Insert pic of Elsa the baby lion here

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

It's MIA's new single, 'Born Free'!

(The proper video is rather NSFW but it's hanging around on Vimeo if you want to find it there.)

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Comments

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

I really want to be smug and tell you I've heard the album, but that would be annoying... (The next single is a pop song, though.)

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

I guess it's a single cos of the video. Which I don't want to watch! It sounds horrid!

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

I haven't really listened to the song per se except as part of the video, but I enjoyed it! I thought it was pretty good. I don't know what the director has against gingers, of course, but the whole aesthetic of the video seems very indebted to Punishment Park.

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

I AM SO FUCKING EXCITED!!!

I do rather like it, it's very early-90s grrl-core noise-making, which I LUFF, but I think it's lacking some of her trademark humorous quirkiness. Hence both brilliant and disappointing.

Still, a poor M.I.A. track is usually miles better than most everything else.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I have never liked an M.I.A. song; is there any likelihood this will change this?

I loved Elsa the lion when I was a kid

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Darn it, you really made me think this was going to be a cover!

No!

[mcarratala.livejournal.com]

It's horrible, horrible. And at lunchtime, someone left the video playing on their computer in the office I'm working in after they had left for the canteen, while the radio was still on, which created a truly diabolical din (maybe that was the idea – thus spreading madness throughout one of the world's most evil corporations. Or maybe just annoying me).

[koganbot]

In what universe is this a lead single?

A universe that contains that bird flu thing?