M.I.A.’s badass “Bad Girls” video is EVERYTHING

Just in time to cash-in on her Super Bowl performance with Madonna, M.I.A. has dropped the video for swaggy new Danja banger “Bad Girls”.

Filmed on location in Morocco with “Born Free” director Romain Gavras, “Bad Girls” plays like a non-crap future sequel to the bloated Fast & Furious franchise.

Fast & Furious 9: Arabian Nights, anyone?

M.I.A. and her Moroccan crew give Vin Diesel a run for his money with hagwalah, an extreme style of drifting popular in Saudi Arabia. There’s burnouts, donuts, horse-riding, gun-clad grinding, and much more. Maya even casually does her nails while two-wheel drifting.

This is pretty much everything that Maya needed to be doing right now. She’s cranked out a perfectly polished urban-pop package with total crossover appeal, without A) Compromising her style B) Zapping the fun out of it by getting too serious.

Perfect, perfect, perfect.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/Shanparker Shan Parker

    I agree completely! She got off track with the last album and got too weird and political. I can appreciate trying to marry the two, but she went a little too left. This however is a perfect mix of both. And do I witness some pussy poppin’ in there? I think I do!

  • carlos

    Oh my, you just resumed what amazing pop albums and songs should always be in the last paragraph. I agree, this is a total hit for her, and everybody else should learn from it. Getting too serious or jumping from trend to trend doesn’t make a pop icon.

  • http://twitter.com/curdey Michael Curd

    M.I.A. is so bad-ass, I love it!! <3 And I'd really love to see a Nicki Minaj/M.I.A. song (sans Madonna), I think they're both so different it'd be interesting to see how it would be! ^_^

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=536016803 BonBon Rehutai

    oh hell yes! M.I.A is back! this track is everything! love it

  • TBizzness

    Song and video are awesome!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1127181558 Andrés Felipe Rodríguez

    damn badass!!! now I love this. Fast & Furious Lvl: Arabian!

  • Ibreathepop

    MIA is fucking perfect!

  • addity28

    I #Rate this a fuck yeah moment i missed her 

  • Heavymetallamb

    M.I.A. and Nicki already have a song together called “Teqkilla”. and wow this video was fucking epic.

  • Lilheartmusic

    Fucking SLayed

  • G-Nasty

    KALA was one of my favorite albums of all time!
    I absolutely love her & I hope she gets as much album sales from joining forces with the Queen as she possibly can!! :P

  • Aryo

    its just fuckin amazing, makes me like her a lil more

  • http://twitter.com/ThatBoyLuke luke Marriott

    OMG! you’re on the same wavelength lmao i watched the vid before reading your review and i was thinking “FAST & FURIOUS!!!” but better haha seriously, MIA is the female rapper with the most NATURAL swag atm and hopefully this will be as big as or bigger than “Paper Planes” :D
    I’m seriously looking forward to a new album from her now! and the Superbowl performance.

  • Kmamsterr

    YES

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Trevor-Szuba-Schneider/100000290157462 Trevor Szuba-Schneider

    Have been listening to Arular these past 2 weeks.

    This song doesn’t got nothing on any song from Arular.

    It’s a good song but it has nothing special going on with it for me…which means the general public will love it.

    Great video…very interesting and stimulating…just wish that I could say the same about the song.

  • SunShowers

    best video of the year already. hope she comes back hard!

  • arab

    I’m a north african arab and she did us well…except for the fact that we don’t wear the traditional saudi wear BUT she did that for a reason and I get it! The drifting was a good add! Love this women!