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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]
[73] [75] [76] "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. [77] In 2007, M.I.A. also released the How Many Votes Fix Mix EP which included a remix of "Boyz" featuring Jay-Z. [78]
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 ...
British rapper and singer M.I.A. has released six studio albums, two extended plays, three mixtapes, forty singles (including eight as a featured artist) and twenty-nine music videos. Born Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam, M.I.A. began her career as a visual artist and film-maker, and moved into making music after filming a documentary on the band ...
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.
M.I.A is an English recording artist, songwriter, painter and director of Tamil descent. Her compositions combine elements of electronic, dance, alternative, hip hop and world music.
Even some passengers who feel relaxed in the sky are changing their flights. Leonyce Moses, a consultant who lives in Richmond, Virginia, loves to travel and said she flew one to two times a month ...
Mata (stylised in all caps) is the sixth studio album by English recording artist M.I.A. It was released on 14 October 2022 through Island Records, marking her first album release for six years.