#arular

[lcdsoundsystem]

#m.i.a. #2000s #arular #* #fav #id #smash hits

[deepdwnbodythurst]

#galang #m.i.a. #2000s #2005 #music #arular #icons #mathangi

[rhuancesar]

💿 M.I.A. — Arular (2005)

#M.I.A. #Arular #2000s #CD #music #00s

[infornograph]

M.I.A.’s logo throughout her discography 

Arular (2005) / Kala (2007) / /\/\ /\ Y /\ (2010) / Matangi (2013) / AIM (2016) / MATA (2022)

#m.i.a. #mia #arular #kala #maya #matangi #aim #mata #no matter what she always has the best logo designs

[grrl-beetle]

M.I.A. - Sunshowers

#youtube #music #M.I.A. #Sunshowers #Arular

[chronivore]

2005

#mia #arular #lp #vinyl #elctro beat

[pastelpedestrian]

Assorted graphics and photos posted to M.I.A.'s website, bedroomtothehallwaytotheroadtotheworld.com, which is now defunct (2010-2014)

#m.i.a. #arular #kala #ΛΛ Λ Y Λ #web art #concert photography

[theinsanefantasy]

#tracy chapman #digga d #kensington and chelsea #raw data feel #everything everything #ghostface killah #arular #MIA #paul mccartney #brandon mccartney #tybg #swag #rare #golf wang #lol #sufjan stevens #a beginner’s mind #the plugs I met #benny the butcher #peter gabriel #so #topsters

[urbxntwilight]

blazea blaze galangalangalangna purple haze galangalangalangna

#sucks that mia sucks now arular such a classic

[saharathorn]

M.I.A. Is literally groundbreaking why does she have to be like. That.

#Arular and Kala are literally some of the best albums ever

[sivavakkiyar]

I listened to arular again for the first time in forever and just sat there amazed again. like how did she *do* that. it’s wild because after all the critical acclaim and analysis it’s easy to break it down into it’s constitutive parts and say “well it was going to happen eventually”, but you hear it and it’s not like that at all. still!

#I’ll forever be one of those sad men who thinks arular is objectively better than Kala was (great album) #and I have no clue what she’s done since Matangi. I think she did a song with Zayn?

[peterfarrell22]

#bittorrent m.i.a. arular

[deepdwnbodythurst]

#m.i.a. #arular #hakim #disco maghreb #dj snake #chilombo #jhene aiko #erykah badu #alpha blondy #sister nancy #kala #luniz #moodboard #mood board #music #albums #music moodboard #album moodboard

[infornograph]

Top 3 should be

The fame

Arular

Pure heroine

#sour in front of the fame AND arular... #how is rolling stone a legit music publication

[yuri-for-businesswomen]

tumblr wont let me post this many links so here is a list but fuck it, favourite female albums and eps

azealia banks: broke with expensive taste

billie eilish: dont smile at me

catnapp: fear

charli xcx: pop 2

cher: believe

coucou chloe: erika jane

courtney barnett: a sea of split peas

donna summer: bad girls

fauna: infernum

fka twigs: madgalene

grimes: miss anthropocene

haiyti: toxic

jgrrey: ugh

lana del rey: norman fucking rockwell

leila k: carousel

lido pimienta: miss colombia

myss keta: l‘angelo dall‘occhiale da sera

m.i.a: arular

santigold: santigold

sky ferreira: night time, my time

tamaryn: the waves

vashti bunyan: just another diamond day

#i probably forgot some and some artists were difficult to pick a favourite #and it pains me not to include female lead bands like garbage or hole #playlist

[notwiselybuttoowell]

It was a fool’s errand to try to upstage Jarvis Cocker during Pulp’s remarkable 1990s peak, but bassist Steve Mackey, who has died aged 56 after a long period of ill health, came close. A model of self-contained cool and dance-influenced grooves, he was key to the Pulp sound and look. On stage, Cocker was the insinuating, finger-pointing extrovert, but Mackey, reserved and elegant, was an attraction in his own right. His basslines gave Pulp a disco undertow that set them apart from their indie peers.

After he joined in 1989, the Sheffield group evolved: no longer struggling art-rockers but danceable art-poppers, they found their own space as Britpop’s idiosyncratic outliers. Mackey’s description of their sound was, without much exaggeration, “Eastern European Balkans disco with acid house and Sheffield bleep music”.

When Pulp made their mark in the mid-90s, some of the success could also be apportioned to Mackey’s skill at managing the band’s visuals with Cocker in the early years. A Royal College of Art film graduate, Mackey oversaw graphics and video ideas with Cocker, who had studied film and video at Central Saint Martins in London. The pair asked famous people to recount how they lost their virginity and made a short film of the answers, releasing it with the single Do You Remember the First Time? (1994).

For the sleeve of their 1994 breakthrough album, His ’n’ Hers, they chose Philip Castle to create the sleeve art because they admired his poster design for A Clockwork Orange. They got what they paid for. Castle’s hyper-real drawing made each member look confrontational, with Mackey at the back wearing a “Come on, then” stare. Conversely, a handsome 6ft 2in, he could also carry off a smouldering teen-idol look, as captured in an early-90s Jean-Baptiste Mondino shot.

Mackey’s interest in music was equalled by a love of photography, which he parlayed into a second career in the 2010s. He shot campaigns for Armani Exchange, Miu Miu and Marc Jacobs’s 2018 Redux Grunge collection; he also worked for the fashion magazine Love, founded by his wife, the stylist and editor Katie Grand.

Pulp had taken eight years off in the 2000s, and returned for a 2011-12 tour, but even if the reunion had lasted beyond the tour, Mackey was by then a busy freelance record producer and remixer. As producer and/or writer, he worked on Florence + the Machine’s debut album, Lungs, Arcade Fire’s 2017 album Everything Now and MIA’s Kala (2007) and Arular (2005) albums. His list of remixing credits is lengthy and includes Kelis’s Bossy (2006) and Cornershop’s Topknot (2009).

Can you say "Icon"?

#the realization that having missed the 2012 tour I no longer will ever have an opportunity to see pulp in its entirety is dawning on me #ouch #steve mackey #pulp #britpop #music