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M.I.A. Lyrics
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From the Album A.I.M. (2016) (buy at amazon.com)
A.I.M.
Borders
Go Off
Bird Song (Blaqstarr Remix)
Jump In
Freedun
Foreign Friend
Finally
A.M.P. (All My People)
Ali R U OK?
Visa
Fly Pirate
Survivor
Bird Song (Diplo Remix) (Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)
The New International Sound, Pt. 2 (Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)
Swords (Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)
Talk (Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)
Platforms (Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)


From the Album Matangi (2013) (buy at amazon.com)

Karmageddon
Matangi
Only 1 U
Warriors
Come Walk With Me
Atention
Exodus
Bad Girls
Boom Skit
Double Bubble Trouble
Y.A.L.A
Bring The Noize
Lights
Know It Ain't Right
Sexodus


From the Album Vicki Leekx (2010) (buy at amazon.com)
Vicki Leekx
Intro
The World
Bamboo Go
Illy Girl
Super Tight
Let Me Hump You
Www/Meds/Feds
Steppin/Up
Go At It
Vicki Intermission
Gen -N-E-Y
Bad Girls
Dutch Dutch
Marsha/Britney
Tamil Beat Munchi
Listen Up
Mudersounds Munchi
Overdrive
You My Love
Get Around


From the Album /\/\ /\ Y /\ (Maya) (2010) (buy at amazon.com)

The Message
Steppin Up
XXXO
Teqkilla
Lovalot
Story To Be Told
It Takes A Muscle
It Iz What It Iz
Born Free
Meds And Feds
Tell Me Why
Space
Internet Connection (Bonus Track)
Illygirl (Bonus Track)
Believer (Bonus Track)
Caps Lock (Bonus Track)


From the Album Kala (2007) (buy at amazon.com)

Bamboo Banga
Bird Flu
Boyz
Jimmy
Hussel
Mango Pickle Down River
20 Dollar
World Town
The Turn
Xr2
Paper Planes
Come Around
Far Far (Bonus Track)
Big Branch (Bonus Track)
What I Got (Bonus Track)


From the Album Arular (2005) (buy at amazon.com)

Banana Skit
Pull Up The People
Bucky Done Gun
Fire Fire
Freedom Skit
Amazon
Dash The Curry Skit (UK, International, Interscope U.S. Releases)
Bingo
Hombre
One For The Head Skit
10 Dollar
Sunshowers
Galang
U.R.A.Q.T (UK, International, Interscope U.S. Releases)
M.I.A.


Other Songs:
27 (dedicated to Amy Winehouse)
Apache Riddim
Baby
Boyz (Remix)
Bucky Done Gun (*** Productions's Remix)
Bucky Done Gun (Davinche Remix)
Bucky Done Gun (Dj Marlboro's Funk Carioca Remix)
Do Ya
Doobie
Everyday I Love You Less And Less (Kaiser Chiefs Cover)
Factory City
Galang (Serj Tankian Remix)
Galang (South Rakkas's Remix)
Haters
Hit That
Lady Killer (Lady Killa)
Macho
O... Saya (From "Slumdog Millionaire" Soundtack)
Paper Planes (DR Remix) (feat. Lil Wayne, 50 Cent)
Paper Planes (Remix)
Paper Planes (Remix feat. Lil Wayne)
Shells
Untitled
Zig Zag


M.I.A. Info:

Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam better known by her stage name M.I.A., is an English-Sri Lankan recording artist, songwriter, painter and director. -Wikipedia

Birth Name:
Mathangi Arulpragasam

Born:
July 18th, 1975 (age )

From:
Hounslow, Middlesex, England

Occupation:
Singer, rapper, songwriter, record producer, visual artist, activist, photographer, fashion designer, model

Years active:
2000-present

Education:
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design

Parents:
Arul Pragasam

Partners:
Benjamin Bronfman (2008-2012)
Thomas Wesley Pentz (2003-2008)

Children:
Ikhyd Edgar Arular Bronfman (2009)

Genres:
Electronic, alternative hip hop, alternative dance, new rave, world

Instruments:
Vocals, drum machine, percussion

Associated acts:
Jay-Z, Rye Rye, Timbaland, Madonna

Name Origin:
The moniker "M.I.A." is both a play on her own name and a reference to the abbreviation for Missing in Action

M.I.A. Quotes
"It had that same homelessness about it. It didn't have a particular genre, which is what people always say to me: Your song doesn't fit anywhere. So I went on a mad mission to find other people like that, because then we could make a home."

"From Day One, this has been a mad, crazy thing: I say the things I'm not supposed to say, I look wrong, my music doesn't sound comfortable for any radio stations or genres, people are having issues with my videos when they're not rude or explicit or crazy controversial. I find it all really funny."

"I think traveling really helps. I know some musicians who have studios in Trinidad. There's a collective of artists and painters there now who went to Central Saint Martins College [in London] with me. They live there and make art. It's neat to see that-[people] not led by money or pretentiousness. It's a small community, but you really have the space to observe and digest the culture. You go to a place where social commentary is rare and important and you can serve people. That's what's inspiring to me-finding someplace where people haven't already seen themselves in a certain light."

"Sometimes I repeat my story again and again because it's interesting to see how many times it gets edited, and how much the right to tell your story doesn't exist. People reckon that I need a political degree in order to go, 'My school got bombed and I remember it cos I was 10-years-old'. I think if there is an issue of people who, having had first hand experiences, are not being able to recount that - because there is laws or government restrictions or censorship or the removal of an individual story in a political situation - then that's what I'll keep saying and sticking up for, cos I think that's the most dangerous thing. I think removing individual voices and not letting people just go 'This happened to me' is really dangerous. That's what was happening... nobody handed them the microphone to say 'This is happening and I don't like it'."

"I'm not coming at it as a politician, it's my own personal experience. And I just think that that's just what people want to put out there, you know, 'You don't have the right to talk about this'. And they use me as a puppet to explain that to you, that only people who, you know, have a PhD in this shit are allowed to talk about this. Or that only politicians are allowed to talk about politics, and that's why we're f*cked, because the cycle is constantly kept within that f*cking framework. There aren't more people standing up and telling their personal experience... if a normal civilian comes up and says 'Hey, this happened in my village and I'm not happy about it', we're not allowed to talk about it. You have to follow this bureaucratic bullshit to get any sort of action, and it's all part of this cycle. Like back in the day, we had ideals of revolution and fighting back, and most of the time that shit starts with individual people having personal relationships, these experiences. And now it's so disconnected and the media can paint a picture for you...they make so much bureaucracy and politics, and I think taking away the personal aspects, the human aspects of these political issues is really wrong. Whether it's the floods, or starving people in Africa, or whatever. It's all funnelled through this channel, you really are not getting it from the horse's mouth, you know?"

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