Okay, so this story sort of teases you with the headline without offering any sort of decent follow up info. (Not that I’m sure I’d want more info about will.i.am’s toilet habits.) But it does bring a chuckle or two when we learn that the BEP mastermind fancies himself “political,” like he’s the next evolutionary step on from Curtis Mayfield or Joe Strummer.
“We weren’t trying to make hits when we made Elephunk,” he says. “Do you think I would have called the CIA terrorists in ‘Where is the Love?’ right around the time America went to Iraq if I was trying to make a record to get played on the radio?” So what about the next bazillion hits? “Lovely lady lumps” was a reference to WMD’s? “London Bridge” examined Tony Blair’s fawning relationship with Bush? Help me out here, will.
Black Eyed Peas Star Composes His Music In The Loo [New Zealand Herald]
I was always amused by the fact that the song (in its completely nuanced description of domestic terrorist organizations included the Bloods, the Crips, and the KKK), referred to the spy agency as “the big C.I.A.” As opposed to some other C.I.A. that would be identified by a different modifier?
I’m looking forward to the mute Pea’s album. Maybe it will be at least as good as a Terminator X album.
@Audif Jackson Winters III: (in its completely nuanced description of domestic terrorist organizations included the Bloods, the Crips, and the KKK), referred to the spy agency as “the big C.I.A.”
I’ve been curling my upper lip in disgust at the BEP even since “Where is the Love?”, much to the surprise of everyone around me (“but why don’t you like it? It’s a nice song!”) and this is the reason why. The only thing more upsetting than a hack lyricist is a political hack lyricist.
So, not only will.i.am is pretentious, but also a hypocrite: maybe originally he wasn’t “trying to make a record to get played on the radio”, but he sure caved in and changed the lyrics of “Hey Mama” (“we drop bombs like we’re in the Middle East”) and “Get Retarded” when it turned out that they were going to be released as singles.