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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]
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 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 .
"Born Free" is a song by English Tamil recording artist M.I.A., released alongside an accompanying short film/music video of the same name from her third album, Maya. XL Recordings and Interscope Records / N.E.E.T. released "Born Free" as a digital download from the album on 23 April 2010, with the music video released on 26 April 2010.
"Born Free" is the music video for English recording artist M.I.A.'s song of the same name. The video, which depicts a genocide against red-haired people, was filmed in California and directed by Romain Gavras as a nine-minute short film without the prior knowledge of M.I.A.'s record labels.
M.I.A. wrote or co-wrote all the songs on the album, while collaborators included Justine Frischmann, Switch, Diplo, Richard X, Ant Whiting and Greg "Wizard" Fleming. The album's title is the political code name used by her father, Arul Pragasam , during his involvement with Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups , and themes of conflict and ...
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 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) .