Mia - Arular
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Artist: MiaBrand: Baker & Taylor
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-05-17
Model: 00602498826515
Music Label: Interscope Records
Soundtracks:
- Ba-na-na Skit
- Pull Up The People
- Bucky Done Gun
- Sunshowers
- Fire, Fire
- Dash The Curry Skit
- Amazon
- Bingo
- Hombre
- One For The Head Skit
- 10 Dollar
- URAQT
- Galang
Music reviews of Arular
Music Review: Maya's style really does deserves attention!
Rating: 4 Stars
Her first track really got my attention around August 2005. I first seen her video "Galang" on the "Yahoo Launch". M.I.A.'s first record is great! It is such an interesting style of dance music and the politics intertwined in it make it intellectual too! Mainly though, this music will have you dancing and repeating the smart and catchy lyrics. M.I.A. has no qualms about mentioning bombs, guns, terrorists and racism in her songs.
Straddling the great musical divide, M.I.A. sticks her tongue out at the mainstream and moons the underground with a sound that both betrays and praises the music of her peers. She borrows from hip-hop, dancehall, reggaeton, electro-clash, drum 'n' bass and world music yet creates a sum different from the parts using little more than a drum machine and her own lyrical might.
Her debut album, Arular (XL/Beggar's Banquet), is a Masala of planet-rock beats and batucada cut ups set off by a delivery so cadent, it's the percussive force behind the album. M.I.A.'s most successful when she's letting loose over a dancehall rhythm, her cockney-Jamaican accent punctuating each low-end blast with proclamations of her prowess on the mike. Such is the nature of her MCing, which can be heard to blistering effect on the single "Fire Fire," on which she dismisses her peers, asserting, "Competition coming' up now/ Load up and fire, fire bo!" This is to say there's no match for M.I.A. Even comparable British MCs like Ms. Dynamite, The Streets and Dizzy Raskal fall short if only because they lack the sexual je ne se quoi that M.I.A. shamelessly exudes.
Moreover, where her countrymen exist solely within the British two-step tradition, M.I.A. is a welcome every woman coming off like a basement (Jamaican party) queen rocking a favela (Brazilian ghetto) bass line. All the while, hers is a patois that can only be heard on the streets of London, yet for all the musical globetrotting, M.I.A. has found a space that's all her own. My favorite tracks are "Pull Up The People", "Bucky Done Gun", "Fire Fire", "SunShower", Hombre, "URAQT," and "Galang".
I do agree with the some of the reviewers when they stated that it's only recommended to those who like different and less commercial approaches to music. This album might be a bit to raw for you due to it's political/sexual nature, especially If you don't understand this recording. It is important to appreciate it's significance and to appreciate how innovative it is. If you're not going to buy it, at least give it a listen... Maya's style deserves attention!
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