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Interviewer: Have you played your mum the album?
M.I.A.: No…she hasn’t heard it yet. She’s just happy about it being called ‘Kala’ though.
Interviewer: Why did you choose to name the album after her?
M.I.A.: Because I named the last one after my dad and I thought it was fair. And also…it was like a representation for me of where I was at right now. When I made Arular I was really, really out there in the world – not physically but mentally, I wanted to be dealing with issues and stuff that happen to you, and ideas that were bigger than my life at the time. And to try to talk about politics and issues that other people didn’t want to deal with. I knew that I was sticking my neck on the line, I knew that people were gonna give me a hard time for it. I knew I was gonna get in shit over my music, that was the whole point. I was like, ‘yeah, I’m gonna make this statement’, I’m gonna make songs that are confusing or that are ambiguous, or waging issues that other people don’t want to discuss in songs. Everything about it was new – how I made the album, the sound of it. I knew I was going out there on a limb. But on this one it was really about me coming to terms with all my life…all my life I grew up thinking that I didn’t want to end up in a situation how my mum ended up: being a single parent and having three children, and trying to bring them up with no money…the ambitious side of me comes from that, y’know. When I went into making the second album I really didn’t want to become really ambitious and courageous and stuff because I didn’t know how to be a ‘boss lady’ y’know…women who make music have to cross a certain line and it’s really difficult after a certain point. I was thinking about all these things and the situation for my mum is quite a common one for a lot of women, and that’s what I wanted to talk about when I first wanted to start writing this album – I wanted it to be about the state of someone like that, today.
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