It Takes A Muscle

Album: MAYA (2010)
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Songfacts®:

  • This dancehall jam is in fact a reggae-fied cover version of a track originally recorded in 1982 by Dutch synth pop group Spectral Display. The song finds M.I.A. taking a rest from the album's main theme of information politics and instead she sings about actual love.

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