{"id":168520,"date":"2010-01-11T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5445780"},"modified":"2010-01-11T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T02:40:00","slug":"m-i-a-writes-song-inspired-by-three-hour-verizon-tech-support-call-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/168520","title":{"rendered":"M.I.A. Writes Song Inspired by Three-Hour Verizon Tech Support Call [Music]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lesson to Verizon: Neon-spandexed globe-trotting hip-hop-ish superstars like M.I.A. should not be subjected to three-hour tech support<\/a> calls, because her resulting song “I’m Down Like Your Internet Connection” is bound to become the new “shake it like a Polaroid picture.”<\/p>\n

The best part about “I’m Down Like Your Internet Connection,” which is due to appear on her forthcoming followup to Kala<\/em> this summer, is that she actually got Filipino Verizon workers to sing the hook. Says M.I.A.:<\/p>\n

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I was having issues with my cable and wireless, and I was on the phone [with tech support] for three hours, and I thought, \u2018Maybe this needs to be part of my music, could you just learn these lyrics and sing it down the phone to me?’ Ten phone calls later, I have Internet that sticks and a song.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Can’t. Wait. [Rolling Stone<\/a> via Twitter<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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Lesson to Verizon: Neon-spandexed globe-trotting hip-hop-ish superstars like M.I.A. should not be subjected to three-hour tech support calls, because her resulting song “I’m Down Like Your Internet Connection” is bound to become the new “shake it like a Polaroid picture.” The best part about “I’m Down Like Your Internet Connection,” which is due to appear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1551,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}