I don't care, because it's fucking catchy :3

wait crap you said the same thing. I'M COPYRIGHTING THIS.

COPYWRONG

It's not copywrong if there isn't a sexy product mascot having sex with another mascot of equal attractiveness.

Also they have to be males.

what? that's gay.

No man it's completely straight. I'm not gay. You're gay. DON'T TALK TO ME

FUCK YOU



side note: i clicked on the related tabs and found a sped up version of the song. I don't know why I find like every song hilarious when it's sped up :( It never gets old for me.

FAST=FUNNY

SLOW=COOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h55uQMrXcg

when i saw JUSTICE in town the dj that opend for them ended with this song. he was one of those uh "speedcore" djs. where its all super fast with samples of songs and tv shows and junk thrown in.

it was funny for seeing a packed show all raise their "guns" in the air when the corus came up.

also i think she is full of shit, in that quote she dosnt even make a saline point. if the worst thing you can think of to say to someone is i wanna come get ya monies, you must not be thinking too hard. i agree that most of America is obsessed with money, and the "status" it brings. does this song some how satirise it? fuck no.

I think she almost had a point, but either she didn't know how to explain it, or she's a hypocrite/full of crap.

I dunno, maybe she's trying to make a point but not making it?

it reminds me of how stoners try to make a deep point while high, and they just kinda drift away :p

also, i dont think the songs lyrics back up it being satire, i know she claims she did it in the sound effects, but they are not something that can be taken many ways. it sounds more like a sort of slice of life song from the lyrics.

deep meaning or not, i still enjoy the song XD

yeah, I just don't know mans but it is stuck in my head anyway

I think it's less trying to make a point and more cashing in on how cool it is these days to talk about how poor you used to be until you hustled your way up to bein' a SUPASTAR.
I like how Bun B put it though,
"BEIN' POOR IS A DISEASE, GOTTA HUSTLE UP A CURE"
It's more inspirational to poor people than gunshots and cash drawer sfx.

Hey your avatar is back to regular

It could be that, too. I have this feeling that she's trying to be genuine, and make an artistic expression but she's caught up in other things...I dunno, it's hard for me to say.


I need to make more avatars...

BETTER AND STRONGER

Me too, mine is getting bored of slowly blinking

It's good primarily cuz of The Clash song they sampled - Straight to hell. One of my favs from em.. They used it in.. well not a shitty way to be blunt. It does say something about a part of society that I can dig. Being played a bunch though lately. The media better stop that before I get angry. Just remember she sampled the clash on this tune.. 'WOW I wonder why this is SO GOOD"

I think that the song was about her getting high and thinking of things like this, that is why it was the theme for Pineapple Express. o, look here on 2:10, she is wearing a sonic shirt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3BP4V9gcFM&feature=related

guess this is the time that nations will get over obsessed too with money

I'm immigrant too but don't make me start a discussion -_-, mainly cause I never stop after starting

Ive always interpreted the song as satirizing the way the "mainstream" or whatever views immigrants/minorities. I mean, it makes so many references to drugs and selling, and it opens with a verse about counterfeit visas. The whole song is visualizing the xenophobia that exists in our culture. Consider how lines like "Some I murder, some I let go" or the chorus itself are delivered in an ironically casual sing-songy way. I mean, at one point she quips that the characters she's singing about are "lethal poison for the system".

Of course, throughout the song is a sample of Straight to Hell, by The Clash, which is a song essentially about Americans doing this kind of shit to Vietnam. So, there's more to it than irony if you look deep enough. I think ultimately it's about hypocrisy and racism.

totally agree

also, some of you may want to read up on MIA and gain some perspective on where in the world she is coming from and why she would write a song like this

You know, after a lot of thinking, I went from:

"hmm, this is catchy but why is the chorus censored" to
"wow, after reading what's about, this is pretty controversial and kind of awesome" to
"you know what? This song is kind of stupid and MIA is stupid" to
"actually, you know maybe this song isn't bad, in fact, maybe it is really cool"
"and hey, this clash song is really something"

(I'm gonna add that to my journal)

Anyway, kudos to MIA for making me think a lot about a song.

Coool, sir. She's kind of that way. I mean, even in interviews, at first you're not sure if what she's saying is kind of empty or just really smart in a way that isn't trying too hard.

I really like the way she used the sample in that song. It's kind of like a webcomic that has an extra joke in the alt-text, like a hidden punchline or a little extra hint at the intended tone. She uses that technique a lot on her latest album, which is cool, and I think the frequency of the music-borrowing is kind of a statement on its own.

It's really easy to misinterpret this song when you haven't heard her other music, and I think a lot of people are doing that right now. Because Pineapple Express used the song so prominently and the popularity of the track exploded, for many people it was the first material they've ever heard from her.

Check out Sunshowers if you haven't heard it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knQuxZj9rTA

Hmm. :l

I think the song starts to lose its focus around the third chorus. UH. As for the song's initial message, it sounds like it's using fear to paint illegal immigrants or immigrants in general as violent criminals when most of the time, they just end up working in privately-owned construction corps and assembly plants/factories and things of that nature where the management isn't very mindful of security. Office jobs, accountancy and all that. Uh. I dunno. Sooo I guess what I'm saying is, the song is inaccurate and seems to touch on sensitive topics and sounds catchy, but I guess couldn't put together the meanings as cohesively without like. I guess it'd sacrifice some other facet of the song's image? Cause I'm negative, I don't think the song is gonna reach people that would probably need to hear it, but wellll. A lot of people already have their minds made up I guess? ;.;
*ramble*
The song's pace makes me think of drugs, or a tranquilized haze.

Yeah, the pace of the sample from the clash song is a little slowed down.


and everything in the song seems pretty exaggerated, I dunno I like it!

I think she had a random thought that sort of interested her, so she played with it and it became a song. I don't think that makes it meaningless by any means, but I don't think it was exactly meant to be scrutinized for a "hidden meaning" or something.

My understanding is she had sort of a rough life, and that this song (and all of her other ones) are sort of just samples of what kinds of things she thinks about.

'Straight to Hell' is just such a tastier song. Journal about THAT, why don't you.

She's just so underrated. :/ Glad Paperplanes took notice. <3

Soemone I met recently said something funny recently when I told him I like MIA: "Of course you like MIA, you're white; all white people like MIA."

I think she has a point, she jut sucks at trying to explain it. The sample is done well, the delivery of the verse lyrics is interesting, the chorus is surprising and funny and catchy as a motherfucker, I dunno.

9__9

OF COURSE YOU LIKE MIA YOR WHIET



I dunno I haven't eve heard her other music, this one song just grabbed me and demanded all my attention for some reason

I really really like the rest of Kala.... but YOU KNOW i'm JUST WHITE, so.... YOU KNOW. >:I

I think she could try to make prettier songs and less forced rhyming to convey whatever she meant to say in that song.
I fear some people like it while missing the sarcasm. You know the kind of people. D:

people who are gangster hustlers who like to shoot people?

IT IS CATCHY so it doesn't matter what it says, damnit!

YES IT DOES BECAUSE INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW


WHAT IT SAYS







MINE

I think its just saying what people see in America, and that's prosperity. People have immigrated to America since it started just to get a slice of it. I think its a bit of a question. Why is it shocking to expect people to immigrate to America without wanting a bit of what Americans have?

but in the song she's saying all she wants to do is *bang bang bang bang* and *kaching* take your money, and there's the line at the end of the song saying "some I murder, some I let go," it just seems pretty sarcastic to me


in that interview she said that americans are obsessed with money and so they'll get it...seems like more sarcasm and disdain for western culture

it's a little stronger of an opinion than I have, but I like her for making kind of a statement about immigrants

i think it is disdain, but also an envious loathing. I do think its meant as a bit of a threat "We're coming, we're going to get our piece of the american pie, don't fuck with us."

ha, one of my teachers wrote a really long note on facebook about MIA, and saying that she is in a way facist... cause in her debut albut she had a song called pull up the people which positioned her as a saviour, or someone who voiced sri-lanken's opinions.

i think teachers like to think too much, but its an interesting idea.

i don't know what she is personally but all I know is that she is fashionable and sucks live :x

heh, I guess that sounds a little similar..I'd have to hear the song I guess to see what she's talkin about

That's a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascist


gotta stick up for your people though