M.I.A. = Nu Rave Messiah? Nouveau Neneh Cherry?

I have a lazy theory that super-hot British/Sri Lankan musician M.I.A. was the aesthetic leak that began the nu-rave revival. But nu-rave is kind of lame, musically speaking. (Fashionably speaking, I'm still on the fence, because Christopher Kane kind of rocks but neon still hurts my eyes.) Really, M.I.A.'s awesome because she's like the millenial Neneh Cherry, whose record Raw Like Sushi totally rocked my world way back in middle school. I mean, look at M.I.A.'s new video for "Boyz," the lead single off her new album Kala, out on August 21 on XL/Interscope.

And then look at this old joint from Neneh Cherry's "Buffalo Stance":

Or while we're YouTube-trolling, this Technotronic video, which is just as "trippy":

And just in case that's way too much neon for you for your Monday morning, you can chill out a little to the relatively subdued "Move Any Mountain" by the Shamen:

Posted by Kat in Heavy Rotation
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