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The Black Eyed Peas
Why we feature this artist The Black Eyed Peas turn the group into an electronic instrument Meet Me Halfway, Rock That Body and the recordings that followed them show the Black Eyed Peas treating vocal production as part of the group's musical identity. The vo…
- From
- United States
- Sound
- Hip-hop, pop, dance
- Active
- 1992–2011, 2015–present
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Why we feature this artist
The Black Eyed Peas turn the group into an electronic instrument
Meet Me Halfway, Rock That Body and the recordings that followed them show the Black Eyed Peas treating vocal production as part of the group's musical identity. The voices can become sharply processed rhythmic shapes while remaining recognisable as different performers.
From The E.N.D. to The Beginning
The E.N.D. arrived in 2009, with Meet Me Halfway and Rock That Body among its tracks. The Beginning followed in 2010, continuing the electronic setting with a new sequence of singles. Interscope's original announcement presented the second album as a further chapter after the earlier record's long campaign.
Repetition with a human outline
A heavily treated voice can still carry a particular accent, a melodic habit or a forceful way of entering the rhythm. The group uses that fact to move between singing, rap and something closer to instrumental pattern. The strongest passages keep a sense of people inside the machinery, even when a phrase is reduced to a short repeated fragment. Heard across these two albums, the approach becomes a form of pop arrangement: personalities are introduced, transformed and brought back together inside a continuously changing electronic frame.
Essential releases
The E.N.D.
Meet Me Halfway and Rock That Body sit inside the group's sustained electronic-pop programme.
The Beginning
The follow-up extends the vocal and production language into a new album campaign.