Mafia Ii

September, 2010

M.I.A. is the kind of rock star Oli­ver Stone might dream up for a screenplay: smart, glamorous, socially connected and totally radical. She spent part of her youth in Sri Lanka, fled to London as a preteen with her mom, named her debut album for her father (a prominent figure in Sri Lanka's ruinous civil war) and is engaged to an heir to the Sea­gram liquor fortune. Many of her songs mention explosions and violence in favorable ways."Sound of a bomb blast, throw it in a baa." she chan...