Does This Mean She'll Un-Retire Soon?
Filed under: Music Minute > M.I.A.
She must be flying high!
'Retired' recording artist M.I.A's song Paper Planes appears in a promo for the stoner flick Pineapple Express and it's burning up the charts!
Paper Planes has already been out six months, but it jumped from number 55 to 36 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The song is also currently number 3 on iTunes' top songs chart and her album, Kala, is at number 7 on the iTunes top albums chart.
Ha! Looks like radio's not the only hitmaker! Indie fave M.I.A. has never been a mainstream radio darling.
Congrats, Maya!
Posted: August 5, 2008 at 5:59 pm
no clue who this is
God, I hope so.
Love her life!
And Pineapple Express looks fuckin fabulous and
I CAN NOT WAIT TO SEE IT!
songs?
doesn't she just… talk?
i'm pretty sure she sucked anyway.
She looks crazy enough to be my friend.
She retired? She looks way too damn young! how old is she?
FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRST
I LOVE this song
MIA is absolutely amazing…saw her in concert and was by far the best concert I have ever been to. I hope to God she is unretiring!!
I don't like MIA her music sucks. Even a drunk Winehouse sounds better.
Love her!! Glad to see her making a blaze up the charts.
LAME
Re: NikkiS_lovescelebs –
I totally agree with you. She has no talent at all, all she does is like talk with her annoying voice and that is suposed to be some singing or rappig or whatever. I always tought Indians had beautiful high voices…
I hope she comes out of retirement. Love her music.
Re: jutbaby – She's 31. She has lots of interests outside music so I think her "retirement" meant she was going to work on other things besides music.
love this song!!!
Never heard of her.
Re: irenemarie –
WOw she is 31!!!!!!! She looks lika 16 year old.
Re: Amsterdamgirl – Hmmmm Are you sure?
im so happy for her!
she is so awesome!
woww all you guys are shhaddy!
MIA is the shitt
you dont know good music at all
what do you listen too? country crap?
3RD WORLD DEMOCRACYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
i love her
This song was popular 20+ years ago when The Clash first wrote it. It heavily samples their song, "Straight To Hell".
ohhh yay.
shes the shitttt
OMG i love M.I.A.
i heard this when she first came came out
like in early december
the song rocks, it fits the film (just saw the preview)
MIA fucking sucks.
I love M.I.A!
The song "Galang" is awesome too.
Re: Amsterdamgirl –
She is British, I'm guessing she wasn't raised in a teepee
I love that song! I hope she gets out of retirement!!
She looks like Sanjaya in this pic… creepy!
I fly like paper get high like planes! LOVE HER!
SONG IS A RIP OFF! COMBINATION OF THE CLASH SONG AND THIS SONG:
LOOK!
i hope so! shes so good!!!
Re: Vani Dee –
Actually MIA has been out since 2005, when she dropped her first album. Paper Planes is from her 2nd album that came out last summer (2007)… but im glad people are finally learning about her!! She's a pioneer in electro-hip-hop music and i highly doubt she's officially "retiring"
shes only 31!!!
SHE CANT RETIRE!!!
ARULAR IS HER BEST!!!
Kool she's awsum
love her!!!!!!!!!!
She only has one really succesful song — why is she even thinking of retirement? Girls gotta eat!
good for her, this song is awesome and so is she. Its a shame, though, that it took a movie to get her song on the radio….
She is actually SriLankan,My husband is from there and I loved her music.Its recently come out that she supports a SriLankan terrorist group called LTTE,Its crazy but very true, This terrorist group has killed over 400,000 people in 30 years….In SriLanka it is well known that the Tiger is the symbol that represents this group and she always sneaks that into her vids. and lyrics……CRAZY BUT TRUE!
zzzzzzzzzzzzz letz hope itz on zooooooooonzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
she's a fucking tamil tiger terrorist who should go back to wherever the hell she came from! i mean she doesn't even 'sing' she basically talking with music in the background! jeez..where are all the REAL talented people?!?!
Does I see this gal's metallic pu$$y lips…???
Gawd I love M.I.A!
She needs to un-retire and make more music!
she's actually not retiring!!!
she said "this is my last show"
cause she wasn't planning on finish her tour,
rather she was going to go back to the studio to work on a new album
I gather by the bling and the posing of the hands/fingers and the lips/chin that she "raps".
Homegirl needs to quit serving twat, though. Maybe she scats with it, in qweefs, like other rappers use their mouths.
ugh.
it pisses me off that no one even knew about her until pineapple express.
if her song wasn't in that movie; people would just think she's some crazy sri lankan bitch.
i love m.i.a and i hope she doesn't become a mainstream sellout.
fly like paper, get high like planes
I love her!!
MIA = LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or Tamil Tigers), a banned terrorist organization in the US and UK. The Tigers in her videos stand for the Tamil Tigers. The guns, grenades etc. hint of the 100,000 innocent people in Sri Lanka (of ALL ethnicities) that have been massacred by the Tigers. Her money goes to her father, a senior LTTE member who is in hiding and planning attacks on more innocent civilians as we speak.
MIA = LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or Tamil Tigers), a banned TERRORIST organization in the US and UK. The tigers in her videos stand for the Tamil Tigers. The guns, grenades etc. hint of the 100,000 people (of ALL ethnicities, including other Tamils who disagree with their extremist thought) that have been MASSACRED by the LTTE. Her father is a senior LTTE official, so her contributions will lead to the massacre of many more innocent people.
I thought that sounded like her. She is such a great artist, unique and talented. A different syle of music, I like it.
I LOVE THIS GIRL. SO ORIGINAL! SHE IS VERY POPULAR IN CANADA!