M.I.A. returns with disorientating single ‘Armour’
M.I.A. has returned with a brand new single ‘Armour’. Test it out under.
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The monitor comes from her impartial label OHMNI, which exists as a part of her clothes model that famously incorporates a “tin foil hat” and claims to dam 5G waves from coming into one’s physique.
With a psychedelic soundscape, the reverb-heavy monitor takes inspiration from her 2022 conversion to Christianity, described in a press launch because the artist’s “non secular declaration”.
“I’m a prayer/Dwelling a lifetime of favour/I’m a hearth/Hallelujah,” M.I.A. sings. “Placed on God’s armour/I can stand up to Devil’s energy/I obtained angels watching me, each nook, undercover/With swords of fireplace.”
Try the monitor, and its accompanying black-and-white music video, under.
It marks the musician’s first new music since her 2023 mixtape titled ‘Bells Assortment’, which adopted her sixth studio album, ‘MATA’ the 12 months prior. ‘MATA’ included the singles ‘The One’, ‘In style’ and ‘Beep’.
A press launch for the monitor says “M.I.A. fought some battles in 2024; She shed all blocks and restrictions she confronted.” It follows a string of controversies surrounding the artist in recent times
Over the previous few years, M.I.A. has acquired backlash for her controversial statements – from evaluating InfoWars host Alex Jones’s falsehoods in regards to the Sandy Hook capturing to celebrities “pushing” COVID-19 vaccines and suggesting the latter, too, ought to “pay for mendacity”. She then clarified her stance on COVID vaccines, saying she’s “probably not” an anti-vaxxer.
Final 12 months, she endorsed Donald Trump within the US Presidential Election, regardless of criticising him and his administration in 2017 for having “psychological problems”. “Trump goes to trip America by essentially the most difficult 4 years coming,” she tweeted in August, including her want for Trump “pulling out weed” as president. “RFK will inherit America when God is able to replant and rebuild it righteously.”
In June, M.I.A. launched Ohmni, the aforementioned clothes model that provides gadgets akin to “Protency boxers” which declare to “block electromagnetic frequencies” and increase fertility in addition to a “tin foil hat” which allegedly deflects “electromagnetic waves akin to Wi-Fi & 5G with as much as 99.999 per cent shielding effectiveness.”
M.I.A. talked in regards to the clothes line whereas showing as a visitor on Infowars. Whereas there, she defined to Jones that the clothes line is designed to guard wearers from nanoparticles and mentioned a scrapped album, her supposed “anti-vaxx” views, and being “cancelled”.