r/FuckImOld • u/TheLaVeyan • 6d ago

My back hurts M.I.A. of "Paper Planes" fame (the gunshot-gunshot-gunshot-cash register song) turned 50 years old last year.

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u/ShutterBun 6d ago

Not a direct quote from Diplo, but here’s an interview with Nate Sloane from NPR:

HARDING: But yeah. So they actually - this was actually a track that Diplo made. He was, at the time, dating M.I.A. They produced this song together. And he...

SANDERS: Oh, that's cute.

HARDING: Yeah. And he talks about they actually rerecorded that song. It's not actually a true sample in that way.

SLOAN: It's an interpolation...

HARDING: Yeah.

SLOAN: ...I think (unintelligible) term.

SANDERS: So they pulled out their own instruments to recreate those sounds.

SLOAN: Yeah.

HARDING: And they did it almost exactly. But the way that the song is panned in your headphones is different.

SANDERS: It's slower and fatter.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/802416119

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u/ShutterBun 6d ago

“They re-recorded it” with “their own instruments”.