Should I stay or should I go
Here’s M.I.A.’s take on ‘Jimmy Aaja,’ from the classic tale about a young man’s sequin fetish, Disco Dancer (thanks, tipster):
When you go Rwanda Congo
Take me on a genocide tour
Take me on a truck to Darfur
Take me where you would goGot static on ya satellite phone
Gotta get you safe at home
Gotta get you somewhere warm
So you get me all alone…Time and time and time and time again
You keep pushing that button but I don’t know what you’re sayin’
You hit me on AIM, tryin’ to flip me on some game
Are you coming, are you going, are you leaving, are you staying? [Link]
In an interview in the current Spin mag, Maya says the song’s about a journalist she was dating. She was in Liberia, and they met up in Rwanda.
She raps in falsetto over the original. It loses something in the translation.
on Thursday, August 2nd, 2007, 1:39 pm in M.I.A., Music › 
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I almost thought for a minute that the song is about all the genocide and pain people in Darfur and cango are facing..
too bad the song is about someone she is dating..
wish musicians write some soulful songs addressing problems of the world so that they can educate everyone about how bad things are in Darfur, cango, sudan etc.,
I liked John mayers song” waiting for the world to change”a lot..glad Bono,mayers, some country artists are taking up such subjects..I never heard MIA but what I read about her, she wrote about srilankan struggles in her earlier songs right..
The song is bollocks. The filmi sampling doesn’t add much; lyrically, she did a better seduction dance with ‘Hombre’ on Arular.
there’s a revealing interview with maya over at pitchfork for those who might be interested.
The song is bollocks. The filmi sampling doesn’t add much…
At least she is consistent. The sample is maha bollocks.