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'Represent the world town''
-->--"World Town"

''Kala'' is the second studio album by Music/{{MIA}}. Released in 2007, it may be her best thus far, thanks to its widespread acclaim from mainstream critics. The album broke from her underground roots due to the groundbreaking success of the single "Paper Planes", which received heavy airplay and peaked in the top ten in the US. The album straddled many influences from different genres such as AlternativeDance, {{Funk}}, AlternativeIndie, PunkRock, HipHop, and WorldMusic.

The album was [[ThemeNaming named after her mother]], similar to how her last album, ''Music/{{Arular}}'', took after her father's name. The lyrical themes mainly revolve around feminism, diversity, poverty, and sexuality, which mirror MIA's mother's life since her mother was a refugee from the third world and struggled to support the family.

It allowed its featured artists, such as Afrikan Boy and the Wilcannia Mob, to break into the mainstream. MIA thus gave a voice for numerous underprivileged foreign artists who are relegated to the underground, and the record still remains widely influential due to the GenreBusting conceits of its singles, "Boyz", "Jimmy", and of course, "Paper Planes".

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-->-- '''"World Town"'''

''Kala'' is the second studio album by English rapper[=/=]singer Music/{{MIA}}. Released in 2007, it may be her best thus far, thanks to its widespread acclaim from mainstream critics. The the album broke from her underground roots due to the groundbreaking success of the single "Paper Planes", which received heavy airplay and peaked in the top ten in the US. The album straddled many influences from different genres such as AlternativeDance, {{Funk}}, AlternativeIndie, PunkRock, HipHop, and WorldMusic.

The album was [[ThemeNaming named after her mother]], similar to how her last album, ''Music/{{Arular}}'', took after her father's name. The lyrical themes of the album mainly revolve around feminism, diversity, poverty, and sexuality, which mirror MIA's mother's life since her mother was a refugee from the third world and struggled to support the family.

It allowed its featured artists, such as Afrikan Boy and the Wilcannia Mob, to break into the mainstream. MIA thus gave a voice for numerous underprivileged foreign artists who are relegated to the underground, and the record The album still remains widely influential due to the GenreBusting conceits of its singles, singles -- "Boyz", "Jimmy", and of course, the aforementioned "Paper Planes".Planes" -- and enabled several foreign artists relegated to the underground that M.I.A. enlisted as features (such as Afrikan Boy and the Wilcannia Mob) to break into the mainstream.
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* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: "The Turn", which appears toward the end, is the only ballad on the album and LighterAndSofter than all the other songs.
** Also "Jimmy", a relatively straightforward cover (with updated English lyrics) of a Bollywood song that M.I.A. loved as a kid.
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