Being one of my favorite artists and having great albums such as Kala and Arular, I expected a whole lot from M.I.A. when it came to her upcoming third album, Maya. I must say that after listening to a couple of her singles, I am very disappointed. Her first single, XXXO, sounds very pop-ish and not at all like her previous sounds. Her second single, Born Free, which showed the rounding up of red heads by a military group, as well as the demise of these red heads, did have a good message but on the music end, I wasn't impressed. I thought the beat was just so over the place and I wish she would have tuned down the background noise more so that people could focus more on her lyrics than on the annoying noise. Her latest single, Stepping' Up, musically sounds like that of Born Free and sounds as though she had made this song more for radio play than for her love of her art. What happened to the good old days of Bucky Done Gun or Boyz or even Bamboo Banga?? M.I.A. needs to put down the auto tune or whatever crap she's using in her songs, and go back to her roots. She won fans over for a specific reason and I think she should stick to her old sound... Unless her goal is to lose her old fan base and obtain a new one, she is surely not the same artist.
Check out her new songs on Myspace and let me know what you think.
http://www.myspace.com/mia
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