Released: May 11, 2010

 

 

This album is still so ahead of its time

No one was and is doing it like her  

/\/\ /\ Y /\ (Arular and Kala too) is such a monumental album  She was taking risks, working hard as if rent is due, serving woke lyrics and aesthetics à la Madonna's American Life. But music circles did her dirty... Pitchfork 4.4

 

She was not afraid to portray violence and genocide. There are images of Tamil executions on the gatefold side of the vinyl. People were not ready. And you know you are that GIRL when your controversial music video has its own Wikipedia page! M.I.A.'s Born Free walked so Gambino's TIA could run.

 

Ahh let me stream the conspiracy theorist's finest work

 

 

Still ahead of its time  lemme bump the whole album to celebrate

she ate this up and while I'm here let me just say Mata is a great album 

groundbreaking, showstopping, totally unique

A masterpiece.

Connected to the Google connected to the government

One of her best songs. Invented hyperpop. 

THE queen of music. Imagine not stanning M.I.As art...

Ahead of its time, the Candace Owens supporter and vaccine conspiracy theorist kind of snapped here 

masterpiece

Burning my Covid masks to celebrate

wish we could see the original video

One of the best songs of all time. 

Fell in love with this song the first time I heard it

 

It sounded so different and better than everything out at the time 

Lol, literally yesterday I posted XXXO in the '2010 songs' thread without even noticing the month and day of release 

 

Definitely one of my favorite M.I.A. songs, and from my favorite album of hers. Way ahead of its time. I was obsessed with the Blingee-style video because I was really into making Blingee graphics back then.