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"Paper Planes" is a song by British recording artist M.I.A. released on 11 February 2008 as the third single from her second studio album Kala. It is produced and co-written by her and Diplo . It appeared in the 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire and on its soundtrack album .
The single "Paper Planes", described a "satire on immigrant stereotypes", [70] and the EP Paper Planes – Homeland Security Remixes EP were released digitally in February 2008, the single eventually selling three times platinum in the US and Canada, certified Gold in New Zealand, [71] [72] and becoming the 29th most downloaded song in the ...
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. [ 15 ] Her third album, Maya , was released in 2010 and reached the top 10 in numerous countries, remaining her highest-charting album both in the UK and the US.
The song received positive reviews from contemporary critics, who lauded it as a highlight from the mixtape and commended its hook and lyrics on its final version as containing hallmarks of her previous songs including "Paper Planes" (2007) and "XXXO" (2010). In 2019, Pitchfork ranked "Bad Girls" as the 27th best song of the 2010s.
A hip hop song, "Swagga Like Us" is built around a sample of "Paper Planes" by British artist M.I.A., featuring the line, "no one on the corner had swagger like us". [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Since "Paper Planes" itself samples the 1982 song " Straight to Hell " by British rock group The Clash , each of the writers of both songs are credited as writing ...
When Mia Khalifa, 28, looks back at her younger self, she sees a woman who was struggling with confidence. “I was looking to other people to put value on myself. I was looking for validation in ...
The chorus of the 2008 single, "Paper Planes" by British musician M.I.A. was widely speculated to be based on the chorus, [1] [2] [3] although the song's writers are not credited. In 2024, the song appeared on co-songwriter Pharrell Williams ' soundtrack album Piece by Piece (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) .
The other four songs she performed as wild cards in those three nights of filming that presumably could have been in the movie were “Death by a Thousand Cuts,” “Maroon” (both of these also ...