Sunshowers

Infobox Single
Name = Sunshowers


Artist = M.I.A.
from Album = Arular
B-side = "Fire, Fire"
Released = Start date|2004|7|5
Format = CD single, vinyl record
Recorded = Early 2004
Genre = Dancehall, hip hop
Length = 3:16
Label = XL Recordings
Writer = Maya Arulpragasam, Ross Orton, Steve Mackey, August Darnell, Stony Jr. Browder
Producer = Maya Arulpragasam, Nesreen Shah, Steve Mackey, Ross Orton Anthony Whiting
Last single = "Galang"
(2003)
This single = "Sunshowers"
(2004)
Next single = "Galang
(re-release)
(2004)Extra album cover
Upper caption = Video Capture
Background = khaki


Lower caption = M.I.A. in the music video for "Sunshowers", filmed in South India

"Sunshowers" is the second single from M.I.A.'s critically acclaimed album "Arular" and her first official release with XL Recordings (see 2004 in music). It is written by Maya Arulpragasam, Ross Orton, Steve Mackey, August Darnell and Stony Jr. Browder and produced by Maya Arulpragasam, Nesreen Shah, Steve Mackey, Ross Orton and Anthony Whiting. The song samples Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band's "Sunshower".

cquote|"Sunshowers" is about how in the news the world is being divided into good and evil with this axis of evil and terrorism thing, so the song is asking:"How can we talk about gun culture and other issues while Blair is preaching that if someone hits us, we should hit back twice as hard?" — M.I.A.

The music video for "Sunshowers" was directed by Rajesh Touchriver and filmed in the jungles of South India.

The song faced censorship controversies on TV and radio, and was banned from MTV after M.I.A. refused to remove the lines: "you wanna go? you wanna winna war? Like PLO, I don't surrendo" for airplay. [Richard Harrington (September 16, 2005). [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/15/AR2005091500697_pf.html M.I.A., No Loss For Words] "Washington Post". Accessed July 18, 2008.]

Designer Matthew Williamson opened and closed his fashion week runway show with the song in 2004.cite web | author=Webb, Adam | title= "M.I.A. - Arular"| url= http://uk.launch.yahoo.com/050426/33/1xkwz.html | work = Yahoo! Music | year=2005| accessdate=2007-09-04]

Track listings and formats

CD single
# "Sunshowers" – 3:16
# "Fire, Fire" – 3:28
# "Sunshowers" (Instrumental) – 3:15
# "Sunshowers" (A capella) – 2:52

The only difference the 12" single has is that tracks 2 and 3 are switched.

Personnel

* Maya Arulpragasam - main performer, artwork, producer
* Nesreen Shah - chorus
* Steve Mackey - producer, mixing
* Ross Orton - producer, mixing
* Anthony Whiting - producer, mixing

Charts

References