2013Released
3:40

Did You Know?

Interesting facts and trivia about aTENTion. By Songfacts®.

This song finds M.I.A. concentrating on rhyming evocative words that end with the word 'tent.' Her friend Julian Assange plated a small part in the creation of the song. She explained to NME that the WikiLeaks founder downloaded, "every possible English word in the library of the internet that had the word 'tent' in it. He got me, like, 5,000 words and I had to write a song. I only used about 40." Assange also came up with the title of Matangi's opening track, "Karmageddon."

Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of aTENTion.
D♯Key
MinorMode
4/4Time Signature
140BPM

Album

The album aTENTion is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released aTENTion.
Universal Music Group
© 2013 Maya Arulpragasam, under exclusive license to Interscope Records
℗ 2013 Maya Arulpragasam, under exclusive license to Interscope Records

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