M.I.A.

M.I.A. – MATA (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:02 minutes | 698 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © M.I.A. – Island

British rapper M.I.A. has been making music for nearly two decades, and using her voice to call attention to various issues for just as long. After the release of her 2016 album AIM, the polarizing “Paper Planes” rapper expressed her desire to retire from music altogether. Since the turn of this decade, however, she’s been gearing up to release a new album.

MATA, M.I.A.’s sixth studio album and first in six years, is out today via Island Records. But rather than the attention being on her new music, much of the focus has been on statements she made on Twitter in the days leading up to the album’s release likening Alex Jones’ billion-dollar defamation verdict to celebrities promoting COVID-19 vaccines. “If Alex Jones pays for lying shouldn’t every celebrity pushing vaccines pay too?” she wrote, adding, “If you have no critical thinking faculty, this is about as crazy as we should get before a nuclear war wipe[s] out the human race.”
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