Maya Movie Songs
Trinidad Baltzell
I love you to the moon and back my spicy monkey boy. Thank you for all you are doing. Thank you, Taylor for this gift you have given us. I promise to make you both proud of all the goodness that is going to come.
That was the best night for childhood cancer awareness ever. I, and millions of others, was in tears. Hearing your own words to your baby sung in the most beautiful voice by the most beautiful girl. I listen to it over and over every day. And cry every time.
We all love you and your family (all 5 1/4 of you). Thank you for sharing with us.
P.S.
I have had so many people reach out to me since Friday asking about Ronan and you and the blog and how all of this came to be. Your story is getting out there. Thank you for letting us all be a part of this.
Maya you are an inspiration. Your blog, your perseverance. I remember when Ronan first past away through friends of mine who shared your story. I was following you but it got to sad. I will follow you and how to live like a Rockstar. I promise to and to help however I can. I am thankful for people like you and Taylor Swift who bring about change. Thank you and let me know how I can help. I just donated.
Her song brought me to your site and I cried watching her perform it on Stand up to cancer 2012. Top it off with that beautiful little face of Ronan, I was saddened so deeply for your loss of your child. He is shining through though, through you and Taylor and anyone who is moved by his story as they will share it as I have with others. Bless your hearts.
The Neuroblastoma wellness centre sounds like a fabulous idea & all your fundraising events, I only wish we lived closer to be able to participate & maybe one day volunteer some time, entertaining the precious little children x
We have a little trust opened in memory of my baby, which we donate to the gorgeous little children who are going through NB treatment from time to time, we will definitely be donating to Ronans foundation next.
Most of the time I never comment, because I am usually sobbing my eyes out. This post is no different. You are so amazing and Taylor sees that too. She sees that you can change the way people look at this disease and that is why she chose you! The song is amazing and I am so happy for you!!
Hi maya , You are such A Good Mother. i am pretty sure that Ronan is VERY PROUD of you ! i have read your blog and it made me Cry :(( just continue doing such good things in life. God & Ronan is always there for you !! :(( just continue fighting for every battle that comes to your life . Your family especially Ronan is always on my prayers .
Your story had my whole entire class in tears. I hope the very best for you and your family. Never let your head drop, hold it high always for Ronan. He is your guardian angel, and will be watching over you for your many days to come. God Bless you and your family.
Always, Mikayla.
I stumbeled across your story while reading the news, i cant imagine your struggle but i think your a hero and so strong. Tears poured out while at my desk at work, the whole story and your blog moved me i couldnt help but share with all my co-workers, now they are bawling. Your an amazing person Ronan was lucky to have a strong mom. He will always be watching over you, And im sure very prond of you! I wish you the very best!
Yours truely, Kylee
Ronan really changed my life, Thank you Taylor for write this beatiful song, about this enchanting boy, and thank you Maya because your love story is most beatiful than every love story book that I read! Thank you!
I am so happy for you. Your story made me cry, probably like so many. I already loved Taylor Swift and now my love for her turned into so much respect. I send you all my blessings and all my love and I really really hope this turns into the miracle and the change you and Ronan always hoped for.
I am so happy for you right now. Taylor is lovely as ever. I am only 17 and i know i cannot imagine what it would be like losing a child, but i know its painful. We are all standing up today, as one to stand up to cancer. May Ronan rest in piece. We love you little man.
This made me cry, just like the song does everytime i hear it, i really hope more attention goes to childhood cancer. Ronan will live forever in our hearts. Stay strong.. x
Lots of love, from Egypt
What a nice surprise from Taylor! Who knew something so exciting would happen! This brings a lot of awareness to neuroblastoma that is much needed. The song is so incredibly beautiful as well. Keep up the good work Maya!
I miss Ronan so much. I hope that he is in Heaven playing with Talia and Robyn and other children that have passed. It most be the worst feeling in the world. Losing someone. I would know, my grandmother is just slipping away without anything to do about it. Ronan was such a BEAUTIFUL boy and I hope that you and him are at peace. Taylor Swift might just be the most generous person ever. What she did came from her heart, not for the publicity. We need more people like Taylor and Ronan. Fighters and amazing people. You are such a good parent and I give all my condolences. May Little Blue eyed Ronan, Rest In Peace little Angel. ???
I am a high-school student in Iowa, doing a project on Taylor Swift. While researching her I found this story and it touched me deeply. Thank you Maya for sharing your story. The second part of my project will be dedicated to Ronan.
Maya (stylised as ΛΛ Λ Y Λ) is the third studio album by British recording artist M.I.A. It was released on 7 July 2010 through N.E.E.T. Recordings, XL and Interscope. Songwriting and production was primarily handled by M.I.A., Blaqstarr and Rusko. Producers Diplo and Switch, alongside M.I.A.'s brother Sugu, also worked on the album. Maya was mainly composed and recorded at M.I.A.'s house in Los Angeles. The album's tracks centre on the theme of information politics and are intended to evoke what M.I.A. called a "digital ruckus]"; elements of industrial music were incorporated into M.I.A.'s sound for the first time upon its release. A deluxe edition was released simultaneously, featuring four new tracks.
Upon its release, Maya received mixed to positive reviews from music critics, with the album's musical style and lyrical content attracting both praise and criticism. In its first week of release, the album entered the UK Albums Chart at number 21, becoming her highest-charting album in the UK. It also became her highest-charting album in the US, peaking at number nine on the Billboard 200. Elsewhere, the album debuted in the top 10 in Finland, Norway, Greece and Canada.
To promote the album, M.I.A. released multiple tracks online, including "XXXO", "It Takes a Muscle" and "Born Free". The latter was accompanied by a short film-music video, which generated controversy due to its graphic imagery. She also performed at music festivals in the US and Europe to coincide with the album release. During promotion of the album, M.I.A. became embroiled in a dispute with Lynn Hirschberg of The New York Times.
English-Tamil musician M.I.A. (Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam) released her second album Kala in 2007, which achieved widespread critical acclaim, and was certified gold in the United States and silver in the United Kingdom.[3][4] Six months after giving birth to her son Ikyhd in February 2009,[5] she began composing and recording her third studio album in a home studio section of the Los Angeles house she had bought with her partner Ben Bronfman.[6] She used instruments such as the portable dynamic-phrase synthesizer Korg Kaossilator to compose.[7] She took the beat machine and began recording atop Mayan pyramids in Mexico.[8] Much of the work on the album was undertaken at her house in Los Angeles, in what she called a "commune environment",[9] before it was completed in a rented studio in Hawaii.[10] She collaborated with writer-producer Blaqstarr because, in her opinion, "he simply makes good music".[11] M.I.A.'s collaboration with Derek E. Miller of Sleigh Bells on the track "Meds and Feds" prompted her subsequent signing of the band to her label N.E.E.T., and according to Miller, this experience gave him the confidence to record the band's debut album Treats.[12][13]
Her creative partnership with the relatively unknown Rusko grew from a sense of frustration at what she saw as her now more mainstream associates suggesting sub-standard tracks due to their busy schedules.[6] Diplo worked on the track "Tell Me Why", but at a studio in Santa Monica, California, rather than at the house. He claimed in an interview that, following the break-up of his personal relationship with M.I.A. some years earlier, he was not allowed to visit the house because "her boyfriend really hates me".[14]
Tracks for the album were whittled down from recording sessions lasting up to 30 hours.[10] Producer Rusko, who played guitar and piano on the album, described the pair getting "carried away" in the studio, appreciating the "mad distorted and hectic" sound they were able to create.[10] Rusko said "She's got a kid, a little one year old baby, and we recorded his heart beat. We'd just think of crazy ideas".[10] Rusko has described M.I.A. as the best artist he has ever worked with, saying that she had "been the most creative and I really had a good time making music with her".[15]
M.I.A. called the new project "schizophrenic", and spoke of the Internet inspiration that could be found in the songs and the artwork.[16] She also said that the album centred on her "not being able to leave [Los Angeles] for 18 months" and feeling "disconnected".[17] She summed up the album's main theme as information politics. During the recording of the album, she spoke of the combined effects that news corporations and Google have on news and data collection, while stressing the need for alternative news sources that she felt her son's generation would need to ascertain truth.[18] Maya was made to be "so uncomfortably weird and wrong that people begin to exercise their critical-thinking muscles". M.I.A. said "You can Google 'Sri Lanka' and it doesn't come up that all these people have been murdered or bombed, it's 'Come to Sri Lanka on vacation, there are beautiful beaches' ... you're not gonna get the truth till you hit like, page 56, and it's my and your responsibility to pass on the information that it's not easy anymore".[18] Following these comments, M.I.A. received death threats directed at her and her son, which she also cited as an influence on the songs on the album. She summed up the album as a mixture of "babies, death, destruction and powerlessness".[19] The singer revealed that going into recording the album, she had still not accepted that she was a musician, saying, "I'm still in denial, listening to too much Destiny's Child".[20] With Maya, she stated "I was happy being the retarded cousin of rap... Now I'm the retarded cousin of singing."[21]
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