AIM is interesting, it's not her most experimental/creative album which I guess is most people's issue but it's also her most consistent album maybe bar MAYA, so that's something.
Taking it as just music, it's actually really good and I enjoyed it.
Jump In seriously slays. I don't get why people don't like it. The sound is consistent with how her voice is smeared and manipulated across the entire album. Fly Pirates, Jump In and Go Off all play off each other nicely with how the vocals are treated
"Her mellifluous excursions work best. “What haters say about me don’t worry me, I keep it moving forward to what’s ahead of me,” she raps on Finally, a breezy dalliance with dancehall. Its approachability does not exist on the majority of AIM. These are global-facing pop songs that somehow have no place: too slow for a club, too confrontational for the bedroom, too skatty for the radio. It sounds as if AIM was made exclusively for MIA’s benefit: one final eruption of inventive and sometimes incoherent ideas. Apt, perhaps, that an artist so vehemently punk bows out with an album so stubbornly hers."
I use to love her B-More club influenced stuff with Blaqstarr but this Bird's remix is so hard on the ears. First song from the album that I didn't add to my music. Let's see how the rest of this is. So far not bad.
after a few listens i like borders, AMP, ali, talk and thats about it.
it just seems like she went through the motions with this. nothing really daring or all that interesting like there has been on her past releases.
i mean there wasnt that much on Matangi either to be fair but at least there it had a lot of solid songs with interesting production. this is just kind of stale and bland.
OT: This album is terrible. I'm happy we at least got Borders and Freedom though because they are fantastic.
And? There's going to be more of a correlation with Rih stans who take a liking to M.I.A's music; Gaga is PURE pop, so I'm not shocked that a lot of her stans don't like the album. Go and bop to Basic Illusion. No negativity surrounding this album thank u
OT: Finally & Ali R U Okay? Are life changing, oh my.