The Black Eyed Peas New Album & Tour

October 5th, 2009 | By

The new album from the Black Eyed Peas is named The E.N.D. (say it isn’t so!), but don’t be sad because it’s an acronym for the Energy Never Dies. This is very true, especially when it comes to their performances. During their first show in Australia, the group clambered out onto the stage with wide-eyes, looking really loony as though they just escaped from the crazy house. It appeared as though the spaceship in the background delivered them from a different planet. Then a voice explodes from the speakers, it’s will.i.am, “Everything around you is changing, nothing stays the same.” The Black Eyed Peas are known for their whacky party bangers.

But if you look back in time, they weren’t always party-starters. In the mid ’90s, when they first got together, they enjoyed their moderate commercial success, which was produced from their mellow thoughtful hip-hop songs. Then in the new millennium, around 2003, they introduced Fergie as the front woman and since then the band has become one of the hottest in the world. They’ve become renowned for their party anthem songs, such as “Let’s get it started” (a remake of “Let’s get retarded”) and “Rock that Body”. They had everything that was expected of a stadium pop show, the huge projection screens showing red planet images and bright colored paisley prints political video montages that were pseudo-inspirational. Then, of course, there were the back-up dancers that were constantly changing their costumes.

The Black Eyed peas may not be the thinking person’s type of hip hop, but their catchy melodies and big, dirty beats are likable like that (think “My Hump”). I can’t wait to hear more of what they have to offer on their E.N.D. CD and the others to come.