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I've just joined a community on livejournal about her, and this was posted.
 I thought that I would share, and I've very generously bolded the lines that I think are fantastic. Also, I've been discussing the purple haze reference, and while I agree that it does likely reference Jimmy Hendrix and drugs, I also believe that it's about more than that. If you watch the video again, you see that the purple is used to illustrate some bombings and there is repeated imagery of tanks and grenades as well. "I have an art book M.I.A. had published in 2002 by Pocko (http://www.pocko.com) as part of their arts series in association with Diesel. It's published under her real name Maya Arulpragasam. I bought it for a fiver a year or so ago in a bookshop in Soho in London. Justine Frischmann, former leader singer of Elastica, has written a foreward for the book aswell. It's got loads of her artworks and the back of the book is a flipbook featuring her lyrics, i'll write them for you here: History Dead Time for Herstory i'm a casualty, a war refugee not black and white like a referee missing in action gone to start a revolution freedom fighter get injection he no act, he get no reaction my freedom fighting dad they bombed his pad called him a terror and put him on wanted ads kaliana from sri lanka done too long being foreigner eng-a-land now her homeland from the time she came as immigrant she done found her culture culture she eat curry curry dance to ragga she hates police whatever country she loves refugees whatever country i don't think i'm anything coloured, christian, hindu, muslim world too small, evolution fast ethnic cleansing never worked in the past the colour of my system reflects the spectrum rainbow people are in this season you pay your taxes to arm a soldier we fight we get called offender you can be a follower but who's the leader you leader you lead come chizzle my nizzle break the cycle or it will kill ya." Last edited by purplelucrezia; 10-02-2005 at 03:13 PM. |
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| 10-02-2005 | |
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V.I.P.
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Thanks, it's actually working for me again now.
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| 15-02-2005 | |
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V.I.P.
 
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chloe, no?
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V.I.P.
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| 16-02-2005 | |
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V.I.P.
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"galang"
london calling speak the slang now boys say wha come on girls say what, say wha slam, galang galang galang... shotgun, get down get down, get down, get down too late, you down d-d-d-down ta na ta na ta na blaze a blaze (galang a lang a lang lang) purple haze (galang a lang a lang lang) who the hell is hounding you in the bmw how the hell he find you, 147'd you the feds gon get you pull the strings on the hood 1 paranoid (yo)uth blazin' thru the hood they say rivers gonna run though work is gonna save you pray and you will pull through suck a dick'll help you don't let em get to you if he's got 1 you get 2 backstab your crew sell it i could sell you Last edited by brian; 16-02-2005 at 12:43 AM. |
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| 16-02-2005 | |
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"pull up the people"
slang tang that's the that m.i.a. thang i got the bombs to make you blow i got the beats to make you bang bang bang yeah me got god, and me got you everyday thinkin bout how me get through everything i own is on i.o.u. but i'm here bringing y'all something new you no like the people they no like you then they go set it off with a big boom every gun in a battle is a son and daughter too why you wanna talk about who done who? what you wanna talk about? slang tang that's the that m.i.a. thang i got the bombs to make you blow i got th ebeats to make you bang bang bang pull up the people, pull up the poor i'm a fighter, fighter god i'm a soldier on that road i'm a fighter, a nice nice fighter i'm a soldier on that road bring me the reaper bring me a lawyer i'll fight i'll take em on you treat me like a killer i ain't never hate ya i'm a soldier on that road i'm a fighter, fighter god i'm a soldier on that road i'm a fighter, a nice nice fighter i'm a soldier on that road |
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| 16-02-2005 | |
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Thanks brian. All of the lyrics are posted on her website, by the way.
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| 16-02-2005 | |
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no problem
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| 16-02-2005 | |
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within an embrace
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I WANT to like her, but her voice turns me off. :: sigh ::
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| 18-02-2005 | |
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wabisabi*
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the mix diplo did from hollertronix (philadelphia residents) is hot. check that out...
m.i.a. - piracy funds terrorism vol. 1 |
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| 04-03-2005 | |
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trendsetter
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anyone know where to get her music from?
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| 10-03-2005 | |
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Rive Gauche. Rive Droite.
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I love her music too. I put her lyrics in from a song I heard at a fashion show, and I discovered she has been used in several shows. I love it!:p
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| 10-03-2005 | |
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Rive Gauche. Rive Droite.
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Amazon.com
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| 10-03-2005 | |
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Rebaptising my badness
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I like the way she mixes electro with some "arab beats". Very unusual. If Joe Strummer was alive he would probably like her.
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| 10-03-2005 | |
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wabisabi*
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aren't they more reggae/dancehall than arab?
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