Track Listings (2) - Disc #1| All Artists: Mia Title: Galang Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 1 Label: Xl Recordings Release Date: 9/28/2004 Album Type: Single Genres: Dance & Electronic, Alternative Rock, International Music, Pop Styles: Reggae, Dance Pop Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 0634904119997, 634904119928 |
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 | Mia Galang Genres: Dance & Electronic, Alternative Rock, International Music, Pop
At age 11, M.I.A. (aka Maya Arul) was a refugee of war. Her family was forced to flee Sri Lanka in the mid-80s when the Sinhala-Tamil conflict gripped the country. Quickly adapting to her new surroundings, she's moved from... more »     |
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Album Description At age 11, M.I.A. (aka Maya Arul) was a refugee of war. Her family was forced to flee Sri Lanka in the mid-80s when the Sinhala-Tamil conflict gripped the country. Quickly adapting to her new surroundings, she's moved from those dark days to the verge of stardom. Her debut self-released single, "Galang" sent shock waves through the UK and secured her a cover on US-based Fader Magazine in August 2004. It's fresh, twisted, and has a killer hook. Now available with a Diplo remix of the undeniably catchy "Sunshowers", M.I.A. is about to set the world on fire. Similarly Requested CDs
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Member CD Reviews Michelle B. (forensicpsych72) from TULSA, OK Reviewed on 4/13/2007... This is a very political song. I just love it!
CD ReviewsInfectious fresh sound, just not enough released yet! Oddly Opinionated | Fresh, Clean-Scented New Jersey, USA | 03/05/2005 (5 out of 5 stars) "OK, I'm "too old to be listening to this kind of music" according to hip hop kids, but that's THEIR problem, not mine. MIA brings a freshness and infectious funkiness to her music that takes it not just one but many cuts above a lot of the recycled late-60's anger and low-creativity beats that fuel so much other hip hop. With most hip hop I feel like I've heard it before, 30 years ago and better. When I first heard MIA (this song, in fact) my head snapped up to attention so fast I nearly broke my neck. When will we get more, and more? It's an awful thing to load into your personal music player because there you are on the subway trying to be one of the invisibles going to work with your clone-being earpods on and Galang starts and you start rocking then feet start to moving and suddenly you just don't care what anyone else thinks, your body just says "gotta move." It's not for those with a weakness for bopping. Good get ready to work with an attitude music. And as to MIA and other critics talking about her "mongrel beats" and not knowing where it comes from - maybe, but I'll tell you what I hear. It's inner-city double-dutch jumprope beats. Bet you if I put it on a box on any playground where kids still work the ropes, it'll play forever there in the blur of spinning ropes. Double-dutch hip-hop, that's what I think. She's her own genre. Buy it, listen to it, bop to it. She's really good. It's hot." Do yourself a favor R. dekoch | San Francisco | 01/04/2005 (4 out of 5 stars) "Galang is a great single. It's hard, twisted and I can't get it out of my head. I can't wait for a full-length."
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