This record is nothing more than the musical equivalent of a Von Dutch hat. Trendy for a couple months and then quickly tossed aside, as the bastardized dancehall routine inevitably becomes boring. I give her another album - Kala has already proved to be a disappointment - after which she'll have little left to do but don a suicide belt, perhaps?

What is a bit different with this "pioneering artist" is that, to sell records, she is prostituting her repugnant association with a terrorist outfit who, among other things, (1) invented the suicide bombing belt, (2) pioneered the used of women in suicide attacks, and (3) has been the only terrorist organization to assasinate two world leaders. The LTTE have been banned in more than 20 countries around the world, with the FBI this past January calling them an outfit that "inspired" the Al Qaeda (http://www.fbi.gov/page2/jan08/tamil_tigers011008.html). Killing innocent people, smuggling drugs and using suicide bombers aren't the tools of "freedomfighters".

After buddying up with Gwen Stefani, its quite clear that she's trying to be yet another tuffgrrl and that this "freedomfighter" angle is a reprehensible record-selling gimmick and nothing more. Take away the backstory and the anti-establishment packaging that lends it enough "street cred" for the Brooklyn iPod kids to buy her records, and these simplistic "mash-ups" fall flat on their face. I can't decide whether she's simply too dumb to understand the fire she's playing with, or unscrupulous enough not to care.

This is a quote from a negative comment," This is the definition of drivel".

Please tell me what you like. To me, this is an example of a flow lyrically, and artistic beats, that combine to produce a vibe that I haven't heard in a looooong time! It's SEXY, political, and (((F@#king HUGE IN SOUND)))!!!!

"I can do the twist!" I proudly announced to my grandmother. I was 5, she 65 and it was 1965. "So you can," she proudly retorted. Maybe it was the Beatles cartoon, or, who knows, some 101 Strings K-tell "Now Sound."

Rats, I lost my hipper-than-xxxx rock critic notes. That's ONLY because I was dancing so fiendishly, though. This gets the people up on the floor. Bonus revolutionary rhetoric, too. Samples to die for.

"$10" and "Sunshowers" are the show stoppers. Lots of wow throughout. Anyway, enough of that. Back to me, Lexus in the driveway, snowperson on the front lawn, private kids' (including mine) school up the hill.

Samples to die for. Better than Moody Blues "techno" 80's "comeback." Which NO one could twist to, a shame, because twisting ~ and being twisted ~ is, like, EXACTLY. My, my. Now back, over and out, to YOU.

You can tell the difference between this and the next. A couple of good songs, nothing spectacular. One song on this CD appears on the movie "War" with Jet-Li. Although I rate this with an OK, Im very tough. There's no sappy love ballads, no whiney boy songs. It's in your face, and strong.

We rocked this CD at the FUNK the war protest on the 5th Anniversary.

MIA put all the kiddies in militant mood!