Cliche gets an auditory consumption of Black Eyed Peas

Maybe you don't like it because you're two thousand & late.

Ever thought about THAT

If you ever survive this, I should ask my sister for more recommendations.

And by recommendations I mean I don't want to listen to boy bands for four hours straight when you're home jesus fucking christ why won't it stop

The next single, I Gotta Feeling. I've gotta bad feeling about this.

Admittedly, it sounds pretty nice...at first. Unfortunately, the constant repetition of the hollow autotuned sound of "I gotta feeling That tonight's gonna be a good night" gets old fast, and makes you just want them to get on with it. It's supposed to be a party song, but it's so low-key that it's more like anticipating the climax, but never bothering to rise to it. Along with the aforementioned autotune overdose, it just sounds so empty.

Of note is how the music video attempts a modern generation style by incorporating cell phones and laptops. In addition, there's a ridiculous amount of Fergie fanservice with her lingerie shots and such.

Now we meet with Meet Me Halfway. It's a Fergie ballad, but actually, her singing is tolerable, if only acceptably so. The song itself is your typical desire song which reminds me of Europop. The most interesting thing about this is the music video, which alternates between Fergie in a fantasy forest and the guys in outer space...with apl.de.apl wearing Middle Eastern clothing and will.i.am riding a space elephant? Okay, that is weird, but besides that, the overall design is beautiful, and I must confess, so are the instrumentals. Not bad, probably because it's more structured than that constant repetition of the previous two singles.

edited 23rd Jun '10 6:56:29 PM by Cliche

The next two singles, Imma Be and Rock That Body were put together as one video. The result? Imma Be Rocking That Body. Well, here we go.

The video begins with will.i.am demonstrating a machine that can create synthesized sound to the Peas, calling it "the future". Fergie rejects it, claiming they're not robots and then storms off on a motorcycle. Where she ends up? Michael Bay's Transformers.

Imma Be starts up with Fergie lying in the desert, inexplicably in a one-piece all of a sudden. Following the trend of this album, the entire chorus consists of a constant ostinato of "Imma Be" with a repeated note pattern created by an automated voice. It's as annoying as you'd think, and even worse, the verse is simply "Imma Be" (Fergie saying some shit). There's no escaping "Imma Be".

After Fergie says her verse, she goes into a restaurant with will.i.am. As he does his verse, which is still "Imma Be" (saying some shit), they go out into a hovercraft speeding away from a giant robot to a junkyard, where they meet up with apl.de.apl. Just when you thought "Imma Be" couldn't be any more annoying, they change up the pattern to something resembling bee buzzing. Urgh. Regardless, this shift causes the speakers to TRANSFORM!(TM) and all the robots dance. While they all groove down the road, a dark robot deletes the backup dancers.

The music changes over to Rock That Body as the video heads into the city and will.i.am apparates in the city wielding a gun and plenty of Autotune. The rest of the Peas follow suit The Matrix style, and Fergie now sings with a horrible high-pitched robotic voice. And I thought my telephone banker was annoying. The Peas shoot the static people with sonic blasts, reanimating them and they dance to the music. Fergie gets kidnapped by the evil robot and thus a chase ensues with will.i.am riding the good robot. It culminates in a dance-off, and as the evil robot falls....

...it turns out it was All Just a Dream. Or "the greatest idea for a video".

So yes, a long video that seems to get progressively more annoying as it passes by and will take days to get out of my head, and yet I wrote up that elaborate summary. I guess I harbour Foe Yay to the songs after all. Despite all that, there's still one single left in this album.

They're more machine than band now. Twisted and evil.

edited 26th Jun '10 9:50:50 AM by Myrmidon

Well, here we come to our last single, Missing You. Okay, it was only released on iTunes in France and Australia, but that's notable enough.

There's not much to say about the song, though. You hear Fergie singing in a horribly high-pitched voice about how she's, well, missing a guy. The other members interject every so often and it features the usual lyric repetition.

Well, that's The Black Eyed Peas, from their start as a desire to be an alternative to mainstream hip-hop to an embodiment of the worst aspects of popular music (well, at least to me). I guess there's nothing more here to say but:

The E.N.D.

Why does everyone say Fergie can't sing?? I think she can BLOW.

Yeah, I've definitely heard worse pop singers.

She can't rap, though. I don't know why they insist on having her sing-rap on tracks like My Humps and Imma Be.

Cause it's a catchy style that appeals to the ear, Ke$ha is proof of how much of an Ear Worm that sing-talk style is. I don't think she's trying to seriously be a rapper though.

But seriously, listen to Big Girls Don't Lie and stuff, she's not whitney but she's pretty good.