The E.N.D, for better or worse, is one of the most important albums of the 2000s. It's a cornerstone of the following decade's production style and general sound - well, at least the first half. People shat on it hard when it was new, but that sound and sounds like it were EVERYWHERE following its release.
Not to mention it was inspired by one of my favourite electro albums of all time Apocalypso by The Presets (more specifically My People, I think Will has stated)
@@darko1295 I think the first song i remember hearing to usher in that era was "Give It To Me" by Timbaland. Blackout by Britney Spears also probably plays a popular role into it as well. And then you have all the stuff that predates and influences like Loose, FutureSex/LoveSounds, Graduation, The Fame and the whole blog/house electroclash movements.
i’m gonna admit to something i’m not very proud of: this was the first album i listened to in it’s entirety. i was 10 years old when this came out, and my pea brain was so blown away by I Gotta Feeling that i begged my mom to buy me an itunes gift card so i could buy the whole project. and i loved it. even today, although my adult brain knows that it is nothing special, i go crazy when i hear any song off this album. it reminds me of playing tether ball in the elementary school playground, my dad picking me up from the pool after work, my cousins and i trespassing on neighbors farms. during all these memories, the Black Eyed Peas provided the soundtrack to my life. 4/10
meet me halfway is unironically amazing, though it gets kinda lost in the middle of it (but it's some of that so bad it's good material that I honestly don't get tired of)
I had a dream that I interviewed Trent Reznor right after he released Downward Spiral, and the first thing I said to him was "First question: Why so down?". And he just kept staring at me until I woke up.
No I love that song so much and that’s why I was so confused when Brad hated it. Like yes, it’s an obvious Justice or DP ripoff but it’s also… so Black Eyed Peas at the same time. So it works. Unfortunately. Sorry Brad.
This album is a guilty pleasure. And many people can agree I think. This album has some garbage songs, like now generation, but I still love it ironically.
Hating this album was popular enough in the early 2010s I gave this a half star RYM review back in the day without listening to the whole thing. I guess critical and commercial success are different but I definitely feel like this album was unfairly dismissed even if certain aspects didn't age as well.
As someone who grew up in a non-English speaking country, I was the absolute coolest kid in the 5th grade because I listened to this album specifically. When nostalgia is in the play, all my critical bones don’t work anymore.
Literally all hit songs circa 2006-2009 I just can’t say anything bad about. Nostalgia is too powerful. Even the bad songs I just gotta sit back and reminisce about. The good songs might even pull a nostalgia tear
I remember being at a christian summer camp as a ten year old and a kid had this album on his jailbroken DS Lite. We were bumping Boom Boom Pow with the shittiest audio quality ever
Your final verdict on Ring-a-ling gives off the same energy as Fantano praising an album with barely any mentions of negatives for the whole video and then giving it a 6/10
This album has what I call "the Graduation effect". It has very low points, but you feel like this music existed since forever, so the nostalgia hits hyperbolically lol
The Meet Me Halfway chorus is too good for any of the main members to have written. That bridge was clearly some half-assed shit they threw together in 20 minutes though, what a shift in quality 🤢
time stamps for songs 1:15 1. Boom Boom Pow 4:01 2. Rock That Body 7:58 3. Meet Me Halfway 10:38 4. Imma Be 14:23 5. I Got a Feeling 17:42 6. Alive 19:55 7. Missing You 22:37 8. Ring-A-Ling 26:55 9. Party All The Time 29:08 10. Out Of My Head 31:54 11. Electric City 33:47 12. Showdown 35:20 13. Now Generation 36:39 14. One Tribe 37:38 15. Rocking To The Beat
"I got a feeling" Is definitely my favorite song from the Black Eyed Peas. If I ever want to feel nostalgic or just listening to it in the car I pop this up. Ironically it's better when as a ending of a day song rather than starting one. Defo a classic
I think this album is over-hated, and I believe that your rating is very appropriate. The soundscapes that some of these songs (especially in the first half) provide were unique and kept the subtle non-human vibe.
the lates 2000s era of pop is great, it just encapsulates that era perfectly. even late 2000s jpop has this nostalgic sound even though ive never been to japan in my life. capsule is a good example, yasutaka nakata is one of my favorite producers and i feel like he was very influential in bringing the electronic sound to pop music
As a kid, I never heard the entirety of Rock that Body because I knew I would hate it after the first 3 seconds. I'm glad Brad has shown me how right I was
I'll never not like this album, all of this songs played in the radio and in movies all the time, the anthems of my childhood (I live in Brasil, couldn't understand shit of the lyrics, just the vibe), it feels so nostalgic, especially I Gotta a Feeling
This video reminds me that they played an edit of Boom Boom Pow on the radio that removed the word "satellite" from "satellite radio". Haven't found an official reason for it, so best guess is that local radio stations were doing it out of spiteful jealousy lol
they probably just did it to make it a ‘special radio edit’ or something dumb like that. like how “cheap thrills” changed the radio line into mentioning the specific radio station that was playing it
From my very vague memory, I think a lot of radio stations in the UK used that gap to insert their own brand name - I remember it happening with a bunch of other songs too. Perhaps you heard a version where there was no insert?
@@dallia1 Interesting, whenever I heard it without 'satellite' I'm pretty sure there was just echoing bleeps there instead. But here in Australia they definitely played it with 'satellite radio' unedited the majority of the time
I'm glad I'm not the only one that remembers that, I thought it was some weird false memory. I thought maybe FM radio stations didn't want people aware that satellite radio exists lol
Thank you for saying "person with OCD" instead of "OCD person". You don't know how annoying it is to me when people use OCD as an adjective as someone who's lived through the hell of severe OCD.
I can't lie, Meet me Halfway is one of my favorite songs of all time. It takes me back to a simpler time, back to my first semester in college, going out to parties endlessly, falling in love. Yeah, maybe it's not that great in retrospect but it makes me feel incredibly nostalgic and I love it for that. Rest of the album is shit, though, haha.
Discovery by Daft Punk was a substantial part of my childhood esp since i was big into anime and loved how their music videos were literally an anime movie split into several parts. If you havent watched interstella 5555 yet pls check it out, its a beautiful movie with a story only told by visuals and the daft punk songs and really elevates the experience you get from just the album alone
Honestly I look back on a lot of late 2000's-early 2010's pop a lot more fondly than I would've thought but I think a big part of it is the nostalgia factor, this stuff just reminds me of when I was a kid with no responsibilities lol
its funny to hear all the comparisons to daft punk bacause will.i.am got in trouble with daft punk for sampling one of their songs without their permission. it interesting to go back and listen to this album as i remember loving it as a kid
if you want a track for that "best of the worst" playlist you described, may I recommend "I Just Wanna F" by David Guetta, from the same guy who produced I Gotta Feeling and a whole lot of other tracks from the same era which are also crap (but mostly boring). the way you reacted to Ring-A-Ling and all its progressively trash lines that get worse and worse and worse to a level that you can't even imagine and comes around into being entertaining as a result makes me wonder whether that track will do the same. not sure if it'll end up in "so bad it's good" territory or "so bad it surpasses 'so bad it's good' and circles back around to just being bad again" territory for you, kind of in the latter camp myself but hey might at least be worth the experience lmao
I always had a love hate relationship with Elephunk, everytime i return to It i Will apreciate the beat until they open the mouth and sing the most idiotic lyric possible, love the reaction Brad
Honestly the stuff you said about the sequencing rings very true for me, I usually listened to rock that body after Imma he because the music video that was released had them one after the other, finding out they don’t flow into each other in the album was a major shock to me.
imagine if THE E.N.D. was meant to be dated from day 1 so you'd feel nostalgic when you listened to it even if you don't like it and go "yeah, energy still alive"
This really takes me back to 4th-5th grade. Ugh, I remember playing The Bee Movie game in the Wii with my friend and listening to their songs. That being said, I feel like these are kids songs. The school assembly vibe is incredibly real.
They adapt to the time period miraculously. 2008-2011 top hits were like really bad but like good bad. Black Eyed Peas adapted well. It was a time full of electronic party music and that's what they did. They almost did it better though in my opinion by adding the disco vibes (which the 2020-2022 charts love) Now they are producing Spanglish bops that are doing pretty good numbers in Spanish countries.
I think Kanye helps plant the seeds more on the hip-hop end of things, granted that album as a whole always felt stuck in between two sounds, with a lot of tracks sounding electronic but also closer to his traditional hip-hop sound. So somewhat.
I went on a trip to my home country of Venezuela when I was around 10y.o. For 2 months I had NO internet, but I had this album downloaded. I listened to it back to back maybe 20 times in those 2 months. I personally found it to be great, and it has deep messages like the sone one tribe.
I loved this album as a kid, lmao. I was a massive Avril Lavigne and Kesha fan too, looking back a lot of this stuff aged poorly, except Avril's older stuff, and some Kesha songs that are still fun, but none of those aged as bad as Black Eyed Peas. Pump It and Meet My Halfway are the only solid songs they made
Worked in a nightclub for three years. "I Gotta Feeling" was one of the staple tracks. I physically recoil whenever I hear it in the wild. Also, I learned that David Guetta co-wrote it, and it made me want to petition the PM to declare war on France. We're behind Sweden and Denmark for most wars fought between two countries. Guetta is as good a reason as any to get our numbers up.
This album reminds me of being in elementary school when I was younger. Sometimes in gym class I would hear some of these tracks on repeat it seems. I know this album isn’t fantastic but it’s nostalgic.
God this album is so nostalgic regardless of quality. Some of the first pop music I was aware of since I didn’t listen to the radio until middle school.
I have heard a couple singles from Discovery but just realised I've never actually listened to it (or any Daft Punk album) in full. Leaving this comment to remind me to listen and I'll report back
I think The E.N.D. made popular a lot of sounds that were alt-pop (if you can put it like this) and paved the way to the success of Random Access Memories.
rock that body sounds like they really wanted to make a justice song but they . couldn't. like it specifically sounds a lot like phantom and phantom pt 2 if they sucked
Discovery: The perfect mix of hypnotic repetition and genuine musical prowess and deep knowledge and respect for their influences. Really the pinnacle of this era of European house. Justice: Sound design was nutty. Excellent detail and attention to song structure, where most lesser producers would simply use a build-drop loop, the songs really have a depth to them that is hard to find in traditional EDM these days. Really it was just a much more emotionally connected set of tracks I feel, that felt grounded in their own world sonically, while still providing strong variety. Also mixing was fucking stellar. The END: Literally just discovery if everything good about it was surgically removed. Imma Bee slaps, stay mad.
Rock that body is kind of a guilty pleasure for me, I like it despite its issues also why do people call so many things a "Daft Punk ripoff". I feel like they were very influential and so it makes sense that other people would make stuff in their style
Some songs, like I gotta feeling, you just gotta be able to feel and not overanalyse it. I can also kinda understand the hate if you dont have the nostalgia many people like me at my age have with this song. It really captures a timepiece.
Have you ever done a video reacting to sorry for party rocking front to back? If not I think it would be entertaining - I'd argue it has a similar energy to this album (but with less bangers)
Oh man Justice was the shit back in university, just tabbing out and jamming to those hard crunchy electro synth jams from 2007-2010. Soulwax’s Phantom Pt 2 remix still kills it’s.
My childhood appreciated this video. Loved majority of the songs as a kid, still do now. It's so weird how I thought my Nostolgia clouded my judgement of it, but then it surprised me and I enjoy it.
Haven't watched the video yet but my boy Brad better put some respect on Meet Me Halfway cause that song owns Edit: aight I'll take that, hook is definitely the best part of it lol
I love how boom boom pow was so obviously originally meant to drop in 2008 and they had to switch it to 3008 last minute because 2008 was 2000-late when it dropped in 2009
You have to react to THE BEGINNING, the album the Peas followed up THE E.N.D. with and the album that truly killed their careers (yes, they still make music, but it killed the Black Eyed Peas as the group that they were at the time)
