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

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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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“The Everchanging Spectrum of a Lie”

The Joy Formidable | 2011

The opener off the Welsh group’s The Big Roar album was an epic one, but the band was worried that track had polarized fans. “The first song is eight minutes long,” Rhydian Dafydd, the Joy Formidable bassist, said. “If you did that in the Seventies people would be, ‘Whatever.’ You do it now, people think, ‘Holy s---!’ Some people think it’s the f---ing greatest track on the entire album, and some people think it’s f---ing boring. It’s that element of needing to challenge people.” The band concluded through the song’s lyrics that love was the “everchanging spectrum of a lie.”

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