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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]
On 8 February 2017, she released a new song, along with a music video, entitled "P.O.W.A", a previously unreleased song from her recording sessions for AIM. [ 160 ] [ 161 ] In 2018, Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. was released, a 90-minute documentary film chronicling M.I.A.'s rise to fame and political activism surrounding the Sri Lankan Civil War . [ 162 ]
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, 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 worldwide success of the album's third single "Paper Planes" and her collaboration with A. R. Rahman, "O... Saya ", for the soundtrack of the film Slumdog Millionaire , led some critics to believe M.I.A. would return to recording a third album following the birth of her son in 2009, although neither the artist or her label confirmed this.
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.
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 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) .