Genius Meanings
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M.I.A. – World Town
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[Intro] / A-ni-ni-ni-ni / A-ni-ni-ni-ni / A-ni-ni-ni-ni / A-ni-ni-ni-ni / A-ni-ni-ni-ni / A-ni-ni-ni-ni / A-ni-ni-ni-ni / [Verse 1] / Sick of all the shit that's keeping me down
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M.I.A. – Paper Planes
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This penultimate song on Kala marries a deceptively airy beat with a song about tourist-murdering passport-counterfeiting thieves. The song can be read as the clichéd story of
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Estelle (Ft. Kanye West) – American Boy
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“American Boy,” Estelle’s breakout solo single, is a slice of modern disco that is the perfect backdrop for the song’s cross-continental romance featuring Kanye West.
The song hit
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Ryan Gosling & Emma Stone – City of Stars
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“City of Stars” is a song from Damien Chazelle’s 2016 feature film La La Land. The track is sung by the film’s lead actors, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. First heard in the movie’s
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JAY-Z – Tom Ford
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Jay Z’s “Tom Ford” includes a sample from M.I.A.’s “Bad Girls,” the lyrics of which follow the same cadence and flow.
Get back, get down
Pull me closer if you think you can hang
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M.I.A. – CTRL
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Around the first week of September M.I.A. previewed this song on her car via Instagram Live. A few days later, on September 9th, she released the song a non-album track via OHMNI.
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M.I.A. (Ft. Juice WRLD) – Tribe
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[Verse 1: M.I.A.] / Haters gonna hate, it's tragic / Don't drive the wrong way in traffic / Natural, not plastic / Still classy, little bit ratchet / Shine is holographic / Do you
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Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
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Widely considered to be one of the greatest songs of all time, “Bohemian Rhapsody” was the first single released from Queen’s fourth studio album, A Night at the Opera. It became
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M.I.A. (Ft. The Wilcannia Mob) – Mango Pickle Down River
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On Mango Pickle Down River, M.I.A. contributes her own verse to preteen Aboriginal rap group The Wilcannia Mob’s award-winning hit single. Her lyrics emphasize how drug-use
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M.I.A. – 20 Dollar
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[Verse 1] / War! War! War! / Talking about you's such a bore / I'd rather talk about moi / Like do you know the cost of AK's up in Africa? / 20 dollars ain't shit to you / But that
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M.I.A. – Bamboo Banga
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Kala opens with the uninvitingly spare “Bamboo Banga”, which samples Indian Tamil filmi composer Ilayaraja and bends the lyric of The Modern Lovers “Roadrunner”. The song
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Emma Stone – Audition (The Fools Who Dream)
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“Audition (The Fools Who Dream)” is a song sung by Mia (Emma Stone), an aspiring actress, in the movie La La Land.
This song, specifically, explores just how brutal the auditioning
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Travis Scott (Ft. M.I.A. & Young Thug) – FRANCHISE
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“FRANCHISE,” released amidst Travis Scott’s famed collaboration with McDonald’s, sees the Houston rapper boasting his wealth and lifestyle. Individual locations of chain
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Ravyn Lenae – M.I.A.
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[Intro] / M-I-A, yeah / I'm gonna run the town, ain't nothing in my way, way / If I miss the sun go down, might go to M-I-A, M-I-A / I wanna make my debut (But just for the night
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MIA. (Band) – Factory City
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[Strophe I:] / See the factory over there / Where people go to day by day / With their so important experts / Hide behind their desk in gray / [Chorus:] / Smile keep on working
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Nelly – E.I.
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[Intro] / Uh.. uh uh uh uh / Uh.. wait a minute now / Uh-ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh! / Uh, uh.. / Can you hear me out there? / Lunatics.. is y'all ready? / Let me hear ya / Uh-ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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M.I.A. – Birdflu
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Bird Flu disses dogging males everywhere over another filmi sample and a barely synchronized four-four on some thirty deep-tone durmi drums.
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Avenged Sevenfold – M.I.A.
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This song is about the war in Iraq and how it affects the soldiers fighting it
In the video below, M.Shadows comments on the song by saying
This next song does not mean that
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The Paris Sisters – The Ugliest Girl in Town
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[Verse 1] / Who owns that fabulous face? / The ugliest girl in town / Whose clothes are settin' the pace? / The ugliest girl in town / [Bridge] / Since the day she came up on the
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This Way to the Egress – M.I.A.
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Let's take a trip around the world / Let's take a trip around the world / See what you can see / Don't talk too much, I wonder where you are / Let's all laugh at the sea / Such a
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M.I.A. – 10 Dollar
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Off M.I.A.’s Arular, this song is about teen prostitutes using their clients to escape their impoverished homelands and establish their independence.
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Garbo (IT) – Driving miss mia
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How did she know which way to go? / How could she tell heaven from hell? / By now / All I know is this: / I'd give all my world for her kiss / All I want is her kiss / All I want
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The Weeknd – Tell Your Friends
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“Tell Your Friends” debuted live on stage in Las Vegas, and was followed by the release of a music video just days before Beauty Behind the Madness was due to release. The video
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M.I.A. (Ft. Bun B & Rich Boy) – Paper Planes (Diplo Street Remix)
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[Verse 1] / I fly like paper, get high like planes / If you catch me at the border I got visas in my name / If you come around here, I make 'em all day / I get one done in a second
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Mia Vaile – Out of My Mind
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[Verse 1] / Got lost in city dreams / Breaking hearts, a love machine / Oh, how I want you to know / They say I'm learning slow / In this town it's who you know / But now you are
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M.I.A. – Bad Girls
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Its video, for a longer version of the song that would end up on 2013's Matangi, finds M.I.A. ... Genius is the world's biggest collection of song lyrics and ...
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Ryan Gosling & Emma Stone – A Lovely Night
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Sung by Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and Mia (Emma Stone), this is the first of La La Land’s couples dance numbers. The scene illustrates the combative chemistry first felt by the
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M.I.A. – The One
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M.I.A. returns once again with “The One,” her first official single since “Babylon” – which surfaced in November 2021 – and the first taste of her sixth studio album, MATA.
During
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M.I.A. – Paper Planes (Afrikan Boy & Rye Rye Remix)
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[Verse 1: M.I.A.] / I fly like paper, get high like planes / If you catch me at the border I got visas in my name / If you come around here, I make 'em all day / I get one done in
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Dominic Fike – 3 Nights
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“3 Nights” is the first song off of Dominic Fike’s 2018 EP Don’t Forget About Me, Demos. It is one of two songs on the EP that Fike didn’t write and produce himself, the other
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twenty one pilots – Saturday
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“Saturday” is the third single off of twenty one pilots' album, Scaled And Icy. It is frontman Tyler Joseph’s first collaboration with producer Greg Kurstin, who has won multiple
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Shawna & Mia & Raedio – BBW
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Dec 14, 2023 ... 4. City 2 City. 5. No Panties. 6. He Can't Reach. 7. No Time. 8 ... Genius is the world's biggest collection of song lyrics and musical knowledge.
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