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M.I.A.'s New Single Inspired by Tech Support Troubles

by Amar Toor on January 12, 2010 at 09:45 AM

With President Bush forever out of office, and the hook from "Paper Planes" permanently etched in our minds, Sri Lankan musician-political activist-new mommy M.I.A. found herself in need of new inspiration for her next album. After spanning the globe and singing about heavy things like school-aged Liberian soldiers on 2007's "Kala," she's reportedly gone back to something just a tad more mundane for one of her upcoming singles -- wireless connection issues.

According to Rolling Stone, the still untitled album features a song titled "I'm Down Like Your Internet Connection," a track inspired by the trials and tribulations she endured while trying to get a broadband connection up and running at her own home. After spending three hours on the phone with Verizon tech support, the light bulb went off, and a song was born. The artist came up with a chorus, asked the Filipino tech support workers to sing it back to her on the phone, and has apparently used their vocals in the single. As she says, "Ten phone calls later, I have Internet that sticks and a song."

The album isn't due out until this summer, so we'll all have to wait a while until we can cop a listen. But judging from the clever title, and M.I.A.'s stellar track record of finding obscure, off the wall sources for the catchiest of choruses, we're pretty confident that it won't suck. Intimately familiar as we may be with "sticks and stones and weed and bombs," Internet connectivity problems are definitely more in our cultural wheelhouse -- if only by the slightest of margins. [From: Rolling Stone]

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