{"id":19403,"date":"2013-11-15T08:59:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T16:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=19403"},"modified":"2013-11-15T08:59:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T16:59:43","slug":"watch-m-i-as-official-video-for-y-a-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-11\/watch-m-i-as-official-video-for-y-a-l-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch M.I.A&#8217;s Official Video for &#8220;Y.A.L.A&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MIA2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-19406\" alt=\"MIA2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MIA2-650x365.jpg\" width=\"635\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MIA2-650x365.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MIA2-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MIA2-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MIA2.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following on the heels of her performance of the song on Wednesday on <strong>Conan<\/strong> (see below), <strong>M.I.A.<\/strong> has now released her official video for <em><strong>Y.A.L.A. <\/strong><\/em>off of new album<em><strong> Matangi.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong> <\/strong>The video is a visual phantasmagoria of singer close-ups and glow-in-the-dark flashings.\u00a0 Amongst a lot to like in this song and inventive video:\u00a0 the song simply rocks; girl goes against the grain and keeps her clothes on; and girl&#8217;s not afraid to get in society&#8217;s face.<\/p>\n<p>The video (commissioned by Brit fashion publication<strong> i-D<\/strong> with the fashion line <strong>Kenzo<\/strong>) was directed by <strong>David Sannwald<\/strong>, and the song was produced by <strong>the Partysquad.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Check it below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r4VQoP2_eL4\" height=\"425\" width=\"625\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on the heels of her performance of the song on Wednesday on Conan (see below), M.I.A. has now released her official video for Y.A.L.A. off of new album Matangi.\u00a0 The video is a visual phantasmagoria of singer close-ups and glow-in-the-dark flashings.\u00a0 Amongst a lot to like in this song and inventive video:\u00a0 the song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}