Do potential pandemics need a musical response? M.I.A. de-stigmatized Bird Flu with her clacking track named after the 2004 global scare (Sample lyrics: “Bird flu gonna get you made it in my stable/from the crap you drop on my crop when they pay you”). When she posted the tune on YouTube in 2007, M.I.A. noted the song was so-named because “THIS BEAT GON KILL EVERYONE!!” But is it too soon for the new mom to whip up a beat for H1N1? (”Bird Flu” followed the actual deadly disease three years later). Rock Daily says yes, but the world says no (and evidently so does M.I.A., who actually Twittered, “Recording Swine Flu” — plus, the virus already has sonic competition:

This morning CNN reported on Stephan Zielinski, a California blogger/programmer who took the genetic sequence of one of the proteins in Swine Flu and fed it into a computer algorithm to turn it into a song. Zielinski told CNN it took approximately six hours to equate each kind of amino acid with an instrument (hear the song, a slow ambient piece, on Zielinski’s site).

CNN is also kind enough to point us to some of YouTube’s biggest Swing Flu songs (evidently one user gave the Jonas Brothers’ “Lovebug” some grotesque new lyrics: “I can’t get your snout out of my mouth/I’m sick to my stomach all the time”). A radio station called Z99 has also posted a Swine Flu song — a lame country diddy. And the lyrics to Cream’s “Strange Brew” have been replaced by “Swine Flu” over at AmIRight.com (”Swine flu, will gut the pride in you”).

So, M.I.A., we look to you: please disarm the threat of Swine Flu with that new song. If you want to discuss, hit us on our Twitter and we’ll negotiate.