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^You are so incredably wrong

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Originally Posted by Rainard Jalen (Post 440063)

Why can't everybody just be honest?
Be good peeps and admit that M.I.A. just is NOT particularly talented. It's not an opinion. It's a fact. She can't sing, has ridiculous childish lyrics often amounting to no more than half-baked agitprop, and anything/everything good about the music is down to the ****ing production team.
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^And that is exactly the truth

you guys do know that Maya is a producer, too, right?

oh, guess not.

I'm done arguing. I'm not going to change your opinion of her, or anything for that matter. Enjoy touching yourselves to Conor Oberst and Elliott Smith.

Oh shut the **** up. Defend this.
"Paper Planes"

[x2]
I fly like paper, get high like planes
If you catch me at the border I got visas in my name
If you come around here, I make 'em all day
I get one down in a second if you wait

[x2]
Sometimes I think sitting on trains
Every stop I get to I'm clocking that game
Everyone's a winner now we're making that fame
Bonafide hustler making my name

[x4]
All I wanna do is (BANG BANG BANG BANG!)
And (KKKAAAA CHING!)
And take your money

[x2]
Pirate skulls and bones
Sticks and stones and weed and bongs
Running when we hit 'em
Lethal poison through their system

[x2]
No one on the corner has swag like us
Hit me on my burner prepaid wireless
We pack and deliver like UPS trucks
Already going hell just pumping that gas

[x4]
All I wanna do is (BANG BANG BANG BANG!)
And (KKKAAAA CHING!)
And take your money

M.I.A.
Third world democracy
Yeah, I got more records than the K.G.B.
So, uh, no funny business

Some some some I some I murder
Some I some I let go
Some some some I some I murder
Some I some I let go

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Originally Posted by enemyat_thesix (Post 440192)

Is her being a producer supposed to be an excuse to the album sucking?

At any rate we can probably rest assured that any role she played in the production was dramatically less important than say, Switch's, Diplo's, or whoever. Hell, check it out, it's just sheer f'ckin embarrassing that there's not a single song on Kala that she wrote alone. What the credits DO tell us, far as I'm concerned, is probably something along the lines of her being more focused on the vocal/lyrical side and the producers on the music.

So she has a creative role. Big damn deal. So does Fiddy. Fact remains, she's not a musician, she has virtually zero skills as an MC/vocalist, and needs help to come up with the miserably and embarrassingly underwhelming tracks that make up her albums.

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Originally Posted by Crowquill (Post 426290)

My thoughts when typing this up: Neon Bible and Sound of Silver weren't that good.:(

Agreed

2007 had such epic albums such as Drudkh's Estrangement, Wolves In The Throne Room's Two Hunters, Wishbone Ash's Power of Eternity, Citay's Little Kingdom and so forth.

even Amazon gave Two Hunters a nod

Two Hunters is a fantastic album. I'd like to know some more bands like Wolves in the Throne Room if any of you are savvy enough to recommend some.

WITTR are pretty unique in their little world of black metal, no bands really compare to what they're doing.