TO CHARACTERIZE last week's M.I.A.
show as "anticipated" is like saying the 49ers need an offensive game plan: blatantly understated and obvious. It's been a year since her single "Galang" set blogorati ablaze, and the mixtape Piracy Funds Terrorism became the must-have CD-R among cultural gatekeepers. This summer, Interscope rereleased the British rapper's indie debut, Arular.
"Galang" is running in a Honda Civic ad campaign, and her next record will be produced by TIMBALAND. So busy is she, M.I.
A. turned down an appearance on Kanye West's Late Registration ("Drive Slow," which Paul Wall filled in). M.
I.A.'s San Francisco show last Wednesday her third local appearance in the past year was an appropriate quinceanera of sorts.
Her grime-meets-dancehall patois escaped the hipster ruling class and rightly landed with the prole buying public. The show was a major coming-out party that stirred longtime (one year) and new fans into one. The show was identical to previous visits with a few aesthetic revisions.
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