M.I.A. To Bring 'Bird Flu' Beat

Debuting to critical acclaim with 2005's 'Arular,' London-born M.I.A has been hard at work working on her follow-up, which will be produced by herself. Spending the last six months recording in Tamil Nadu and Trinidad and Tobago, M.I.A. recently stated on her MySpace blog that she will return with new single called 'Bird Flu' with an accompanying video.

"The video I did out there in a fishing village in south coast of India," writes M.I.A in a recent post to her website. "The village was hit by a tsunami, but they still were in good shape!! We practically moved there and had the craziest time going out fishing everyday. And I alwayz used to say that one day im gonna run away and marry a fisherman and live happily ever after and I thought damn I was close to seeing the reality of my forever plan b."

"We discovered an amazing boy who can out dance anything i ve ever seen. He invented me the bird flu dance. I called this bird flu because this beat gon kill everyone!"