There's a bit of hope that a song can be about anything. If you want to write a song about anything, you can, and you don't have to put it through the process of having it be trendy or cool or generic pop or these types.
M.I.A.I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control.
M.I.A.I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything.
M.I.A.It could be the sort of declining grip of the American MTV-nation culture-the fact that MTV doesn't play so much music anymore.
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