M.I.A. goes goddess & ready to "Bring the Noize"

The always talented, interesting and energetic, M.I.A. returns and continues to purvey her rebellious sound with astonishing comeback visual for her 'insane' new song "Bring The Noize," which pays tribute to Public Enemy's 1987 classic of the same name, and is the first official single lifted from the British rapper's upcoming fourth studio album, "Matangi," which in Hindu is a goddess, of music and word. It's also M.I.A.'s real name - Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam. A fertile combo with sensational, radical, halting, genre-bending and political songwriting, spiritual maxims, pop cultural context.
It's been over a year since she taught us that “bad girls do it well” and now the 37-year-old singer is ready to bring the noise. Born a Sri Lankan and spending most of her life in England, M.I.A. always compliments and correlates those two cultures. Perhaps it's her status as both a visual and musical artist that makes her so intriguing, or her unabashed, strong and sometimes controversial political line. M.I.A. moves to her own rhythm and doesn't allow herself to be highly sexualised as others do. She has now decided to delve deeper into electronic music with "Bring The Noize," which demonstrates the diversity of her artistic ability as she effortlessly spits verses over a hard hitting bass line throughout the entire song.
M.I.A. tends to release the sort of songs you might hear if you added a drum beat to the fast-forwarding of a Pixar movie. Her musical style has always been a kind of manic clusterfuck, and she while she’s been incredibly successful she’s also been accused of releasing full albums – full artistic statements – with no actual songs. "Bring The Noise" changes all that. The breakthrough single is a drum-heavy record with chopped up vocals and a whole lot of noise. It keeps with M.I.A.'s brutal and heavy beat sound. Slightly tribal, the samples range from club noise to fairly average hip-hop synth strikes, and evokes feelings of a conscious anthem reminiscent of Public Enemy's classic track with a beat you can actually dance to.
The clip is a colorful, intriguing, and as always, energetic number that finds M.I.A. showing off her both soft and wild sides. Armed with her pink hair the video's expose in underground London falls in line with her poignant messages. As M.I.A. passing through barbed wire to reach a dark underground club where She crowning herself a goddess in a temple of dance, bejeweled around rows of mostly male worshipers, who have removed their shoes and dressed all in white. Here  M.I.A. introduces her goddess-among-men in style, as an icon of worship. It's at least an intriguing watch, playing with cultural unfamiliarity within familiar fashion and art.

M.I.A. Evokes Gulf Cool In "Bad Girls" Video

Featured alongside Nicki Minaj on Madonna's "Give Me All Your Luvin'," which you may watched the trio Sunday at the Super Bowl halftime show, M.I.A., aka Maya Arulpragasam, has also premiered the new music video via Noisey for her next single "Bad Girls," a remix of the "Vicki Leekx" track, and will be the first single from the Sri Lankan-British artist's upcoming fourth studio album, expected to be released this summer.
The midtempo worldbeat rap ballad, "Bad Girls" incorporates Middle Eastern and Western musical influences and instrumentation. M.I.A. stepped up to the role of hustleress in the song. The 36-year-old rapper brings fast cars and "bad girls" to the Moroccan dessert for the accompanying new video, which features Arabic street racers, ghost riders, desert bonfires, and women in blinged-out burkas touting semi-automatics. The flashy video lives up to song's provocative lyrics, which include the classic, "Live fast, die young, bad girls do it well."
Shot in Ouarzazate, Morocco, home to one of the world's largest film studios over four days and behind by director Romain Gavras. Set to M.I.A.'s Punjabi-laced chill-banger, "Bad Girls" is a lady gangsta fantasy but one that plays off very real ingredients from life in the Middle East. There's crumbled architecture, sustained over years of attack; smouldering oil tankards; young men in kaffiyeh, standing around dangerously bored; mysterious women covered from head to toe, with only their kohl-lined eyes flashing out.
"It was dope to have so many people from so many different backgrounds speaking so many different languages come together to create something that we believed in," says M.I.A. about the video. The video is meant to evoke a Persian Gulf landscape – dusty, baked, semi-apocalpytic and in the hands of M.I.A. and Gavras, utterly hard-core. It's an interesting take on culture, blending lyrics about having sex in cars with Americanized imagery of Moroccan culture, but it's definitely not for the easily offended. The action-packed video is without a doubt a visual stampede of insane stunts and strange dance moves.

Madonna Debuts "Give Me All Your Luvin'" Video

VideoAre you ready for Super Bowl, the most-watched TV event of the year today? Madonna isn't going to let her halftime show be the only moment for her to get some Super Bowl-related attention with a new music video for her new single "Give Me All Your Luvin'," the lead singer appears on the Queen of pop's upcoming album, "MDNA," the title being the consonants in Madonna's name. The song features guest vocals from Madonna's fellow New Yorker, the rapper Nicki Minaj, and English singer M.I.A.
The effervescent, dance-and-clap-inducing track is an '80s-inspired electro-thumper complete with a cheerleader chant of 'L-U-V Madonna!' It's peppy, catchy, somewhat infectious and utterly boring to the point of tears. Lyrically the song finds Madonna warning a potential lover that he needs to be straight with her as she's "a different kind of girl" who won't be mucked around. In keeping with the current Marilyn Monroe vogue, the three pop stars also don blonde wigs during the electro dance-pop song's hip-hop breakdown section, all three singers fit the bill as strong women who know what they want.
Minaj certainly does her best, her typically frantic rap an exercise in squeezing as many words into a 10-second space as possible, while M.I.A.'s more laconic drawl loses momentum. Madonna has stated she wanted to work with M.I.A. and Minaj on the track as they were both strong, independent girls with a unique voice, and that she liked their music and what they represented. The "Material Girl" songstress paid tribute to the stars, saying "They're not conventional pop stars and I really admire them both. I love both of them actually."
Directed by MegaForce, the video has football and cheerleader theme, inspired by her upcoming halftime performance at Super Bowl XLVI. In this goofy and fun clip, the 53-year-old pop legend tosses aside the accouterments of motherhood and morphs into the late-1980s/early-1990s version of herself, with white lingerie and short blonde hair. The rest of the video is lighter in tone and slightly more whimsical than is usual for Madonna, with Minaj and M.I.A. cheering her on with cheerleader pompoms.