Jan 12 2010Now That's Just Quality Insipiration: M.I.A. Writes Song About 3-Hour Tech Support Call
M.I.A., best known for her hit 'Paper Planes', recently wrote a song about a 3-hour tech support call with Verizon. Now I don't know about you, but I can't wait to get out on the dance floor and shake my sloopy ass booty to it! These hips don't lie, bitches! But they do get thrown out of their sockets HUMPING YOUR MOM DAD. AND I'm big spoon after!
The best part about "I'm Down Like Your Internet Connection," which is due to appear on her forthcoming followup to Kala this summer, is that she actually got Filipino Verizon workers to sing the hook. Says M.I.A.:
"I was having issues with my cable and wireless, and I was on the phone [with tech support] for three hours, and I thought, 'Maybe this needs to be part of my music, could you just learn these lyrics and sing it down the phone to me?' Ten phone calls later, I have Internet that sticks and a song."
OMG -- this reminds me of the time I wrote a Geekologie post about M.I.A. writing a song about a 3-hour tech support call. Jesus do I feel inspired. And by inspired I mean gassy. It might be time to change my hotdog water.
M.I.A. Writes Song Inspired by Three-Hour Verizon Tech Support Call [gizmodo]
Reader Comments
1. jigga - January 12, 2010 6:19 PM
wow lol
2. alex - January 12, 2010 6:20 PM
can you feel the bass
3. Towelie - January 12, 2010 6:23 PM
I have no idea what's goin' on right now.
4. ATD - January 12, 2010 6:43 PM
I work in tec support. I wish people when they call in dont yell at be because they are stupid and broke there own shit or forget to put batterys in to a remote, or get a new laptop cant open it and have to ask what way is the company symple look like is it upside down or can you read it.... oh you can read it well turn it around see that latch ya move that to the right OMG im a god.
5. naas - January 12, 2010 6:48 PM
@3 me neither mannn, sooo higgghhhhh right nowww
6. Hellmynameis - January 12, 2010 6:57 PM
@4: It's simple, not "symple" so guess whose stupid for spelling something as simple as that?
7. Don - January 12, 2010 7:06 PM
cool......shirt
8. KEVVERRROOONNNOOO - January 12, 2010 7:07 PM
EWWW i didnt know she was a dirty indian!
9. jigga - January 12, 2010 7:08 PM
@6: While we're at it, its "who's" not "whose." "Whose" shows possession.
10. racist shit fuck - January 12, 2010 7:17 PM
@ 8 YOU DICK HEAD..RACIST PIECE OF SCUM!
11. JJtoob - January 12, 2010 7:24 PM
@8 You idiot she's from Sri Lanka ... I think...
12. gizmoduck - January 12, 2010 7:37 PM
its a good time!
13. cabbo - January 12, 2010 7:44 PM
@10 when a man can't joke, who's racist then?
Well, him actually. But I'm sure he doesn't mean it.
Personally I would nibble on her slightly-larger-than-is-normal-where-I'm-from nose and then have all kinds of relations with that woman. Everyone knows this place doesn't care about skin colour on a woman. Hell, we prefer it when their blue.
14. cabbo - January 12, 2010 7:44 PM
*they're
15. Jesus - January 12, 2010 7:57 PM
Well of course you don't feel inspired you just said yourself that you feel gassy. Why do I bother showing up every time you say my name?
16. 2mechanicalarms - January 12, 2010 8:03 PM
Racist Geekologists, well I am dissapointed!
Anyway GW did you really include this post because she has a Sonic shirt on?
17. Bubbowrap - January 12, 2010 8:49 PM
@6: Also, I'm pretty sure he meant to say 'symbol.'
18. cabbo - January 12, 2010 8:51 PM
@19 ooh, good call. Yep, this guy's not the sharpest of tools, but he's definitely a tool.
19. OneCraftyFox - January 12, 2010 9:24 PM
I think it's time for me to make a call to Rogers, maybe I can get some inspiration for my next blog.
20. Mario - January 12, 2010 11:14 PM
She was going to write a song about Super Mario Brothers but her agency told her to hold off as the craze hadn't reached it's peak yet.
21. TofuButcher - January 13, 2010 1:48 AM
So, MIA is attacking working class people in call centres now? What will be next, a song berating her butler for being slightly too tall?
22. Jaded Icon - January 13, 2010 9:14 AM
I thought "stars" have people to do this mundane tasks....if she doesn't I could fill that position....and many others for her.
23. white boy - January 13, 2010 9:45 AM
Just LOOK at her. W'ere better than her.
24. KBOTZ - January 13, 2010 10:47 AM
@4 as a tech support, i'm just happy you can speak engrish.....and for that, you get a cookie.
25. atd - January 13, 2010 11:01 AM
Hell I dont need to spell when I have a spell checker haha. @26 what kind of cookie
26. che-che - January 13, 2010 11:06 AM
there are geek tech bands out there all ready that get no buzz. like Optimus Rhyme, obey the moderator is one wicked track!
would she right the song if it was her cousin on the other line.
27. graf zeppelin - January 13, 2010 12:03 PM
MIA is king of zeppelins.
28. Chris - January 14, 2010 8:47 AM
I'm not usually a fan of artists getting political but I'm glad she's getting involved in this. The New York Times put out an irresponsible article about Sri Lanka so she put out a video and song in protest. The article on the story here http://bit.ly/4JToqG