M.I.A. Video for "Paper Planes": Uncut, With Gunshots and Beastie Boys Cameo Intact

M.I.A. is sick of anonymous editors taking the ammo out of the chorus for her single "Paper Planes." The rapper writes in her MySpace blog about haters cutting the gunshot noises out of her track when she performed on the The Late Show with David Letterman earlier this year (watch here). "I felt soooooo bad for what they did to my sound .... on the actual taping my sound was sooo different from what I'd agreed." And now MTV is messing with the video for "Planes": "The video was sabotaged" she writes, and she's posted the original version of the video, which was shot in Brooklyn and features a cameo from the Beastie Boys, on her site; check it out above.

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Song Stories

“Youth Knows No Pain”

Lykke Li | 2011

“Like on 'Youth Knows No Pain' — we are the ones that should demonstrate, because we can take it,” Likke Li said. “We can pierce ourselves, take Ecstasy, dance all night and still go to work at our McDonald's jobs.” Despite the hedonistic sentiment in the song, the Swedish singer also admitted in hindsight her youth had repercussions. “I remember when I was 18-19 and feeling that I know it all,” Li said. “I always feel that I know it all. But that song is about realizing you don’t, and reflecting, ‘Boy, if I only knew what would follow.’”

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