Freedun

This song is a collaboration with Zayn Malik with the ex-One Direction-er on hook and harmony duties. M.I.A. told BBC Radio 1's Annie Mac: "I made the song a long time ago and always thought it was too mainstream sounding for me, so [the collaboration] just seems like it's perfect, if I was going to have a collaboration and have someone like Zayn, this is the perfect song, it sort of takes me out of my comfort zone but it also takes him out of his a little bit as well."

The pair first formed a bond when she considered penning tracks for Malik's debut solo album, Mind of Mine. "We have the same publishers and they wanted me to demo some songs for Zayn," M.I.A. told Entertainment Weekly. "Before I started writing properly my own stuff [for AIM], I was thinking maybe I'll write for other people instead. I really wanted to write a song for Zayn….We had a couple people in common. And that's how it came about. I didn't really approach him for my own record until later on. First, I thought I wanted to try writing a song for him."

Because MIA was in India, she collaborated with Zayn via the instant messaging client WhatsApp. "We just basically did it while I was here, because I've been here for a week-and-a-half," she said. "We've just been going back and forth on, you know, WhatsApp."