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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]
[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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"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 ...
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).
A red-band trailer for the film, featuring the song "Paper Planes" by M.I.A., [8] leaked in February 2008. [9] Sony Pictures had the video removed from YouTube within a few days of its posting. [10] Patrick Goldstein's Summer Movie Posse of the Los Angeles Times described its incorporation as "the most impressive use of M.I.A.'s 'Paper Planes ...
"Paper Planes" is the debut single by season six runner-up of The Voice Australia, Hoseah Partsch. It is co-written by Dennis Dowlut (ex-Disco Montego) and Maxwell Bidstrup, [1] which was released digitally immediately after the final on 2 July 2017. The song debuted and peaked at number 35 on the ARIA Singles Chart with 5,147 sales. [2]