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I never said those words baby NEVER. If you're going to put words in my mouth please at least be a little ambitious: QUEEN is for the little people dude. Miss quote me properly and call her fucking KING. At least go for the top of crop.

I NOW such things obviously happen I am far from "naive". From where I came from a product only worths production in 2 scales: Mass production or exclusive. Katy Perry, Britney, Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Usher and the likes are all mass production products. Rihanna in one month in Brazil did 5 concerts all football stadiums. She was paid 400 thousand dollars per concert. All sold out. Make the math. Katy Perry and Beyonce pulled out concerts for 60.000 people here and they pull huge crowds all over the 4 corner of the globes. Mass production with massive profit even out of US borders. Millions of albums sales, perfumes, cosmetic endorsements (until this day the most profitable contracts), arenas in consequence tons of space for advertisement. To get the Cover Girl deals and the Channel, Prada and all that you need to be a INTERNATIONAL superstar or a International face. You dont worth much if youre only reconized in US or UK since the brand would have to make other campaigns for all countries their product is for sale. Bose sells everywhere thats why they pay good money for INTERNATIONAL pop tarts to have their product in their videos. The Katys and Rihannas are money cows with endless possibilities of profit from different sources. So they worth how much is spended in their creation. In resume Interscope, Universal and the likes pay a good amount of cash to top writers keep their mouth shut is no biggy since their tours alone would worth the money. In the other hand we have Lana: basically no advertisement, 3.5 millions albuns sales, small arenas, small tour, no product placement in videos (Burining desire is a exception), no cosmetic deal, no Lana dolls for sale for kids. How do you think Miley became the richiest kid in showbizz?? Get a look how many Hannah Montana Dolls were made and sold. Justin Biebers dolls... In my mind Lana doesnt worth such investiment because she simply isnt a money cow and wont be one. She doesnt even is a stample of credibility like M.I.A not even with the authenticity Lana gives back. Your argument fails not only because its obvious Lana is writing for a long time but also because you didnt make the math to see if the numbers would match. Lana is a poor man investment compared to all the others you named. Like she doesnt get even 5% of what Miley made in 2 Hannah MOntana week sales of her dolls at K-Mart. Rihanna makes more money to her handlers sleeping than Lana does selling albums.

when did I say those words matte?? WHEN and where??I NEVER SAID THAT DUDE. Are You ok?? Need a hug? Pretty sure you got me confused with someone else....

First Review : http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/mia-matangi-first-listen-track-by-track Karmageddon Twangs of a marimba, the chant of a prayer, an ominous bass riff. ‘Karmageddon’ is measured and well paced but, you suspect, the calm before the storm. MIA whispers about how “sex fucking sells”, before the track climaxes with the words “Ain’t Dalia Lama, ain’t Sathya Baba/My words are my armour and you’re about to meet your karma”. She’s about to wreak vicious vengeance on anyone who’s ever done her wrong. Matangi This title track begins with giant, doomy thuds and MIA’s vocal emerging from the echo of an underwater bubble as jungle beats (from producer Switch) jump out. It’s a distant relation to her 2007 single ‘Boyz’, except MIA has turned her attention away from the opposite sex to focus on her geographical knowledge: “Somalia, Bosnia, Cuba, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Morrocco, Botswana, Ghana, India Serbia…” It sounds like she’s recruiting for her own global army of futuristic warriors. Then she gets back to issuing a warning about what’s to come on ‘Matangi’ (“do you know what I’ve got in store?”), dish out some broad swipes (“you’re school of fakeness, I’m school of hard knocks”), give advice to any wannabees (“if you’re gonna be me, need a manifesto / if you ain’t got one, you need one presto”) and have a pop at Drake (“started at the bottom but Drake gets all the credit”). There’s a lot going on. Only 1 U One minute she’s being nice: There’s only one you and I’m gonna drink to that.”). The next she’s taking people on: “There’s trillions of cash, and millions of you.” Then she’s prophesising the end of the world: “Tonight’s the one because tomorrow may never come”. This mix of doom, hope, paranoia is one that MIA’s been working at for years, but rarely over such a heavy beat. Warriors The moment when ‘Matangi’ stops dicking around in glitches and comes up with a solid, bold bit of songcraft. Produced by 'Niggas In Paris' writer Hit-boy, around the one minute mark 'Warriors' transforms itself into a huge clacking tribal beat that's part Sufi mysticism, part future R'n'B, based around MIA issuing a worryingly accurate incantation about how she's “putting you in a trance”. Come Walk With Me ‘Come Walk With Me’ is romantic, and sees MIA seemingly addressing people being intimidated by her ("you ain't gotta shake it, just be with me") and suggesting she’d like a bit of companionship ("can I be your best friend?"). Of course this is undercut with her paranoid assessments of modern technology (“a thousand ways to meet you now, a thousand ways to track you down"). But moments like these remind that during this album’s gestation period MIA split from her billionaire fiancé and father of her child, Benjamin Bronfman. As if to tell us she’s okay now, the track ends with her revisiting a line from older track ‘Bamboo Banga’: “MIA coming back with power power.” Read more at http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/mia-matangi-first-listen-track-by-track#rf5IvE0tf5qRE6vx.99 Attention A strangely dated beat from Switch that falls somewhere in the middle of UK Garage, drum ‘n’ bass and Roni Size. Lyrically MIA concentrates on rhyming evocative words that end with the words ‘tant’ or ‘tent’ such as “militant”, “content”, “potent”, “blatant” and “potent”. It’s a weird tune, but it’s not hyperbole to say no one else on earth makes music that sounds like this. Exodus Oh hello, she’s sampling The Weeknd’s ‘Lonely Star’, and sounds like she’s trying to recruit people to a druggy sex cult ("Do you wanna come on a sexodus? Do you wanna ride like a crusader?”) as dramatic strings ping underneath. All of these songs are pumped full of crazy levels of melodrama. It’s all quite unsettling. Bad Girls You know this one. It remains excellent. Boom Skit Over a 76-second Hit-Boy beat MIA references her recent legal issue: "Let you in to Superbowl you try to steal Madonna's crown / What the fuck you on about?". Not sure that’ll stand up in court. Double Bubble Trouble A slice of slightly throwaway (“uh oh you’re in trouble, I step up in the game and I burst their bubble”) reggae-tinted doom produced by Dutch production crew The Partysquad, who’ve worked with Armand Van Helden and Major Lazer. "Cos I got a reputation" MIA repeats before ‘Double Bubble Trouble’ breaks down into the sort of folk-techno banger Omar Souleyman might enjoy. Y.A.L.A It stands for ‘you always live again’. It’s a send up of the acronym YOLO (which stands for ‘you only live once’). And is, therefore, another dig at Drake, who popularized the acronym when he used it as the title of a mixtape. The drama MIA’s been surrounding herself with so far on ‘Matangi’ continues: “Bombs go off when I enter the building”. More interesting are the lyrics that explain the song: “If you only live once why we keep doing the same shit? / Back home where I come from we keep being born / That’s why they invented karma.” But, ultimately, this is an absolutely gigantic party tune. Bring the Noize A terror-filled mix of tribal drums and gobbledygook. MIA has a way of making sort-of-smart sort-of-dumb statements ("it's not me and you, it's the fucking banks") right next to throwaway comments ("I'm a party fucking animal") that combine to convince that the way to bring down corrupt high society is to dance. And make no mistake: she really is convincing. This song also includes the lyric “click click click get off my dick” and a story about an uncle in Iran. It’s utterly ridiculous. Lights The intense humming of bass on a gentle end-of-the-night dancehall number that doesn’t seem to serve much purpose other than signal ‘Matangi’ is winding down. “I used to be a bad girl, now I’m even better,” she says towards the end, as the song introduces a noise like a tiny robot walking up and down and electric keyboard. Know It Ain't Right The album continues to wind down. “We know it ain’t right but we do it anyway” goes the chorus, but we never find out what this thing that “ain’t right” is. This and ‘Lights’ could be an indicator or where a more mellow and calm MIA could go with her music in a few years time, but they jar on an album that mostly evokes thoughts of a rave in an underground bunker beneath a desolate wasteland that’s been torched to the ground by MIA’s army. Sexodus A reprise of ‘Exodus’ with different lyrics and production duties handed over to Hit-boy (rather than Switch and MIA, who did the first version). This one begins with that classic fade-in/out trope: helicopter blades whirring. A stirring finale.

@SuichiAmy and she wrote Y.A.L.A alone LOL best song is the one she wrote with no help. WOnder how a Maya alone album would sound like

Anyway back to what matters...anyone has scans of the interview??

I have orgams with this song. Maya just created YOLO antonym. Y.A.L.A is perfection.... *YOLO? I don't even know anymore What that even mean though If you only live once Why we keep doing the same shit? Back home where I come from We keep being born again and again And then again and again That's why they invented karma Y.A.L.A all the way after all You Always Live Again.

Y.A.L.AAAAAAAAAA is perfectionnnnnn back from where I came from we keep being born again and again hahaha Matangi 01. Karmageddon (Maya Arulpragasam, Sugu Arulpragasam, Martin "Doc" McKinney & Dave Taylor) 02. Matangi (Maya Arulpragasam & Dave Taylor) 03. Only 1 U (Maya Arulpragasam, Dave Taylor & Kyle Edwards) 04. Warriors (Maya Arulpragasam & Hit-Boy) 05. Come Walk With Me (Maya Arulpragasam & Dave Taylor) 06. aTENTion (Maya Arulpragasam & Dave Taylor) 07. Exodus (feat. The Weeknd) (Maya Arulpragasam, Abel Tesfaye, C. Montagnese & Martin "Doc" McKinney) 08. Bad Girls (Maya Arulpragasam, Nate Hills & M.Aracia) 09. Boom Skit (Maya Arulpragasam & Hit-Boy) 10. Double Bubble Trouble (Maya Arulpragasam & Martin "Doc" McKinney) 11. Y.A.L.A. (Maya Arulpragasam) 12. Bring the Noize (Maya Arulpragasam, Benoit Heitz, David Taylor, Jean-Baptiste De Laubier & Hugues Rey) 13. Lights (Maya Arulpragasam , Rosalee Pfeffer & Sugu Arulpragasam) 14. Know It Ain't Right (Maya Arulpragasam & Martin "Doc" McKinney) 15. Sexodus (feat. The Weeknd) (The Weeknd, Maya Arulpragasam, Martin "Doc" McKinney) - Another link for Y.A.L.A: http://bariskoyun.tumblr.com/post/64677378395/m-i-a-y-a-l-a - Cover Art: http://i.imgur.com/e2unens.jpg I think is curious that Maya is working with The Weekend (I like it). Thoughts??

I don't understand one thing tho: if Takeda was so powerful how came no one came after Aidan for killing him?? Why Daniel isn't being persued by the Iniciative?? Suddenly the entire organization disapair

why is Patrick hooking up with Nolan?? I think Aidan tried to kill Conrad so Emily would stop her revenge. I think he was going to kill 2 birds with one stone: kill Conrad and incriminate Victoria. Jack is too much of a annoying creature. SOmeone kill him please

Oh god @@trashmagic... you're seeing things LOL

Being bitter is one of her MKT trades. Obv she will be bitter ,...

Dynamite and Noir because I love both

I LURVEEE the cover. Lana looks great, beautiful. Nylon can be tacky style wise from time to time but they usually get great interviews so I am excited about this read. on another subject.... @@Baby V Alex you made my eyes burn!! do u wanna make me blind?? OMFG that is enought denim to dress a village of small kids in Africa. I do my "ewwww" expression when someone puts on a jeans plus jeans plus jeans outfit. But neither Brit or Lana can top (I hope) the worst item ever created: Pochete in Brazil aka fanny pack aka Pouch for the rest opf you guy's

Maya gave a interview to Pitchfork and is so good http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/9245-mia/ I'm desperate...maybe is her last album?? She is getting tired (don't blame her after all the shit they say about her , her thoughts and her music) She describes Matangi, titled after her birth name and the Hindu goddess of music, as a more “spiritual” album. We spoke about why it may very well be her last. NOOOO!! I will die tbh

So perfect....Maya is a snipper isn't? Never misses the target. She always finds a way to be in the tendency yet completely different from everything and everyone else.

Fucking Brilliant

I think Ride, monologue and song, says a lot about Lana. Was the first video after the backlash wave settle down and I think in a way tells her story. I think Lana is in between her own lyrics. You can find Elizabeth and Lana in between not the words. Does that make sense? Like in Ride (song/video/monologue) for example Imo is kind off her story, how she ended up in Interscope and being Lana Del Rey.

I said this 100 times: Lana is a storyteller first and a writter second. I think she met very interesting people among her life. I would be surprise if she lived more than 1 month in a trailer park and if she never lived in one wouldn't be a surprise at all. I think she creates several characters some probably based in people she met in her life others from her own imagination. I don't think she ever had a drug problem related to cocaine, meth and the hardcore ones. Maybe she started abusing alcohol at young age....maybe not. I think she lies sometimes, sometimes she creates a character. In my opinion the difference between Lana and most is the fact she created that vision. the lie or character is in part who she wanted to be and how she sees certain types of girls. The difference between her and most is the fact she is a character of her own creation and she is in control of that character because he is a part of her. The character fits her since is her. I think Lana is very smart, very political and has a opinion about society and uses the integration between sound (music) and image (videos) to give life to her visions/stories. I think National Anthem is a genious criticism towards US and is a very interesting political and social video. I think Lana is very ironic as well. She is a liar but her lies are carefully chosen and even in that she is in control There are 2 types of people who will always have to prove themselves more: the ones born in extreme poverty and the ones born with a golden spoon. The poor girl surviver story is in a way a ice breaker IMO in the pop scene I would say Miley is going for the same line character wise but in a completely different trajetory the thing is that just like Lana she is in control.

239 bitch has more than 200 leaks plus 2 albuns. Gotta give her credit.

His a french artist if he wasnt pretentious he wouldnt be a proper french artist. Pretentiouness is a requirement

M.I.A's album and doc release are such a mess tbh. I still think the description/ track list you posted is the actual one. Anyway at this stage I don't even care anymore I just want the album out. She can name the songs 1,2,3,4,5,6... for all I care as long as I have it in my hands I am happy

Lol I dont know. Maybe both...a cold and a weed tea too fix the cold...hahaha why you dont like Riri?? Riri is such a fun slut tbh and delivers good pop music

New favorite....such a nice jam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0djkscl718g