This is why M.I.A. has more balls than all of us

Abbey Punk Photo just brought this to our attention:



We actually had no idea that M.I.A. was going to be on David Letterman last week, and even less of an idea that she was going to perform "Paper Planes" arguably the most brilliant yet controversial song on her new album "Kala". So this is totally old news but WHATEVER, we're posting it anyway. It sucks that the song is completely ruined, with the gunshot samples watered down and if you look closely, it seems as if M.I.A. is even less pleased than we are. As soon as the first chorus goes down she whips her head around to look at the DJ, and at the end it almost looks like she gives the audience the finger, then doesn't shake Dave's hand. Ouch.

It just sucks that this may be the most amazing song of the year and America just saw a phoney version of it. Sad.