Tag: mia

  • day 66: Paper Planes

    Paper Planes, by M.I.A.

    OK, this one was fun.

    More tracks than I’ve used yet, including the sound effects, duplicated backup vocals with different effects, two electric guitar tracks, a software synth, bass, and two separate drum loops on top of each other.

    FUN!

    M.I.A. is usually fun. Let’s just flag her as “not as problematic as Kanye” and move on? Maybe? No? It seems pretty silly to be a middle-aged suburban white dad singing a song by a clearly non-gangsta that kinda sorta tongue-in-cheek glorifies violence just for the sake of sounding kinda sorta “gangsta” but then later she’s much more provocative when it comes to her actual activism and cites the Clash (sampled in this song).

    I’m not complaining if you aren’t.

    I would do Bamboo Banga if I thought I could pull it off.