M.I.A (Mathangi Arulpragasam) is a 41 year old ""rapper"" from the UK and I honestly don't know why she is as popular as she is. She is getting 8-9 figure view counts on her music videos on YouTube and it really annoys me.
Exhibit A:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewRjZoRtu0Y - Paper Planes.
This song annoys me because firstly, she isn't singing nor rapping. She is talking. She isn't speaking anywhere near quick enough to be rapping, and she is talking in a monotone way which eliminates the fact of her even "singing". Sure I guess it's a different style, but let's face it, she sounds like she hasn't slept in 48 hours and wanted to record one more song, she sounds like she can't be bothered which reflects how much effort she puts into her songs.
Next, the lyrics. Each line is repeated twice which shows how stupid this song is, couldn't she have come up with different lines to replace the repeated one? Or does she just sing anything that's handed to her?
The appeal for this song could also just be the music itself rather than her singing but still.
Exhibit B:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uYs0gJD-LE - Bad Girls.
This song from about 5 years after Exhibit A shows the exact same thing, lazy monotone speaking accompanied by drum machines. The lyrics are also pretty stupid in this one, and the hook and bridge is repeated so many times it almost outweighs the verses.
Exhibit C:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-Nw7HbaeWY - Borders.
Yet again Mathangi is back again with some more incoherent speaking where she rhymes "freedom" with "we'dom"? Does that even mean anything? She also rhymes "them" with "them". Also she says "what's up with that?" after every line in the very long chorus which shows some really clever and meaningful song writing
Sorry for sounding so aggressive, I just wanted to get this off of my chest, there are so many talented artists getting 20,000 views on their videos while this stuff is getting 20,000,000 - 110,000,000 views.
