Word: galangã
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Flash forward to 2003: M.I.A., now living in London, releases “Galang?? as a single, kicking off a dizzying succession of critical plaudits. Her sound defied easy description from the start, echoing out like a siren’s song on that first single: often incomprehensible but always irresistible, all staticky bounce and half-nonsensical singalongs, with dial-tones spiraling downward over nimble bass stabs. And “Galang?? sounds like almost nothing else on the final album...
...about M.I.A.’s authenticity (“She went to art school!”), political associations (“Her dad’s a terrorist!”), and fashion sense (“Who was the wardrobe designer for the ‘Galang?? video, Crockett or Tubbs?”). But very few can find a bottle of Haterade big enough to wash away their appreciation of the music...
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