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M.I.A. – MATA

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March 30, 2023

M.I.A. – MATA

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MATA is M.I.A.’s sixth album, initially announced in January 2020 with a video posted to her Patreon page entitled “M.I.A. WELCOME TO MY PATREON”. The album was announced to be titled MATA on her Instagram page on November 1, 2021.

On August 20, 2022 on Instagram M.I.A. revealed that Doja Cat and Nicki Minaj were featured on her album and that she would leak Mata herself if the album wasn’t out by September.

She later announced that the album is gonna come out via her label or she’s gonna leak it herself.

On a interview for PAPER MAG, she discussed the essence of the album:

To make an album that was completely focused on essence, rather than the noise of the world, was the key component. […] I chose [my album title] MATA because it’s about the concept of something needing to die and that’s what this whole conversation is about. Jesus was the ultimate martyr and he died for all our sins. But when you say a syllable with your tongue, the transformation from your brain signal to uttering the word is called “Mata.” It fit at the moment for me because we are living in a time where there’s so much. Even taking the USA, it’s a period of struggle where there are fights between opinions and ideas and people being divisive and divided.