History YMMV / TheBlackEyedPeas

* ValuesDissonance: 2002 was the last time someone could record a song called "Let's Get Retarded" and not be viewed as ableist. It's telling that the [[{{Bowdlerise}} bowdlerised]] version "Let's Get It Started" overshadowed it even before 2022 when it was made to be the only version available.

* ValuesDissonance: 2002 was the last time someone could record a song called "Let's Get Retarded" and not be viewed as ableist. It's telling that the bowlderised version "Let's Get It Started" overshadowed it even before 2022 when it was made to be the only version available.

* Values Dissonance: 2002 was the last time someone could record a song called "Let's Get Retarded" and not be viewed as ableist. It's telling that the bowlderised version "Let's Get It Started" overshadowed it even before 2022 when it was made to be the only version available.

* FaceOfTheBand: Either Fergie or will.i.am. Good luck finding an average fan that knows the names of apl.de.ap and Taboo.[[note]]Allan Pineda Lindo and Jaime Gomez, respectively.[[/note]]

** In the opening for the music video of "Where Is the Love?", posters of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'' are shown, being plastered over with the question mark symbol featured throughout the video. A decade later, "Meet Me Halfway" would be featured on Non-Stop-Pop FM in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'''s UpdatedReRelease (in addition to Music/{{Fergie}}'s "Glamorous" being featured in the same station in the original game).

* SoBadItsGood: "My Humps", at least for the lyrics alone.
** ''The E.N.D.'' and ''Beginning'' in their entireties.

** The beginning of the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrTyD7rjBpw Just Can't Get Enough]]" video. Made even worse that the video was filmed a week before the earthquake and tsunami.

* IAmTheBand: will.i.am's performance at the Silver Jubilee kind of confirmed this.

** "Imma Be".[[labelnote:Explanation]]Many people misheard the chorus of "Imma Be" as "I'm a bee". Doesn't help that the [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a2/Bep-imma-be.jpg cover of the single]] features a bee.[[/labelnote]]

** Imma Be.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Many people misheard the chorus of "Imma Be" as "I'm a bee". Doesn't help that the [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a2/Bep-imma-be.jpg cover of the single]] features a bee.[[/labelnote]]

* CriticalBacklash: Their Fergie era is a major source of this thanks in large part to overexposure colliding with memetic trolling, The End and The Beginning being especially hyped up as travesties against music. With the benefit of a few years for both the hype and vitriol to fade, The End borders on VindicatedByHistory having produced a number of extremely popular tracks now considered party anthems. Several entries from The Beginning, meanwhile, have gradually found some appreciation, and the album as a whole borders on a concept album showing hints of the members' turn toward the more avante garde side of things that got lost on many under the dance stylings and general over-play of their previous albums.
* CriticalDissonance: This is especially true for their song "My Humps", which was savaged by critics but still managed to become exceedingly popular and even won the 2007 Grammy Award for "Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal", in addition to the music video winning a VMA for "Best Hip-Hop Music Video."

* HilariousInHindsight: An album named ''The Beginning'' ended up being their last album before a long hiatus.
** In the short film version of the music videos for “Rock That Body”, and “Imma Be” will.i.am makes a computer program that does all the music work for them instead of creating it from the ground up, which angers Fergie and she storms out yelling “We’re not robots!” The next decade after this video was released, AI (artificial intelligence) became the norm for some video creators which does exactly that, from videos and voices to audio.
* ItsPopularNowItSucks: Averted. The group when compared to after adding Fergie to the lineup, which is when they switched to a more pop-oriented sound and became more commercially successful than how the band originally started out.

* MemeticMutation: Imma Be.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Many people misheard the chorus of "Imma Be" as "I'm a bee". Doesn't help that the [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a2/Bep-imma-be.jpg cover of the single]] features a bee.[[/labelnote]]

--> If I had an enemy, then my enemy's gonna come try to kill me 'cuz I'm his enemy.

* SampledUp: "Misirlou" by "Pump It" (Music/DickDale [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTnV_ExKicw is not amused]]), as well as Sexual Harassment's "I Need A Freak" by "My Humps". The latter of the two was the subject of a lawsuit that began even several years before the song's release due to the sample being used without authorization.
* SignatureSong: "Where Is The Love" and "I Gotta Feeling". For their solo careers, Fergie has "Big Girls Don't Cry" while will.i.am has "Scream & Shout".

* ItsPopularNowItSucks: The group when comparing to before after adding Fergie to the lineup, which is when they switched to a more pop oriented sound and became more commercially successful.

* SignatureSong: "I Gotta Feeling". For their solo careers, Fergie has "Big Girls Don't Cry" while will.i.am has "Scream & Shout".

* WinBackTheCrowd: ''Masters of the Sun'' is seen as a return to form

* CriticalBacklash: their Fergie era is a major source of this thanks in large part to overexposure colliding with memetic trolling, The End and The Beginning being especially hyped up as travesties against music. With the benefit of a few years for both the hype and vitriol to fade, The End borders on VindicatedByHistory having produced a number of extremely popular tracks now considered party anthems. Several entries from The Beginning, meanwhile, have gradually found some appreciation, and the album as a whole borders on a concept album showing hints of the members' turn toward the more avante garde side of things that got lost on many under the dance stylings and general over-play of their previous albums.

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: ''The Black Eyed Peas Experience'', a pale attempt to capitalize on the ''VideoGame/JustDance'' craze.

* HarsherInHindsight: The closing lines of "The APL Song" implicitly referred to the suicide of Apl's younger brother Arnel. A few years later and his youngest brother Joven was [[https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/02/03/09/brother-black-eyed-peas-apl-de-ap-killed-pampanga murdered]] at the age of 22 in Porac, Pampanga.

* HilariousInHindsight: An album named ''The Beginning'' made the general public so tired of the band that they ended up basically disappearing for eight years then dropping all of the party music elements of that album.

** "Meet Me Halfway". It was actually noted by some critics that although she does not have a phenomenal vocal range, the emotion in Fergie's voice makes the vocals quite powerful.

* WinBackTheCrowd: By the time of their hiatus a lot of people were absolutely done with them, but ''Masters of the Sun'' is seen as a return to form.

* UncannyValley:
** The video for "Boom Boom Pow".
** Better yet, the ''creepy'' [[https://remixographs.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/bep_theend.jpg cover for ''The E.N.D.'']] hits this UpToEleven. Makes it even more creepy when it appeared in "Boom Boom Pow".

* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: Despite their lyrics, many neurodivergent and mentally disabled people have expressed their love for "Let's Get Retarded".

* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: Many neurodivergent and mentally disabled people have expressed their love for "Let's Get Retarded".

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* HilariousInHindsight: An album named "The Beginning" made the general public so tired of the band that they ended up basically disappearing for 8 years then dropping all of the party music elements of that album.

* {{Narm}}: will.i.am claiming "[he] be rockin' dem BEATZ!!!!1" on ''Boom Boom Pow'', over a repetitive, tepid and rather beat free beat counts.

** ''Meet Me Halfway''. It was actually noted by some critics that although she does not have a phenomenal vocal range, the emotion in Fergie's voice makes the vocals quite powerful.

* WinBackTheCrowd: By the time of their hiatus a lot of people were absolutely done with them, but "Masters of the Sun" is seen as a return to form.