M.I.A. returns with “CanSeeCanDo”.
M.I.A. has had a weird career arc. After reaching the peak of critical consensus with Arular and Kala, a NYT takedown piece and her difficult third album, Maya, caused an unfair stumble in her ascendance, but it made her return with “Bad Girls,” one of the best songs and videos of the decade thus far, all the more triumphant.