A minor meeting of the fates apparently put Amerie and MIA on the front covers of two music mags at the same time—while Amerie graced the front of Vibe, MIA was the cover story on indie mag Resonance. While MIA has set aflame certain influential groups of indie music lovers, leading to her spot on tour with LCD Soundsystem, Amerie has traced a far more stratospheric flightplan, and has been compared to Beyonce (if unkindly). And so it makes sense to put the two artists together—mixing the obscure with the wildly popular has always been a dependable mashup formula.

Strangely (or perhaps not, considering how popular Amerie’s “One Thing” has been), more than one person has had the idea to put MIA and Amerie together; there’s another mashup floating around combining “One Thing” with MIA’s “Galang.” Carrasco replaces “Galang” with “Pull Up The People,” to roughly the same effect. It’s quite a bit easier on sensitive ears than the buzzy, harsh electronic stew MIA cooks up when left to her own devices, and so serves as a decent introduction to both artists.