Clearly the video is AI generated, but is the song also AI written? Even performed? It sounds a lot like what you might get if you asked a decent AI to write a new Black Eyed Peas song, and the video looks like they asked it to create a video for the song using only the keywords “si-fi futuristic slow zoom”.
OK, but not their best work.

black eyed peas still exist?

I was thinking, wasn't that composition called Misirlou? It turns out that is the name of an Eastern Mediterranean folk song that is the basis of the guitar solo. Pretty awesome, check out some earlier versions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misirlou

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Also I can't listen to this without thinking of how lazy and awful the black eyed peas version is. "Ahh Ahh Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhblarg"

better than anything the Black Eyed Peas have put out in a decade.

Oh please - do the Black Eyed Peas...

Don't worry, middleeastern music uses quartertons. If we ever run out of our semitone scale we can move there!

Anyway, the moral of this vsauce seems to be that no, we won't run out of new music and even if we did nobody would notice...I mean Black Eyed Peas released the same song like, 5 or 6 times in a row and it hit the top of the charts every time :D

As to your first question, you tell me. Why have them speak at all? Because we like a few songs they wrote or admire them for playing some fictional character on our televisions? Each political party uses entertainment icons to target certain groups of voters they believe they otherwise wouldn't reach. Kid Rock for the right, Black Eyed Peas on the left. Why do the political parties do this if not to provide direction for some segment of the masses?

Second question. That is my point. The more dysfunctional society becomes, the stranger the stars. They are the mirror to our disease.

Third. HuH? Did I say that? Where?

Fourth. Since politicians started employing entertainers to shill for them. It looks like our elected officials think they need to depend on the star power for votes. At least they are depending on them. And they are depending on them because they think we depend on them. And, I think voting is a "decision on our future," don't you?

Lastly, I am making an observation about our society and this Kabuki dance we go through. Do you not see this on both sides? I think you'd have to be blind not to.





>> ^NetRunner:

Since when have entertainers been a "compass of political direction?"
Since when have entertainers been any more dysfunctional than your average person who gets rapidly launched into a position of fame and fortune?
Since when have self-styled sober, somber people actually been any smarter or wiser than people with senses of humor?
Since when has anyone been dependent on entertainers for decisions on our future?
Nothing you're saying makes any sense to me, unless of course you start by making some rather condescending assumptions about the sorts of people who're likely to vote for Obama.
>> ^silvercord:
I've wondered for a long time why our entertainers have become such a compass of political direction. With many of their own lives so steeped in dysfunction it speaks to our own sense of alignment that we have, in ways, become dependent on their voices for decisions regarding our future. Strange, that. Not difficult to understand, but strange.

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>> ^Lendl:

And I'm going to say quality because of his foundation that I was unaware of: http://iamangelfoundation.org/
"Will.i.am has handed $800,000 of his fee from appearing on Britain's "The Voice" to Prince Charles' charity.
The Black Eyed Peas star served as a mentor on the reality show earlier this year, but rather than keep his wages, he's donated the cash to The Prince's Trust to fund a technology program for young people."
Neil DeGrasse Tyson would so be down with this.


The point of this is that with the entire musical output of this planet available to us, the first thing we send to another planet is the mawkish juvenile brain vomit of someone with the lyrical and musical capabilities of a shoe.

Good man for funding good things with his millions, but in the bank of art, he's bankrupt.

And I'm going to say *quality because of his foundation that I was unaware of: http://iamangelfoundation.org/

"Will.i.am has handed $800,000 of his fee from appearing on Britain's "The Voice" to Prince Charles' charity.

The Black Eyed Peas star served as a mentor on the reality show earlier this year, but rather than keep his wages, he's donated the cash to The Prince's Trust to fund a technology program for young people."

Neil DeGrasse Tyson would so be down with this.

This is soooo much better than crappy Black Eyed Peas. The performance and choreography is pretty good and the inclusion with a few other people are nice. Amusing that LMFAO showed up for the "Music" Party Rock Anthem.

I genuinely believe that the original of this is the worst song ever written. And I don't just mean I don't like it, or I hate it, but that, objectively, it's the worst song ever written. Every element is the nadir of its particular speciality: lyrics, production, melody, rap, form, pacing, mood, content... even the video and single sleeve art. It's all so unbelievably lazy. I despise it.>> ^soulmonarch:

I think he does a great job of illustrating how terrible this song was.

Ditto fucking love Rollins talking about fucking anything. Bonus points for being totally right here. I remember a story someone told me about the Black Eyed Peas being completely awesome in Brazil for years before some record company said "We'll produce your records if you take this Fergie Bitch" and they agreed. One they had already been awesome for years and years, time to get paid and think about your kids and your future and your retirement. Maybe not ridiculously 5 mansions paid, but paid none the less, who wouldn't take that?

>> ^hpqp:

If you hated the original, you're gonna loooove this cover
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Why did you do that to me?

Also @JAPR, this new pop scene looks like it's hear to stay. If this article is to be believed, Boom Boom Pow sold over 4 million copies digitally in '09. Whatever this shit is, a lot of people are throwing their money at it; the music business is gonna milk that cow dry.

Madeon did it better.

In fairness he did ok considering the source material. Kesha, Black Eyed Peas and Avril all mixed together. SOUNDS LIKE MONEY.