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Black Eyed Peas' The E.N.D. Pure, Shameless, Awesome

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 3, 2009 4:10 PM CDT

(Newser) – The Black Eyed Peas' new album, The E.N.D., isn’t of much consequence, but that’s just as well. Reviewers generally appreciate the party-hardy attitude.

  • “Ever true to their defining characteristic, the Peas have no shame,” Ann Powers writes in the Los Angeles Times. “Fergie puts on ill-fitting dreadlocks for the faux-Jamaican Electric City and goes hilariously punk in Now Generation, a rant about social media that sounds something like Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues rewritten on a Sidekick."

  • “The BEPs are—to borrow from those other old-school greats, A Tribe Called Quest—'devoted to the art of moving butts,' and even if they do it with a minimum of subtlety and pacing, they still do it pretty well,” Leah Greenblatt writes in Entertainment Weekly. “When the group's glitchy future-funk beats sync up with Fergie's unabashedly feminine melodies, as on the sweetly insidious Meet Me Halfway, they find pure Top 40 nirvana.”
  • “The Peas hone their post-millennial party anthems to an even more piquantly peppy sheen,” Will Dukes writes in Spin. “The Peas keep it exuberantly funky. Witness the trance-y Rock Your Body, which sounds like would-be stripper music for suburban Bratz doll collectors.”
 

Taboo, Fergie, Apl.de.ap, and Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas.
Taboo, Fergie, Apl.de.ap, and Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas.   (AP Photo)
Apl.de.ap and Fergie perform at the MTV Video Music Awards Japan 2009.
Apl.de.ap and Fergie perform at the MTV Video Music Awards Japan 2009.   (AP Photo)
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COMMENTS
Showing 3 of 3 comments
Robert_Dada
Jun 4, 2009 11:32 AM CDT
"Not even worth a mention in The Guardian"
Nwambe
Jun 4, 2009 11:00 AM CDT
Do *NOT* compare BEP to A Tribe Called Quest. BEP were good BEFORE Fergie hit 'em. Now they just suck. But they're makin' money, so that's their choice.
Jojo
Jun 3, 2009 11:16 AM CDT
Blah. This sums it up nicely "stripper music for suburban Bratz doll collectors"

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