"Jimmy Disco Dancer"

This is the original jam MIA covers with "Jimmy" off her megahit "Arular" album. Its from a Bollywood movie "Disco Dancer" that takes place in a disco on a stage with a large audience observing and commenting on the drama. The characters meanwhile seem completely unaware of the audience's presence (very meta). I fucking love the shit out of this, and the spectrum of emotions:



MIA's "Jimmy"



"M.I.A. explained that "Jimmy Jimmy Aaja" was a track she used to dance to when she was a child. "My mum used to hire me out when I was a kid as a party buffer. It was my track that I used to do my routine to. I had a little tape recorder, and a cloak and a cardboard cut out guitar, and that was my joint." Describing the recording and writing processes, she revealed that she had already recorded the strings and other parts of the song in India, but initially didn't attempt to do "Jimmy" when she was with co-producer Switch, explaining "I had to be drunk enough to be that disco. It all came together that week." Arulpragasam wrote the song about an invitation she received from a journalist while working in Liberia, to meet him whilst covering a genocide tour."