Well, I mean nostalgia is a negative force that we should rid ourselves of. Nostalgia is when you like something JUST because it's from your past and not because of any actual merit. It's the same delusion that makes old people say the 1960s were "a better time" despite objectively not being. That's not to say that older stuff can't be good, obviously I'm not saying that, but things should be looked at for what they actually are, not what you falsely remember them as.
Will i am made this god-awful “remix” of Daft Punk’s Around the World where he just mashed it up with “Got it from my mama” and it was so bad Daft Punk themselves reportedly said “we think our music sounds better when will i am isn’t involved” when they heard it, lmao
@@carter_lovejoy seeing what a disaster TRON 3 is turning out to be so far I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if Disney was stupid enough to get the Black Eyed Peas to do the soundtrack, lol
@@doomsday6372it’s starring Jared Leto, directed by the director of Pirates of the Caribbean 5, doesn’t seem to be bringing back the original cast either from 1 or 2, not being scored by Daft Punk because obviously they broke up, and of course production has been stalled due to the strikes. It’s gonna suuucckkkk
Isnt there like a recentish actual rap song that just says the days of the week too? lol anyways, im pretty sure no one gives af about I Got a Feeling's lyrics lol its a nice beat
The thing about Fergie's version of the National Anthem (vocals aside) is why you would ever want to drag out the National Anthem more than it already is by doing a smooth jazz rendition? No one really takes into account how long the anthem is because most renditions usually end in the same amount of time or aren't at a slow tempo that feels like it's deliberate. I just really want to who wrote off the idea of Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas singing jazz.
gotye is so damn brilliant. hearts a mess is my favorite track from him. his production is incredible. he came out, dropped some incredible music, then bailed out of the pop scene, and just does his own thing with a band now. legend
i agree, and his "making mirrors" album where "somenody that i used to know" is, proof gotye is not a one hit wonder.. that album is masterpiece.. sooo much creativity
There was a time as a kid when I considered Black Eyed Peas to be the coolest band ever. Honestly, I didn't even know that they're still around these days. I thought they broke up once Fergie went on her own.
I feel like anyone born from like 1990-2002(yes i think the age range is that broad) thought the black eyed peas were the coolest band for at least a month
I was born in 2001, a Space Odyssey, and the most I remember was that they were a band and they were called Black Eyed Peas, kids talked about them and loved em and then I stopped hearing about them right around the time the national anthem performance happened.
@@scubasteve7439Yeah this checks out, I was born in '01 and I fuckin' loved the Peas. Had The Beginning and The End on CD, and bought a bunch of will.i.am's stuff, too. In hindsight, he was basically just the DJ Khaled of the late 2000s.
Yeah I even had my mom put all of Monkey Business and the END on my MP3 player for a school trip. I grew up and a couple of their songs still hit for me but their first two albums pre-fergie are way more my current style
21:38 Yeah cut to me telling Adum to listen to Jamiroquai on a previous video and people came out the woodwork like "Oh they only have the one song" when they've been seeling out international shows for nearly three decades
@@donaldothomoson Do you know what the word "international" means? Even if a band is less popular in the states than elsewhere, that doesn't make them a one-hit wonder.
tbf singers are often coached to warp words like that. idk if it helps them in a technical sense or if it's simply a 'style' but it seems a lot of singers get bad advice lol.
This breakdown was great! You can start to imagine how this group became a thing. Catchy beats, catchy phrases, MTV flavoring from the 00s, and being the pop leads of whatever label they were signed to.
Maybe we could stealth it in there by getting him to talk about Dancer in the Dark… I was reminiscing about watching that and its associated soundtrack only the other day. Not gonna watch it again though, I’m still recovering from the last time over a decade ago….
i remember my high school music teacher trying to teach us about rap music and then the only example he gave was the black eyed peas yes he was very white
This video has been in the manager for a long time. All of the claims were disputed, but only one of the copyright holders rejected my dispute. For the other claims, I just waited for the thirty days to expire. This video has been ready for a month.
As a kid growing up in the 2000s, "my humps" and "shut up" have to be 2 of the most annoying songs that wouldn't stop playing on the radio. Hated them.
For me, a lot of Fergie songs are annoying lmao London bridge, M I L F, Fergalicious, Meet me halfway, Clumsy, Big girls don't cry and the songs you said are still in my list of "my least favorite songs of all time"
That string thing you mentioned usually happens when someone's trying to extend a sample without using parts where the singer sings before the beat hits but as far as I can tell this song wasn't sampled like that so it's could just be a mistake/miscommunication on the instrumentalists part that was "fixed up" in production
adam making olivia upload a video of him actually listening to copyrighted music after what just happened because of that stupid saw spiral clip seems very brave-- i sincerely hope it works out though, i wouldnt mind him doing more stuff like this
To me, I feel like the best way to describe fergies performance is that she’s more speaking than singing. She doesn’t belt and she only uses her head voice
The only thing I think of when I hear that song, is some YTP-esque version where it's the Nic Cage "not the bees!" meme synced up to the melody and it's so cursed I love it
As someone who a while back especially liked "Somebody I Used to Know" and listened to exactly "Heart's a Mess" and "State of the Art" and that's it, I feel seen.
Adam is literally such a smart person. Honestly, I really love hearing his takes about things. It makes me feel very inspired when he talks about how the art affects him because I see how it affects me too and it's just amazing that people can have experiences from art.
Adam totally comes across as a modern day youtube critic though (and a decent one to be fair but it's a low bar) as opposed to someone who has any experience in creating art, which makes him less interesting to listen to.
Gotye's making mirrors has been part of my music library ever since 2012 and it still holds up today. And the album is covering alot of topics and emotions. My favorites are "Bronte" (can barely listen to it without choking up). "State of the art" is technically awesome and "eyes wide open". That album deserves more recognition. "Somebody that i used to know" is still a fantastic piece of art but i agree with you in that it's far from his best work.
In the UK, (bear in mind this is 100% anecdotal) the Frankee version was played so much more. I don't even remember hearing the original Eamon version.
I actually managed to completely forget about "Shut up". I also think I thought it was by a different artist, maybe like Gwen Stefani even though listening to it, it's unmistakably Fergie, lol.
It’s still crazy to me how the Black eyed peas were actually a decent undergroundish rap group before Fergie was added, then after that they made some of the lamest music ever, but they made a ton of money, so I guess they won in the end lol
i hate how people don't listen to albums anymore. they will talk about an artist they like and when you ask them what their favorite album is they have no freaking clue.
Most people will listen to playlists and ignore albums. I had a friend who could barely listen to albums and always listened to random songs instead. I'll always prefer listening to albums of artists I like.
Yeah, it is a consequence of easy access through streaming. I grew up with buying CDs because we had no other choice back and when bro :P. I will admit that I usually listen to a playlist on random, but they are my personal playlists curated by me, in which if I do add songs by artists I haven't heard before or a lot of, I make sure to always check out more of them later (though like it is an enormous task considering the availability we have these days 'XD) Edit: I have seen so many mentions of Gotye's Making Mirrors being great that I just have to check that out next!
I think the thing about hearing "them" screaming is calling back to another part of the song where they say that the neighbors are yelling at them to stop fighting.
this is so gratifying me and my sister for years have felt like the only people who've enjoyed gotyes music outside of somebody i used to know.... his stuff slaps!!!!!!! wish more people knew!!!
I unironically love some BEP songs, especially the old ones (Let's Get R*t*rded/Started goes hard) and Fuck It is a decent song too, grew up with that.
Same! Nostalgia hits hard. Everything about Let’s get it started is iconic, starting with a Nokia slider cellphone in the beginning of the video that I still want to have to this day lol
the reason art is so powerful is BECAUSE it's specific, being vague and expecting the audience to relate it to their problems by filling in the blanks is pure laziness
Notice how the chicks that wear the same clothes as her and stand behind her aren't even mid? Not even one of them is mid it's probably because they are suppose to make her pretty in comparison.
"The most obvious choice every time." That's what watching Black Clover feels like to watch, but that gets some points for being simplistic in an anime-ocean where they love to overexplain everything.
Hate to defend fergie, but to be fair you can kind of make any song seem insane if you just play it and then do an impression of them. However its real hard to defend fergie ngl because my god if you go back to a lot of black eyed peas music, you start to realise she is a pretty weak singer, she doesn't have the pipes to be a pop diva
You're really gonna go ahead and tell me Boom Boom Pow isn't iconic and won't be written in history as the time music really became art? What a buncha hoopla
Oh for sure people in like 2040 are gonna listen to a "top 100 songs from the 2000s" and comment shit like "why is today's music not like "Boom Boom Pow" the epitome of art and music"
I think “Meet Me Halfway” and “Where Is The Love” are my favorite Black Eyed Peas song when speaking how strong they are lyrically, but “I Gotta Feeling” and “Boom Boom Pow” are more memorable when looking at just the music. Those two have the kind of music that accurately screams 2000s in their style of beats. Their songs are amazing as something to put on at a dance party or a karaoke, and that can be all that matters to some.
yoooo, hearing "fuck it" and the remix again in 2023 really took me back, damn. that was the funniest thing, I remembered that and "lip gloss" being all over in school!!
Adum with Gotye is like me with Soft Cell lol… Actually, When i was very young, i had the opportunity to see Gotye live not long after Somebody’ was a hit. My parents decided not to go because they dismissed the rest of his music.
@10:00 Eminem is a master of the dramatic relationship/narrative type songs, w/ _Kim_ & _Stan,_ but 2pac was the OG w/those emotional narrative tracks. Some great 1s from Pac are _Brenda's got a Baby, Shorty wanna be a Thug, Don't Ya Trust Me?_ ft. Dido. Outkast & Slick Rick both have some great 1s too, specifically _Tha Art of Storytellin'._ 1 more modern recent 1 that i absolutely love is Rittz ft Yelawolf - _Sleep at Night._ Yelawolf has a lot of them too now that i think about it, _Tennesee Love_ being another banger in that same style that I adore. *Edit:* NF is another of my more recent favorites, whom also has a ton of great narrative style songs as well.
I personally enjoy the 1st works from TBEP, even if they are not profound, but their beats, visuals and the way they presented themselves was funny and invites you to enjoy with others. Im just not going to pretend they are above better artist and musicians. I understand adum is mad im more in mood to hear a full album of black eyed peas that 1 album of goety. But i can do both.
I would actually highly recommend listening to Black Eyed Peas before they became poppy and especially before Fergie came onboard. They were a traditional 90s rap band like A Tribe Called Quest with very smooth instrumentals. Listen to Street Livin', Clap Your Hands & Say Goodbye.
3:36 the body is actually damaging itself, its really bad for you to sing like that. The vocal chords are slowed to the point of filtering out only that rrrk door sound come out. It means they arent pushing air smoothly but distorting it. Can be used in cool ways, that was not it. takes great skill to use ina way that sounds okay even, but generally don't do that. People think its sounds kurt cobain-ey but he didnt do that, he just has a crunchy quality to his tenor voice. Same for Amy Winehouse. She doesnt scratch her notes they are just coming out on the notes and the filter of her body itself creates the tone, and its slight rasps naturally rather than tearing her chords up inside for that sound.
Bro, as much as I respect your opinions and criticisms. Really nobody pays as much attention to progressions and notes etc as much as you think they do. I've been into music for a long time and for me personally it's all about expression and catharsis in music. Structure and correctness in technique or whatever is little to no value to me unless it's terribly obvious how bad it is that even someone that knows nothing about music can notice. I feel like you're a little too picky and critical when it comes to music, it's all about feeling as far as I'm concerned.
I just went on a road trip this last weekend, and my bf and I debated for at least an hour about whether the Gotye song is written from two different perspectives, or if that's just how it's performed. Two totally different interpretations, depending on how you look at it. Absolute fucking banger that I have been completely obsessed with lately. I WILL check out his other tracks.
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I love how Adum now just uses his platforms to hate on stuff that his boyfriend likes and was nostalgic about.
As he should lol.
better than ruining it for him, to him🤣
cat bf should make a highlights-channel where hes completely tearing apart adams music XD
As every 🐴 should
Well, I mean nostalgia is a negative force that we should rid ourselves of. Nostalgia is when you like something JUST because it's from your past and not because of any actual merit. It's the same delusion that makes old people say the 1960s were "a better time" despite objectively not being. That's not to say that older stuff can't be good, obviously I'm not saying that, but things should be looked at for what they actually are, not what you falsely remember them as.
The second channel, “Your Music Sucks”
And we get a 2 hour video on why Sia sucks.
watch yur ass, Fantano
Imagine him critiquing 2000s Disney Channel music (Miley Cyrus, Hilary Duff, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Jonas Brothers)
Adam-Johnston: Into The Suckyverse
Will i am made this god-awful “remix” of Daft Punk’s Around the World where he just mashed it up with “Got it from my mama” and it was so bad Daft Punk themselves reportedly said “we think our music sounds better when will i am isn’t involved” when they heard it, lmao
Makes me wish Daft Punk was still around and Black Eyed Peas were still disbanded.
The Tron: Legacy soundtrack is fucking amazing!
@@carter_lovejoy seeing what a disaster TRON 3 is turning out to be so far I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if Disney was stupid enough to get the Black Eyed Peas to do the soundtrack, lol
@@doomsday6372 Jared Leto’s gonna be in it.
@@Skywintersnow they’ll probably get The Weeknd to do the soundtrack…
@@doomsday6372it’s starring Jared Leto, directed by the director of Pirates of the Caribbean 5, doesn’t seem to be bringing back the original cast either from 1 or 2, not being scored by Daft Punk because obviously they broke up, and of course production has been stalled due to the strikes.
It’s gonna suuucckkkk
"I got a feeling" being this unironically popular is insane. He literally starts just rapping the days of the week.
Welcome to 90% of radio hits. Easy to understand, dumb, and talentless.
Rapping is a bit of a stretch, he just sorta says them slowly
Isnt there like a recentish actual rap song that just says the days of the week too? lol anyways, im pretty sure no one gives af about I Got a Feeling's lyrics lol its a nice beat
@TheMantheon563 lol who expects straight bars on a PARTY track 💀
ghost purp did the same thing lol
The thing about Fergie's version of the National Anthem (vocals aside) is why you would ever want to drag out the National Anthem more than it already is by doing a smooth jazz rendition? No one really takes into account how long the anthem is because most renditions usually end in the same amount of time or aren't at a slow tempo that feels like it's deliberate.
I just really want to who wrote off the idea of Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas singing jazz.
Reminds me of the episode of the Simpson's where they did the 16 min rendition and everyone was falling asleep 😂
gotye is so damn brilliant. hearts a mess is my favorite track from him. his production is incredible. he came out, dropped some incredible music, then bailed out of the pop scene, and just does his own thing with a band now. legend
Yes! Two of the most criminally underrated albums I've heard. Start to finish they're magnificent.
Yeah Hearts A Mess is a great song.
@@Meadow-HeadTruth!
i agree, and his "making mirrors" album where "somenody that i used to know" is, proof gotye is not a one hit wonder.. that album is masterpiece.. sooo much creativity
what band
There was a time as a kid when I considered Black Eyed Peas to be the coolest band ever. Honestly, I didn't even know that they're still around these days. I thought they broke up once Fergie went on her own.
I feel like anyone born from like 1990-2002(yes i think the age range is that broad) thought the black eyed peas were the coolest band for at least a month
I was born in 2001, a Space Odyssey, and the most I remember was that they were a band and they were called Black Eyed Peas, kids talked about them and loved em and then I stopped hearing about them right around the time the national anthem performance happened.
@@scubasteve7439Yeah this checks out, I was born in '01 and I fuckin' loved the Peas. Had The Beginning and The End on CD, and bought a bunch of will.i.am's stuff, too. In hindsight, he was basically just the DJ Khaled of the late 2000s.
Hi, am I late for "BEP Was The Coolest Band To Me As A Kid" support group? Allow me to join, I even brought my own chair.
Yeah I even had my mom put all of Monkey Business and the END on my MP3 player for a school trip. I grew up and a couple of their songs still hit for me but their first two albums pre-fergie are way more my current style
I like how Adum brought up that second track but started walking back his positive feelings towards it as he heard it again.
21:38 Yeah cut to me telling Adum to listen to Jamiroquai on a previous video and people came out the woodwork like "Oh they only have the one song" when they've been seeling out international shows for nearly three decades
@@donaldothomosonAdum is a Canuk
@@donaldothomoson Do you know what the word "international" means? Even if a band is less popular in the states than elsewhere, that doesn't make them a one-hit wonder.
Okay Fergie, the word you're trying to sing is "Lady"
Fergie: LYEE-AY-DYEE-AYY
Damm i never realized how terrible she is
I always wondered what she was trying to say
Damn, I hate when people sing instead of just reading the lyrics.
I was in middle school when she joined the Peas and never noticed until Freshman Year smh.
tbf singers are often coached to warp words like that. idk if it helps them in a technical sense or if it's simply a 'style' but it seems a lot of singers get bad advice lol.
This breakdown was great!
You can start to imagine how this group became a thing. Catchy beats, catchy phrases, MTV flavoring from the 00s, and being the pop leads of whatever label they were signed to.
Adum impersonating Fergie’s squeaky, weird enunciation voice is amusing as hell.
Fergie's voice is like my impression of Britney Spears.
I'd unironically like to see Adum do a video talking about Björk's music. Just analysing some of her songs.
Maybe we could stealth it in there by getting him to talk about Dancer in the Dark… I was reminiscing about watching that and its associated soundtrack only the other day. Not gonna watch it again though, I’m still recovering from the last time over a decade ago….
The instrumental carried that song so hard that no one actually listened to the lyrics
You mean "Shut up"? Because I agree
Along with most of songs in existence
@@drifter402 exactly. And that applies also to the 100% of Black Eyed Peas songs lmao
Who tf listen to them for the lyrics?
I liked the part when she rhymed 'Crazy' with 'Lady' and then 'Crazy' again. 🤷♂
It was a Faay aiiii L
Immediately after Adum said "I actually love this fucking song," I got a Burger King ad.
I actually live for Adum’s music critique/commentary
Fergie is doing the lady equivalent of Chad Kroeger's forced grunting voice.
i remember my high school music teacher trying to teach us about rap music and then the only example he gave was the black eyed peas
yes he was very white
I mean, they were originally rappers tho...
Why do they teach rap in school? What are they going to teach kids to MC?
If teacher never brings up MF DOOM, I don’t want to hear his opinion.
I alwways love listening to what people are passionate about. And adum is so well articulated when it s about music and movies. Love it
Judging by that spelling, they really DID get... umm... uh... it started.
you can make the point about Fergies voice without subjecting us to the entire national anthem performance.
Olivia how did you manage to get past the copyright claims with this one?
This video has been in the manager for a long time. All of the claims were disputed, but only one of the copyright holders rejected my dispute. For the other claims, I just waited for the thirty days to expire. This video has been ready for a month.
@@YMSHighlightsIm super impressed with your patience these music claims are always the worst
Ok but "Let's get Retarded" is a fucking banger lmao I had no idea that was a thing
At 12:45 that was really uncalled for, Everyone knows Taboo and Appl-D-App! In fact, their names are the only things I know about them
As a kid growing up in the 2000s, "my humps" and "shut up" have to be 2 of the most annoying songs that wouldn't stop playing on the radio. Hated them.
For me, a lot of Fergie songs are annoying lmao
London bridge, M I L F, Fergalicious, Meet me halfway, Clumsy, Big girls don't cry and the songs you said are still in my list of "my least favorite songs of all time"
Damn, that Eamon song unblocked a memory I didn't remember I had. Thanks, Adum!
After this video I've now been listening to Hearts a Mess all day. Thanks Adam, it's a really beautiful song.
Love the Gotye praise in this one
But they sang such classics as "Let's Get Retarded." Fergie's opening on that song is ICONIC.
That string thing you mentioned usually happens when someone's trying to extend a sample without using parts where the singer sings before the beat hits but as far as I can tell this song wasn't sampled like that so it's could just be a mistake/miscommunication on the instrumentalists part that was "fixed up" in production
adam making olivia upload a video of him actually listening to copyrighted music after what just happened because of that stupid saw spiral clip seems very brave-- i sincerely hope it works out though, i wouldnt mind him doing more stuff like this
To me, I feel like the best way to describe fergies performance is that she’s more speaking than singing. She doesn’t belt and she only uses her head voice
Imma Be is terrible until the last third, then it becomes one of the catchiest BEP songs.
The only thing I think of when I hear that song, is some YTP-esque version where it's the Nic Cage "not the bees!" meme synced up to the melody and it's so cursed I love it
@@ZeyTheDaemonmore like "not the Peas!" 😂
@@ZeyTheDaemonI was LITERALLY about to comment that! It was made by cs188, one of the greatest poopers of all time.
As someone who a while back especially liked "Somebody I Used to Know" and listened to exactly "Heart's a Mess" and "State of the Art" and that's it, I feel seen.
28:28 I feel like her lips were added in post, lol.
4:23 I like how I wasn’t looking at the screen before that moment doing house chores, and I’ve found me making that exact face Adum did
Adam is literally such a smart person. Honestly, I really love hearing his takes about things. It makes me feel very inspired when he talks about how the art affects him because I see how it affects me too and it's just amazing that people can have experiences from art.
I do think he often gets hung up on the small stuff too much or just makes something a bigger deal than it needs to be, though.
You sound like a complete tool
Adam totally comes across as a modern day youtube critic though (and a decent one to be fair but it's a low bar) as opposed to someone who has any experience in creating art, which makes him less interesting to listen to.
He is entertaining and can be charismatic but he really isn't that smart.
Gotye's making mirrors has been part of my music library ever since 2012 and it still holds up today. And the album is covering alot of topics and emotions. My favorites are "Bronte" (can barely listen to it without choking up). "State of the art" is technically awesome and "eyes wide open". That album deserves more recognition.
"Somebody that i used to know" is still a fantastic piece of art but i agree with you in that it's far from his best work.
The Time (Dirty Bit) is one of the worst songs I've ever heard in my life.
Correct take
And you owe it all to theeeem ememem *dirty bit*
Still better than My humps tho
This take is two thousand and late
In the UK, (bear in mind this is 100% anecdotal) the Frankee version was played so much more. I don't even remember hearing the original Eamon version.
I remember them both being huge over here
I actually managed to completely forget about "Shut up". I also think I thought it was by a different artist, maybe like Gwen Stefani even though listening to it, it's unmistakably Fergie, lol.
"Somebody I Used to Know" is just the 2010s version of "Don't you want me"
And Human League are also great so?
14:40 that is Crazy Town's Shifty Shellshock😂
It’s still crazy to me how the Black eyed peas were actually a decent undergroundish rap group before Fergie was added, then after that they made some of the lamest music ever, but they made a ton of money, so I guess they won in the end lol
i hate how people don't listen to albums anymore. they will talk about an artist they like and when you ask them what their favorite album is they have no freaking clue.
Most people will listen to playlists and ignore albums. I had a friend who could barely listen to albums and always listened to random songs instead. I'll always prefer listening to albums of artists I like.
Yeah, it is a consequence of easy access through streaming. I grew up with buying CDs because we had no other choice back and when bro :P. I will admit that I usually listen to a playlist on random, but they are my personal playlists curated by me, in which if I do add songs by artists I haven't heard before or a lot of, I make sure to always check out more of them later (though like it is an enormous task considering the availability we have these days 'XD)
Edit: I have seen so many mentions of Gotye's Making Mirrors being great that I just have to check that out next!
BEP just reminds me of this one sims game i was obsessed with...also love how this is also a gotye appreciation vid
The urbz?
@@DecoraGarfoid YESS no lie the songs on there are more enjoyable than their other stuff 💀
13:23 “Small girls, tall girls, I’m calling all girls”
😂
I think the thing about hearing "them" screaming is calling back to another part of the song where they say that the neighbors are yelling at them to stop fighting.
love when he talks about music and lyrics, tbh, its something that always surprises me
Also Imogen Heap is an amazing example of a perceived “one hit wonder” because of Hide and Seek. Headlock is amazing.
Hearing someone else talk about how Headlock is good makes me so happy. Her music is so good.
This is getting started REAL quick.
In this context there's no offense.
So when I bust a rhyme, you break your neck!
We got 5 minutes for us to disconnect
From all intellct and let the rhythm effect
To lose this inhibition, follow your intuition
Free your inner soul and break away from tradition
this is so gratifying me and my sister for years have felt like the only people who've enjoyed gotyes music outside of somebody i used to know.... his stuff slaps!!!!!!! wish more people knew!!!
I feel you, never met anyone that liked his stuff!! Such a nice surprise!!
I unironically love some BEP songs, especially the old ones (Let's Get R*t*rded/Started goes hard) and Fuck It is a decent song too, grew up with that.
I Gotta Feeling is their magnum opus if we’re being quite honest.
Never heard Let's Get R before but the instrumental were pretty good at points tho
Nerd
Same! Nostalgia hits hard. Everything about Let’s get it started is iconic, starting with a Nokia slider cellphone in the beginning of the video that I still want to have to this day lol
Making Mirrors is one of my best CD purchases of all time. Great album, front to back, and I absolutely love state of the art.
the reason art is so powerful is BECAUSE it's specific, being vague and expecting the audience to relate it to their problems by filling in the blanks is pure laziness
@20:00 I was hearing"Believe me I will do bet~ let's forget the bed and start a new plan"
Like he was trying to tell her it wasn't just about sex.
Fergie pronounced "crazy" so weirdly in "Shut up" that I thought she was saying "person" for all these years, until I watched this video.
Notice how the chicks that wear the same clothes as her and stand behind her aren't even mid? Not even one of them is mid it's probably because they are suppose to make her pretty in comparison.
🎶 But you didn't have to county out
Zaazu
I 1rst heard My Humps over the intercom at a Dollar Store, and thought it was a joke....I hate most of that era's music.
14:43 I think that guy is from Crazytown. The butterfly dudes.
"The most obvious choice every time." That's what watching Black Clover feels like to watch, but that gets some points for being simplistic in an anime-ocean where they love to overexplain everything.
Hate to defend fergie, but to be fair you can kind of make any song seem insane if you just play it and then do an impression of them. However its real hard to defend fergie ngl because my god if you go back to a lot of black eyed peas music, you start to realise she is a pretty weak singer, she doesn't have the pipes to be a pop diva
She is even annoying as hell. I can't stand her
This video just made me realize how slapping the black eyed peas were 🎉🎉
You're really gonna go ahead and tell me Boom Boom Pow isn't iconic and won't be written in history as the time music really became art? What a buncha hoopla
Adum’s so two thousand and late
Oh for sure people in like 2040 are gonna listen to a "top 100 songs from the 2000s" and comment shit like "why is today's music not like "Boom Boom Pow" the epitome of art and music"
Boom boom boom, got a kit kat
gotye uses some thing like tape phasing for the vocal with a similar effect eq as Peter Gabriel I believe.
I think “Meet Me Halfway” and “Where Is The Love” are my favorite Black Eyed Peas song when speaking how strong they are lyrically, but “I Gotta Feeling” and “Boom Boom Pow” are more memorable when looking at just the music. Those two have the kind of music that accurately screams 2000s in their style of beats.
Their songs are amazing as something to put on at a dance party or a karaoke, and that can be all that matters to some.
yoooo, hearing "fuck it" and the remix again in 2023 really took me back, damn. that was the funniest thing, I remembered that and "lip gloss" being all over in school!!
26:54 I love how Adum cuts Gotye off right as he says not to.
12:58 Yes, this is Lynchian, they're in the Cash Money Lodge and if your relationship isn't pure then it will be utterly annihilated.
Great video melon! Can’t wait for the next upload
Adum with Gotye is like me with Soft Cell lol… Actually, When i was very young, i had the opportunity to see Gotye live not long after Somebody’ was a hit. My parents decided not to go because they dismissed the rest of his music.
@10:00 Eminem is a master of the dramatic relationship/narrative type songs, w/ _Kim_ & _Stan,_ but 2pac was the OG w/those emotional narrative tracks. Some great 1s from Pac are _Brenda's got a Baby, Shorty wanna be a Thug, Don't Ya Trust Me?_ ft. Dido. Outkast & Slick Rick both have some great 1s too, specifically _Tha Art of Storytellin'._ 1 more modern recent 1 that i absolutely love is Rittz ft Yelawolf - _Sleep at Night._ Yelawolf has a lot of them too now that i think about it, _Tennesee Love_ being another banger in that same style that I adore.
*Edit:* NF is another of my more recent favorites, whom also has a ton of great narrative style songs as well.
You yell, I yell, everybody yells...for ice cream!
I personally enjoy the 1st works from TBEP, even if they are not profound, but their beats, visuals and the way they presented themselves was funny and invites you to enjoy with others. Im just not going to pretend they are above better artist and musicians. I understand adum is mad im more in mood to hear a full album of black eyed peas that 1 album of goety. But i can do both.
State of the art. Hearts a mess... That one song about his dog that died.. Gotye is amazing! Everyone needs to get on it. I love that you said that!
Damn,can`t wait for Adum to rip apart songs I`m nostalgic about😂
FINALLY someone who appreciates Gotye's State of the Art ❤
I love when Adam does music review.
Also, Gotye is awesome. I especially liked Smoke and Mirrors
Smoke and Mirrors is probably my favorite off the album, which is definitely saying something.
I pretty much only like BEP for their mashup potential because it's funny mixing them with other, more talented artists.
I would actually highly recommend listening to Black Eyed Peas before they became poppy and especially before Fergie came onboard. They were a traditional 90s rap band like A Tribe Called Quest with very smooth instrumentals. Listen to Street Livin', Clap Your Hands & Say Goodbye.
If the black eyed peas try to copyright claim this video, fight back.
If gotye tries to copyright claim this video, let em. He deserves it.
That first BEP song had Trapped in the Closet tier lyrics.
Came for the Black Eyed Peas nostalgia. Stayed for putting Gotye on the pedestal that he deserves!
That green bay button up is insane
Does anyone remember the MTV Machinima music video for this song? They used Leisure Suit Larry. Its so weird looking.
Man id love for you to analyse songs more
I can’t wait for it to come full circle, and he reviews himself
"You're SO annoying omg. Nobody cares that the trailer isn't in 4k!!!"
3:36 the body is actually damaging itself, its really bad for you to sing like that. The vocal chords are slowed to the point of filtering out only that rrrk door sound come out. It means they arent pushing air smoothly but distorting it. Can be used in cool ways, that was not it. takes great skill to use ina way that sounds okay even, but generally don't do that. People think its sounds kurt cobain-ey but he didnt do that, he just has a crunchy quality to his tenor voice. Same for Amy Winehouse. She doesnt scratch her notes they are just coming out on the notes and the filter of her body itself creates the tone, and its slight rasps naturally rather than tearing her chords up inside for that sound.
havent watched the full vid yet, but what do you think of their first album pre-fergie. behind the front? love that one.
Bro, as much as I respect your opinions and criticisms. Really nobody pays as much attention to progressions and notes etc as much as you think they do.
I've been into music for a long time and for me personally it's all about expression and catharsis in music. Structure and correctness in technique or whatever is little to no value to me unless it's terribly obvious how bad it is that even someone that knows nothing about music can notice.
I feel like you're a little too picky and critical when it comes to music, it's all about feeling as far as I'm concerned.
Fergie got the voice of a creaky food cabinet door that wakes everyone up at 2am when I get a snack
This convinced me to listen to more of Gotye’s stuff, I’m blown away
Somebody that i Used to Know is one of the greatest pop songs that will ever be written. It's inSANEly well composed. Concentrated brilliance.
I just went on a road trip this last weekend, and my bf and I debated for at least an hour about whether the Gotye song is written from two different perspectives, or if that's just how it's performed. Two totally different interpretations, depending on how you look at it.
Absolute fucking banger that I have been completely obsessed with lately. I WILL check out his other tracks.
Can we talk about Eminem's "Puke" for a minute and how I feel compelled to scream the lyrics.