um, yes...

I've always really loved M.I.A.

Her early commercial hit "Boyz" got me hooked (my little sister totally deserves cred for bringing it to my attention for learning all the words, busting it out a family get-togethers and confusing our parents); and the fan favourite that brought Mathangi "Maya" Alrupragasam a little more high brow attention from the film festival crowd via the Slumdog Millionaire Soundtrack, "Paper Planes" (see the original video  here) is, admittedly a kind of favourite of my own.

The video above was released virally, by way of twitvid, and, according to stereogum, was produced for only a hundred smackers. Read the stereogum post for an interesting political bent and a big gfy to the New York Times.