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Key Information
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| Artist: |
M.I.A. (Maya Arulpragasam) |
| Record Label: |
Interscope Records (USA) |
| Genre: |
R&B |
| Subgenre: |
Dance |
| Release Date: |
August 21, 2007 |
| Album Duration: |
47m:34s |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Bamboo Banga
2. Bird Flu
3. Boyz
4. Jimmy
5. Hussel
6. Mango Pickle Down River
7. 20 Dollar
8. World Town
9. Turn
10. XR2
11. Paper Planes
12. Come Around |
| More Information |
| Details: |
Personnel: DJ Ability (scratches); The Wilcannia Mob. Additional personnel: Afrikan Boy, Timbaland. Audio Mixers: Switch; Mark "Spike" Stent. Photographers: M.I.A. ; Liz Johnson Artur; Michael Kamber; Janette Beckman. Even before M.I.A. (Maya Arulpragasam) debuted in 2005 with ARULAR, the blogosphere was already abuzz about her, engaging in the kind of discourse normally reserved for academic dissertations. Whether hailed as a canny postmodern pastiche or dismissed as inauthentic cultural pirating, the music, a lively pan-global mash-up of regional dance music styles, seemed to be emanating simultaneously from every ghetto, favela, and council-flat within earshot. As if to call out her detractors, M.I.A. returns for another shot of explosive, politically charged and globally conscious dance music on her second album, KALA. Lacking the patchwork quality of the debut, KALA is a more cohesive and polished affair, though it matches its predecessor for shear visceral thrills. Recorded across several different... |
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