The Black Eyed Peas are an interesting group. Starting as a backpack rap group, they added a woman and achieved pop superstardom. They made music that was stupid, but you know what? It was a good kind of stupid. A fun, dance worthy, party stupid. I'm not a fan of much modern pop music, but I'm not afraid to say that I enjoyed almost all of Elephunk (excluding obvious crapola like My Humps).
With their last album The E.N.D. the Peas starting moving stupid fun, to just stupid. Now with their followup The Beginning they have completed that transition. Each successive single is a mishmash, careening between normal vocals and autotuned trash. Go listen to The Time (Dirty Bit) and try not to get queasy when Will.i.am exclaims "Dirty bit!" and the music goes into tortured techno mode. Continuing in the bi-polar song trend is their most recent single, Just Can't Get Enough. (Listen for the "switch ups")
No lyrical breakdown on this one. I just hate the bipolar, techno beat switchups. The queasy feeling you get. If I Gotta Feeling is a great way to start a party, Just Can't Get Enough is a great way to let the people know that you have had enough.
The sound effects in the be alone killed the whole instrumental and it sounds like they used stereo separation of the whole track the drums everything
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