Customer Reviews

The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies)

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I could not wait for the new BEP cd to come out - I even went to Target at lunch to buy it so I could have it ASAP. After listening to it all the way through, my first thought was "dang, that's it?". It is SO NOT the BEP that we all know and love. I gave it 3 stars because it's still got some good beats. Not nearly as many fun lyrics and vocals though - like the others said, lots of electronic sounding stuff.

My recommendation - buy the CD from Target so that you can get the bonus CD. Totally made it worth the $9.98. It's 10 extra songs (6 remixes and 4 new songs), and it reminds you of the "old" BEP.

I am so tired of every group latching on to the vocader to process their vocals. I mean it's ok to use it to enhance a few words for the effect, but when every single song is dominated by auto-tune something has to give. From Lil wayne, to Akon and T-Pain, then Kanye's new record. Now the BEP have jumped on the bandwagon, and not a single track is missing this played out sickening auto-tune effect. Come on people, can't musicians actually SING anymore?

Hello. We're here today to talk about the Black Eyed Peas "Energy Never Dies" album, ao here's a few facts and figures first of all. "Boom Boom Pow", the first single, had the second longest reign at number one in America, beaten only by their second single. That song, "I Gotta Feeling" is the most downloaded track in HISTORY. In the UK their third single "Meet Me Halfway" was their third consecutive number one single, the former two already hitting the top spot as well.

This proves two things;

1. The Black Eyed Peas are phenomenally popular.
2. There are more stupid people on earth than there are trees.

It's funny, the one thing idiots always try and hit back with whenever this awful group are insulted is how successful they are and how many records they've sold. But as I've proven in my Official Room 101 of Amazon many times before, sales mean squat. The likes of Justin Bieber and Susan Boyle may sell bucketloads of records and make little kids scream (although the latter was never really her fault, she did warn them not to peek through her bathroom window), they still make terrible, talent-free music. It was the English poet Thomas Tusser who once remarked that a fool and their money are soon parted. That's still true today, and if ol' Tusser was around now, he would probably remark; "Gadzooks, Boom Boom Pow makes me want to hack my ears off with a scythe."

What's really funny about this album is the misguided notion Will.I.Am and the rest of the Black Eyed Peas (Black Hitler, The Creeper from Jeepers Creeper and Fergie, now almost 75% recycled) has that he's made some form of "New Sound". The way they brag on Boom Boom Pow about having this far out futuristic music, when in fact Daft Punk's Discovery album fused dance, pop and rock (and even auto-tuned vocals) in 2001, and it STILL manages to sound more fresh, vibrant and exciting than the Pea's idiotic noise and Fergie's obnoxious honk.

The other singles from the album are disposable, instantly forgettable drivel, although the fact that by the time "Rock Your Body" was released, Fergie's "vocals" have now been so auto-tuned she sounds like Alvin the Terminator Chipmunk is pretty hilarious. Why is she even there? "I Gotta Feeling" is perhaps the biggest offender of all. This song is 4:50 seconds long, and in that time the phrase "tonight's going to be a good night" is repeated 24 times, the phrase "do it" is repeated 17 times, lyrics like "here we come, here we go" and "easy come, easy go" are actually included in a song written in 2009, and let's not forget that plastic zombie saying "Mazel Tov." And this is, let us remind ourselves, the most downloaded song EVER. Depressed yet?

Let's take a break right now. If you haven't heard this album, I want you to scroll up the page and click on the link to listen to "Ring-a-Ling" and listen to it for thirty seconds. That burrowing feeling in your head is your brain trying to escape down your throat. Although, to make you feel better, take a listen to the hysterically bad "Now Generation", in which the Peas sink like a stone in their attempt to "rock", coming off as about as convincing as Barry Manilow singing "Anarchy in the UK." You gotta love those deep, insightful lyrics, too. "We are the Now Generation. We are the Generation Now." You just know Bob Dylan is sitting at home taking notes.

The Black Eyed Peas are, of course, abysmal, and this album is another example of braindead, empty, nothing to say pop garbage that a million kids are wasting their money and youth on. Music that's going to date quicker than the Macarena and will turn out to be just as irritating. How many people will seriously be playing this record in 5 years time? Exactly. 5 years is a long time in pop music, by which point more people who don't like music will be buying into the next terrible record, Fegie will have accomplished full automaton transformation and, hopefully, B.E.P will be nothing more than an embarrassing memory.

A solid BEP fan, I didn't hesitate for one second to plunk down the cost of this CD. Would have thoroughly enjoyed it...in 1988! Seriously, after struggling through the first of 2, I thought maybe I had misunderstood...giving them the benefit of the doubt, I thought maybe they had packaged a compilation of their earliest stuff, and that they had reserved the "hot, new mixes" for the 2nd CD. OMG...couldn't believe that they'd actually ruin "Pump It", but they did. In this one person's opinion, this endeavor sounded like they had lost their producer, sat down in somebody's home studio with their new synthesizer, had a few cocktails, and then recorded anything that came to mind. One song was the same line repeated OVER AND OVER ad nauseum. No sustained funky beats (although they dropped one every once in a while; however, the minute you got used to it, they changed up - either with incredibly stupid lyrics, a completely different tempo, or the bottom dropped out altogether and you heard nothing but that single synth.) DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY. I love you, BEPs, but this was a joke played on us.

Save your money - buy anything else instead. I normally don't mind the Black Eyed Pea, they are vapid pop music. But this is pure crap. Its not techno pop, its not hip hop. Its not "cross genere" its crap. I still think they should drop Butter face Fergie and go back to their hip hop roots - you know when they were decent and not pushing this exhibition in crappy lyrics, third rate beats and super 1980's sythesizer on us.

I fully realize music is subjective - but i don't think even the middle school crowd will be rocking this.

Even more proof that I didn't need. This album is a giant pop train wreck. This is the most generic, terrible, least innovative, pop music, of 2009--hands down. I can't believe this album is at the top of the billboard 200. It makes me want to cry.

This autotune infused Hip-POP needs to stop! At one point in time, Black Eyed Peas were one of Hip-Hops best groups. They infused live instrumentation with fresh beats and rhymes and were even compared to the legendary Roots! My how times have changed. Now we have this crap. Sure, it may be catchy for the club scene, but how is everyone NOT sick of the T-Pain rip-offs? Seriously! Move on, nothing new to see or hear on this pathetic piece of trash. Where is the innovation and artistry that Will.i.am was once known for? Whatever though, why does anybody care about good music when there is money to be made on bubble gum, microwave popcorny, wannabe pop sounds. Go ahead and get that paper BEP, while you still can cuz' when this style of music fades to black people will remember what groups and artists ruined the music industry. And executives wonder why the industry has gone to $#%^!?!?

Good album but I really wish I would have known about the profanity. There's enough of it that a "radio edit" version or "clean" version of this album should have also been offered. My kids liked "boom boom pow" when they heard it on the radio, which is one of the main reasons that I bought the album, but I can't play the album version for them because of the profanity...I can't have my 4 and 6 year old repeating the profanity.

This CD rocks,the music makes u want 2 get up an bounce around,this cd produces lots of energy an is a smart buy.

This album is their best yet. Their other stuff is great too but this one is just better. Totally energetic!