Black Eyed Peas Have Officially Written The Worst Song Ever
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This song always brings with it an intense consciousness of the spiritual emptiness of peoples' working lives; how they live only for the weekend and have become mentally stunted subhumans as a result, craving only the fulfilment of a purely surface notion of 'a good time' that can never resolve the emptiness as it does not transform the individual or change the working conditions. Genius. 'Where is the Love?' was just a preparation for this.
ReplyI agree, this song is pure mindless pop drivel that has an inkling of catchiness that wears itself out after 30 seconds. This is even below a 12-year-old's capacity for stupid.
Reply@1:43: Joel Shoemaker's gonna sue somebody
Replytheir song about barack obama is the WORST
ReplyJeff Tweedy, the frontman for Wilco, does a fantastic live version of this song. Check it out on YouTube.
ReplyIt's the facial expressions that crack me up, especially the 'Excuse me?!' bit
ReplyEasy people... Let time sort out the trash. If The Black Eyed Peas are still selling these songs in 20 years (see Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, ect...), then we'll know it's great stuff. If not, they'll be blissfully forgotten along with countless other fad groups whose music traded heart and soul for the gimmick of their day. Good music is timeless. Personally, I'm betting they won't make the cut. Most pop acts don't. That being said, I've been wrong before (see Madonna, Bon Jovi, and countless rap artists). Only time will tell...
ReplyI was just thinking that most of these comments could be applied universally to the Beatles' earlier works.
I had to sing this at school and we had to do gay drifting to the side most of it and than we had to do the MC Hammer thing you talked about.
Reply1) This isn't "Smells Like Teen Spirit", so it can't be the worst song ever.
Reply Hide All See All 5 Replies2) Women dance to this to the bar, so at least it has that going for it.
f**k you dude
Yeah seriously f**k you.
f**k you so hard...
It's funny that people get mad about this because they can't handle the fact that Nirvana sucked ass and Smells Like Teen Spirit's lyrics are pretty much on par with these ones.
fine, f*ck you too bemused
I only had to hear that song once to realise that we'd hit an all knew low in 'scrap' music.
Reply5 your making a highly offensive video about a dance song tht offended you? hmm. 6. its ok for you to say there video is s**t but if we dissagree with what you say we have no sense of humour? and cant take a joke? 7. this video is not funny or even clever in any way it is tacky. 8 why make it a personal bashing calling fergie a s**t just because you dnt like the song you like an 8 year old
ReplyWow, strike a nerve?
This is my favourite Hate By Numbers and always has been.
Replywell first arent you a rude anrgry little nerd tht well knows nothing and i mean absolutely nothing about music and tallent and especially hip hop if you think the black eyed peas have no hip hop credability 1. will.i.am is one of the best hip hop music produces ever 2. they have more no.1s then the rolling stones. 3 pulling the race card ? and i bet you have never been racist before ? your full of it how many times have u dropped the N bomb with out any black ppl around huh? 4. its a club song its meant to have a good beat a catchy hook and thts it
Reply Hide All See All 6 RepliesYou are aware that a system that judges music on how many people buy a certain track is a fallacious way of ascertaining the worth of something in artistic and critical terms? That's like saying Transformers3 is better than 2001 a Space Odyssey because Transformers3 had better sales and full media penetration of advertising. The music 'industry' is only a tiny % of available music, go out to any music store, go to an obscure section and pick a CD at random and it will almost definitely have something on it with more talent and artistry than the entire Black Eyed Peas discography. If you don't believe me then you're just a victim of pop culture's attempt to turn you into an obedient consumer.
don't you ever compare the rolling stones to the black eyed peas. the point here is that they're churning out meaningless pop music. you go to hell and you die.
I'm confused, when did he drop the "race card"?
It was actually the Jew card, and frankly the Black Eyed Peas started it in this case. Mazel tov, motherfuckers.
"Now quote this, MCs are hopeless, thinking record sales make them the dopest" -KRS-One
Only the Jews and people that are accepted by the Jews are allowed to say that.
Hey, G-Stone. I know you made this like 10,000 years ago, but thanks for ending it with a kick-ass Morphine.
ReplyI remember a song that repeated "golden" over and over. This reminds me of that, and I am sad.
ReplyGeez you people, this is "dance music" (or club music), and being in that genre, is the reason PEOPLE DANCE TO IT. People who dance to this song in clubs -or any similar song for that matter- DON'T THINK ABOUT NOR CARE ABOUT THE LYRICS but DANCES TO THE BEAT. You dig? People who go to clubs don't want to cerebral, they got enough of that s**t during day and the unwind in clubs. But "Higher-than-though-Douches" out there who criticize this song, don't think about this reason in the first place. If you are one of them and want your music to be cerebral, look somewhere else, because this song is not for you.
Reply Hide All See All 10 RepliesExcept it's on the damn radio, across most stations, at 9 in the damn morning. If you are partying at 9 in the morning, chances are you disappointed important people in your life.
ill f*****g murder you
I like this song and I still think your defense of it is insanely stupid.
You invalidate your response by proving that you have not received nearly enough cerebral s**t during your days. If I sound like I'm being higher than though, then I apologize. Even though that doesn't make any sense, I apologize for it anyway.
It's spelled "thou", not "though". And the expression is "holier than thou". You sir are a stupid.
Then why not eschew lyrics and melody entirely and just play a beat? No one says music has to have either of those components, so if you're going to write them, you're kind of responsible for writing them well.
And the fact that the target audience doesn't give a s**t is not an excuse for writing vapid music. It's only an explanation, like stealing something from someone's house because he left the window open.
The song isn't even a good song to dance to in the first place. It's the same exact 3 seconds repeated for the majority of the song. Also I've never seen anyone use the word cerebral as a verb before you.
I get your point, but there's just something grating about their lyrics. It sounds to me like chatter from a group off 8 year old kids on too much candy. it's becomes a distraction at some point.
No that is not dance music or club music. Any true electronic music won't be all over the mainstream radio, tv and so on.
Go listen to Sirius Satellite Radio and tune into Electric Area for real "dance" music.
I'd rather dance to a metronome.
Music is down to personal taste at the end of the day. A song you find annoying, others like amd vice versa. I like this song, it's no more bland than many other songs of the last few decades Wamdue Project's King of my castle for example.
ReplyRebecca Black makes a hell of a lot of sense now.
ReplyNothing they could do would be worse than "My Humps".
Replyi hate this song, i was so offended that my workout instructor was obsessed with it i left the country...
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