Hipster Queens Series: Music Edition: M.I.A.

M.I.A.'s new video is burning through the intarwab like some kind of day-glow bush fire with extra Jamaican zebras running for their lives***, and in the spirit of providing you with some educational content along with the porn, I wanted to tell you a little story.


***Did you see that? Just like a real mp3 blog!

I spotted said video on Antville, downloaded the .mov and as I was watching it, a strange feeling of disappointment crept up. The video was clearly loaded with the requisite disjointed ethnic memes, with quality shanty moves and the like, M.I.A. herself looking well regal as the legitimate queen of the nu-rave, Super Super, Paperrad, Cassetteplaya aesthetics she pioneered a couple years ago. But something was amiss. Where was the thrill? The future shock? And that's when I noticed that my speakers were off. I had been watching the video with the sound off. Don't know if there is some deeper meaning in that right there but, hey.

Did I mention the track is produced by Switch? Never mind.

Anyway, this is a fucking porn blog so here is some "porn":


Video extra, promoting the release of "Boyz" in USB key format, wherein the songstress, doubtless aware of how fucking weird that sounds, actually says: "This is M.I.A. bringing you the Jamaican experience on a USB key":


Coming up next: Uffie, of course.