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"Paper Planes" is a downtempo alternative hip hop and electro hop song with a duration of three minutes and 24 seconds. [18] [19] [20] The song takes a musical approach which incorporates elements of hip hop and African folk music. [21] "Paper Planes" follows what M.I.A. characterised as the "nu world" music style of Kala. [22]
Nathan Alexander Evans (born 19 December 1994) is a Scottish singer and songwriter. Evans first gained fame in 2020 by posting videos of himself singing sea shanties on social media service TikTok. In 2021, he released a cover of the folk song "Wellerman", which peaked at the top of the UK Singles Chart and also charted in several other countries.
The chorus of the 2008 single, "Paper Planes" by British musician M.I.A. was widely speculated to be based on the chorus, [1] [2] [3] although the song's writers are not credited. In 2024, the song appeared on co-songwriter Pharrell Williams ' soundtrack album Piece by Piece (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) .
Thomas John Lewis (born 16 April 1943) is a British singer and writer of nautical songs and sea shanties, [1] [2] some of whose works have become "folk standards." [3] He's been recorded by over 40 other artists including Nathan Evans [3] and has been called one of the finest exponents of contemporary nautical songs.
[11] [12] Since "Paper Planes" itself samples the 1982 song "Straight to Hell" by British rock group The Clash, each of the writers of both songs are credited as writing "Swagga like Us". [8] West added a "sumo–heavy bass " and drum line similar to that of a marching band to the vocal sample: [ 12 ] the sounds combine to form a "noisy ...
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The Ghetto Blaster EP is the first EP from the rap rock supergroup Street Sweeper Social Club, released on August 10, 2010.It features covers of "Paper Planes" by M.I.A. and "Mama Said Knock You Out" by LL Cool J as well as a remix of the band's second single "Promenade."
The song, jointly credited to Nathan Evans and remixers 220 Kid and Billen Ted by the Official Charts Company (OCC), reached number one on the UK Singles Chart. [25] A new version of "Wellerman" with German folk band Santiano was released as a single on 19 February 2021. [ 26 ]