M.I.A.’s unhappy. Step back, yo.
The acclaimed rapper has written on MySpace (shield your sensitive eyes!) of her displeasure with recent censoring of her new ‘Paper Planes’ single. An appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman stateside is up for criticism, with the video below making M.I.A.’s annoyance perfectly clear.
Video: M.I.A. performing ‘Paper Planes’ on Letterman
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Guns do not sound like that. I know. I live in Tulse Hill. And now MTV have apparently put a spanner in the girl’s works, editing the song’s video to suit them despite M.I.A. and company’s attempts to adhere to their rules and regulations while shooting the promo. From her MySpace, M.I.A. writes:
SO THEY TRIED TO SHUT ME DOWN AGAIN. I MADE THE PAPER PLANES VIDEO. I MADE IT HOW THEY WANTED. NO VIOLENCE. AMBIGUOUS. MTV - FRIENDLY. NOW TODAY, I CHECK YOUTUBE AND SEE THE LEAKED MTV PAPER PLANES VIDEO UP FOR THE FIRST TIME. I CLICKED ON IT AND OUT COMES THIS FUCKED UP MESS WITH DOUBLE-TRACKED BULLSHIT MESS??WHO THE THE FUCK IS DOING THIS TO ME???????
THE VIDEO WAS SABOTAGED FOR WHATEVER REASON AND IM DISAPPOINTED THAT MTV HAS HAD SUCH A MAJOR ROLE IN THIS. THE BLOGGERS WHO ARE LAZY ENOUGH TO FOLLOW THE MTV LINK AND POST UP AND COMMENT ON THE SOUND WHEN THAT HASNT BEEN COMPROMISED AND THE GUNSHOT ARENT REPLACED AND EDITED MAKES ME SAD. I DID FIGHT FOR THE SOUND , BECAUSE PUTTING MEANINGS IN YOUR VIDEOS, IN MY OPINION IS A DYING ART. I CAN FILM MY SELF ANYWHERE ANYTIME AND LET YOU KNOW THE TRUTH , BUT THE SONG IS WHAT I WANTED TO PRESERVE IN THIS CASE. ??
TO ALL MY FANS, LOOK, ITS LIKE THIS,?IM LEARNING THINGS ABOUT THIS WORLD WITH YOU, I WANT YOU TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO ME , I WANT YOU TO SEE HOW PEOPLE WILL SIT AND SPEND ALL SUNDAY TEARIN ME DOWN FOR SOMETHING I DIDNT EVEN MAKE OR PUT OUT, SO PEOPLE WELCOME TO MODERN DAY PROPAGANDA MESSAGE MANGLING.??
IN 2007, AN OUTSIDER OPINION WILL BE CONFRONTED THIS WAY , AND THIS IS HOW THE BATTLE GOES, MY MESSAGES AND IDEAS AND MEANING WILL ALWAYS BE BROUGHT TO YOU WITH SLIGHTLY TAINTED CHANNELS. IF YOU SUPPORT ME BE SMART, AND KNOW THAT. ?
I LOVE YOU, U KEEP ME GOING.
?XXXXXX?MAYA
Play spot the difference yourself:
Video: ‘Paper Planes’ MTV censored version
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FYI
1.16 into the Letterman clip: check MIA's "WTF" look at her DJ.
0:55 - 1:15
In both promo videos if you want to compare gunshots vs drums.
the censored versions
sound absolutely atrocious.
LOL at the Letterman footage
she looks like a UPS employee!
LOL
You can understand why she'd be pissed off though, it sounds crap without the guns.
sounds like
a staple gun
Yeah, there's something bizarre about
seeing her on Letterman. Way too clinical in a sense... those shiny floors just seem wrong.
.
All she does is moan.
Connect festival: moan moan moan.
The Arches, Glasgow: moan, moan, shout at DJ, shout at security, moan moan moan.
Mercury Music Prize: didn't win and - gasp! - stormed off in a huff and continued to moan moan moan.
Love the music, but she seems like such a BITCH
When did she moan...
at/about Connect? I'm intrigued!
was it not
about someone turning off the power on stage when she had conducted her stage invasion?
When...
"i can't hear myself", "i can't hear myself", "turn me up", "WILL YOU TURN ME UP I CANNOT FUCKING HEAR MYSELF!!" said in sarcastic tones. She moaned at the DJ, also. Then she moaned at security stopping more people scaling the front fence.
Moan moan moan moan moan.
^.^
my sister loves this lady. haven't realleh listend to her beforee.
...
When your music is pussy enough to appear on MTV in the first place, I'd reconsider exactly what it is about them removing a gunshot that puts your panties in a massive bunch.
this comment doesnt make any sense to me
i love
m i a's political posturing...
SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT
LOUD NOISES
i like M.I.A's music
but it's obviously she thinks she's making far more of a political statement than she actually is.
Seeing her on the first album tour, she was really nice when we saw her after the show. it was more fun. despite the fact the promoter was literally trying to throw tickets at people to make them come. seeing her on the kala tour it seems like she is trying to stress this "faux-political laziness" that people seem to consider worthy of censorship. ultimately she said "let me hear/see my girls" more times that Rihanna and the show was just lacking in any substance, with hr consider reminders that "people call me a pussy for doing it like this, but in this world it's the only way to get your opinion across" peh... love the music but hell it's not anything particulary groundbreaking... at best it takes an underground genre and tries to make it popular.
Well said!
That's the first time anyone has expressed my thoughts on her.
Also - she is apparently as inarticulate in her blog as she is on record.
dont see how it's particularly inarticulate?
she just has a jammed caps lock key, apparently.
and she's very articulate in person
Bird('s got) Flu
M.I.A cancels Nottingham show at 7.15 because of illness. Good thing we don't need a DJ around to hear gun shots!
See...
she's a bitch!