Video: M.I.A. - It Takes A Muscle (on Later Live with Jools Holland) - 2nd Nov 2010

M.I.A. feat. The Specials - It Takes a Muscle // It turns out all M.I.A. needed to calm down, stop being so insane and go back being awesome was The Specials as her backing band.  I’ll take more of this, please. - MW

No text

M.I.A. just made her UK TV debut (about time, yeah), on BBC2's "Later with Jools Holland" and with her she had The Specials for a special live performance of her cover of Spectral Display's old 'It Takes A Muscle':

a. I saw the Villagers last night at mercury lounge, it was pretty amazing. if you don't know them check the pictures out HERE . look at the video below. b. MIA with the Specials?? check out the video below. c. terrorist or worst idea in the world?? here . d. new Atmosphere video.. e. um crazy Russian dude doing crazy shit.. [...]

La canzone fa parte del suo ultimo lavoro "///Y/" (si legge "Maya", ma ormai lo saprete tutti). La canzone è una cover degli Spectral Display , misconosciuto gruppo olandese che ha inciso il brano nel 1982. La canzone è una specie di synth-reggae che sembra un brano 'da niente' e invece è irresistibile. La canzone si chiama "It Takes a Muscle" ed è stata proposta in una splendida versione live l'altra sera durante la puntata dello show britannico " Later With Jools Holland ". Ospiti speciali, a suonarla sul palco con [...]

Filed under: Beats , Brit Brit Brit , Clip Tagged: m.i.a , maya , muscle , new , perform , performance , video

Alternative hip hop artist M.I.A. recently performed her cover of Spectral Display's song, "It Takes a Muscle," accompanied by legendary ska outfit The Specials . She previously performed live with Suicide 's Martin Rev.

Not sure what M.I.A.'s deal is. Honestly, never listened to her new album, but I am pretty sure it was a 'pile of poop' based on her singles. For some reason she keeps 'promoting it', doing talk shows, awards shows, performing live. Feel like she really just needs to put it behind her and maybe write a few more songs that sound like "Paper Planes", but maybe she doesn't have any more mp3s in her womb 2 harvest, so we might have 2 euthanize her but I guess she wears sillie clothes and provides blog content by [...]

Trawling the internet so you don't have to.....here's our regular round up of the newest videos doing the online rounds. This time we have new music from Pink 's forthcoming greatest hits collection, Local Natives having a picnic, M.I.A. looking thrilled to have the Specials back her on Later , Franco-Dutch duo the Narcoleptic Dancers and agit-pop types Enter Shikari ....

M.I.A. was in town last night to perform on 'Later Live with Jools Holland'. She gave a 'special' performance alongside The Specials... "It Takes A Muscle" is taken from M.I.A.'s new album MAYA and is available to download now on iTunes and Amazon.co.uk

Last night, M.I.A. and The Specials hooked up on the Jools Holland show. They do a nice take on "It Takes A Muscle," which is on M.I.A's latest record. Watch it below.

No text

Well, I quite like this live arrangement of M.I.A. 's It Takes a Muscle . The singer performed live on Later with Jools Holland with The Specials and the results, well, it's super special in my beastly opinion.    Check it out now.        [...]

• M.I.A. (featuring The Specials) - It Takes a Muscle (Live)

Later With Jools Holland really upped the game this week, with Kings Of Leon, MIA, Eric Clapton, and The Vaccines. the recently-announced headliners for Slane Castle at the end of May played two tracks from their recent Come Around Sundown album, 'Pyro', and 'Radioactive'. They have trotted these two tracks [Read more]