Tynan's Anger

Arts & Culture Commentary from a Loving Digital Skeptic

Five Questions Raised by the New M.I.A. “Born Free” video

Will the American media take the bait and start the controversy that M.I.A. is clearly hoping to provoke? If not, does this mean that new music is really that irrelevant to American culture anymore? How many people will get the rudimentary detainee metaphor that red hair=brown skin? Will the song’s resemblance to Suicide make it [...]

[SONGS OF THE DECADE] #5 M.I.A. – Paper Planes

SONGS OF THE DECADE #5 [For more info, read the Ground Rules of The Song of The Decade List] M.I.A. – Paper Planes (2007) M.I.A. via last.fm One of the few unanswerable questions that has always plagued sampling was whether the main appeal was the element of the original recording. Certain sampling “pioneers” eschewed that question [...]