M.I.A. says her label refuses to release her new record because it's "too positive"
by Aaron Zorgel
June 18, 2013
M.I.A.'s Matangi, the follow-up to 2010's Maya, was originally slated for a December 2012 release, but after several rounds of arguments with Interscope, she's revealed that her label is continually rejecting it because the overall tone is "too positive."
M.I.A.’s Matangi, the follow-up to 2010’s Maya, was originally slated for a December 2012 release, but after several rounds of arguments with Interscope, she’s revealed that her label is continually rejecting it because the overall tone is “too positive.” According to M.I.A., Interscope has asked her to “darken it up a bit.”
In an interview with BBC Radio 1, M.I.A. said that a release is penciled in for this fall, but the label has yet to approve her final mix. After several rounds of notes, she says that this is her “last stab” at a traditional release, and will start “making records and putting them out from the bedroom straight on the internet” if it doesn’t work out this time.
Before you assume that her new material is going to sound like S Club 7 or something, M.I.A. debuted “Bring The Noize,” a new single that’s full of vocal stutter edits, booming drums, and twisted synthscapes. If this is what her new record sounds like, it’s hard to imagine what Interscope wants from M.I.A. — it sounds plenty dark to us. Listen below:
