Saturday 4 December 2010

CD reviews: Black Eyed Peas and Jazmine Sullivan


Black Eyed Peas has dominated the pop radio and dealing with their dominance it is like planning for earthquakes in Los Angeles.Well, there is no use in protesting about either anymore.Each is a geologic fact, and you might as well accept the inevitability.

The Big One, which is the Peas latest release that will topple freeways is "The Time (Dirty Bit)," a typically house-jacking club track that so flagrantly bites the chorus of "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" from "Dirty Dancing" that it has a kind of post-authorial genius.

But complaining about such is like lamenting the rise of global capitalism. The better challenge is to find the pearls of techno-caveman beauty in the coke-nose vocal tweaks of "XOXOXO" or the Daft Punk aspirations of "The Best One Yet (The Boy)." They have a song called "Love You Long Time," for goodness sake. That's all the Black Eyed Peas want to do, and they will not be ignored.

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