Monday, April 6, 2009

Pre-Crisis M.I.A.



I was watching Vh1's one hit wonder show the other night and MIA owes a lot to Neneh Cherry's Buffalo Stance.

4 comments:

N.M.C. said...

Ugh.

andy khouri said...

This song is awesome and M.I.A. is a biter. She needs to cover this.

Sam Humphries said...

GREAT jam.

Neneh is pretty legit. She worked with Massive Attack back in the day and was part of Rip Rig & Panic, a worthy but completely forgotten band.

Her brother Eagle Eye Cherry had a hit song at some point and her dad was a jazz musician of some note.

Josh Xing said...

This had so many great elements to a '90s music video - superimposed graffiti-like art, large gold necklaces and earrings, money signs, big hair, floating hazy facial profiles like a class of 1991 senior portrait, a DJ scratching a record, and a monologue over music. Unfortunately, it's missing one thing - Gratuitous use of condoms as clothing.