M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes” Music Video and Song are a Sudden Hit!
“Paper Planes” is the third single from M.I.A.’s second album “Kala”. The album was considered by critics across the globe to be landmark and the best record of 2007. Music purchasers didn’t catch on until this song was used in this past summer’s stoner buddy film “Pineapple Express”.
In an interview in late August 2008, Arulpragasam described the song as being “about people driving cabs all day and living in a shitty apartment and ‘appearing’ really threatening to society. But not being so. Because, by the time you’ve finished working a 20-hour shift, you’re so tired you (just) want to get home to the family”.
On the gunshots and cash register ringing in the song’s chorus, she felt “you can either apply it on a street level and go, oh, you’re talking about somebody robbing you and saying I’m going to take your money. But, really, it could be a much bigger idea: someone’s selling you guns and making money - that’s probably the biggest moneymaker in the world…” adding “It is (a lot for a pop song) but you only have three minutes to put in your thesis.”
The DFA remix from the “Homeland Security” remixes EP of “Paper Planes” is a reggae inspired summer masterpiece and it’s a fresh new interpretation of this hard edged track. However M.I.A.’s innovative brand of world rap music gets its exposure isn’t the issue, it’s letting everyone know that M.I.A. is a force to be watched. She will be considered for years to come as a pioneer and poet. Watch the music video below:
September 17th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
i heard she is also using all the money she gets from this song to build a school in liberia! oprah style, yo! MIA rules….