In 2012, M.I.A performed at the Super Bowl Halftime show where she extended her middle finger to the camera during her performance. The NFL responded by filing a lawsuit against her for millions in damages and demanding a public apology the latter to which she did not comply. The lawsuit was settled privately a couple of years later.
January 2012 saw the release of M.I.A's next hugely popular track, "Bad Girls." It was nominated for the Video of the Year at the MTV Music Awards and at the 55th Grammy Awards. It became one of her most successful singles and charted in several countries. Later that year, she released her autobiography, "M.I.A." M.I.A released her fourth studio album "Matangi" on November 5, 2013. It received mostly positive reviews from music critics and peaked at No. 23 on the Billboard 200.
MIA Matangi 2012 Albumzip
Personal Life: She met DJ Diplo at the Fabric Club in London in 2003. They were in a relationship for five years. She later said that they had a tumultuous relationship that included emotional abuse from Diplo. M.I.A lived in Brooklyn, New York from 2006 to 2008. She met Benjamin Bronfman in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood where she resided. They became engaged and M.I.A gave birth to their son Ikhyd Edgar Arular Bronfman on February 13, 2009, three days after she performed at the Grammy Awards and just weeks before she was scheduled to perform her nominated song for "Slumdog Millionaire" at the Academy Awards ceremony. She and Bronfman split in February 2012 after six years together.
Back in July, Annie Mac interviewed M.I.A. to announce the official release date for delayed fifth album AIM (formerly called Matahdatah). With the announcement, Maya gave us the bass-heavy single "Go Off" to mask the pain of some bummer news: this is going to be the last M.I.A. album before she goes on hiatus. Just like the album art says, Maya Arulpragasam has been uniting people since 2003, channeling the revolutionary yet radio-ready mantra bands like Public Enemy have championed. And much like Public Enemy in their present day, Maya sees the work to be an all-too-often thankless effort. After the critical and commercial success of Kala (with "Paper Planes" at the helm), it's been one complaint after another despite unquestionable artistic excellence. 2010's Maya upped the noise factor with samples from Suicide and Sleigh Bells, but its technophobic prophecies and takedown of institutional prejudice were seen as too paranoid for the time (spoiler: pretty much all her predictions came true). Maya won fans back with the excellent single "Bad Girls", which saw an official video release in 2012, but a largely publicized law suit by the NFL due to her Super Bowl middle finger put fantastic fourth album Matangi in limbo until the end of 2013. M.I.A. returned with the controversial "Borders" video, where refugees pepper each scene like decorations rather than human beings with faces and families. In a perfect world, where label bigwigs had the propensity to grasp the media criticism that the video beheld, it would have made for an excellent, uncompromising lead up to Matahdatah. But alas, delays paired requests to "fight [her] own battle" and tone down the political message. Months later, here we are with AIM in hand, ready for a listen through Maya's last album before taking some well deserved time off. Despite the countless roadblocks and daily frustrations, with AIM, Maya chooses the high road and gives us a positive and headstrong exit. "Who said it was easy?" she sings on "Survivor" - certainly not anyone who wants to see real and lasting change.
In 2012, M.I.A officially signed to Jay-Z's Roc Nation, and also released an autobiographical book titled M.I.A., which documented "the five years of M.I.A. art that spans across three LPs: Arular, Kala, and Maya." The said book contains artwork as well as a foreword by frequent collaborator Steve Loveridge and various essays by M.I.A.
Bad GirlsGame(s)The Hip Hop Dance Experience (Xbox 360)ArtistM.I.A.From the albumMatangiYear2012Difficulty4/5Dancer Gender(s)Chosen by the Player"Bad Girls" by M.I.A. is featured on the Xbox 360 version of The Hip Hop Dance Experience.
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