Blog: Dots & Dashes

Is William Orbit the "dude" to get the best out of M.I.A. ? Perhaps not on the evidence of Baby, a newly outed demo that sounds a heck of a load like Madonna circa-2k and feels equally outré to her last sighting when she overhauled Jay-Z's Hackney Weekend headline stint for negligible apparent reason. All dial tone glitch, crunchy stadium-styled guitars, minimal blip rhythmery and appositely babyish vocals, Arulpragasam quizzes: "Ooh! Can you make a woman out of me?" atop condensed guitars twanged straight outta Music . Whether her baby [...]