What was not discussed anything about the controversial video for "Born Free" and then on "XXXO". To mainstream to mass appeal is the first single from the new album MIA, which bears the simple title "MAYA". But what is Maya Arulpragasam one serves up everything other than light fare. Shrill, loud sirens, chain saws and almost industrial beats, where a hearing is weggefetzt in the truest sense. She still has a lot to say, she's still angry. "While we become workers, you become golfers" it is said in "Meds And Feds", whose sample of Sleigh Bells with razor-sharp guitar comes along. These wummert always a line out of the speakers: "I just give a damn!" Sounds so rebellious music of the 21st century? If this is the new punk rock? Or is simply all sound Mayas ahead and totally unique? One thing is certain in any case one that Maya can not bend ("You want me be somebody who I'm really not" XXXO) and certainly prohibit anything, let alone their opinion and certainly not by those human rights with trample. So how packed an artist like MIA their statements about "information politics" which, in their opinion, the main theme of the album? "Steppin 'Up", "Teqkilla" or "Story To Be Told", the heavy stuff that need to swallow it. You sound so uncomfortable that "Born Free" almost feels like a true hit, with "hit" in conjunction with a sample Suicide is more than contradictory. On the other hand, there are also inputs songs, yes indeed electropoppige numbers on the album. "It Takes A Muscle" with its catchy reggae beat compared to the majority of the songs a loose Ausruh Summer joy number. "It Iz What It Iz", "Internet Connection" and especially the dreamy groovy "Believer" introduce themselves after the fact as a treat out. Just before that must be bitten with "Illygirl" again the bullet. A nervous, driving beat and to MIA as she sings over and over: "I'm illegal," and she knows what she's talking, because recently she lives on a temporary visa in Los Angeles. Before coming to the album via the Internet has already millions distributed and therefore it will be exciting whether and how Mayans fight for a bit more justice is heard. One thing is certain: MIA is back with power power!
