that new black eyed peas song is just the greatest hip-hop song ever isnt it?

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this is better than big brovaz ever were.

― blahbarian, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this Nick Hornby again?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

you have to admit that it is superior to virtually all other rap songs released in recent memory, no?

― blahbarian, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

well it's no Addis Black Widow 'Innocent'

― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

It is too melodic to be categorised as rap.

― Comstock Carabinieri (nostudium), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 10:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know dick about hip hop, but I feel the answer is almost assuredly a hugely resounding "FUCK NO!"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 10:46 (twenty-one years ago)

too melodic? what about ODB when he did his sing songy stuff?

― blahbarian, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 10:46 (twenty-one years ago)

well it's no Addis Black Widow 'Innocent'

I loved that. "I'm not a murderer!".

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 10:46 (twenty-one years ago)

ODB was too shitty a singer to trouble his records' hiphop status

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

does this mean ja rule's put it on me, 50 cent's 21 questions and records like that arent rap/hip-hop records?

― blahbarian, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

They're gorgeous singers, it's true

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.dragonfest.com/gallery/dragon2001/1/IMG_4973.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

rockism needs a comeback

― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

HahahahahahahaHahahahahahahaHahahahahahaha
THEY SAY PHUNK INSTEAD OF FUCK
HahahahahahahaHahahahahahahaHahahahahahaha

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

If the BEPs have a record out that's any good at all, the world makes no sense anymore. No, if any new song is the greatest hiphop ever, it's probably the Z-Trip track that has Luke Sick on it.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

it's like 'Informer' by Snow never happened 'round here.

― Lee F# (fsharp), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Second song to unconsensually molest Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam's greatest hit in as many years.

― The Irrelevant Man (Negativa) (Barima), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

None of these "songs" is melodic. They are noisome shouting over four-bar loops which do not constitute proper melody, unlike the Fountains of Wayne.

― Comstock Carabinieri (nostudium), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha - try squeezing a ref to FoW in another hip-hop thread! Oh yeah!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Fountains Of Cock more like

― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

They're the "new" XTC

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I am happy for Fountains of Wayne to be labelled the new XTC. As with Andy Partridge's veteran crew, they understand the importance of melody as the principal ingredient of music. If more people had been influenced by them instead of Old Dirty Basket, we would have more music today, and fewer noise.

― Comstock Carabinieri (nostudium), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

That saved me some typing

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Stevem, that was quite beneath you. I mean, really, Fountains of WANG would've been better.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

You are incorrect, confusing Fountains of Wayne with '80s superstars Wang Chung who had infectious, catchy hits with songs such as "Dance Hall Days" and "Everybody Wang Chung Tonight."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

WAYNE Chung

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

He's in my company's QA department.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

You sure you're not mixing him up with the artist formerly known as Wayne County?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Now, see, WANG County would've been more pointed, I think.

(ha - pointed)

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey edward o, do you have any other tracks by Addis Black Widow?

― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm almost at the point where I don't hate this BEP song. I usually like BEP so my unreasoning visceral negative reaction to this track the first time I heard it confused the hell out of me; now I can hear it on the radio without rending my garments and wailing "THE END IS NIGH! REPENT YE UNGODLY AND UNRIGHTEOUS!"

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Yee-ha!

― The Irrelevant Man (Negativa) (Barima), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Two listens in, and I have yet to overcome my own unreasoning visceral negative reaction. So glad to hear that there is still hope. (How could they DO that to "I Wonder If I Take You Home"?)

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

you've all seen the best buy ad where they sing over 'miserlou,' right?

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

wtf

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

the Fergie hook is criminal but any song with the line "I'll play Bobby, you'll play Whitney" is wholly unlikeable.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, I meant isn't

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Do they all spin around their heads and walk like egyptians in this video? I hope so.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

on their heads. Apologies for the Exorcist imagery.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

YES I HAVE MAURA

IT IS NOT GOOD AT ALL

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

we all want to control the black eyed peas RIGHT OUT OF OUR LIVES at work, oh yes we do

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

The song was a hall of mirrors for me on first listen. I had no idea WHERE the fuck it was going. That said, I kinda like it. But who am I to judge -- I thought "Shut Up" was the great single off the last album, and that was the only one that tanked.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Who cares it was the best one by a million miles

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

One of my favourite hip hop songs, however, is "Umi Says" by Mos Def which does have significant Black Eyed Peas input.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 05:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Do they all spin around their heads and walk like egyptians in this video? I hope so.

omg SO MUCH more ludicrous

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 06:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Now there's an idea to sell their single. Set a Walk Like An Egyptian competition. The winner gets to be held upside down by the Bangles.

(obviously, in the case of the competition being won by Zammo, formerly out of Grange Hill, the prize may need to be modified somewhat)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 06:03 (twenty-one years ago)

The BEP have a tendency to make songs that are okay when you hear em at first and then grow so ABSOLUTELY ANNOYING over time..and you keep catching yourself humming the tune...

― Eva van Rein (Gaia1981), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

I think this is my favorite BEP song so far. Eva kinda OTM, though, so we'll see.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 May 2005 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Really love this song. It reminds me of Ace of Base, with the completely-processed vocals and drums.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 30 May 2005 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

except for the whinny and thigh-slapping gallop, that's just creepy.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 30 May 2005 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Anthony is so OTM, except in the wrong direction. Like, the "bobby/whitney" line is not only questionable, but played out. And the hook is the only thing I am feeling, really. Ah fuck it its a two and a half star song at best. Still better than "Where is the Love" or those other ones.

― deej., Monday, 30 May 2005 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

it sort of drags a bit, but i heart the beats that the peas have been doing lately. lyrically its also fairly weak, even by their own standards.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 30 May 2005 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

milo otm about the processed vocals tho.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 30 May 2005 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I like this song a lot...

― PB, Monday, 6 June 2005 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't heard the new one, but I felt like I was going to be shot in these parts around the time "Shut Up" came out, because... well.... I kinda.. well, you know..... didn't mind "Shut Up".

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 6 June 2005 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

How funny is that Best Buy commercial where "you control the BEPs" and the (white, I think) guy pushes the button and they dance and sing for him?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 6 June 2005 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

In that instance, where's the "delete" button?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 6 June 2005 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

or at least "STOP"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 6 June 2005 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

there's a song on the new album all about the girls' ass....
it's terrible

― That One Guy (That One Guy), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I understand there's a song on the new one called "Union" and Sting sings on it and it's a re-working of "Englishman in New York."

I REPEAT:

THERE'S A SONG ON THE NEW ONE CALLED "UNION" AND STING SINGS ON IT AND IT'S A RE-WORKING OF "ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORK"!!!!!!

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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