Months after Kala made M.I.A. one of 2007′s most Sri Lankan crossover stars, Maya’s still bringing the bangas to the people with an orgiastic stage show and hypercolor fabric patterns. Indeed our favorite Arulpragasam is lining up a spring-into-summer trek, and we’re thinking this video live from Philly (is that the Electric Factory? Help us out Philly folk, its been a few years) is meant to be the bait to get you to click for tix. Sometimes “Paper Planes” is the tune for which the crowd bumrushes the stage. This time Maya’s posse is big enough that they need no help (we spy Santogold amongst the revelers). The video could use a pass through the pitchfork.tv filter for resolution and clarity, but it scores a perfect rating for palpable good times. Plus it’s got all the gunshots your little heart desires (may wanna avert your ears, CBS).
Fun. If you haven’t yet, seeing Maya Arulpragasam is a must, if only because it seems the more outrageous the prints on her stage attire, the better dancer she becomes. For those who haven’t yet, there will be one more sweep of the Kala incarnation of the M.I.A show through the states, but first, in case you missed it before, here’s Adrock’s take on the track:
He was in the original video, remember? Anyway, the Maya stuff starts next week in the desert and ends in the dirt at Bonnaroo. We’ll see you at both spots, festsetters. Bring us some sunscreen.
04/26 – Indio, CA (Coachella)
04/28 – San Diego, CA @ 4th and B
05/01 – Austin, TX @ La Zona Rosa
05/02 – Dallas, TX @ Palladium Ballroom
05/05 – Nashville, TN @ City Hall
05/08 – Detroit, MI @ Fillmore Detroit
05/09 – Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom
05/12 – Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom
05/13 – Maplewood, MN @ Myth
05/14 – Lawrence, KS @ Liberty Hall
05/17 – Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium
05/18 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
05/21 – San Francisco, CA @ Concorde Design Ctr.
05/23 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
06/06 – Brooklyn, NY @ McCarren Pool
06/14 – Manchester, TN (Bonnaroo)
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Music would be better off if people just listened to Tori Amos and ignore generic crap like M.I.A. and the thousands of other shitty bands posted here.
yep, that’s the Electric Factory
i spy amanda blank there also
It’s been a few years for me, too, but I think you’re right on the Electric Factory. It looks much larger from the stage than it does from the audience, though.
That video’s bananas.
The hilarious thing about this song is watching a bunch of socially conscious people with a hip hop superiority complex (i.e., we don’t listen to THAT kind of hip hop) suddenly wave their best fake gun in the air, and absolutely love it.
Thats some nice lip-synching Maya.
She puts on a good live show. Can’t wait to see her.
thanks lola & beth. you just helped me impress myself with my philly recall.
if it wasn’t the Electric Factory, I’d like to know where the hell I was that night? Maybe M.I.A. and The Cool Kids and Santogold rocked my living room?
MIA preaches revolutionary shit but raps about nothing and poses for marc jacobs & converse…Diplo is the real talent.
if i’m not mistaken, i think she produced most of the songs on kala…. she was bitchin about what you said in the pitchfork interview…..or some interview…. but yeah….he did the the whole piracy funds mixtapes
Wow such haters. Apparently SG readers are a bit daft. MIA does not preach anything.
umm … that’s just wrong
great lip sync indeed… anyone who’s heard this song at least once would know it… very disappointing
She’s not lyp-synching, you can barely hear her distinct “And yaaa” because apparently her mic is very low and the backing track is very loud.
I was there that night. Fun time, though I don’t like the Factory as a venue. She always puts on a great show.
M.I.A. generic? Bilf, I hope for your sake that that was sarcasm.
That is absolutely the Electric Factory.