Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Cream Calendar Boom, Etc.: Black Eyed Peas Coming to Sommet Center or Whatever It's Going to Be Called Feb. 12
Posted by Steve Haruch on Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:27 AM
According to the Sommet Center Twitter, the Black Eyed Peas will be in Nashville Fri., Feb. 12 to play our local enormodome, as Gold likes to call it. Which won't be called the Sommet Center by then. (We should know the new name tomorrow.) Ticket prices and on-sale date TBA.
It's bad enough that the Black Eyed Peas named their album The E.N.D. but made it an acronym including the words "never dies." Is there a band that hates music more than these fools? The ongoing ubiquity of the Black Eyed Peas is basically the universe saying, "Fuck it, you people obviously don't care what happens to you." I'd almost rather listen to Creed. I'd probably rather listen to a Lady Gaga parody involving a font. I'd definitely rather watch Keenan. Someone much younger and wiser than me likened them to "the Fleetwood Mac of suck," a sentiment I agree with except for the fact that it debases the name Fleetwood Mac.
For example, this actually happened--spoiler alert: They drop "Smells Like Teen Spirit" over the breakbeat from Lyn Collins' "Think (About It)," though it's probably just taken from the Rob Base record:
So Two-Thousand-and-Suck. See you all at the Jimmy Dean Sausage Dome Presented by Crisco!
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Is Will.I.Am actually going to be there physically, or will he simply be a hologram?
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Branding is a bitch: @SommetCenter has 850+ Twitter followers. I guess they'll try to migrate 'em over to some new handle for their new sponsa.
Man... I thought Fergie was lame even when I was little and had to watch KIDS Incorporated on Saturday mornings cuz my older sis loved it.
Has anyone else noticed that her hairline start right above her eyeballs? She's seriously got no forehead. Freaks me out.
I think "The E.N.D", though crappily named, is a decent album. Or at least 50% of it is. I haven't seen a live-on-TV performance that has lived up to my expectations. I've seen/heard Fergie completely off key, and in the clip above their rhythms are off. I think super-stardom is getting to them, and hope they say "hi" to Fonzarelli on the other side of the shark.
Has anyone else noticed that her hairline start right above her eyeballs?
A threehead?
Fleetwood Mac is one the greatest bands ever. They are hardly in the same league.
Looks like alot of people jumped on the Perez Hilton bandwagon and is hating on Fergie.
I haven't listened to their last album, but I am still reminiscing on their better days - like the first album. Style has definitely changed, but the energy did stay the same.
Nobody here reads Perez Hilton. I'm afraid we all think Fergie sucks based on a simple truth: Fergie sucks. She sucks long and she sucks hard, and none of us want to hear about how "Retarded" her "Lady Lumps" are.
Which stage am I in? I recognize that while the lyrics she sings are clearly more intellectual than a Britney Spears or a Christina Aguilera, and while she's clearly read some philosophy and paid attention in Art History class, and while the music is catchy and can be fun to listen to at times, there just isn't much substance to any of it, and if one is in search of good poetry there are better places to look, and if one is in search of good pop music there are better places to look. The world doesn't need a new Andy Warhol. The first one was bad enough. I'm not sure the arts can survive the second coming. The Warhol/Gaga ethos is more dangerous and deadly to the arts than the entire Republican Party, not only because the Warhol/Gaga crowd what gives the Republican Party all of its ammunition, but also because the hard-on-for-fame idea embraces selling out, corporate capitalism, cheap celebrity, and manufactured drama with an abandon that not even Us Weekly and TMZ can keep up with.
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