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"Paper Planes" is a downtempo alternative hip hop and electro hop song with a duration of three minutes and 24 seconds. [18] [19] [20] The song takes a musical approach which incorporates elements of hip hop and African folk music. [21] "Paper Planes" follows what M.I.A. characterised as the "nu world" music style of Kala. [22]
Blanagram: rearranging the letters of a word or phrase and substituting one single letter to produce a new word or phrase; Letter bank: using the letters from a certain word or phrase as many times as wanted to produce a new word or phrase; Jumble: a kind of word game in which the solution of a puzzle is its anagram
Paper Planes, a 2015 film; Paper Plane, a DSiWare game found in WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames! Paper plane (cocktail), a cocktail named after the song by M.I.A. "Paper Airplane" , an episode of the American comedy television series The Office
The song appeared on the soundtrack to the 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire along with "O... Saya ", a song written specifically for the film by M.I.A. and A. R. Rahman . The song, which appears on the film's soundtrack album , was released on M.I.A.'s own label N.E.E.T. and was nominated for Best Original Song at the 81st Academy Awards .
The song was re-released on XL as the second official single from the album in September 2004, [38] and again in October 2005, under the title "Galang '05", with a remix by Serj Tankian. [12] The first official single, " Sunshowers ", was M.I.A.'s first on XL and was released on 5 July 2004. [ 39 ]
The second single, "The Leaving Song Pt. II" charted at No. 16 on the Alternative Songs chart, [ 28 ] No. 31 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, No. 27 in Australia, and No. 43 in the UK. The third and final single, "Silver and Cold" reached No. 7 on the Alternative Songs chart [ 28 ] and No. 39 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
"Borders" is a song by recording artist M.I.A. for her fifth studio album, AIM (2016). The track was written by M.I.A., Levi Lennox and Amish Patel, [4] and has been described as an electronic song incorporating such musical styles as hip hop and world music.
It first appeared on M.I.A.'s six song demo tape in 2003, then on her official Myspace account on 9 June 2004 and was later reworked slightly by Orton and Mackey who received production credit for the song. "Galang" was the second song M.I.A. wrote on her Roland MC-505, intending for the piece to be performed by Frischmann's band Elastica ...