You try to stay positive. Even with the recession and global warming and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and everything. You try, despite all evidence to the contrary-shouters comparing Obama to Hitler, toxic algae ruining the planet's beautiful places, everybody dying-you try to hold on to the hope that things are somehow going to be okay, that the world isn't going crazy, that not everyone is stupid and bad.
It's a problem of perspective, you tell yourself. You can't see the forest for the trees. The night is darkest just before the dawn. Hey, a baby red panda was just born! But how are you supposed to console yourself when faced the continued success of the Black Eyed Peas?
Huge, ubiquitous success which is a now also a very historic type of success. Twenty weeks at number one. Twenty weeks! Twenty weeks for the country to wake up and snap out of it. Nope. The Black Eyed Peas are the most popular act in America. Will-I-Am and Fergie and those other two guys who pose in the pictures and dance so funny.
The Black Eyed Peas. Numbers don't lie.
The fucking Black Eyed Peas. Dominant.
Just what the fuck are you supposed to do with that?
'member Up With People"?
I got a feeling.....!!
dear god
make it stop.
love
urbania
Hit songs lately featured either autotune or the "deh-dah-deh-dah" synthesized beat. This song's got BOTH. It's science. You can't argue with it.
I am soo glad someone said this, b/c I f*cking loathe the BEP. For me it is an 'Emperor With no Clothes' scenario: I mean bitch please, that My Humps song wasn't even clever enough for a BEP *parody* band! And this Boom Boom Pow song showcasing more of their lack of talent of any sort? Don't even get me started...
True story - when "My Humps" first came out, I thought I was listening to a local band's audition to be on the radio - you know, "Send in your demo and we'll play it and let listeners decide whether it gets played again!" Same deal with Puffy/Mase's "Mo Money Mo Problems".
backlash exhaustion
Are you just upset that the Awl soundtrack didn't open in the top 50?
Like Oh My God
Not to mention they are total whores. I paid them $3.25 and some skittles to play at my dogs 10th birthday party.
Dear white males, you should be more concerned that people are still listening to that goddamned Jason Mraz song after sixteen months. Glass houses and all. Sincerely, 3008.
At least Jason Mraz doesn't feel a need to spell a word in every... single ... song!
And how many weeks was that Jamie Foxx song on the charts? Billboard freaks me out, yo.
I had no idea that there was such a huge niche market for Music-To-Get-You-Amped-While-You-Spike-Your-Hair-And-Apply-Axe-Body-Spray-Before-Braving-The-Tunnel-Traffic-On-The-Way-To-Marquee.
I went to a party at an all male house recently and there was Axe shower gel on the side of the tub in the bathroom...I debated asking whether they found that it was effective, but ended up being able to draw my own conclusions.
And yes, they were probably listening to BEP while they strung their cock n balls pinata to the porch.
Dumb droning durges for a nation of mental midgets, er, I mean, little people, brainwise. This particular BEP album is perfect for driving your car into a telphone pole, or using a hammer to break all the bones in your little fingers to. Where the fuck is Elvis Costello's rage when we need it. Get the fucking carpet knife, Stanley. There's work to do. I wouldn't ordinarilly give a shit but sigother likes this crap and I want to jam pencils into the speakers when its comes on the victrola. just sayin
How does drivel like this require so many writers????
Artist:
Black Eyed Peas
Written by:
Pineda, Allan/Riesterer, Frederick/Adams, William/Ferguson, Stacy/Guetta, David/Gomez, Jaime
Album:
The E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies)
I believe there are more writers than there are unique lines in the song.
Unless you start a Braille version of The Awl, you have just lost a reader, because I have now stabbed my eyeballs to shreds.
It just goes to show you that if you dress like a stripper and make shitty music and are already hugely, inexplicably popular for the shitty music you've already made in the past, you can achieve anything in this great country.
I came thisclose to jumping out a speeding car that was blasting this and that horrible BOOM BOOM POW song. Hand on the door, ready to go. If this is the best summer can do, bring me winter...
This is a real actual quote from that article:
"Peas member will.i.am comments, 'With this kind of success your ego wants to take all the credit but your heart reminds your soul that it was your heart that had you slaving and creating in the studio making the music; breaking through comfort zones and tradition. In the fight between heart and ego my heart always wins.'"
Like oh my God indeed.