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I like their music, I know that there is no depth, not into it for the lyrical content...blah blah blah, just big banging beats, very danceable... what can I say ... if the music makes you move, you gotta move...~ You are what you think you are ~
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really? I thought I was understating my hatred for their anti-music compositions. I spent the whole of last summer listening to a dumb chick in the office mindlessly sing the chorus for most of their songs. After about the second day of her singing "boom boom pow" like a broken record, I was ready to snap. Still am on edge about that, man. Something I may never get over. PTBEPD.you could put an Emfire release on for 2 minutes and you would be a sleep before it finishes - Chunky
it's RA. they'd blow their load all over some stupid 20 minute loop of a snare if it had a quirky flange setting. - Tiddles
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you could put an Emfire release on for 2 minutes and you would be a sleep before it finishes - Chunky
it's RA. they'd blow their load all over some stupid 20 minute loop of a snare if it had a quirky flange setting. - Tiddles
Am I somewhere....in the corners of your mind....
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Why i hate the Black Eyed Peas
I don’t tend to hate much. Hating something implies that you can find nothing positive whatsoever in the thing you hate, and I can usually find something positive in everything. In this case, and simply in reference to me, not other people, I hate Fergie and the Black Eyed Peas by association.
I am really protective of Hip Hop. Like Chris Rock said ‘I love rap, but I’m tired of defending it’. I’m 31, which might make you think I’m just being nostalgic, but Hip Hop sure ain’t what is used to be, and I’m pointing the finger at the Black Eyed Peas for where it is today.
I met a colleague in the lift a few weeks ago, and as she was wrapping up her ipod, I asked what music she liked, to which she replied ‘hip hop’. I was a little surprised and asked what she had been listening to and guess what she said, Yep, the Black Eyed Peas.
Initially the Black Eyed Peas were a fairly credible hip-hop group, being signed to Eazy-E’s record label and touring with Jurassic 5. Whilst not really to my taste, their music was at least well rooted in hip-hop’s burgeoning ‘conscious’ movement, spreading messages of anti-violence and unity.
Instead of sticking to hip hop, they veered wildly into the horrible Pop R+B market, by adding Fergie to their lineup in 2003, and went on to produce what in my opinion are some of the worst records in my lifetime.
Now being a Pop band is no bad thing, pop is after all ‘popular’, and whilst you might think I’m just being a music snob, I still have a massive problem with the fact that they call themselves a Hip Hop group.
The Black Eyed Peas, although a worldwide name, have achieved terrible chart results in the US. From their last two albums, they have achieved the following positions in the U.S. Hot 100 chart: 8, 23, 21, 3, 14, 3 and 18. Not great really, but they are a Hip Hop group remember, more of a niche appeal kind of group? Not so. In the U.S. Hip Hop and Rap charts they have fared even worse attaining the positions: 82, 19, 22, 10 and 57.
So it’s clear to see that America doesn’t think much of their status as a Hip Hop group. Their popularity has come from countries like France, Australia, Germany, China, Indonesia, and Israel, where an American accent, a saucy video and some black guys can get you a long way.
Another reason for their notoriety is their incessant licensing, seemingly without any creative conscience, selling their work to any corporation, game or movie they can. Black Eyed Peas songs have appeared in:
Garfield: the movie, Apple ipod (advert), NBA TV (advert), Harold and Kumar go to Whitecastle (goofball movie), Barbershop 2 (goofball movie), White chicks (goofball movie) The Simz (videogame), Snickers promotional videos, Bulworth (movie), apple imac (advert), Dance Dance Revolution (videogame), Along Came Polly (goofball movie), Laguna Beach (MTV series), Big Momma’s House 2 (goofball movie), Cars (movie), Pepsi (adverts)
Now, onto Fergie: As a member of the Black Eyed Peas, she has single-handedly done more to destroy what I love about Hip-hop than anyone else. Her brand of ignorant stylistic singalong crap, masquerading as ‘Urban’, ‘Edgy’, ‘Hip Hop’ has nothing beneficial to the scene whatsoever. Not content with ruining the Black Eyed Peas, she has now gone solo, further perverting the genre, creating ‘urban music by numbers’.
Her song ‘My Humps’, is more ‘Weird Al Yankovic’ than Hip Hop. An ode to her arse, mentioning it 55 times in the song, it incredibly won a Grammy. It was described by John Bush as one of the most embarrassing rap performances of the new millennium
Her song ‘London Bridge’ has the genius lyrics: ‘V.I.P., ‘cause you know I gotta shine. I’m Fergie Ferg,give me love you long time’, and ‘Back to back, drop it down real low. I’m such a lady, but I’m dancing like a ho’. Brilliant. More notably, for the entire video, and indeed on the record sleeve, she is dancing in front of Tower Bridge, not London Bridge.
In conclusion:
1. I hate the fact the Black Eyed Peas call themselves a Hip Hop group, when they retain nothing of the genre, and misrepresent it all over the world.
2. I hate the fact that the music they create is inane, formulaic, simplistic, and designed to simply be a money making vehicle.
3. I hate the fact that they will license their work to anything, regardless of context.
4. I hate the fact that when I say I like Hip Hop, the man in the street thinks I listen to this crap.
I gave the lady from the lift a copy of a Tribe Called Quest album. She says she hasn’t listened to it yet.
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Hate this group, never liked them to begin with anyway, but the recent stuff they have out.. garbage! absolute garbage! and that's why I dont listen to the radio.
I especially hate that fucking Monday tuesday wednesday shit song..wtf.. yeah lets just sing all days of the week! maybe they'll do a month song and later an abc song too! fucking GARBAGE!!!!
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word!
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