M.I.A. Instagram Live 25.03.2026 (MI7 Is a Spiritual Album + Pre-Save)

• In this Instagram Live from March 25, 2026, M.I.A. spoke in a much more spiritual and philosophical way than in the previous live. • She explained that while writing MI7, she had to confront everything on a deeper level, including her identity, her beliefs, and her spiritual journey. • She reflected on how her earlier work, especially Matangi, was connected to her exploration of Hindu concepts, sound, language, and symbolism. • She also spoke openly about Christianity, saying that her current faith comes after a long personal journey rather than from ignorance of other traditions. • One of the main ideas in the live was her distinction between “soul” and “spirit.” She described the soul as connected to memory, ancestry, identity, and the past, while the spirit is eternal and oriented toward the future and toward God. • She said that MI7 is a conceptual album and suggested that it describes a journey connected to how to reach heaven as understood through the Bible. • She talked about traveling to Ethiopia and how that experience made many of the ideas she had been thinking about feel real and tangible. • She spent a lot of time discussing how ancient civilizations, religions, symbols, and spiritual truths can become corrupted or misunderstood over time, even when they begin with something meaningful. • She revisited the concept of Matangi, saying that if people reduce it to something purely “pagan,” they are missing the deeper point she was exploring about sound, speech, and the power of words. • She connected this to Christianity by saying that spoken words, prayer, blessing, rebuking, and manifestation all depend on the responsible use of language. • She also talked about Egypt, Hathor, music, rage, joy, copper, and spiritual alignment, showing how all of these themes connect to her life, her music, and her current way of thinking. • At one point she said she knows she is “too weird for this industry” and that she cannot reduce herself to being just a one-dimensional “sexy artist.” • She reflected on Bad Girls, saying that sensuality and sexual energy are real and important, but that modern society has taken that energy to an unhealthy extreme. • Later in the live she brought up reincarnation, saying that even as a Christian she still struggles with how to reconcile certain experiences and beliefs she has carried since childhood. • She ended up sharing a personal memory from Sri Lanka, where she first heard adults discussing reincarnation at a funeral when she was a child. • Overall, this live makes MI7 sound like a deeply spiritual, conceptual, and autobiographical album, possibly one of the most personal projects she has ever made. • I also found the MI7 pre-save link (ffm.to/mi7), which now appears to be working for Apple Music and Spotify. It did not work before, so hopefully that means an official announcement is coming in the next few days.