M.I.A. has a lot on her plate these days, including raising a son, running a record label, and releasing her third album.

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M.I.A. goes to infinity and beyond on a new song titled “Space Odyssey.” The “Paper Planes” singer is working on the follow-up to her 2007 album Kala, due this summer.

“My lines are down, you can’t call me,” she sings on the staticy production, which sounds conceptually like another track she described, “I’m Down Like Your Internet Connection.” The latter is said to feature Filipino Verizon workers singing the hook.

M.I.A. has never been one to follow trends, and on her first album since giving birth to her son, she’s got a few surprises in store, including one very unusual collaboration.

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M.I.A. was hot steppin’ in her Jimmy Choos at the Jimmy Choo for H&M Collection launch in support of the Motion Picture & Television Fund in West Hollywood on Monday (Nov. 2). The Sri Lankan mama took a bite out of the red carpet as a shark and later transformed into a wild thing for her performance.

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M.I.A. gets animalistic in a colorful leopard-inspired outfit at the Outside Lands Music Festival 2009 at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Sunday (Aug. 30). Ikhyd’s mom covered the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” and “Intergalactic,” and performed a new track called “Born Free.”

“A lot has changed in a year since I’ve been here,” she told her Bay Area fans. “I got engaged here. I got pregnant here. I’m kind of f***ing scared of this place.”

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Christina Aguilera is straying from the path and working with some unlikely collaborators on her new album.

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M.I.A.’s son Ikhyd will soon have a playmate. The “Paper Planes” hitmaker’s protégé Rye Rye is pregnant.

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M.I.A. directs the video for her protégé Rye Rye’s debut single “Bang,” which was filmed in the 18-year-old rapper’s hometown of Baltimore. Look for her debut album Go! Pop! Bang! at the top of 2010.

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A then-pregnant M.I.A. got through her performance on Grammy night with some help from Weezy F. Baby.

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