If you know rapper M.I.A. exclusively because of her hit single “Paper Planes” (here) then you probably think of her as a poppy rap princess who banks on catchy hooks and lilting melodies.
That’s just one of the reasons why I love M.I.A.’s new single “Born Free;” it blows up any such notion of her as a lightweight. It’s my favoritist new song of 2010 so far.
And the dystopian music video is cinematic and terrifically controversial (here). Just when I lost faith in music’s potential to insight revolutionary-tinged outrage…
