It's been a long time. A long-awaited "The E.N.D." has come to record shops at last. This is Black Eyed Peas' first album in four years or so.
The title sounds like the quartet is breaking up with this "final" album released. Among members, will.i.am is well-known, successful producer as well as solo artist. Fergie also sold her first solo album "Dutchess" of some 6 million copies.
Reportedly, however, the E.N.D. stands for Energy Never Dies. So, does the title mean oil won't dry up? Or are they as interested in Toyota's Prius as was Leonardo DiCaprio? Or talking about renewable energy and Green New Deal?
The title sounds like the quartet is breaking up with this "final" album released. Among members, will.i.am is well-known, successful producer as well as solo artist. Fergie also sold her first solo album "Dutchess" of some 6 million copies.
Reportedly, however, the E.N.D. stands for Energy Never Dies. So, does the title mean oil won't dry up? Or are they as interested in Toyota's Prius as was Leonardo DiCaprio? Or talking about renewable energy and Green New Deal?
Renewable Energy?!
Whatever their intention is, Black Eyed Peas, which is named after a soulfood, tastes very different from the previous albums. The first single, "Boom Boom Pow", was a shock. Many other songs in the album are also like techno, dance music. And a bit sounds like will.i.am's solo "Songs About Girls" (2007). On the other hand, songs "I Got That Feeling", "Alive" and "One Tribe" do have some traits from previous albums "Elephunk" and "Monkey Business". Traits of Energetic, organic, danceable hip-hop. So, the new album surely catch the attentions from old and new fans.
BEP's music is great, but I also like the group in that the members have diverse backgrounds: a Jamaican American, an Afro-Filipino, a Mexican-Native American and a white female vocalist. Such multiethnic backgrounds certainly fuel the group's energy to create a universal, contemporary pop music.
Such an energy never dies.
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