{"id":4416,"date":"2007-05-07T12:04:06","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T17:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4416"},"modified":"2007-05-07T09:35:41","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T14:35:41","slug":"caribbean_queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/07\/caribbean_queen\/","title":{"rendered":"Caribbean Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitchforkmedia.com\/article\/news\/42752-photos-mias-jamaican-vacation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"MIA-pitchfork.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/MIA-pitchfork.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" align=\"right\"\/><\/a>Who dat? Why, that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?IncludeBlogs=2&#038;q=M.I.A.&#038;btnG=Search&#038;domains=sepiamutiny.com&#038;sitesearch=sepiamutiny.com\">your girl M.I.A.<\/a>, doin&#8217; the damn thing in Jamaica during a video shoot last week; a tipster on the news tab blessed us with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitchforkmedia.com\/article\/news\/42752-photos-mias-jamaican-vacation\">link to this and several other photos<\/a> from the shoot posted at hip arbiter Pitchfork Media. Apparently the sister&#8217;s new album, called Kala, drops in August; we&#8217;ve already gotten down to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/004172.html\">Bird Flu<\/a>&#8221; a few months ago, and now if you check the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitchforkmedia.com\/article\/news\/42752-photos-mias-jamaican-vacation\">Pitchfork item<\/a> you&#8217;ll find a link to a MySpace page that offers a stream of another new song (though not on the album), called &#8220;Hit That.&#8221; The topic is, um, exactly what it sounds like &#8212; a pure sex\/party jam, containing interpolations of previous classics of the genre like Wreckx-N-Effect&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iKKONgfNONU\">Shake Your Rump<\/a>.&#8221; Anyway make of the music what you will, but I&#8217;m digging the pan-Third World aesthetic that M.I.A.&#8217;s been putting forward of late in her videos and indeed, her choice of settings; she&#8217;s a reverse ambassador of mash-up globalization, bringing it back to its multiple sources, and the brown skins, big butts and ramshackle backdrops express a politics far more creative, democratic and satisfying than the tired and tendentious tigers of her first go-round.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who dat? Why, that&#8217;s your girl M.I.A., doin&#8217; the damn thing in Jamaica during a video shoot last week; a tipster on the news tab blessed us with a link to this and several other photos from the shoot posted &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/07\/caribbean_queen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}