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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]
[71] [73] [74] "Paper Planes" is to date XL Recordings' second best selling single, and by November 2011 it had sold 3.6 million copies in the US, currently the seventh best-selling song by a British artist in the digital era. [75] In 2007, M.I.A. also released the How Many Votes Fix Mix EP which included a remix of "Boyz" featuring Jay-Z. [76]
[12] [13] "Paper Planes", the album's fourth and final single, became M.I.A.'s breakthrough hit and was nominated for Record of the Year at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards. [14] 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 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.
Following the unexpected commercial success of "Paper Planes", Kala was re-issued in the United Kingdom in October 2008. [31] A 4 November 2008 US re-release was announced, [32] but as of late 2009 the album had not been re-issued in the United States. The album's packaging includes photographs taken by M.I.A. and others in Liberia and Jamaica ...
In 2007, British singer M.I.A. sampled "Straight to Hell" in her song "Paper Planes" which, like "Straight to Hell", deals with the topic of immigration. "Paper Planes" was itself sampled in Jay-Z and T.I.'s 2008 song "Swagga Like Us"; the songwriters of "Straight To Hell" received co-writing credits for both songs.
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.
Arular is the debut studio album by British recording artist M.I.A. It was released on 22 March 2005 in the United States, and one month later in the United Kingdom, with a slightly different track listing.