British recording artist M.I.A. is on track to release her new album, Matahdatah, which will focus on the concept of open borders and promote the acceptance of refugees.
She has released two songs from the album so far, including 'Broader Than a Border' and 'Borders'. Every track on the album is set to oppose the idea of national borders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n5CEpgZe0Q [Embed]
FUCK OFF
I DON'T CARE
THIS ISN'T MUSIC-RELATED
>>60506119
>musical artist releasing music that is uniquely relevant in the use of music as political agency
>not music related
I can't wait OP
>>60506103
>>60506119
>>60506249
>2 posters
>>60506342
I'm the third memer. In that case OP was just either shitposting or falseflagging for more attention
Still, I'm excited for MIA
are there any as "hip and cool" musicians today that openly oppose neo-liberal, sjw, politically correct, "progressive" etc values, or is it too much of a taboo these days?
i don't mean stormtards or people like varg, he isn't hip and cool enough for mainstream audiences.
if there are any i assume they don't openly share their opinions.
>>60506487
I think the main reason she's doing this is because she's a refugee herself.
>>60506487
a lot of hugely popular rap coming out is completely opposed to those ideas, just not explicitly.
they're not as strong as you think. it's just a phase.
>>60506103
this track is kinda disappointing. i remember MIA sounding a lot crazier than this on the last album
>>60506627
like who?
>>60506750
anything that isn't whitewashed has elements of what is called now "misogyny" or "toxic masculinity" but is actually just real life for anyone that isn't a total pushover
even nikki minaj, who feminists seem to inexplicably love for no other reason than she's black and female, was in this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO59tfQ2TbA
>>60506837
oh and she did the nazi video thing too..... that was sick
>>60506119
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>>60506695
she sounded the exact same
>>60506695
i think that was due to her using matangi as a fuck you to people and using her culture's sounds and over emphasizing them
>>60506103
This is what europa nned
>>60506487
Go look in the post punk sphere. Maybe there.
>>60506837
no actual feminist praises nicki minaj
pop (pretty) feminism which is this all inclusive liberal feminism bullshit the internet and media talks up is nothing more than a conspiracy to keep women exactly in the same place they are by saying "have sex with lots of people BUT FOR YOU" "yeah wear makeup FOR YOU, be pretty and sexy for men-er i mean YOURSELF. youre totally not doing it cause its still conforming to the oppressive societal norm"
>>60507083
this one is just way more simplified and boring. previous albums talked about stuff that was relevant to her, whereas this syrian shit has nothing to do with her, and it's just such an easy and blatant thing to write about considering the prescient nature of a lot her previous statements.
>>60507171
well i don't think actual feminists have ever really had a lot of power except in academia. nobody knows who judith butler is. it's when those ideas creep into pop feminism that worries me. that shit is poison.
>>60507274
what is poison? actual feminism? or warped pop feminism taking ideas from actual feminism and skewing it into stupid non progressive ideas with lots of pretty faces and fireworks?
Does 'progressive' stand for annoying now
>>60507366
if you consider support for mass immigration a part of "progressive" narrative then not-so-progressive people will even find it not just annoying, but destructive
>>60506562
Didn't know that, makes sense now
>>60506487
neo-liberal, sjw, politically correct is not the same as progressive
faggot.
>>60507344
more the latter than the former, some feminist ideas are good, but a lot of it is just post-structuralist circle jerk shit
>>60507684
Anon is probably a /pol/c u c k that explains his ignorance.
>>60508666
i don't want my city in europe become crime ridden shithole just because muh poor refugees
M.I.A. doing M.I.A. things. Nothing of note here. Moving on.
>>60506103
bump for le glorious fatherland
>>60506487
shes a kike
>>60507171
Ding ding ding
They commodified feminism to sell "self-care" skin products.
FUCK OFF POL
pol is that way
>>60507171
Exactly. Like that Beyonce song with the sample from a feminist speech, but its all about how good she looks and how big her ring is
>>60509813
Go join the fight, Anon.
>>60506103
Bahaha. You can pinpoint the exact moment the /pol/tards raided the comments section.
>>60506487
The only two that come to mind are Ariel Pink and Azealia Banks
And Azealia Banks just because she's a failed SJW who went in on the fags. Other than that she's full SJW. Most rappers would be against this shit if SJWs were dumb enough to try and play word police with hip hop. Hopefully they will.
>>60510193
I already have.
boring ass shit. I don't care if I agree with her this is not fucking art, it's pathetic pandering and copy/pasting family guy vignette pop culture garbage.
>>60506487
I don't know but there is going to be a huge backlash to this shit soon. Post-post modernism can't come soon enough. Most likely it will be an embrace of dorky anglo-european culture, being unafraid to disagree with darkies, guns, cars, beers and bitches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbifCM8n-Sc
>>60510381
your father was sexting me..
>>60506103
I wonder how much money she's putting toward caring for these refugees, if any at all. This shit is on the level of Bono's Red campaign.
>I raising awareness guys, care about this issue.
>Financial support? Nah, man. I support my causes through "awareness".
>>60509813
>due to islam being fucking insane
This, don't be fooled by those extremists and then judge a whole religion because of what individuals have done. If ISIS is made by extremist Islam, why they have to do the jihad stuff in France instead of Israel? Jews are the Muslims' number one enemy dude think about it. And the video released by ISIS warns of new attacks on the West? Fake af, with the edits and transition effects some more clearly that was made by others. Why would they do that? That was the stupid thing ever I swear. Do they have a video editor on their team or what? No religion in the world teach violent bruh and if you really concern about the worlds problems, just think who starts the whole thing at he first place. Fucking murica are fucking stupid stop eating pork seriously it starts to ruin your brain already. You only know what you know now because you have been mind control by your government and mass media. I know most of you will probably laugh at this but trust me the 3rd world war is around the corner and you'll know the truth at the end of it. So let's just not talk about how shitty Islam in the eyes of the world rn coz that was just a propaganda made by Freemason for Dajjal al-Masih to create a new world without religion.
Also, new MIA sux.
>>60506103
entire thread and nobody is talking about how good the song in question is. its fuckin bangin and all you retards are arguing over shitskins. I could give a fuck if the song was pro ISIS shit is fuckin hot. hope she sells a million copies
Getting a chrome extension that filters sjw to skeleton was the best decision I've made in the last week.
>>60511849
Palestinians are making terrorist attacks everyday in Israel. No need for ISIS to interfere when there's other people doing the shared job.
>>60511987
www facebook com/ajplusenglish/videos/643161749158669/
>>60511987
laffin at this thread desu
>calling a refugee an SJW because she's sympathetic to the cause of refugees
durr
M.I.A. is an artist that's uniquely poised to talk about this shit without it feeling like contrived bandwaggoning. That said, this track isn't amazin. But she has a whole back catalogue of amazin tracks dealing with similar issues
>>60506487
They dont say it openly but Iceage are pretty nationalist, spoke with elias about it after a show and he's quite third position desu
>>60511875
it's funny because MIA has songs that are pro 'terrorism' (PLO, Tamil Tigers). And her dad was part of the Tamil Tiger founding members or something. She's lowkey one of the most gangster people in hip hop (if she's considered hip hop, wouldn't say so myself)
>open borders
>social services
pick one
Let's feed 'em.
Hook them up with white women and breed 'em.
Close eyes when they're raping so we don't see 'em.
>>60506103
Fucking dropped
Just deleted all her albums from my library.
>>60513203
>Fucking dropped
>Just deleted all her albums from my library.
Let me find the fuck I give.
Refugees by definition are crossing national borders.
So by opposing national borders she opposes refugees.
bump for more
>>60512635
what did he say?
>>60506487
dean blunt has said in interviews he hates the left
and recently in his live shows he has this spoken word dialogue of telling people to buy british only
but nobody really makes much of it because he's a prankster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyzE5QH_x2I
>All I can say is… The same kids asking for me to sign their records be the same kids holding their girl tight when I used to walk past them, and that's a joke I'll never stop finding funny." Funny, really? "Yes. Someone consumed by that fear is at way less an advantage. Some kids the other day knocked my friend's drink out of his hand and ran away in fear, cos they angered the big black man. You can literally say 'boo' and they jump. Hilarious."
>"I'm not talking about racism, I'm talking about the liberal left," he continues, "who cover up zits with concealer. No one knows anything cos they think they know it all; ignorance is nothing to be ashamed of if you are open to learn, but this default knowledge be causing all kinds of foolish behaviour." What default knowledge? "Being taught to look at the world a certain way, but only the surface has been taken on, the easy part." Blunt also has no time for those who are "immersed in another culture to understand it – that is unnecessary. Like how you can tell a white girl loves brothers when she has overly plucked, constantly surprised eyebrows, hooped earrings and a sexface 24/7. And I'm supposed to get down with that? [That's] just as offensive as Sophie the Belle & Sebastian tea-and-scones dame who says I scare her."
build wall
as well as being dyslexic, MIA is cryptic as fuck. It's tough being a fan of hers at times. Like, I don't know what's up with the current project. I don't know when it's coming out. People were saying it (or part of it, more precisely) was supposed to come out yesterday. One song leaked on Spotify, and was promptly deleted off Spotify. She hasn't acknowledged that, even though all the mainstream publications are running with it.
https://instagram.com/p/9uJFuyHXNQ/?taken-by=miamatangi
She announces when it's coming out here, but I can't decipher what she's saying past a certain point.
Might have to send her ass a DM on twitter.
>>60514632
man calm down fucking uk artists are known for this shit
at least she hasn't gone jai paul on you :(
>>60514649
I'm treating Jai Paul as if he is dead because it's better for my mental health. Prolonged hype can kill a man.
>>60514632
M.I.A. wrote on mia boards net about 2 songs yet
>"Borders. What's up with that?"
>"Politics. What's up with that?"
Shit music. I bet her pussy smells like curry too.
Open borders won't solve shit. Remember when the Romans let Goths in to protect them from the Huns? What's up with that?
>>60514782
I don't remember that because I wasn't born yet, you flabby and sick motherfucker
>>60506487
THERE ARE NONE
You either support it or keep quiet sadly
>>60513250
>i'm 13 and this is deep
>>60506487
Well first we have to define what hip and cool are
>>60514463
>Like how you can tell a white girl loves brothers when she has overly plucked, constantly surprised eyebrows, hooped earrings and a sexface 24/7.
not all coal burners look like that though
I get what he means though.
like people are lowering themselves to "be with" the blacks instead of seeing the blacks as being up there so you don't have to adopt any "alt" "lowerclass" "crass" style of dress
>>60506487
>Neo-liberal
>Progressive
Do you even understand what those terms mean? Go grab some books, kid.
>>60506487
Yeah there's fuckloads, it's just they don't voice those views even though they're the views of the common people.
It's only the academia and the upper-middle class that are full-on liberals
>>60514463
>Like how you can tell a white girl loves brothers when she has overly plucked, constantly surprised eyebrows, hooped earrings and a sexface 24/7. And I'm supposed to get down with that?
Bwahahaha, this is so accurate. I love Dean.
Maya is for me the best
>>60514931
Maya will never be your milf
>>60506487
Katy Perry and Taylor Swift keep their mouths shut about politics
>>60514949
She interested me only about the music
>>60514632
pretty sure the general plan is to release new songs alongside a short film every few months and they will ultimately come together to make 'matahdatah' the album
>>60514976
sounds good but it'll take years
>>60514997
considering her label probably isn't jumping to release an album of hers it's better than nothing
>>60514997
mia documentary movie will be in this year
>>60515027
should've never left XL desu
She's out of place at Interscope
I'm British, and I'm pretty sure M.I.A. doesn't actually exist, but is a figment of imagination made up by Guardian arts journalists.
Like seriously, you never see her mentioned here in the UK, or any of her work (except maybe Paper Planes), and yet apparently she's a global superstar or whatever and soo political.
>>60515193
M.I.A in general doesn't gets any recognition it seems , here in the Netherlands you will also NEVER hear of her
>>60515225
She is famous
>>60515193
M.I.A. isn't a global superstar lmao. She's a pretty popular artist that sometimes creates huge hits (Paper Planes, Bad Girls). But you wouldn't be hearing her on the radio or anything, if that's what you mean. She's kind of strange fame wise. Easy to forget she's even performed at the superbowl.
>>60515193
ehh paper planes and when kanye,jay-z sampled her on swagger like us made her popular here in the states for a bit.
>>60515193
>>60515225
>>60515250
>>60515268
It's almost as if she's quite average in reality, but noisy left-wing artsy urban blogger types love her, hence the "hype".
>>60507171
As compared to Anti-Porn, Anti-Everything Radical Feminism where it's pretty much MGTOW, gender reversed?
>S-stupid men, they're all disgusting rapists, I'm gonna call myself a lesbian even though I'm straight so I can deny them my obviously in-demand body!
Amazonian Feminism is best Feminism.
>>60515310
Or: she's someone who's made some highly acclaimed records in the past and music journalists are naturally interested to see what she does next?
>>60515310
Yeah I definitely expect people on 4chan's music board to have an accurate perspective on reality
>>60507171
Exactly.
Fuck me I hate that WHO RUN THA WURLD? GURLS
>take a Major Lazer song (by two men), Pon De Floor, don't even sample it, just use the whole thing
>say WHO RUN THE WORLD, GIRLS repeatedly over it
>require about five (male) writers and another half dozen (male) producers to polish the turd
>get hailed by the mainsteam media as "sooo strong wummen, sooo empowering"
>>60515396
Beyonce is so contrived. Never mind your shit about hiring male producers or whatever, but she doesn't have an artistic bone in her body and gets praised for her obviousness because she's been deified by her fans and the media.
>remove all borders
>Chinese suddenly have global majority vote due to their ridiculous population
>within 5 years the whole world is like China
GJ, globalists
I like you mia but please understand that liberal democracies are not the default position for most of the world's citizens
>>60515396
>getting mad because beyonce capitalized on the feminist market
>>60507184
Considering she was a refugee herself, I think she has alot of reason to make an album about the refugee crisis.
>mfw plebs don't rate M.I.A. as one of the GOAT artists of our time
>>60516174
>mfw plebs still don't recognize the genius of MAYA half a decade later
>>60516272
I've seen plenty of people reclaiming 808s and Heartbreak as an underrated classic. P4k even did a feature a few months ago on how great it is, and how we were all plebs for disliking it.
MAYA deserves a similar treatment. Sadly, it will never get that same reclamation on a mainstream level. It's well liked on here though, which is nice.
>>60516474
you have right
>>60516474
she's probably burnt too many bridges with journos (like when she btfo'd p4k years ago, see pic related, ever since in their coverage of her you can see they're still bitter) for that to happen in the near future unfortunately
doesn't really matter though, as you said it gets a decent amount of love online thesedays - maybe when the '2010: a decade in music' retrospectives start being published at the end of 2019 it'll get it's deserved writeups
>>60516600
for some context she posted that using the pitchfork account when they invited her to do promo or whatever years ago http://twitpic.com/1iqlnk
>>60514782
>I bet her pussy smells like curry too.
I'd love that.
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/56302995/
knew this was a /pol/ thread
can't quite understand people who are like "damn, used to like MIA, but not anymore after this" in these threads. It literally doesn't make sense. Her views and her music are so intrinsically intertwined.
I didn't like Swords until I saw the music vid, so I'll wait till passing judgement on Borders.
>>60506487
>neoliberal
Neoliberalism is state intervention to expand the reach of capitalism and the ways we are primed to accept the assumptions of capitalism. It doesn't mean "new leftism" you fucking clod
>>60506103
these headshot album artworks are distinctly unlike her usual style
>>60506487
You're just saying random words to sound intellectual and you failed miserably
>>60516600
There was the time when after the NSA revelations MIA called out all the journalists that called her paranoid when reviewing MAYA, and Pitchfork released this incredibly snotty article about it: http://pitchfork.com/news/51229-mia-revisits-criticism-of-ys-the-message-in-light-of-nsa-surveillance-revelations/
You can even feel their gritted teeth and bubbling-under-the-surface resentment as you read it!
>>60520609
>xxxo
lmao what a fucking weird single that was
>>60521010
The Maya review in general is really bad. Overly smug and condescending, you could tell the writer had already decided his opinion before he listened to the album. I think he writers at Buzzfeed now. Says it all.
>>60521103
It's probably my least favourite single of hers, but I still find it kind of endearing. It's the closest thing to a cookie cutter pop song she's done, but there's a weirdness. It's all very self aware
The music video is superb and aesthetically original though. That gaudy, Internet look became very popular a few years later, but I don't think anyone did it as well as her
>>60519987
>expecting /pol/ to understand political nuance
Posting the best M.I.A. tracks/videos which aren't the obvious ones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1684Cx3tuk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EBnYGyY8NY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbFhwsSAxro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXOivam6Ga0
This made me realise I haven't heard Matangi much
>>60521827
Love Steppin Up. It's so imposing. Those evil dubstep wubs.
what is it with these people
do they travel in flocks or something
>>60522516
yeah man what's up with that i mean like
borders are just lines on a map innit
>>60506103
so? i like artists for their music, i dont care about their political views, if her new songs sound good, i will listen to it, if it don't, i won't.
I have my own opinion about the refugee probleem and she won't change that
>>60522516
it's just /pol/ Ignore them
>>60507684
it's basically the same
>>60523184
what if /pol/ is right
>>60519987
it's an arbitrary label, you fucking retard.
>>60506103
Thanks to you i started to listen to this again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewRjZoRtu0Y
>>60524146
best pop song of the 21st century
>>60524361
and it's still good
>>60524146
ah, that delicious mid-00s fashion!
Bamp
>>60522516
/pol/ is known for raiding videos that oppose their views. Just a bunch of kids with too much free time in their hands.
>>60523279
No, it isn't, faggot. Neoliberalism is supporting policies such as privatization, fiscal austerity, deregulation, free trade, and reductions in government spending. It has absolutely nothing to do with social issues.
>>60506487
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>>60525195
Except you can still use the words neo and liberal together simply to describe modern liberals because that's just how the english language works. Any faggot that doesnt have autism can see that.
What core is this ?
I never felt so hyped since 2010
>>60526088
Forgot the clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9AKH16--VE
>>60526112
>>60526088
M.I.A. core m8
but really, she mixes so many disparate styles and sounds that she purposefully avoids genre labels. suppose DBT is "reggae EDM rap".
>>60506487
From what I understand Mick Jagger isn't a complete leftist. He's a bit anarchist but he's also said he's a conservative with a lowercase "c" or something like that. Iggy Pop isn't a crazy left winger. He actually supported Ronald Reagan (probably the only bad thing he's done). Zappa was incredibly Libertarian minded. They're not new musicians though. I wish there were more Libertarian musicians.
>>60526342
but jagger would be dismissed as an old white fart the second he opened his mouth though, he's irrelevant in that regard
someone like kanye coming out as a trump supporter or taylor swift throwing out an off-hand comment that miley cyrus and nicki minaj have ruined an entire generation of women, that'd really be something else
>>60526494
kanye has said some very positive things about carson
>>60510381
Lel, most relevant British artist of the past decade pastrypuff
>her new album, Matahdatah, which will focus on the concept of open borders and promote the acceptance of refugees
fucking dropped
no longer care about this album
will ignore it at all costs
>>60527155
i think OP kind of changed what the project is, making it out to be a full length diatribe on why you should open your door for refugees. no doubt M.I.A. is sympathetic to refugees, but I think it'll be more along the lines of cultural exploration.
'Broader Than a Border', for example, has no mention of refugees and was more about the difference in how people express themselves through dance across the world (Ivory Coast/India being the countries used).
>>60511987
Resisting foreign forces forcefully occupying your land =/= terrorism
>>60514463
>varg
>tripfag
>that grammar
ayy lmao
