DISQUS

Nirav Sheth · 11 months ago

You didn't like Slumdog Millionaire ? Why do you think it's so overrated?

Luis Tovar · 11 months ago

I really liked Slumdog Millionaire. A lot. I just don't think it's the best film of the year (like everyone says it is). It doesn't hit my Top 5 of 2008 at all.

naeem · 11 months ago

A.R. rahman is going to win the oscar for best song, im calling it already

false · 11 months ago

the annoyingly overrated Slumdog Millionaire? I think not.

Nick* · 11 months ago

Slumdog Millionaire... overrated?! dude, I'm at a loss for words. Sorry, I'm a fan of yours, but it wasn't anything short of being a masterpiece. Last time I checked this was a blog about 'music'.

Simple and clean -
"one of the few M.I.A. songs featured in Slumdog Millionaire."

Jared · 11 months ago

I'm not here to complain about someone's taste or breaching that blogging contract where you're only allowed to blog about 'music'
.. and I agree with Luis on this one. Slumdog was appealing, but poorly written (original novels fault?), and as a result, has an utterly predictable plot. Too many people are jumping on the Hindi genre bandwagon with this one. Plus seeing the Dark Knight getting snubbed for best picture doesn't help

Sebastian · 11 months ago

It's great to see how everything works out for M.I.A. slowly. She will never appear to mainstream in a huge way, maybe offering one or two tracks this year having the possibility to become hits but still keeping her very own style. Can't describe how much I love her and her work. Waiting for the second important M.I.A.-dropping this year after the baby- the third album.

Luis Tovar · 11 months ago

"Last time I checked this was a blog about ‘music’."

Oops. I forgot I wasn't allowed to have an opinion on anything but music. Sorry guys.

Jimmy Jameson · 11 months ago

Wouldn't those sampling rules also reward the Clash since Paper Planes is just the intro from 'Straight to hell?'

Luis Tovar · 11 months ago

I think that's a bit different since "Swagga Like Us" sampled M.I.A.'s lyrics above all. "Paper Planes"' tunage is not really recognizable in SLU.

Emma · 11 months ago

No! Thanks. But have fun. O'Saya is really nice, I like it. ;P

Sara · 11 months ago

if you're going to "have an opinion" about something other than music, maybe next time you should try and explain why you think slumdog millionaire is overrated instead of throwing in such a cheap shot.

sophie · 11 months ago

you lot all need to take it easy. luis is good to us- a provider.. let the man have his say! and o saya is alright. paper planes is brilliant- yes she sampled the start of paper planes but since when is a song defined by its first 10 seconds? she's a lyrical genius. im rooting m.i.a. all the way.
a.r. is a big timer, too. you should put some of his other work up- and he samples missy!
music is recycled and refined and remixed- like everything else. get over it!

Chola · 10 months ago

MIA,

You have a great story to tell the world. MIA, a Tamil refugee girl who fled Sri Lanka to escape from genocide.

A book published somewhere in 1998 about a girl by the name Waris Dirie who fled Somalia to escape from female genital mutilation landed in London and became a supermodel. That book by the name *Desert Flower* became a best seller.

Please publish a book on your autobiography and the genocide taking place in your native land. I am sure it will become a best seller.

Katie · 10 months ago

Slumdog is amazing and it deserves every single accolade that it is getting...get over yourself!

Luke · 10 months ago

Slumdog Millionaire is ridiculously overrrated. The second hour of the film is tedious to say the least.