M.I.A. - Arular
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Free Music Review: This is the good stuff
Hit: 5 Stars
I first heard this at the gym and had to have it. Picked it up a few days back and I'm just loving it. There isn't a bad track on it. The few who are dissin this need to loosen up.Free Music Review: There isn't anything else like it...
Hit: 5 Stars
Hot off the heals of the "Piracy funds Terrorism" mixtape featuring bootleg mashups comes M.I.A.'searth shattering debut.
Arular is a tasty conconction of electro, hip-hop, dancehall, reggae and Brazillian favela style music. There isn't anything else like that.
To complement the tasty beats and production, M.I.A.'s vocals are uncomprimising and brutal - full of references to "shake your a## on the floor" as well as "calls to arm" and radical revolutions.
Not only is the music bleedingly cutting edge, but it also has a fantastic "retro" feel (see Bucky Done Gun with the "Theme from Rocky" sample). All tracks are killers (no fillers!) and are super catchy and addictive. Favourite songs (other than Bucky Done Gun) include "Hombre", "Pull up the People" and "Galang".
If you are a fan of dance music or hip-hop - then what are you waiting for...?
Free Music Review: OMG
Hit: 1 Stars
OMG... I wanted to shot myself after listening to 30 seconds of this nonsense.Free Music Review: Captivated by Arular
Hit: 5 Stars
My 10 year old daughter and my 61 year old butt can't get enough of Arular. Masterfully edited - as tight and rich as the Beatles at their peak. The dad loves the mechanical electronic aspects. The girl has to sing along with the singsong poetry and just dance to it.
Maya's voice is awesome. My brother's reaction was that he doesn't like foreigh sounding funny voices in his music, so this isn't for everyone. But it's not just for open minded college students. This is the real thing. This is a most favored treat in our huge and eclectic music collection.
As with other reviewers, we, too, are put off by the violent images, but for us it has the authentic feel of a window into the revolutionary third world.
Free Music Review: WTF kind of ish is THIS?
Hit: 1 Stars
I remember seeing the video for M.I.A.'s song "Bucky Done Gun" (whatever that means) on MTV Hits one day, and after it went off, I thought that maybe it was just some reggaeton that I couldn't get into. But since I try to give everything a fair chance, I still decided to check out her album. But despite all the glowing reviews for Arular, after listening to it, I personally think it is one of the worst albums in existence.
I think M.I.A. should stand for Music Is Acquired (as in "acquired taste") because to say that the music isn't the most accessible wouldn't be telling the half of it. Everything single song has a completely different style; and to top THAT off, there is absolutely no kind of cohesion. Furthermore, Maya can neither sing nor rap (but it's really more like talking than rapping).
The only way I could possibly recommend this album is if there is an instrumental version of it somewhere, so people could dance to it at the club. Then again, I couldn't even tell if the beats are that great after all, because everything is so badly produced. I understand that Maya wanted to fuse reggae, rap, R&B and possibly other styles, but she failed miserably. Missy Elliott tried to do a similar thing with The Cookbook and also failed, but even that is better than Arular. Leave it alone.
Anthony Rupert