So today our sister site, Noisey, launched their very own YouTube channel, and we're insanely thrilled to kick things off with a premiere of M.I.A.’s new video for "Bad Girls," a squirmy little party-starter about living fast, dying young, and leaving a hot corpse in the middle of the desert. It's basically like if 2 Fast 2 Furious had been shot out in the Middle East. Seriously, how many videos have you seen lately that focus on criminal Saudi drag racing?We first caught wind of "Bad Girls" on the last day of 2010, when an early version was released on M.I.A.'s Vicki Leekx tape. The Arabic Pop-inflected banger was re-released this past week. The original was a stripped-down sketch—here, super-producer Danja gives the track a facelift. The video is shot by French director (and Creator!) Romain Gavras.Read the rest of the article at Noisey.com
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