{"id":461,"date":"2007-08-21T20:32:57","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T00:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/08\/21\/new-mia\/"},"modified":"2007-08-21T20:32:57","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T00:32:57","slug":"new-mia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/08\/21\/new-mia\/","title":{"rendered":"New M.I.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new M.I.A album &#8211; called Kala &#8211; dropped today.\u00c2\u00a0 M.I.A. took heavy rotation in my 2005 listening (click on her MySpace page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/mia\">here<\/a>, and then start &#8220;Galang&#8221; for a sample), and I&#8217;ve very much looked forward to seeing whether she had more than one album in her.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict, halfway through the new one?<\/p>\n<p>Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p>And, if you want to get an idea of the force of personality that is M.I.A., click over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitchforkmedia.com\/article\/news\/44529-mia-confronts-the-haters\">this<\/a> Pitchfork interview:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And that&#8217;s what this album is about. It&#8217;s filling in the bridge and the gap so that somebody in Liberia can articulate exactly what they want to say without having this middle-man person who has to be from the first world. And that&#8217;s what this album is about, it&#8217;s like &#8220;guess what: I came from the fucking mud hut and I got here and I&#8217;m here and I did it in 15 fucking years flat.&#8221; It&#8217;s not a three-generation experience like people in America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new M.I.A album &#8211; called Kala &#8211; dropped today.\u00c2\u00a0 M.I.A. took heavy rotation in my 2005 listening (click on her MySpace page here, and then start &#8220;Galang&#8221; for a sample), and I&#8217;ve very much looked forward to seeing whether she had more than one album in her. The verdict, halfway through the new one? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}