Now, The Time (Dirty Bit) isn't that bad.

 

I Gotta Feeling, on the other hand, is absolute $h!te! Over a million and still selling, and why? It's absolutely banal, pointless and crap.

 

BEPs when they get it right (recently I'm thinking Meet Me Halfway, Boom Boom Pow, Just Can't Get Enough) are very very good. BEPs when they get it wrong, IMO, get it very wrong. To me, it's a shame that their most popular songs (IGF and probably Where Is The Love?) and their most notorious (My Humps) are their worst ones.

 

In my opinion.

I agree, when BEPs get it right their brilliant (I Gotta Feeling, Where Is the Love), when they get it wrong they aren't (my Humps, The Time) Eric's post I think is a little over-dramatic :P

Edited April 4, 201115 yr by chart wizard

Top 100 albums posted.

 

KOL's Only By The Night is at a career low positions wise but its sales have increased from last week, so that's just the Mother's Day effect. Loads of albums have fallen but increased sales.

Edited April 4, 201115 yr by Bray

BEPs when they get it right are very very good. BEPs when they get it wrong, IMO, get it very wrong.

 

Exactly. "Meet Me Halfway" is a fantastic song :wub:. "Just Can't Get Enough" is their second best.

 

 

Exactly. "Meet Me Halfway" is a fantastic song :wub:. "Just Can't Get Enough" is their second best.

 

Yeah, Meet Me Halfway is definitely the best they've ever done imo! :wub: And that's really saying something! :D

Yeah, Meet Me Halfway is definitely the best they've ever done imo! :wub: And that's really saying something! :D

 

Looks like I'm on my own with "Shut Up" pardon the pun but its my favourite BEPs track.

 

Looks like I'm on my own with "Shut Up" pardon the pun but its my favourite BEPs track.

 

:lol: Yeah, I love that one too. It was one of the first BEP songs I ever listened to (after Where in the Love?, obviously :lol:).

Looks like I'm on my own with "Shut Up" pardon the pun but its my favourite BEPs track.

THIS

Elephunk days where BEP used to create music and not computerized piece of $h!t.

THIS

Elephunk days where BEP used to create music and not computerized piece of $h!t.

 

Gosh. Sorry that they don't remake the same song over and over again. :drama:

 

Yeah, they might've gradually strayed away from hip hop and moved over to dance/electronica or whatever, but the music is great, that's what really matters imo. They've been in the mainstream for almost a decade now. It's easy for an artist that's just been around for a couple of years, but when you're around for that long, you can't keep producing the same albums time and time again.

I just worked it out - there have only been 4 different albums at #1 over the last 20 weeks!

I love "Shut Up", old school Black Eyed Peas is great, but it's great that they changed or their music would be boring and outdated and they would no longer be around

Gosh. Sorry that they don't remake the same song over and over again. :drama:

 

Yeah, they might've gradually strayed away from hip hop and moved over to dance/electronica or whatever, but the music is great, that's what really matters imo. They've been in the mainstream for almost a decade now. It's easy for an artist that's just been around for a couple of years, but when you're around for that long, you can't keep producing the same albums time and time again.

Abuse of electronica definition.

 

Definitely they can try different genres, but in BEP case is like they just found the cheapest, easiest formula to produce worldwide huge songs and has became their precious. Not gonna do anything else until they see that no more money comes out of it.

 

 

My Humps is legendary tbh. People will be talking about that song for decades, whether you like it or not. It's catchy, great beat, fantastic lyrics, and I think it samples 3 different songs, not a feat which many songs can boast. It has also had an immense amount of cultural impact. On probably a weekly basis a girl talks to me and refers to them as her "lady lumps", and this is like 6 years after the song came out.

 

Don't Phunk With my Heart?! Dreadful?! :blink: Yeah, maybe in OPPOSITE WORLD. That is one amazing compositions of music that I've ever heard. I love how the Black Eyed Peas brought some asian influenced music into the charts. Not only creative, daring, but also inventive. Not everyday do we hear a song, and go "Wow".

 

Oh, and let's not get me started on The Time (it's just gone past mid-night). They definitely challenged themselves here. To be honest, I think will.i.am was just realizing at this point, that he's simply too good a producer. He wanted to stretch himself, challenge himself. He wanted to get the cheesiest song he could think of, and, with a little bit of help from deadmau5, turn it into something LEGIT! And what a success it was. He doesn't care about the sales anymore. He's past caring about that, he's proven himself. The Time was just a piece of ART. That song broke conventional boundries. Yes, there was public outcry, from him murdering a "classic", etc, but I admire him for that. He knew how people would react, but he didn't care, he knew the track was dope, so he released it. I respect him from that.

 

Okay, YOU, and thousands of other people might think the BEPs are terrible live, but me, and MILLIONS of other people think they're great live. Let's see, they perform Meet Me Halfway on TV, and it shoots to #1, and is now approaching 800,000 sales, and is one of the most downloaded songs OF ALL-TIME. The Time, they perform it on TV, shoots to #1. Just like when Adele performed Someone Like You and shot straight to #1, the BEPs clearly have a massive impact on people when they perform. You might not be able to connect to their music, but many people can, that's the important thing. When they perform their art to people, people always want to see more. This is merely a testement to how good they are live.

 

you're either clinically deaf or clinically insane...and, after trudging through that pile of nonsense you posted, I'm inclined to believe that you're both.

 

The Time a piece of ART?!?!?!? Yes..... insane. Utterly.

 

Oh...and BEPs good live? LMFAO - Fergie's greatest moment was the Diana concert.... CLASSIC... didn't her tape stop? If you genuinely honestly think BEP are 'art' and creative, daring etc etc etc..... you seriously need help. Or exposure to REAL art, creativity or music that influences, inspires and has actual cultural impact. I'm laughing out loud here re-reading your post - that's written in jest...... please?

 

Plus... when was the Dirty Dancing soundtrack ever considered a classic?!"?!?!? LOL... it's always been considered what it was - a cheesy, naff, toe-curling bit of insignificant bubblegum..... much like the band who sampled it..... classic? I'm not entirely sure you know the meaning of the word..... :lol: :o :rolleyes:

 

De-lu-ded.

Abuse of electronica definition.

 

Definitely they can try different genres, but in BEP case is like they just found the cheapest, easiest formula to produce worldwide huge songs and has became their precious. Not gonna do anything else until they see that no more money comes out of it.

 

Well, why did they use Boom Boom Pow as their comeback single then?

 

And they're obviously not using a "formula", because if you listen to the instrumentals of all of their songs, they are considerably different. I'm always the first to point out when I think songs are similar, and I genuinely don't think any of the BEPs singles since their comeback are particularly similar to each other. The closest I could pair up are probably Imma Be and Just Can't Get Enough.

 

Artists who I'd say are "using a formula" are those like Taio Cruz and La Roux, where they end up with a notable proportion of their discography sounding the same. I've got to say, it REALLY annoys me when an artist comes out with songs sounding the same as their other own previous hits again and again, hence why I'm really not a massive fan of the likes of Bruno Mars, Jay Sean, etc.

The Black Eyed Peas are extremely hit-and-miss for me. I adore some of their songs (Meet Me Halfway, Shut Up, Don't Lie) and I Gotta Feeling is destined to go down as the defining song of the early 21st century - but they've also had some hideous shockers, namely My Humps and especially The Time.

Well, why did they use Boom Boom Pow as their comeback single then?

 

And they're obviously not using a "formula", because if you listen to the instrumentals of all of their songs, they are considerably different. I'm always the first to point out when I think songs are similar, and I genuinely don't think any of the BEPs singles since their comeback are particularly similar to each other. The closest I could pair up are probably Imma Be and Just Can't Get Enough.

 

Artists who I'd say are "using a formula" are those like Taio Cruz and La Roux, where they end up with a notable proportion of their discography sounding the same. I've got to say, it REALLY annoys me when an artist comes out with songs sounding the same as their other own previous hits again and again, hence why I'm really not a massive fan of the likes of Bruno Mars, Jay Sean, etc.

 

You forgot the worst offender for use of formula, Scouting For Girls. Alexis Jordan & The Wanted are also other ones. I hate it when people come out with the same song all the time, when they can easily be a bit different. Great examples of difference in the charts now are Black Eyed Peas (JCGE doesn't sound a thing like The Time, the end only a little bit) and Rihanna (a dance/europop song, then an rnb song, then a pop song)

Some people ("millions") may think that Black Eyed Peas are a great live act, but I don't think I've ever seen so much hate and vitriol aimed at a band as after their dreadful performance at the Superbowl. It made 'Friday' look well recieved!

Milk & Sugar have had hits in the UK with Love Is In The Air (#25 - 2002) and Let The Sunshine In (#18 - 2003). Long gap between hits but Hey (Nah Neh Nah) is indeed by the same German production duo!

Plus, they actually they had another top 100 hit in 2001 (Higher and Higher which got to #85).

 

Pedant's session over.

 

Don't Phunk With my Heart?! Dreadful?! :blink: Yeah, maybe in OPPOSITE WORLD. That is one amazing compositions of music that I've ever heard. I love how the Black Eyed Peas brought some asian influenced music into the charts. Not only creative, daring, but also inventive. Not everyday do we hear a song, and go "Wow".

You give them way too much credit. I love Don't Phunk With My Heart but it didn't bring any Asian-influenced music into the charts, it was already there LONG before - especially in urban music - before Black Eyed Peas started messing with it. If anything they were just jumping on an already existing bandwagon. I mean, listen to some Timbaland produced songs from the early 00s (Get Ur Freak On is probably the most famous example of it) and even The Neptunes incorporated those kind of influences into their productions. Plus, here in Britain, there was actually genuine Asian acts coming through into the charts like Jay Sean (before he sold into making generic American music) and Raghav, but that was obviously only here and not in America. Even Britney Spears did it on one of the remixes for Me Against the Music, I believe. Point is the Black Eyed Peas didn't do ANYTHING impressive with that song - they just made a relatively catchy ditty with a good beat.

 

Now, The Time (Dirty Bit) isn't that bad.

 

I Gotta Feeling, on the other hand, is absolute $h!te! Over a million and still selling, and why? It's absolutely banal, pointless and crap.

 

BEPs when they get it right (recently I'm thinking Meet Me Halfway, Boom Boom Pow, Just Can't Get Enough) are very very good. BEPs when they get it wrong, IMO, get it very wrong. To me, it's a shame that their most popular songs (IGF and probably Where Is The Love?) and their most notorious (My Humps) are their worst ones.

 

In my opinion.

Agree on I Gotta Feeling. Never understood the love for Meet Me Halfway, I'm afraid. I'd put it right near the top of any Black Eyed Peas $h!t-pile. Those verses are just absolutely horrendous. Where is the Love? is a good song but not sure it would have been as popular if the message of the song didn't fit so well with the general sentiment of the time (remember it was released not long after the start of the Iraq War).

Edited April 5, 201115 yr by superbossanova

hahahahahahahahahahaha.

 

imo, if you're going to like the BEP's and buy their albums (i.e. , me!), you just have to accept that what they're making isn't great music. They're just fun tracks.

Plus, they actually they had another top 100 hit in 2001 (Higher and Higher which got to #85).

 

Pedant's session over.

 

I refer to it as 'top 100 hits' but it's more just 'top [however much was official at the time] hits' :P As that's much easier to figure out.

 

I'm taking the point that it went from top 75 to top 100 as when chartstats.com decided to switch to that in mid-2007. I have no idea if this was before or after when the top 100 became the official chart (again) but it's the only reference point I have so it will have to do for me.