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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]
[73] [75] [76] "Paper Planes" is to date XL Recordings' second best selling single, and by November 2011 it had sold 3.6 million copies in the US, currently the seventh best-selling song by a British artist in the digital era. [77] In 2007, M.I.A. also released the How Many Votes Fix Mix EP which included a remix of "Boyz" featuring Jay-Z. [78]
"Paper Planes" was itself sampled in Jay-Z and T.I.'s 2008 song "Swagga Like Us"; the songwriters of "Straight To Hell" received co-writing credits for both songs. The song was refashioned by Mick Jones and Lily Allen for the War Child: Heroes album, released in the UK on 16 February 2009, and in the U.S. on 24 February 2009 by Astralwerks .
"Paper Plane" is a rock song originally by Status Quo. It was released as a single on 10 November 1972, reaching number 8 in the UK Singles Chart, [2] and appeared on their album, Piledriver. [3] The song was written by Francis Rossi and Bob Young. [3] The song was reprised, in 2014, for the band's thirty-first studio album Aquostic (Stripped ...
[12] [13] "Paper Planes", the album's fourth and final single, became M.I.A.'s breakthrough hit and was nominated for Record of the Year at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards. [14] The song appeared on the soundtrack to the 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire along with "O... Saya", a song written specifically for the film by M.I.A. and A. R. Rahman.
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Following the unexpected commercial success of "Paper Planes", Kala was re-issued in the United Kingdom in October 2008. [31] A 4 November 2008 US re-release was announced, [32] but as of late 2009 the album had not been re-issued in the United States. The album's packaging includes photographs taken by M.I.A. and others in Liberia and Jamaica ...