Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D.
7.1/10
Black Eyed Peas have been around for a long time now; always providing us with hits that are still staples on many DJ's playlists around the world. Each album usually comes with some "greater message" that BEP are trying to convey to their listeners, on of a "deeper philosophical" level I guess. From my experience, most people ignore or write that part off and just take BEP for face value - catchy, in-your-face rap dance music.
In BEP's 5th studio album, The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies) it is really no different from anything else they have made. They have a "concept" just like their other albums. However, with The E.N.D. they really try to out due themselves and end up trying too hard. They want to make the album feel like an experience and something so epic and groundbreaking. The problem with this is that, it isn't. It comes off as embarrassing and annoying for the most part, but that can be forgiven when you listen to the songs that should only be taken for face value like the single "Boom Boom Pow." If the band stuck to just knock out hit singles like that and let go of the shtick of them trying to transcend, they would have a really great album on their hands.
Best Tracks: Boom Boom Pow, Party All the Time, Rock That Body
Black Eyed Peas have been around for a long time now; always providing us with hits that are still staples on many DJ's playlists around the world. Each album usually comes with some "greater message" that BEP are trying to convey to their listeners, on of a "deeper philosophical" level I guess. From my experience, most people ignore or write that part off and just take BEP for face value - catchy, in-your-face rap dance music.
In BEP's 5th studio album, The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies) it is really no different from anything else they have made. They have a "concept" just like their other albums. However, with The E.N.D. they really try to out due themselves and end up trying too hard. They want to make the album feel like an experience and something so epic and groundbreaking. The problem with this is that, it isn't. It comes off as embarrassing and annoying for the most part, but that can be forgiven when you listen to the songs that should only be taken for face value like the single "Boom Boom Pow." If the band stuck to just knock out hit singles like that and let go of the shtick of them trying to transcend, they would have a really great album on their hands.
Best Tracks: Boom Boom Pow, Party All the Time, Rock That Body
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