M.I.A.'s 'Paper Planes' Nominated for Record Of The Year

M.I.A.'s 'Paper Planes' Nominated for Record Of The Year

M.I.A.'s music doesn't really fit in any category, true, except maybe ... RECORD OF THE YEAR!

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Category 1

Record Of The Year nominees at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards ... (Award to the Artist and to the Producer(s), Recording Engineer(s) and/or Mixer(s), if other than the artist.)

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081204/LATH530)

-- Paper Planes
M.I.A.
Diplo, producer; Switch, engineer/mixer
Track from: Kala
[Interscope]

-- Chasing Pavements
Adele
Eg White, producer; Tom Elmhirst & Steve Price, engineers/mixers
Track from: 19
[XL Recordings/Columbia]

-- Viva La Vida
Coldplay
Markus Dravs, Brian Eno & Rik Simpson, producers; Michael Brauer & Rik
Simpson, engineers/mixers
Track from: Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
[Capitol Records]

-- Bleeding Love
Leona Lewis
Simon Cowell, Clive Davis & Ryan "Alias" Tedder, producers; Craig
Durrance, Phil Tan & Ryan "Alias" Tedder, engineers/mixers
[J Records/SYCO Music]

-- Please Read The Letter
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
T Bone Burnett, producer; Mike Piersante, engineer/mixer
Track from: Raising Sand
[Rounder]

MIND F Rabble Rousers! Let's hope to see M.I.A. with Switch and Diplo at that podium come February. It would be worth the price of the acceptance speech alone YES!!! M.I.A. M.I.A. M.I.A. M.I.A. ...

For further information on M.I.A. please contact:
Jennie Boddy
Interscope Records
(212) 841.8023
jennie.boddy@umusic.com

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Source: Interscope Records

CONTACT: Jennie Boddy of Interscope Records, +1-212-841-8023,
jennie.boddy@umusic.com

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