On topic: I like the M.I.A. album, better than the first. I prefer Switch to Richard X (didn't he do a lot of Arular?) but I never really got into his stuff too much (I do like Ms. Thing's "Love Guide" though).
As far as message, yeah, I can't understand what she's saying either, and what message exists is probably convoluted/silly, so it's probably better that way. I prefer to get my politics from what I read. I'm down with the weird abstract lyrical stuff, and I dig the other pop song quotations. I think the rapping is actually a little tighter on this, and excellent wordsmithery isn't often a criterion for judging RAP albums (people rating "Party Like a Rock Star" for example), and this AIN'T RAP (and she cut down on the oh-oh-oh yelpings, so let's credit that too). I'm in it for the beats, which I think are great for the most part. Switching out dancehall for bmore was a good move, and the quotations from other genres are more integrated into a solid aesthetic (instead of like Bucky Done Gun which was a straight funk carioca rip, although a good one. P.S. Diplo credited himself with production on that until DJ Marlboro called him out - fodder for the Diplo haters).
And I'm hyped for some great remixes. Anyone want to get all fantasy baseball on this?
Anybody heard the cover of Kaiser Chiefs she did over the bookshelf riddim?