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  M.I.A. on Her New Music and New Job: Designing Beer Bottles

  May 7, 2012 – After MIA's action-packed 2010, which included both the commercial release of /\/\/\Y/\ and the mixtape Vicki Leekx — the latter, arguably her best work since Arular — the lightning rod that is Maya Arulpragasam has been fairly low-key (the stunning "Bad Girls" video notwithstanding). …
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  M.I.A. Previews New LP 'Matangi' With the Best Dancing Video You'll See This Week

  April 30, 2012 – When is a song teaser not just a song teaser? When it's nearly two minutes of what appears to be a new track from an upcoming M.I.A. album called Matangi, and it features some terrific dance moves identified by YouTube commenters as the Ivory Coast-born style Coupé-Décalé. …
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  M.I.A. Scores WikiLeaks TV Show 'The World Tomorrow'

  April 13, 2012 – M.I.A. has written the original music for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's new talk show. A spokesman for WikiLeaks told Forbes.com the British-Sri Lankan hip-hop provocateur got together with Assange in London, where he has been under house arrest for the past year and a half. Titled The World Tomorrow, the weekly show is set to premiere on the news network Russia Today this Tuesday, when it will also go up online. …
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  How M.I.A. Captured the Wild Car Tricks in 'Bad Girls' Video

  March 19, 2012 – Three months into 2012, M.I.A.'s "Bad Girls" remains the clear frontrunner for best music video of the year, and Vice traveled to Morocco during the shoot for a 13-minute making-of video that explores the genesis of the clip (via M.I.A.'s Twitter). …
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  'SNL' Damage Report: How Badly Did Karmin Bomb?

  February 13, 2012 – Come back, Lizzy Grant, all is forgiven. Saturday Night Live played A&R executive once again this weekend by bringing out YouTube cover band Karmin. …
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  M.I.A. or Hydrangeas: Which Offends Madonna More?

  February 10, 2012 – In an interview with Ryan Seacrest this morning, Madonna admitted that she was so not happy with M.I.A. over that whole bird-flipping debacle at the Super Bowl. In her words, she thought the gesture was a "very teenager, irrelevant thing to do," per Spinner. …
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  Deconstructing M.I.A.

  February 6, 2012 – Confused revolutionary? Brilliant provocateur? As her Super Bowl digit malfunction reminded everyone, Maya Arulpragasam is one of the most polarizing figures in pop today, a neon blur of contradictions and conflations — but she may also be the most thrilling. …
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  Watch M.I.A.'s 'Bad Girls' Run the World With Crazy Car Tricks

  February 3, 2012 – M.I.A.'s surprisingly tame, yet otherwise very M.I.A. video for "Bad Girls" has arrived via Vice's Noisey video channel. The clip, directed by her previous collaborator Romain Gavras, is far less violent than some of the politi-pop singer's previous videos (see: "Born Free"), but still evokes her signature glitter-and-guns aesthetic. …
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  Good Sport: Madonna, M.I.A., and Minaj Play Ball in 'Give Me All Your Luvin' ' Video

  February 3, 2012 – Madonna is not a woman who likes to share her spotlight, so the fact that she surrendered the aesthetic of her new video for "Give Me All Your Luvin' " to promoting her upcoming appearance at Sunday's Super Bowl halftime show and asked M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj to appear on the track is no small feat. The Madonna- and Martin Solveig-produced song — the first single from March 26's M.D.N.A. …
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  M.I.A. Unleashes Reworked Single 'Bad Girls'

  January 30, 2012 – "Live fast / Die young / Bad girls do it well" — now there's a line Lana Del Rey wished she'd written. Too bad M.I.A. got there first. The irresistibly sassy lyric provides the hook on "Bad Girls," the first single (via Pitchfork) from M.I.A.'s forthcoming as-yet-untitled album, her first for new label Mercury and first since 2010's divisive Maya. …
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