A few weeks ago M.I.A shared one of the tracks from her fifth album AIM called Go Off, featuring Skrillex. Now it has been confirmed that she and former One Direction-er Zayn Malik have been working together on a song known as Freedun.
How did this all come together?
“We have the same publishers and they wanted me to demo some songs for Zayn. Before I started writing properly my own stuff [for AIM], I was thinking maybe I’ll write for other people instead. I really wanted to write a song for Zayn….We had a couple people in common. And that’s how it came about. I didn’t really approach him for my own record until later on. First, I thought I wanted to try writing a song for him,” she explained to Entertainment Weekly.
While discussing her visa issues over Twitter a few months ago, she described her new album as her “last”.
https://twitter.com/MIAuniverse/status/727212460013408257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
In this interview, the reality of this sad fact was once again brought up as she spoke about her wish to try something different.
“I just feel like I need to spend more periods of time somewhere. When you get into music and you get into a cycle of a record, how life goes, is very fast. You don’t get to just live things out and get involved with communities. I want to spend some time in Greece, make a documentary [there]. Something useful for a bit,” she said.
AIM will be released on September 9th.
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