M.I.A. Premieres Video For "Bad Girls"

Fresh off the heels of releasing her latest single from her forthcoming album, Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam, aka M.I.A., has premiered the video for "Bad Girls." While critics are still up in the air over her return, the video for "Bad Girls" is without a doubt a visual stampede of insane stunts and strange dance moves.

The video, directed by Romain Gavras (see: M.I.A.'s "Born Free") was shot in Ouarzazate, Morocco, and premiered exclusively on VICE's new music channel Noisey. The short features daring car stunts that had M.I.A. terrified the entire time. She said of the video, "In my mind I was thinking how I was gonna deliver the video to VICE with no legs."

Thankfully, everyone made it out alive and the resulting video is similar to other M.I.A videos in that she brings a real swagger to a place seldom identified as a hotbed of youthful recklessness. Originally released on M.I.A's "Vicki Leekx" mixtape, the Danja-produced track gets a serious overhaul with the added cinematics. Watching the BMW's burn rubber is starting to make us a little sick to our stomach, but we'll hang around for the dance party. Watch the video for "Bad Girls" below and let us know: are you excited for her new album or not?

Comments

[Sjoerd Thijssen]

06:02 PM on 02/06/2012

Watch the HQ Version of the "Bad Girls" Official Music Video here: http://www.weekplay.com/bad-girls-video-mia.html

[mikroskopic]

11:37 AM on 02/06/2012

I like

[zreader]

10:30 AM on 02/06/2012

You can take the girl out of the trash, but you can't take the trash out of the girl. Yeah, give the entire nation the finger. Ought to be a career-ender. Let's all give HER the finger. She's Madonna's wardrobe malfunction!

[imanormalalien]

07:08 AM on 02/06/2012

flipping the bird at the superbowl was the icing on the cake. we'd rather spend time on a glorified sport than actually deal with real problems in this world. and the backlash to her middle finger also proves this point. people are concerned about kids seeing a middle finger when most kids have experienced far worse in their lives

[zreader]

10:33 AM on 02/06/2012

It's YOU her middle finger was intended for! I'm sure the world's problems will be taken care of when everyone walks around with their middle fingers extended. At least the dikes won't leak! (No, I didn't mean THOSE dikes, so don't get your panties in an uproar!)

[imanormalalien]

06:45 PM on 02/06/2012

apathy will not solve the world's problems, or they would have already been solved by now

[zreader]

10:36 AM on 02/06/2012

When your kid gives you the middle finger, remember where she learned to do it!

[imanormalalien]

06:44 PM on 02/06/2012

what's wrong with teaching your child what the middle finger is? if you're parenting is at least mediocre, the child will know not to use it, because of its meaning. I knew about the middle finger ever since I was 8, and til now, I've still never flipped anyone off, or even felt the urge to.

[imanormalalien]

07:06 AM on 02/06/2012

love this woman, and the message of this song. very fun video to watch, too

[mikkilee]

06:16 PM on 02/05/2012

Lyrics, beat, video artistically flawless. She's smart and fresh, one of my faves.

[GQ 336]

01:10 PM on 02/05/2012

Can't stop looking at this video!

[sconnor922]

09:25 AM on 02/05/2012

Really!? This is horrible!

[O K Ali]

11:15 PM on 02/03/2012

I'm transfixed with this video.

[ForeverXL]

06:20 PM on 02/03/2012

Amazing video and tune!