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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.
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.
The songs are about political themes related to the Third World, including illegal immigration, poverty and capitalism. Kala was the best-performing album on the US Billboard Electronic Albums chart of 2007, and was certified gold by the RIAA for selling 500,000 copies in the US.
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 ...
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 ...
In its earliest form, the song "Visa" sampled Elton John's song "Circle of Life" from the film The Lion King. M.I.A. later announced via the video streaming service Periscope that she had replaced the "Circle of Life" sample with a sample of her own early single, " Galang ", claiming that she had received legal threats and that if she used her ...