrible taste in music. The most complete and utter garbage becomes immensly popular while actually talented individuals wallow in the underground or go completely unnoticed.
Hip-hop is the worst at this.
And by "southern crackbaby ringtone bull****", I mean Soulja Boy and the multitude of one-hit wonder, synth driven fecal matter that sells and gets played the most.
Have you ever lived any place else?
If you haven't, or you're just unaware that the exact same type of music you are condemning is wildly popular with audiences elsewhere, maybe I can see why you would say these things.
But on the real, its a narrow minded, not to mention misinformed opinion to say that citizens of the U.S. have an inferior taste in music to other parts of the globe.
Just doesn't add up.
I understand how you feel about the current crop of southern rappers, but you're making an awfully big leap in logic to infer things about a whole country's musical tastes based on that.
Maybe you ought to consider other factors that determine what artists become most popular, it seems all too obvious to point out that marketing and business may have as much if not more to do with it than the actual tastes of music buyers
Dead End
02-15-08, 02:49 PM
The point is - in which country is this NOT the case?
I don't know, I can only speak of America, since that is the one I'm most familiar with. Because others may share the same trait, that doesn't negate my point that Amerikans have, for the most part, a horrible taste in music.
I'm not doing a comparative test to other countries.
As far, as other countries liking the same ****. Well, that has more to do with the increasing monolithic nature of Amerikan culture due to globalization and multinationals.
KALA is fire one of 2007's best.
bestofdabest
02-15-08, 04:55 PM
amazing album! Easily one of the best five albums of last year!
Tetris v2.0
02-15-08, 06:26 PM
She doesn't need to sell many records, and she never will. She's a regular festival headliner and sells out tours pretty much across the world (except in America) every year.
Yup. Almost everyone I know has DOWNLOADED her. She has some cool tunes, I cant play more than 3 tracks of that album in a row tho lol
ReallyBrickCity
02-18-08, 08:57 PM
somebody up the album so i can burn it for my girl
:hmm:
Mr. Papagiorgio
02-18-08, 10:49 PM
this track is really the truth. . . . the gunshots just set it off
Resurgence of the Soul Sample (thesoulsample.blogspot.com)
For the record the record didn't make my top 20.
Copper Scroll
02-19-08, 09:11 AM
dope album
I've been checking for MIA for atleast 3 years now, Arular was one of the dopest, most refreshing albums I'd heard in a while [10 Dollar would **** any crowd up]. She had a guest spot on Missy's Cookbook album ['bad man'- dope track] that I thought would bring more attention to her as far as mainstream is concerned, but it didn't. She really refined a lot of things with this album- broader, more diverse sounds, it's sonically amazing compared to her 1st, etc. She's seriously one of the most unique artists of this decade, one that seems like she'll never fall off.
How would you have marketed her? I mean she's critically acclaimed, Marc Jacobs model, "revolutionary", etc. Maybe if they put one of her songs in an iPod commercial.
eh, too late “galang” was used for a honda ad a couple of years ago and it went hugely unnoticed. **** what that dude is saying- just because she's not a 50 Cent to a 13-year-old doesnt mean she's not popular. She's noticed without a doubt- and a lot of industry heads wished they could do it like her, in all aspects of her career. her work will standup against time when some of these platinum records become nostalgiac headaches in a couple of years [see lil jon, vanilla ice, etc.]....
euro dirt
02-20-08, 07:46 PM
i don't think she's too interested in catering towards the mainstream market
we all know she had her chance to "blow-up", by working with timbo
good album - one of those you have to play loud as fukk to appreciate
Free Agent
02-26-08, 12:00 AM
she's great...anyone know any of her unreleased stuff? does she have that much?? the only stuff i know of is:
far far
big branch
the "piracy funds terrorism" mixtape a few years back that was essentially just Arular remixed.
Young_Hova
02-26-08, 12:03 AM
New music (atleast new to me) on her myspace
www.myspace.com/mia
I need a link for that "What I Got" track ASAP
she's great...anyone know any of her unreleased stuff? does she have that much?? the only stuff i know of is:
far far
big branch
the "piracy funds terrorism" mixtape a few years back that was essentially just Arular remixed.
That mixtape is great in its own right. It came out before Arular.
Here's my list of M.I.A's non-album work:
Arular Period:
You're Good (Itunes bonus track)
You're Good (Original Version)
Do Ya
Lady Killa (ft. ??)
Untitled (Macho)
URAQT (Original Version)
Freedom Skit
Kala Period:
XR2 Turbo (prod. Diplo)
Far Far
Big Branch (prod. Diplo(?))
What I Got
Hit That (prod. Bangladesh)
Rain Dance
Remixes:
URAQT (Hot Chip Remix)
Paper Planes (Remix) (ft. Bun-B & Rich Boy)
Paper Planes (Ad-Rock Remix)
Paper Planes (DFA Remix)
Bird Flu (Diplo Remix)
Bird Flu (Crash Berlin Remix)
Bird Flu (Cavemen's Remix)
I can probably upload it all in one .rar file tomorrow if anyone wants these songs. I'm sure there are more remixes out there.
It's only about a minute long but I kind of liked hearing MIA over the "Tell Me When to Go" beat. It's on one of Diplo's Mad Decent podcasts, which I personally enjoy.
EDIT: This one - http://web.mac.com/diplo1978/iWeb/mad%20decent%20radio%20worldwide/mad%20decent%20radio/606EC88A-858F-44B2-B405-29DCDF76CC9B.html
Free Agent
02-27-08, 12:42 AM
That mixtape is great in its own right. It came out before Arular. <--i think I knew this..but I'm not sure. I listen to it whenever it shows up on my ipod in shuffle mode.
I got these ones:
Freedom Skit
Far Far
Big Branch (prod. Diplo(?))
What I Got
Hit That (prod. Bangladesh)
Rain Dance
I believe I've heard the remix w/ Bun-b. it was meh.
I'll upload it all once I get to work in about half an hour - better speeds over there.
Oh, there's also a version of Paper Planes without the gunshots and the cash register. I've got a copy on my laptop but it's honestly not different enough to warrant notice.
http://rapidshare.de/files/38688554/MIAunreleased.rar.html
Free Agent
02-27-08, 02:47 PM
I'll upload it all once I get to work in about half an hour - better speeds over there.
Oh, there's also a version of Paper Planes without the gunshots and the cash register. I've got a copy on my laptop but it's honestly not different enough to warrant notice.
props....don't think i'd wanna hear that version. those two sfx make the song so much better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CkXhtw7UNk
bestofdabest
03-08-08, 11:57 PM
Great fukkin album. support good music yall!
TheY2DreProblem
03-15-08, 12:50 AM
any one got this joint?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dQm6Cn9YaLw
its not on kala, and there are some other joints on her myspace i cant find too.
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