"My Humps" by the Black Eyed Peas...

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...is so unbelievably, embarassingly bad. They should be rounded up and imprisoned.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 22 October 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Agreed. And just recently I found out it was them who created this sewage.

― van igloo (van smack), Saturday, 22 October 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

To be fair, Alex, your description applies to *every* Black Eyes Peas song.

― King Money (King Money), Saturday, 22 October 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

I saw the video around 7am this morning, and practically spat up all over the television.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 22 October 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

"My lovely lady lumps"

― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Saturday, 22 October 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

It's pretty awful, and awfully popular. They are the porn Fugees.

― Criff (Criff), Saturday, 22 October 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

Good old Black Eyed Pees.

http://revart.blogs.com/minister_of_rants/images/fergie_split.jpg

― Gotta get it started, Saturday, 22 October 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

I'm genuinely surprised she hasn't taken her own life in the wake of that photo's impressively far-reaching circulation.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 22 October 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

never mind the stains, what's up with her knees?

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Saturday, 22 October 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

I'm genuinely surprised she hasn't taken her own life in the wake of that photo's impressively far-reaching circulation.

If you're willing to sing such shite songs, why would she worry about the stain on her pants?

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Saturday, 22 October 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

Bahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 22 October 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

The things on her knee is the LFI logo that goes throughout the pic. But that doesn't explain what's going on between her legs. EWWWWW

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Saturday, 22 October 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

have you ever seen the Best Buy ad where the guy goes "You can control the Black Eyed Peas with the touch of a button", then the BEP shuck and jive at the touch of his remote?

― Gee, You Knit? (mookie wilson), Saturday, 22 October 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

haha I kind of like it.

― Sundar (sundar), Saturday, 22 October 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

They should be rounded up and imprisoned.

Ha! A strangely mild wish.

― Miguel Vascininni, Saturday, 22 October 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

This song is a gas. RIYL: Fannypack

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 22 October 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

I've yet to see the video. Will now.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 22 October 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Evidently the video is RIYL Fannypack too.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 22 October 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

TS: lumps vs. humps

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 22 October 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

Fergie is a severely frightening creature.

― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Saturday, 22 October 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

http://socialitelife.com/mt/archives/the_many_faces_of_stacy_fergie_ferguson.php

― Phil Dokes (sunny), Saturday, 22 October 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

am i the only person who thinks CANCER when i hear the phrase "lady lumps"?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Sunday, 23 October 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

I had the exact same reaction.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 23 October 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

I think "lovely lady lumps" may very well be the unsexiest way to describe "tits and ass" in the history of the written word.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 23 October 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)

Same here. Immediately. If anyone EVER refers to my round parts as "lumps," they will promptly get a swift kick in the heehaw. Note to BEP: there is no hope for feminism to reclaim the word "lumps" and thus condone your usage of the word. For one thing, it's a fucking ugly word.

― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Sunday, 23 October 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

See also this.

What I really want to hear is a mashup combining "My Humps" with "Pumps and a Bump" by the post-MC Hammer. Any takers?

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 23 October 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)

my gosh...is that sweat or urine in that picture?

― Grell (Grell), Sunday, 23 October 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)

quite possibly the worst song I have ever heard. taken alone, the music, lyrics, and singing would make any song horrible but together they create a whirlwind of shitosity that is truly breathtaking.

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 23 October 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)

Isn't "lump" George Bush's pet name for Laura?

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 23 October 2005 04:07 (twenty years ago)

Now that I think about it...

Hip-hop IS about claiming terriotory in language (I believe Todd Boyd uses the example "to hate" on something is way to cut through the BS of being negative and getting right to the core of what the intention is).

This being said, there is NO WORD in the english language (that I can think of at least) that accurately sums up "tits and ass" in one syllable or less.

Conversely, Black Eyed Peas could be totally making a statement on male sexuality, how it's focused mainly on "lumps." Reducing these object of such desire dehumanizes the person who desires them... kind of like saying to a pothead, "Dude, you really like a fucking PLANT that much?" The Peas are looking men dead in the eye and saying, "Hey, you're gonna get all hot and bothered over HUMPS?"

I liked them better when they were all granola.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 23 October 2005 05:45 (twenty years ago)

What you gon’ do with all that junk?
All that junk inside your trunk?
I’ma get, get, get, get, you drunk,
Get you love drunk off my hump.
My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump,
My hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely little lumps. (Check it out)

I drive these brothers crazy,
I do it on the daily,
They treat me really nicely,
They buy me all these ice-ys.
Dolce & Gabbana,
Fendi and then Donna
Karan, they be sharin’
All their money got me wearin’
Fly gearrr but I ain’t askin,
They say they love my ass ‘n,
Seven Jeans, True Religion's,
I say no, but they keep givin’
So I keep on takin’
And no I ain’t taken
We can keep on datin’
I keep on demonstrating.

My love, my love, my love, my love
You love my lady lumps,
My hump, my hump, my hump,
My humps they got u,
She’s got me spending.
(Oh) Spendin’ all your money on me and spending time on me.
She’s got me spendin’.
(Oh) Spendin’ all your money on me, on me, on me

What you gon’ do with all that junk?
All that junk inside that trunk?
I’ma get, get, get, get, you drunk,
Get you love drunk off my hump.
What u gon’ do with all that ass?
All that ass inside them jeans?
I’m a make, make, make, make you scream
Make u scream, make you scream.
Cos of my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump.
My hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely lady lumps. (Check it out)

I met a girl down at the disco.
She said hey, hey, hey yea let’s go.
I could be your baby, you can be my honey
Lets spend time not money.
I mix your milk wit my cocoa puff,
Milky, milky cocoa,
Mix your milk with my cocoa puff, milky, milky riiiiiiight.

They say I’m really sexy,
The boys they wanna sex me.
They always standing next to me,
Always dancing next to me,
Tryin’ a feel my hump, hump.
Lookin’ at my lump, lump.
U can look but you can’t touch it,
If u touch it I’ma start some drama,
You don’t want no drama,
No, no drama, no, no, no, no drama
So don’t pull on my hand boy,
You ain’t my man, boy,
I’m just tryn’a dance boy,
And move my hump.

My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump,
My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump.
My lovely lady lumps [x3]
In the back and in the front.
My lovin’ got u,
She’s got me spendin’.
(Oh) Spendin’ all your money on me and spending time on me.
She’s got me spendin’.
(Oh) Spendin’ all your money on me, on me, on me.

What you gon’ do with all that junk?
All that junk inside that trunk?
I’ma get, get, get, get you drunk,
Get you love drunk off my hump.
What you gon’ do with all that ass?
All that ass inside them jeans?
I’ma make, make, make, make you scream
Make you scream, make you scream.
What you gon do with all that junk?
All that junk inside that trunk?
I’ma get, get, get, get you drunk,
Get you love drunk off this hump.
What you gon’ do wit all that breast?
All that breast inside that shirt?
I’ma make, make, make, make you work
Make you work, work, make you work.
She’s got me spendin’.
Spendin all your money on me and spendin’ time on me
She’s got me spendin’.
Spendin’ all your money on me, on me, on me.

― peep pepep e, Sunday, 23 October 2005 05:55 (twenty years ago)

...please, for the sake of my continued sanity, tell me you're making that shit up. Especially the bit about milk and cocoa puffs.

My mind, she a splode.

― telephone thing, Sunday, 23 October 2005 06:08 (twenty years ago)

This being said, there is NO WORD in the english language (that I can think of at least) that accurately sums up "tits and ass" in one syllable or less.

"curves" comes to mind, but it's more about frame than specifics

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Sunday, 23 October 2005 06:24 (twenty years ago)

Chicago 19

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 23 October 2005 06:36 (twenty years ago)

Wait, no that's not what I meant: sweet fucking jesus - i really really like a black eyed peas song

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 23 October 2005 06:37 (twenty years ago)

milky milky RIIIIGHT

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 23 October 2005 06:55 (twenty years ago)

I heard this on the radio a couple of times. I couldn't believe my ears. It's just...inexplicable.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Sunday, 23 October 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

This being said, there is NO WORD in the english language (that I can think of at least) that accurately sums up "tits and ass" in one syllable or less.

There is also no word that rightly expresses how much I dislike BEP.
If there is no word, maybe they've just should've NOT made the song.

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Sunday, 23 October 2005 10:00 (twenty years ago)

I really expected to be tarred and feathered by the usual suspects for this thread. I'm so glad my ire is shared by you all. I feel all warm and fuzzy in our shared hatred for that which is bad.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 23 October 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

Has Fergie always been so utterly and completely in control of this group?

This is the type of song that seems perfect for guilty pleasure status. It's profoundly stupid, wonderfully catchy, and loads of fun. BUT I HATE IT SO.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Sunday, 23 October 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

Thin line, dude.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 23 October 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

the album is always played at my gym.... its fuckin terrible...

theres a song which bites walk like an egyptian, which is shit and the one with the pulp fiction sample ( in 2005!!!), makes me want to just give up and let my soul leave my body and go to a better place.

the worse thing is that Im worried, ill start liking it, like with the pink album that was on for about 2 months.

― danny boy, Sunday, 23 October 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

They've never topped "Where is the Love?"

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 23 October 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Here's what I wonder. The song is unspeakably horrible, yes. But is anybody else bothered by the fact that Fergie seems to have stolen her rapping style from Mike G of the Jungle Brothers?

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Sunday, 23 October 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Production = 10
Lyrics = 0

seriously, every time I start to enjoy this song, a line like

They say I’m really sexy,
The boys they wanna sex me.

comes and snaps me right out of it. It's very frustrating.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 23 October 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

I still maintain that their masterpiece couplet is "Baby girl, you got me got me / With your pistol, shot me, shot me" [gunshot FX]

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 23 October 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

i hate this song.

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 23 October 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

I've loved my share of... um, "spare" (i.e. inadequate) hip-hop throwaways (i.e. "My Neck, My Back"), but I can't even get behind this song in a masochistic way.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 23 October 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

WOSRT SINGLE OF 2005. And what I find, possibly, most appalling about it is that it's a huge hit - top 5 in Billboard! Who the fuck is buying/loving this?!

― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Sunday, 23 October 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

I work part time in a record store to help pay my massive student loan debt. Today (as in the last half hour), I've had three people ask about that damn song.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Sunday, 23 October 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

I always thought it was about the aphrodisiac qualities of genital herpes. Actually, I just wish it was about that.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Sunday, 23 October 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

And what I find, possibly, most appalling about it is that it's a huge hit - top 5 in Billboard! Who the fuck is buying/loving this?!

This doesn't surprise me at all. Good or bad, the song has megahit written all over it.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 23 October 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

I have a feeling this song is really popular at middle school dances.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 23 October 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

That makes sense.

"What you gon' do wit all that breast?" "I haven't decided yet."

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 23 October 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

I have a feeling this song is really popular at middle school dances.

Not as popular as it probably is with girls doing provocative dance routines to it at High School talent shows (a la Britney's "Oops I Did it Again" and Tweet's "Oops (Oh, My)")

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 23 October 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

have you ever seen the Best Buy ad where the guy goes "You can control the Black Eyed Peas with the touch of a button", then the BEP shuck and jive at the touch of his remote?

OMG yes fuck that shit. Kevin Garnett did one of these fucking things too, broke my heart. BLACK PEOPLE: STOP GOING OUT LIKE THIS WE ARE NOT THERE YET NO MATTER WHAT 'HIP' WHITE PEOPLE SAY TO YOU.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 23 October 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

say what you want but nearly all of their songs become anthems for something, they know their target demographic.

― keyth (keyth), Sunday, 23 October 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

like how "Hey Mama" was the anthem for Garfield: The Movie

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 23 October 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

This seems like one of those songs that TV/media/VH1/BLENDER/whatever will praise now just because it's a big hit song, but then in a year or 2 it will end up in one of their "Worst songs ever" lists.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Sunday, 23 October 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

I think I saw references to this on some other ILM threads and just kind of mentally blocked it out, figuring there's no way something that awful is a real song.. it must be some ILM in joke that I missed. But it's real? I hope I never hear it. Or maybe I have and just blocked it out.

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 24 October 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)

"I have a feeling this song is really popular at middle school dances."

this wretched musical abortion came on when i was at a bar frequented by the best and brightest that the greek system of UMD has to offer. all the girls love it. im still pretty depressed about it.

― JD from CDepot, Monday, 24 October 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/24/55470993_77cc9b96a1_o.jpg

― Bombed Out and Depleted / Kate (papa november), Monday, 24 October 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

"What you gon' do wit all that breast?" I'm gonna have some FUN!

I actually still haven't heard this song, so disregard anything I have said about it any event. But worst single of 2005? The award really has to go to "Ass Like That" just on general principle.

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 24 October 2005 04:57 (twenty years ago)

Oh man, you'd think, Dr. Casino. But you'd be wrong.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Monday, 24 October 2005 05:44 (twenty years ago)

Now that I think about it...
Hip-hop IS about claiming terriotory in language (I believe Todd Boyd uses the example "to hate" on something is way to cut through the BS of being negative and getting right to the core of what the intention is).

This being said, there is NO WORD in the english language (that I can think of at least) that accurately sums up "tits and ass" in one syllable or less.

hang on, it's a joke isn't it? it's a spoof. it's still shit, but it's a spoof.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 24 October 2005 07:52 (twenty years ago)

You kinda wish they turned out to be from another planet and had just discovered the English language. It'd make it a tad more bearable. The production is okay, in a copped from somewhere else kinda way, but those lyrics are just excrutiatingly bad. As horrible as Fergie's eyebrows.

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Monday, 24 October 2005 08:04 (twenty years ago)

I am not ashamed to say that I love this song.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 24 October 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

mix your milk with my cocoa puffs
milky milky cocoa
mix your milk with my cocoa puffs
milky milky riiight

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

MO MONEY MO MONEY MO MONEY

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

don't want no drama! don't want no drama drama!

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

MILKY MILKY RIIIGHT

i honestly don't think i would be more disgusted if the singer was just chanting "vomit, vomit, vomit, vomit / gonna get my breakfast from it" or something to that effect for the chorus.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

Casino is right. "Ass Like That" is far worse.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

Dear god may no one ever cover karaoke sample sing this song ever KTHXBYE

― Confounded (Confounded), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

I can see every way in which this song is repulsive. In fact, I was repulsed the first few times I heard it. Now it just makes me laugh, particularly because my wife had a completely over-the-top viscerally negative reaction to it and the contortions she goes through every time it comes on the radio are hysterical.

Anyone who likes Fannypack and hates this song is not really being honest with themselves about what they like about Fannypack (ie, it's not the music).

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

"Ass Like That" is a Eugene O'Neill one-act compared to "Humps."

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 27,700 for "lady lumps". (0.31 seconds)

― Confounded (Confounded), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

I have to admit that I'm warming up to BEP slightly because of this song and "Don't Lie".

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

"Don't Lie" isn't all that great. "Don't Phunk With My Heart" is the best thing they've done, IMO.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

The best things they've done are still "Weekend" and "Clap Your Hands"!

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

I'll be honest, production wise, this is the first time they've even been nearly up to par with anything else mainstream rap was offering. It's a lyrical holocaust, don't get me wrong, but usually they have mediocre lyrics AND awful dated, lame beats to match.

― fillmeupno, Monday, 24 October 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

it's lyrical genius. you couldn't come up with anything this bad and yet somehow successful if you tried. the very idea that this song exists blows my mind.

― jack dee, Monday, 24 October 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

It seems that every single from this album features Fergie, at some point, singing a very similar "No, no, no ,no, no, no." I think she likes the vowel sounds.

― Binjominia (Brilhante), Monday, 24 October 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

Sir Mix-a-Lot wept.

― disco violence (disco violence), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 00:03 (twenty years ago)

This isn't as awful as it used to be. I still hate the milky cocoa puffs verse, but the "they say I'm really sexy/boys they want to sex me" line is fantastic.

― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

xpost

The difference being that Fannypack are ,like, 12. Not exactly hovering around 30 like members of BEP so lyrical complexity is NOT really expected from the 'Pack.

This song is surprisingly fun to dance to in a gay club following "1,2 Step".

― kevin says relax (daddy warbuxx), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

Anyone who likes Fannypack and hates this song is not really being honest with themselves about what they like about Fannypack (ie, it's not the music).

-- The Ghost of Black Elegance (djperr...), October 24th, 2005. (later)

My favorite ILM line of the year so far.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 04:52 (twenty years ago)

no-one in my office thinks it's a joke and they all think fergie looks greatin the video. fucking crazies.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

I don't know, the two Fannypack songs I like a lot ("Seven One Eight" and "Nu Nu (Yeah Yeah)") sound very little like "My Humps" and certainly don't have lyrics anywhere near as awful. So I call bullshit on this.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

Who are you, Fannyback's street team?

― Bullshit, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

HEY!!! I LOVE LOVE THIS SONG!!! MY HUMPS MY HUMPS MY HUMPS MY HUMPS IM GONNA GET YOU DRUNK!! Lol iT ROCKS MY SOCKS!!!=)

― BrittanyHASHUMPS!!, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

It's not right to have this thread and not mention how "My Humps" is a blatant rip-off of "Milkshake". It's even got the typewriter ping! sound in it. Kelis should due for defamation.

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

sue

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

Susan

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

every song of the album, references about 2 other songs...

Badly.

like telling a joke from last nights tv and then looking round nervously.

― Danny boy, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

You gotz to be kidding me! This song kicks serious arse, ummm I mean HUMP! And that pic with the wetness is damn hot if you ask me. Please post more pics of hotties with pissy pants!

http://members.tripod.com/parkie_11/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/pee.jpg

― Cowboy Bebop, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

I can't stop thinking of camels with this one. (Humps, lumps, etc.) Maybe that's the Fannypack connection?

― jenn K (satellitesynth), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Christ, this song is a freakin' train wreck. I just want to slap each member of the BEP time and time again.

― Josey Wales, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Who are you, Fannyback's street team?

Err, probably not since I said I only liked two songs on the record, right?

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

if you only like two songs then why are you "calling bullshit" on the claim that fannypack fans would like this track?

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

I mean I like "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo" and "The Bad Touch" but Bloodhound Gang fans would dig all sorts of crap I don't.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Don't you tell me how I feel. I will hear Fannypack and enjoy it any damn way I want. (xpst)

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 02:07 (twenty years ago)

I feel like I'm observing a riot-gripped terrarium.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

Its on the commercial hip-hop station we listen to in the kitchen at least 20 times a day. Everytime it comes on I have to change the station.

― Dan Floss (Dan Floss), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 02:33 (twenty years ago)

Matthew C Perpetua calls bullshit!

― howell huser (chaki), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 02:44 (twenty years ago)

what a sad thread! how can people hate this song? c'mon let the fun shine in!

― ikoiko!, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Lil Jon remix:

http://rapidshare.de/files/6700055/BEP.mp3.html

― Mind Taker, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

the thing is though, decrepit as it might be to point it out, but fergies humps arent that considerable.

is that lil jon remix real? (i havent DL'd it)

― okok, Thursday, 27 October 2005 08:30 (twenty years ago)

should i go see black eyed peas live? or the go team?

― sub-dwayne nelson (dr g), Thursday, 27 October 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)

A roffleworthy moment last night when in a 'Now & Then' show the video for 'My Humps' was preceded by 'Let's Get Retarded'.

Well, it looks like they did. 'My Humps' is the most retarded thing I've seen in years.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 27 October 2005 09:08 (twenty years ago)

omg i just heard this.

MY HUMPS MY HUMPS MY HUMPS MY HUMPS MY HUMPS MY LOVELY LADY LUMPS!

it's quite, quite horrifying. fergie is a very wrong woman.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 27 October 2005 09:44 (twenty years ago)

The thing is, if you watch the video you can see exactly what they were trying to do. Unfortunately, they're completely incompetent and fail miserably.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 27 October 2005 09:48 (twenty years ago)

horrifying is exactly the right word.

BEP were rappers once, right? and the other two guys did something, didn't they?

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:04 (twenty years ago)

I have decided that I love this; it's so devastatingly unsexy!

― spontine (cis), Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

its like the horrible retarded love-child of 'milkshake' and 'genius of love'

― nmn, Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

My hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely little lumps. (Check it out)

― Confounded (Confounded), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

http://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.4/images/disney-hunchback/disney10.gif Humps indeed.

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

http://www.friedmanarchives.com/Too%20Unusual%20to%20Sell/images/Do%20not%20Hump%20under%20any%20circumstances%208x12%20300%20dpi.jpg

― Sir Pencil Dick the IV, Friday, 28 October 2005 01:41 (twenty years ago)

Your all a bunch of pussy's, who wish you had a hit on the radio, don't be hating on the BEP, hate your selves for being internet loser's talking about other people on here.

― Stelmies, Friday, 28 October 2005 03:26 (twenty years ago)

And out come the Googlers...

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 28 October 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

Um, I never wished I had a hit on the radio, but I did wish I had a top vid on MTV's TRL. Carson Daly is so hot!!! I fashion my vid just like Devo's "Whip It", but with much cooler hats, like a Roman centurion's transverse crest helmet, yeah that's the ticket!

OMFG!!! That lemur is on Carson Daly's hump, his hump, his lovely Daly hump! Talk about irony!!!

http://us.ent4.yimg.com/tv.yahoo.com/tv/photos/40/a8/492292.jpg

― Sir Pencil Dick the IV, Friday, 28 October 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

That lemur's looking mighty mischievous.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 28 October 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

It does sound a bit like Fannypack! But that doesn't change the fact that Fergie is singing about "my lady lumps" and Fannypack aren't.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 28 October 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

The best things they've done are still "Weekend" and "Clap Your Hands"!

-- The Ghost of Black Elegance (djperr...), October 24th, 2005.

Best song they've done since "Jizz'n in my Schism" and "Dunk'n my Junk In"

― bob.cheerful, Friday, 28 October 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Just saw the vid for this again. Y'know, I've been here on ILM since mid-2001, and in that time, I've said a lot of nasty, derisive, hyperbolic stuff about a lot of different artists -- from Scout Niblett to Patti Smith to Destiny's Child etc. etc. etc. --- and a lot of different songs. But, honestly, WITHOUT QUESTION, this is really the worst fuckin' shit in the world.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 29 October 2005 07:29 (twenty years ago)

"Don't Phunk With My Heart" is the best thing they've done, IMO.

It was only mildly entertaining for her vocal bit. I don't know how they manage to make their music seem like soundtracks for hell.

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Saturday, 29 October 2005 08:42 (twenty years ago)

The sad thing is that this track would be kind of hot if they would cut the vocals and put squeally minimal ghetto noises over the top ala DJ Funk. If you took the drum track and gave it a tweaky minimal David Banner Run Girl/Snoop's Drop It Like It's Hot treatment it would be a serious club banger. The drums are great!

I am totally loving the way they stole the breathing noises from Push It by Salt N' Pepa. God Save Herbie Lovebug.

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Saturday, 29 October 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

right - the track is undeniably hot(the drums during the coco puffs break are my favorite part) but it just makes the lameness/creepiness factor of the lyrics that much more unstoppable.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 29 October 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

While we're dissing BEP, is anyone else creeped the fuck out by the fact that Fergie is basically a chew toy for the guys in the "Don't Phunk With My Heart" video?

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 29 October 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

I only wish she was.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 29 October 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

I finally heard this today! The track's good, Fergie torpedoes it. She sounds like Carol Brady!

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Saturday, 29 October 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

What bugs me about the video is that Fergie is doing all the heavy lifting, and the three other band members just stand around and look vaugely bored, as if the shiteness of the entire project is all too evident.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 29 October 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

"heavy lifting" = dancing, gyrating, moving around

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 29 October 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

or maybe they're just so dumbstruck by her amazing sexiness (nb I have not seen this video)

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Sunday, 30 October 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

Okay, after watching the video I really have to say that you guys need to leave the house and go somewhere besides an indie club. That video was slightly less objectionable than a library book.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Sunday, 30 October 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

M y h u m p, m y h u m p, m y l o v e l y m a n l y h u m p!

http://www.downtownpete.com/june05hump.jpg

― Stoli Jowjin, Sunday, 30 October 2005 09:59 (twenty years ago)

Oh, it's not really a bad video, just a telling one, maybe: if you read too much into it like I do, it seems to betray some of the band members' contempt for the song.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 30 October 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

What bugs me about the video is that Fergie is doing all the heavy lifting, and the three other band members just stand around and look vaugely bored, as if the shiteness of the entire project is all too evident.

They are trying to divert the attention to Fergie because they realize that's the main selling point of their music now. It's a cliche but it works. Good for them because they obviously want to rake in all the cash/fame they can. I do like the music/production of my Humps, only the lyrics and her delivery are so god damn annoying.

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Sunday, 30 October 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

"This being said, there is NO WORD in the english language (that I can think of at least) that accurately sums up "tits and ass" in one syllable or less."

Bits. If you want to be more specific:ladybits.

I think this is why the British commercial rapshite scene is yet to 'break' internationally. 'Lumps' just makes me think of custard, rice pudding and other horrid things, though. It's even less sexy than a drunk 13yr old saying 'Can I lick out your fanny?'

― Mippy (Mippy), Sunday, 30 October 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

This song's Billboard success can only be explained by a Mount Everest-sized mountain of coke's worth of payola.

― Its morph 'em to pun cute (Matt Chesnut), Sunday, 30 October 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Will.i.am seems to be the only one that raps on their new album I want that guy that looks like skellator to do more.

― Don Rowlando (Sam Rowlands), Sunday, 30 October 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

His name is Taboo. He's too busy being the man to rap.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 30 October 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

He's too busy being the man to rap.

Is that what he's doing?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 30 October 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

totally! holding his chin. thrusting his shoulders, wiping the brim of his hat, shit like that.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 30 October 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

"The Humpty Dance is your chance to do the hump
Do the Humpty Hump, come on and do the Humpty Hump"

http://www.littlebeat.pl/catalog/images/preview/hiphop/digitalunde_humptydan.jpg

― Humpmasta 11, Sunday, 30 October 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

I don't understand how everyone universally hates this song. It is inspired and is a future karaoke classic as far as I'm concerned.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 5 November 2005 06:57 (twenty years ago)

Tim, in case you haven't noticed by now a large segment of ILM thinks that they have to unilaterally condemn Black Eyed Peas or else some nebulous entity wil confiscate their poppist/rockist cards.

― Dan (Also Everyone Hates Fergie Like She Was Courtney Love) Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 5 November 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

The lyrics sound like they were written by someone who has read about but never had sex.

― M. V. (M.V.), Saturday, 5 November 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

It really doesn't matter if everyone else likes it (or not). I could care less if ILX (or anyone else) likes it or not. Their music just drives me up the walls. I think for me in large part it's because it's so shamefully mediocre. Singing about superficiality being so bad but simultaneously promoting it (by enlisting Fergie as the *hott chixor*). Also, the delivery is god damn horrendous. Usually I can enjoy her singing but this time I have to pass. The BEP always make these songs that are so extremely mediocre.

― Nathalie, the Queen of Frock 'n' Fall (stevie nixed), Saturday, 5 November 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

> a large segment of ILM thinks that they have to unilaterally condemn Black Eyed Peas or else some nebulous entity wil confiscate their poppist/rockist cards.

I'm not worried about this. It's just that the song makes my brain, ears, and tummy sad and angry.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 5 November 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Tim, in case you haven't noticed by now a large segment of ILM thinks that they have to unilaterally condemn Black Eyed Peas or else some nebulous entity wil confiscate their poppist/rockist cards.

I've never taken allegiance to either side of the popist/rockist fence. I just think it's a shit song by a once-interesting group.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 5 November 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Didja ever play the "We Built this City" drinking game?

You get a sixer (if two are playing - a larger group requires a larger quantity of alcohol), put "We Built this City" on loop, and nobody gets to change the song until the sixer is finished. I've never seen it get to the third play, and I bet with "My Humps" we wouldn't reach two.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 5 November 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

The lyrics sound like they were written by someone who has read about but never had sex.

Like the Kama Sutra!

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 5 November 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

It is inspired

...explain? (This is a song that makes me want to destroy the English language.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 November 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

I don't understand how everyone universally hates this song. It is inspired and is a future karaoke classic as far as I'm concerned.

-- Tim Finney (tfinne...), November 4th, 2005. (later)

Inspired? Surely you jest, Timothy.

Tim, in case you haven't noticed by now a large segment of ILM thinks that they have to unilaterally condemn Black Eyed Peas or else some nebulous entity wil confiscate their poppist/rockist cards.

Maybe it's because that certain large segment of ILM knows indefensible garbage when it hears it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 5 November 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

I really hate BEP (particularly fergie) but I have to admit that this is one of the best fucking singles of the year. I feel like it's the early 90s all over again.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Saturday, 5 November 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

"future karaoke classic"

beyond ridiculous. this song sucks.

― JD from CDepot, Saturday, 5 November 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

I feel like it's the early 90s all over again.

People weren't that dumb in the early 90's.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 5 November 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

JD, i'll agree with that one. the best karaoke songs are the one's you have to go over the top with. this song's vocals are far from over the top. i loathe the idea of seeing three drunk sorority sisters standing sideways in a row drinking midori sours chanting the chorus to humps.
"You Painted Your Teeth" on the other hand...

Alex, it has nothing to do with people being stupid and everything to do with people finding stupidity amusing.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Saturday, 5 November 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

No, let Alex have his dreams.

― Dan (We All Need Something To Cling To) Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 5 November 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

The idea of seeing three drunk sorority sisters standing sideways in a row drinking midori sours chanting the chorus to humps... fills my heart with joy.

Songs like this have a very specific purpose, which is to make you want to sing/dance along despite the overwhelming sense of ridiculousness which it evokes, and then make you enjoy the incongruence between your disgust and your enjoyment.

It's similar to the sense of ridiculousness which accompanies Justin's "Gentleman, good night! Ladies, good morning..." in "Senorita" (people love singing along to that) or Gwen's "This shit is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S!" (ditto x 2), except that here that factor is pushed to its extreme. If you don't like the song generally I can imagine this would make the song utterly loathesome, but otherwise it's like stretching a rubberband, everything just becomes more zingy.

I think what tips the song over into goodness and zinginess for me is the groove (those bits where the bass suddenly booms are awesome!) and the almost comical sense of dread in the melody ("She's got me spending...." sounds almost mournful).

I'm interested in test-driving this at a party and seeing where people fall on each side of the line.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

give us a full report.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

I spent a half hour last night looking for a screenshot of a Spartans sketch from Saturday Night Live but I couldn't find a good one. This song sounds exactly like a cheer from those though.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

Interesting that you should name two of my most loathed singers in comparison, Tim. ;-) Honestly, I have no real axe to grind with this song beyond an eye-rolling annoyance, but I'd say that I think you're falling into a bit of a rhetorical trap by insisting, implicitly but clearly, on *needing* to know the song is ridiculous. In essence, this strikes me as a move which ultimately claims "I have to condemn this song in part in order for me to like it in the whole." Logic ultimately doesn't enter into how we enjoy what we do -- we just spend lots of time afterwards creating our justifications! -- but this kind of distancing seems to serve less of a critical function ('how can I look at this with an outside eye beyond the reaction I experience when directly engaging with the song?') and more of a divisive one ('how can I make sure I'm enjoying this correctly?') In otherwards, since the (rather unsettling) image was invoked and you ran with it, how come you're the one getting to make the observation about the song while the three sorority girls apparently are there to function for you as reflexive commentary? Are you allowing them to come to the same conclusion or are they in fact going to care about that level of distance necessary for 'proper' enjoyment in the first place?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I was aware that my points of comparison weren't going to convince you Ned! I wouldn't really expect you to like this song and have no problem with that (although I was surprised at the preponderance of hate exhibited in this thread).

I think everyone listening to this song who finds it enjoyable will also find it ridiculous! I simply cannot imagine anyone not finding it so, anymore than I can imagine someone not finding "My Neck My Back" a bit ridiculous, or "Hollaback Girl" for that matter.

It's not a matter of distancing either - the contradiction disgust/enjoyment is quite an intimate one really, and should be familiar to anyone who has been disturbed/fascinated by certain sex acts, types of comedy etc. It's almost invasive...

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I was aware that my points of comparison weren't going to convince you Ned!

Heheheh.

The invasive comparison is a good one but I think the argument about ridiculousness has to do with a presumption of articulation -- in otherwards that everyone who enjoys not merely this song but the others you mention (or any similar examples) would expressly articulate that common element as key if prompted. But I'd say that's dangerously seductive as a conclusive strategy -- it seems right, therefore it is right. Is it?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

"it seems right, therefore it is right."

Do we ever get better proof than this in music? The only way to know for sure is to ask every single fan. But while yr correct that "it's ridiculous - I love it" requires articulation, so does "man, this song is great to dance to", or "this song makes me think of my boyfriend". Pretty much any reaction to music. And I don't think "this is ridiculous - I love it" is particularly more complicated than those other examples.

I mean, I don't think there is such a thing as "mere" enjoyment - enjoyment is always an articulation.

BTW, when I say "karaoke classic" i of course mean that it's something I intend to sing! The question is whether it should come before or after "White Wedding"...

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

I think everyone listening to this song who finds it enjoyable will also find it ridiculous!

OTM; show me someone who will take this song seriously and I will show you the most po-faced entity in the universe.

(xpost: The "all people are different, neener neener" card is meaningless, Ned, mostly because it renders every single possible argument beyond "we will never know what TRULY lies within the hearts of man" untenable and, as a side effect, obliterates all platforms for debate/conversation. Ergo, I'm ignoring it.)

― Dan (I Can See Why Someone Would Take A Song That Talks About Lovely Lady Lumps , Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

I don't think there is such a thing as "mere" enjoyment - enjoyment is always an articulation.

I would agree only if we're allowing for non-verbal articulation -- that may seem obvious, but how much does expressed enjoyment for everyone about everything actually happen, whether in written or conversational form, short or lengthy? We're looking at something that hotwires the senses beyond that which is language, surely.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

The critics have spoken about "My Humps"! It's a smash!

"We're looking at something that hotwires the senses beyond that which is language, surely!"
- Ned Raggett, All Music Guide

― 'Twan (miccio), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

Yay!

it renders every single possible argument beyond "we will never know what TRULY lies within the hearts of man" untenable and, as a side effect, obliterates all platforms for debate/conversation.

Hooray! (More seriously, I don't think radical subjectivity obliterates the platforms so much as it creates a series of disruptions within axioms that can then be tested to limits as chosen.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 November 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

I would say even internally registering the sense of enjoyment is an articulation, because that enjoyment is always inflected, it's more than a red light beeping behind your eyes telling you you're enjoying something.

Of course the moment we even try to talk about why people might be enjoying something we're in language. The conversation can't begin to start before then. I wouldn't take seriously someone who refused to talk about their enjoyment of a tune because it entirely "pre-linguistic" or "non-linguistic" (this of course is a paradoxical answer along the lines of "This is not a statement."). That's either true for everything or it's true for nothing, and I'm going with "nothing".

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 5 November 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

Surely the problem with "Do you hate fun?" is precisely this? What is "fun"?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 5 November 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

It's this thing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 November 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

More seriously:

I wouldn't take seriously someone who refused to talk about their enjoyment of a tune because it entirely "pre-linguistic" or "non-linguistic" (this of course is a paradoxical answer along the lines of "This is not a statement."). That's either true for everything or it's true for nothing, and I'm going with "nothing".

This is actually extremely relevant to me since I'm finally trying to describe exactly what the hell my experience vis-a-vis first listening to "Soon" was like for my piece for Marooned, and also why it was and remains hard to specifically speak or write about. I'd argue the difference between my case and what you describe is that in mine I'm not interested in calling it pre-linguistic, instead being exceptionally frustrated with the limitations of language in order to describe the experience to my own satisfaction. That said, though, I could use my own experience as grounds for choosing 'everything' OR 'nothing' in your division of choices, though I'm not sure if I'd be applying it to the specific situation you describe, hmm...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 November 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, thanks to this thread, I have in fact found conclusive proof of that which is not fun:

Lestat!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 November 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

I can totally understand that reaction Ned, but of course you explaining how language falls short in explaining yr reaction to "Soon" is considerably more sophisticated an articulation than "it's ridiculous - I love it!"

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 5 November 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Bizarrely enough you have just given me an idea for a new McDonald's ad campaign. We should go into marketing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 November 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

Anyone who can listen to this song and not be annoyed has something severely wrong with them.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 6 November 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

well i never denied that there was something severely wrong with me.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Sunday, 6 November 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

Conciously, this song is one of the most impliccably ridiculous things formulated to partially be described as music meant to entertain, however for all the rest of the deprived unprilaleged communicating perverts out their rejoice in matramony. you've created the official most annoying song i have ever had the pleasure of being drilled into my brain by most of the other blinded adolescent girls so candidly.

― Thomas Gallegos, Sunday, 6 November 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)

Fergie wanted to sing this song to make all women understand that they are all different and all beautiful in their own way... Why is it such a big deal, I love it, cause it made my friend feel better bout herself... you hear male rap artists (if you can call them that) say worse stuff than what is said in this song... all i can say is if you don't like the song don't listen to it... you are all like those people that complain about movies and shows on T.V cause you think it sucks, well i got news for you don't watch or listen to it if you don't like it.. it is as simple as that... and if you don't have a choise (eg it comes on at a nightclub or whatever) deal with it... it will be over in 4mins anyway...

― Alexandra Daves, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 02:30 (nineteen years ago)

Threads like this make me think that every music junkie in the world has totally lost his/her sense of humor (if they ever had one). It's a joke, folks, and a pretty good one. Lighten up. Sheesh.

― moriarty (moriarty), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 04:58 (nineteen years ago)

x-post -- Well, Dan, you wanted to know who might take the song seriously...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 05:38 (nineteen years ago)

but moriarty, where do you draw the line between joke and shit? surely at somepoint something ceases being funny and just fucking sucks...

― JD from CDepot, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 05:50 (nineteen years ago)

Everything about the record, for me, points toward satire: a broad parody of hip hop cliches about sex. As for the line between joke and trash, I guess it all depends on whether it makes me laugh or not, which is, undeniably, a matter of taste. But think of other forms of comedy: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, if judged on the terms of serious movies about King Arthur (not that there are many good ones), is a piece of crap. But it's hilarious, and no one would consider taking it seriously. My Humps works--for me, at least--in the same way. I don't take it seriously as music, because it's a joke. And since it makes me laugh, I think it's a good joke. The fact that so many rapheads find it not just bad, but offensive, suggests that it's good satire, as well. When people get that pissed at you, you know you've hit your target.

― moriarty (moriarty), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

Everything about the record, for me, points toward satire

You're projecting.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

If you mean I'm reading more into it than what's actually there, or they actually put into it, I suppose that's possible. There are so many hip-hop songs full of people of both genders bragging about their physical endowments, that maybe I am just *hoping* this is satire. But whatever the Peas are, they aren't stupid, and, effective or not, I still think this is intended more as satire than anything else. Certainly the "so real/surreal" coda suggests that, as does the way Fergie sings. And the lyrics are intentionally bald and airheaded, just like you'd expect the woman in this case to be. They're taking on roles here, they're doing it for a satirical purpose, and I imagine that most of the people who are buying it are well aware of that fact.

― moriarty (moriarty), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

Does MTV play that coda? Radio doesn't seem to.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

I imagine that most of the people who are buying it are well aware of that fact.

The sorority girls I see dancing to this song don't seem to be taking it satirically. And even so, that seems like a copout. Jewel tried to claim her pop makeover as a satire, but the point where satire becomes cynical cash-in doesn't seem very distinct to me.

And the music video sure doesn't seem like they're trying to present it satirically in the first place. They seem like they actually mean it.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

her 1st video was actually a v. funny satire!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

The song is obnoxiously stupid; it's kind of immaterial whether they "meant it" or not, in much the same way it's completely immaterial as to whether The Spice Girls "meant" "Wannabe" (aka "Remember the girl power anthem about how prospective boyfriends had to "do the circle" in order to gain acceptance and we learned way more about how each Spice Girl likes to be sexed than we wanted, particularly Victoria and Emma?").

― Dan (Ziga-Zig-AH) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

It all completely hinged on how you chose to interpret the meaning of "ya gotta get with my friends".

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

I would, of course, hate "My Humps" if it was a satire and done badly (the more likely scenario when people try to satirise "base" hip hop culture). I'm not sure if it is a satire or not, but this is irrelevant to my enjoymnt because it is pulled off so well.

I think it's very typical of a lot of pop culture to thrive in that space between satire and unselfconscious seriousness - is Daft Punk's Discovery ironic or not? etc.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

Since I don't go to clubs (I live in a place where they barely exist, and besides, I'm too old), I wouldn't know how people react to this song when they dance, but I do know that the people who often are least likely to get a satire are it's direct targets. But that doesn't mean those girls don't get the joke, it just means they think it's about that girl over there, not them. How can you tell what meaning somebody gets out of a song by how they dance to it, anyway (I'm not saying it can't be done, but...)?

I would agree that the claim to satire could be a cop out if this was my song we were talking about, and if it were a flop. But it's not my song, and it's a smash, so there's no need for excuses (unless you think even selling records is a crime--I don't). I'm just calling it as I hear it.

As for it being obnoxiously stupid...Well, I thought disco was obnoxiously stupid when it broke, and I thought the Ramones were obnoxiously stupid, and the B-52s, and the Beastie Boys. Turned out, in every case (though a lot of disco *was* obnoxiously stupid), that I had come across something totally alien to how I looked at the world, or totally beyond the little unspoken rules I had subconciously created for how pop music was supposed to work. I'm not saying that's the case here. I could be wrong, maybe Humps is obnoxiously stupid (please note that I haven't once said that I thought it was a great record, just a funny one, and that it didn't deserve the thrashing it's been getting here). Maybe it's total crap. But, right now, at least, I don't think so.

And just to pound the final nail in my coffin here, I liked "Wannabe," and I didn't give a shit about the lyrics.

― moriarty (moriarty), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

I think Dan is using "obnoxiously stupid" as a compliment.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

Like "stoopid", as Bootsy would say it? In that case, I agree.

― moriarty (moriarty), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

is Daft Punk's Discovery ironic or not? etc.

Is this actually claimed by anyone, Tim? Serious question here, I don't recall any discourse along those lines.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

I think Dan is using "obnoxiously stupid" as a compliment.

Seeing as I like the song...!

Also, saying a lot of disco was obnoxiously stupid is obnoxiously stupid in a bad way.

― Dan (SHE'S GOT ME SPEN-DANG...Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I'm not saying disco is different in that than anything else. 90% of everything is crap, that's my motto.

― Robert J Myers (moriarty), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

Woops, used the wrong name. That was me, above.

― moriarty (moriarty), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I hate that "You don't have a sense of humor" reflexive defense. I'm sick of irony being a way to like things and not like things at the same time, and positing My Humps as some sort of sub rosa satire requires a giant leap of faith in the Black Eyed Peas. You say they're not stupid, yeah, but what's stupid about writing a dumb song for cash? Upthread, someone asked where the line is? The line is "My lovely lady lumps." That's when you either have to enjoy it at face value, or take a moment for ironic disconnection and distance your affection through some sort of "Well, that can't be serious" dodge. And for me, nothing breaks up dancing like having to distance myself from the music to enjoy it. I don't mind affected cool so much, but pleading affected stupidity won't ever win me.

― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 05:59 (nineteen years ago)

As though there's no such thing as lazy, irritating, inadequate satire. "My Humps" is the Team America of pop radio '05.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

"Is this actually claimed by anyone, Tim? Serious question here, I don't recall any discourse along those lines. "

Ned! Did you read any of the negative print reviews of Discovery? It was all "OMG irony suxx and this is why!"

Mind you I think Tom was correct to point out that fans of the album have been too quick to consequently over-emphasise its sincerity.

The space b/w is something I'm very interested in. If I'd had less drinks I'd try to sketch out what I'm referring to here and now.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

You know, I can actually NEVER think of a time where I was dancing and I was pretentious enough to stop mid-move and pnoder stupid lyrics.

― Dan (But What Does 'The Roof Is On Fire' MEAN????) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

Did you read any of the negative print reviews of Discovery? It was all "OMG irony suxx and this is why!"

Good lord, what feebs.

Mind you I think Tom was correct to point out that fans of the album have been too quick to consequently over-emphasise its sincerity

A trap well worth avoiding, yes...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

"When he says 'LAGER LAGER LAGER LAGER', precisely which lager is being referenced here? How does that relate to Camus' The Plague?"

― Dan (STFU And Dance) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

When there are no limits, what limits are conceived of in the first place?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still not buying the whole "it's a satire" argument.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

JS--Well, I meant the "don't have a sense of humor" business as a kind of joke (or a prod, if you will), to get people's attention. (It seems to have worked.) I don't think I ever said the song was ironic. It's not--it's a joke, plain and simple. And since when has seeing the humor in something been a dodge? I really thought I was stating the obvious. If you don't think the song is funny, cool. But to deny that it's a joke seems bizarre to me. My Humps is like a Living Color sketch set to music--how can it not be a joke?

Eric--I love Team America.

Dan--No kidding. If people stopped to ponder every stupid lyric in a dance song, nobody would be dancing at all.

― moriarty (moriarty), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still not buying the whole "it's a satire" argument.

You don't have to!

― Dan (At What Point Is The Jam Sufficiently Pumped Up?) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

What is the objective truth by which Madonna determined that the quality of face that Rita Hayworth was not simply satisfactory but actually good, and yet not great?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Embrace your stupidity! (because sometimes it's all you've got)

― moriarty (moriarty), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

Whenever I do that I get arrested.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but "embrace your stupidity within reason" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

― moriarty (moriarty), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Kill me, i like this song.
It´s catchy as fuck and who cares about the lyrics?
It´s mainstream right, since when is mainstream music supposed to have decent lyrics?
This song is just simple and effective, it doesn´t wants to be very good and they don´t try very hard either.

― silas (silas), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

i hate this song and i can't quite put my finger on why except that it seems very like electroclash
lyrically inept sexual excess, 808 cowbell, big annoying synths
okay maybe the same could be said about ciara 'oh' but for some reason that track is amazing and this is a big steaming pile of shit

― nervous (cochere), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: " I don't think I ever said the song was ironic. It's not--it's a joke, plain and simple."
When you're putting forth something ostensibly seriously while secretly posing it as a joke, that would be ironic.

Dan: You've never heard a song that you were bouncing along to and said "Wait a minute, that's dumb"? Never had a shitty line ruin your enjoyment of a pop song? It must be lovely to live so blithely. ("OMG UR SO PRETENTIOUS" vs "OMG UR A MORAN!")

― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

Dan: You've never heard a song that you were bouncing along to and said "Wait a minute, that's dumb"? Never had a shitty line ruin your enjoyment of a pop song?

Do these two things have to go together? Can you not think something's dumb but also forgive it for being so?

― Hillary Brown (Hillary Brown), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

You've never heard a song that you were bouncing along to and said "Wait a minute, that's dumb"?

Not when I'm dancing! Usually I am, you know, too busy enjoying moving my body to the beat to indulge in ad-hoc textual analysis.

If a song comes on the radio, I will make fun of it. If I am dancing, you can play pretty much anything and I will not give a shit beyond knowing the flow of the song so that I can dance accordingly.

― Dan (What Would Schopenhauer Say About "Rio"?) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

js--are you talking about the song or me? The song, with that ridiculous trumpet flourish, announces itself as a joke from the very start. Me, I can be ironic, though I try not to be these days--it wastes too much time.

Funny that Ciara's Oh has been mentioned. I think, if this song is a satire, that Ciara is one of the targets. The message is exactly the same as in her songs: "Look at how hot I am...no no no! Don't touch! But, ooh, look at how hot I am." The Peas just stripped off all that production gloss to show it up for what it really was.

― moriarty (moriarty), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

I had a nightmare about this thread.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

I think you haven't woken up yet.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

YOU DON'T WANT NO DRAMA

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Kill me, i like this song.

SEIZE HIM!

It´s catchy as fuck...

So is Herpes.

and who cares about the lyrics?

People with brains. Also, it's not like there's a great deal to the song other than the lyrics.

It´s mainstream right, since when is mainstream music supposed to have decent lyrics?

Cop-out.

This song is just simple and effective,

Oh, it's simple alright. It appeals to simpletons in the crassest, most pandering, lowest common denominator-courting manner.

it doesn´t wants to be very good

I have no idea what this means.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

Alex, I think you just perfectly identified the divide here: you say "It appeals to simpletons in the crassest, most pandering, lowest common denominator-courting manner," while I say it parodies simpletons in the crassest, most pandering, lowest common denominator-courting manner. Chances are we're both right.

And I absolutely agree with you that catchiness is no excuse and that saying mainstream music doesn't need decent lyrics is a copout. Of course, I think these lyrics are pretty good, so you may not want me agreeing with you.

― moriarty (moriarty), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

Also, it's not like there's a great deal to the song other than the lyrics.

I think the production is pretty cool -- it reminds me of "Push It."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

Moriarity: You're pushing an unprovable thesis. Even if you asked the BEP and they said that they were dead fucking serious, you'd simply say that proves how deep they're willing to go with the satire.

Dan: It must be tough, not having any middle ground of awareness between dancing and total textual analysis.

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 10 November 2005 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

alex, you like KISS!!! dont pretend you only like smart stuff

this song is not a parody, it's just being funny. just like the other songs it is supposedly parodying. only problem is its not all that funny, and its definitely not sexy. and it sounds bad, really awkward and asthmatic, except the so real/surreal bit at the end, which i like.

― minna (minna), Thursday, 10 November 2005 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

theesa song? she ah not so gooood.

― M@rio Brother (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:11 (nineteen years ago)

Dan: It must be tough, not having any middle ground of awareness between dancing and total textual analysis.

Actually it's pretty fun, mostly because when a song comes on that I don't like, I can continue to dance and enjoy myself.

― Dan (As Opposed To Being A Whiny Douche) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

im going to try and make a house song out of the coda.

― minna (minna), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

Minna don't you even like the instrumental bass bit?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 10 November 2005 05:15 (nineteen years ago)

well its ok but i'd rather listen to 'all n's' by mia x, which is very similar, if slightly less slickly produced, and has vocals 10000000 times better

― minna (minna), Thursday, 10 November 2005 05:24 (nineteen years ago)

except that the narrator of 'oh' is just having fun and being selective whereas fergie in 'my humps' is strictly exploitative

"They got them fellas lookin'
Thinkin' I was easy I can see it
That's when I say no, what fo'? " --ciara

"You love my lady lumps,
My hump, my hump, my hump,
My humps they got u,
She’s got me spending.
(Oh) Spendin’ all your money on me and spending time on me.
She’s got me spendin’.
(Oh) Spendin’ all your money on me, on me, on me " --fergie

― nervous (cochere), Thursday, 10 November 2005 05:42 (nineteen years ago)

Nigga rock that dick, you the bitch tonight/Nigga shake that ass, nigga work that back (ysi)

― minna (minna), Thursday, 10 November 2005 05:44 (nineteen years ago)

haha yeah fergie is being strictly exploitative and definitely not having any fun! ?!?!?!?

― minna (minna), Thursday, 10 November 2005 05:46 (nineteen years ago)

haha yeah fergie is being strictly exploitative and definitely not having any fun! ?!?!?!?

i'm not saying THAT though i guess i can see how my unskilled wording could imply it
i guess my point is that ciara comes off as more innocent and less of a fucking bitch who's teasing because she thinks it's fun and because it gets her CA$H and JEANS

― nervous (cochere), Thursday, 10 November 2005 05:48 (nineteen years ago)

do you think fergie really teases boys to make them buy her jeans or does she just buy them herself with the vast mountains of cash she has from selling this song???

― minna (minna), Thursday, 10 November 2005 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

do you think paul banks really thinks it's different now that he's "poor and aging"? or is that an invalid lyric because he's no longer poor and not really aging (in the adjectival sense not the participial phrase sense)

i'm not sure if you're aware of this, but the narrator of song doesn't necessarily have to be the same as the singer her/himself. i guess my references to 'ciara' or 'fergie' have been confusing but what i really mean is the narrator

― nervous (cochere), Thursday, 10 November 2005 06:08 (nineteen years ago)

i'm not sure if you're aware of this, but the narrator of song doesn't necessarily have to be the same as the singer her/himself

oh ok i thought i was explaining that to you.

anyway even 'fictional' fergie going on about money and jeans is just describing how her lady lumps are so good that theyre worth a lot of money to some dudes, i dont see her as being manipulative with it, its just a fact. shes not some horrible bitch who's endlessly conniving on how to use dudes for money!

"But I ain’t askin,
They say they love my ass ‘n,
Seven Jeans, True Religion's,
I say no, but they keep givin’
So I keep on takin’
And no I ain’t taken
We can keep on datin’
I keep on demonstrating."

and anyway it seems weird to get so angry at a ridiculously over the top 'gold digger' narrator who uses bizarre phrases like "lady lumps" and "love drunk off my hump" and is obviously trying to be funny and kind of square, not a bitch

― minna (minna), Thursday, 10 November 2005 06:34 (nineteen years ago)

i mean i hope you realize i'm not actually angry. i'm just trying to explain my distaste for the song... as i said earlier there's something about over-the-topness that comes off (to me at least) as inept rather than amusing that annoys me. i also for whatever reason don't get the impression that this is supposed to be satire, though i could be wrong about that

i don't know... maybe i misread that whole "My humps they got you spendin’ all your money on me" as manipulative rather than simply narrative. whoops! i still don't like the song

― nervous (cochere), Thursday, 10 November 2005 06:44 (nineteen years ago)

i agree with you! i dont think its a satire and i do think it's inept. but its not for lack of 'fun' or 'funniness' or because its somehow meaner than ciara. its just blunter and less sexy and dorkier

― minna (minna), Thursday, 10 November 2005 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

i was listening to khia last night and i realised that 'my humps' is basically a primary school version of 'my neck, my back'.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 10 November 2005 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

i also feel distressed when i see it being compared to CIARA.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 10 November 2005 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

why! the only problem here i think is comparing it to 'oh' which it is nothing like. it can definitely be compared to 'goodies' tho

― minna (minna), Thursday, 10 November 2005 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

yes the 'oh' comparison threw me. 'goodies', though...

primary school: my humps
high school: my goodies
adulthood: my neck, my back, lick my pussy and my crack

a one-two-three whammy of these songs at a party would be awesome (if 'my humps' was less lame)

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 10 November 2005 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

haha yeah

― minna (minna), Thursday, 10 November 2005 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

alex, you like KISS!!! dont pretend you only like smart stuff

Ahahahaah...touche! A very good point. With rare exception, however ("Let's Put the 'X' in Sex" and maybe "Unnh! All Nite," both from the lamentable non-makeup years), Kiss were never this stupid.

That all said, this debate does sort've remind me of my argument that the Cult's Electric was a clever joke (and not just a moronic dumb rock pose), which -- like moriarty here -- I sort've failed to convince people of.

Honestly, I don't really know enough about the BEP to say if what they're doing is parody or not, but I haven't really seen anything to suggest as such. But, y'know, fuck do I know?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 10 November 2005 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure 'what is the reason that men give girls expensive things? it is because women have lumps of flesh on their body! how silly, the human condition' counts as satire or parody, it's observational comedy at the most.

The more I hear it the less I can comprehed that anyone would dislike it! it is such big stupid shonky clacky-background playground-chant pop! it could be better, i guess, but it's not like it's bad.

― spontine (cis), Thursday, 10 November 2005 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

You're right, It's not like it's bad, it simply IS bad.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 10 November 2005 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

...parody or not.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 10 November 2005 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

Even if you asked the BEP and they said that they were dead fucking serious, you'd simply say that proves how deep they're willing to go with the satire.

That depends on what they said they were serious about. If they said they really meant this song, that that was the way Fergie really felt (and judging by the photo in the new Vanity Fair, she does enjoy showing off her lovely lady lumps), I'd say the hell with them (though I'd still think the song was funny). But if they said they meant it as a serious message that they chose to present humorously, I'd buy that. But that's all hypothetical. I really don't know that much about BEP, and I haven't read any interviews. I'm just going by what I hear in the song.

the only problem here i think is comparing it to 'oh' which it is nothing like. it can definitely be compared to 'goodies' tho

I was actually thinking more of "Goodies" than "Oh" when I made the comparison ("Oh" was just what someone mentioned first). And I don't think it's necessarily a question of gold digging or manipulation, I think it's more a matter of just getting off on sexual power. "Look at what I can make these boys do. Isn't it cool?" And it's as much a parody of the guys who fall for it as the girl.

this debate does sort've remind me of my argument that the Cult's Electric was a clever joke (and not just a moronic dumb rock pose), which -- like moriarty here -- I sort've failed to convince people of.

Well, I don't really expect to convince anybody, but I still think it's a valid approach to the song and I just wanted to get the idea out there. This is the deepest I've ever gotten involved in a thread here, and I'm lovin' it. Thanks to everybody for being so cool.

― moriarty (moriarty), Thursday, 10 November 2005 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

You know, I can actually NEVER think of a time where I was dancing and I was pretentious enough to stop mid-move and pnoder stupid lyrics.

If you ever come to belgium, I'll introduce you to my friend. She's not pretentious, just proud that she knows the lyrics to a particular song. It's a relief that she doesn't know many songs. ;-)

― Nathalie, the Queen of Frock 'n' Fall (stevie nixed), Thursday, 10 November 2005 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

And who am I to refute that? Being that I'm slowly beginning to realize that I don't know dick about humps (to use the parlance of the day). I think I need to take vacay from ILM.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 10 November 2005 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

this song? still kind of annoying.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 10 November 2005 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

The song isn't nearly as annoying as the thread.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Thursday, 10 November 2005 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

sorry for throwing people for a loop by bringing up 'oh'... for some reason i completely forgot 'goodies' had been released. 'goodies' is obviously a MUCH closer relative to this song. carry on

― nervous (cochere), Thursday, 10 November 2005 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Kiss were never this stupid.

I listened to Hotter Than Hell at work the other day. Kiss were ALWAYS this stupid.

― 'Twan (miccio), Thursday, 10 November 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

...this from an unapologetic fan of Limp Bizkit.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 10 November 2005 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

....which, I suppose, makes Anthony an expert on stupidity.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 10 November 2005 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

i don't know if you're arguing with him or admitting defeat.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Thursday, 10 November 2005 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

Neither do I. I'm not saying Kiss are rocket scientists (unless, of course, the term "rocket" is being used as a sexual innuendo, in which case....they are), but even when they were being fucking abjectly dumb -- which was often -- they still did it with a wee bit more imagination, wit and, dare I say it, class than this dollop of crotchrot.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 November 2005 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

... So, what you're saying, Alex, is that it was a brand of dumb that you happen to like?

Since you like rock and don't really like much modern R&B/Hip Hop etc. conclusion is hardly surprising.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 11 November 2005 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

Alex, I'm with you on "My Humps", but boy I don't know if Kiss and "class" are two things I associate together...Gene seems like a complete fucking creep. And they're dumb-est stuff is about as dumb as it gets (and often as great as it gets).

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 11 November 2005 00:44 (nineteen years ago)

.... So, what you're saying, Alex, is that it was a brand of dumb that you happen to like?

I never said I didn't like the odd dumb thing. But I do have some standards. It's not just that "My Humps" is dumb, it's that it's base. It's crass. It scrapes the bottom of the barell.

Since you like rock and don't really like much modern R&B/Hip Hop etc. conclusion is hardly surprising.

The R''n'B I do like couldn't fill one side of a C:60 cassette, but I do like some Hip Hop. But who said Hip Hop and R'n'B had to be this idiotic?

M@tt -- you're right: Kiss have precious little class, but it's not like they performed a song that went...

MY COCK! MY COCK-MY COCK-MY COCK! MY BIG STUFFED TROUSER-SOCK! MY COCK-MY COCK-MY COCK etc. etc. ad nauseum.

Granted, they came close.....but at least they had Ace Frehley, which makes everything otherwise okay.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 November 2005 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

Althought...."Larger than Life" from Alive II comes very close.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 November 2005 00:57 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, on a roll here...

It's also not just the slackjawed, bottom-feeder (pardon the pun) subject matter, it's the execution. It's no so much a pop song as an annoying fuckin' jingle with all the melifluousness of a goddamn car alarm.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 November 2005 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

Do you like Spinal Tap?

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Friday, 11 November 2005 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

I could see them using "trouser sock" or "snake" maybe....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 11 November 2005 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

killing joke fan decries lack of mellifluousness

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 11 November 2005 01:02 (nineteen years ago)

Like you know anything about Killing Joke.

Snake doesn't rhyme with cock, though, Matt.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 November 2005 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

I really want to hear a Spinal Tap cover of My Humps now.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Friday, 11 November 2005 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

I admit it's been some years since I heard KJ, but mellifluousness is not a quality I remember at all.

Anyway, I have no problem with harsh, ugly stacatto music.

FWIW, I think "My Humps" sucks, too. It's annoying, it's simplistic (musically, lyrically, and thematically), and it's no fun.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 11 November 2005 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

Snake doesn't rhyme with cock, though, Matt.

but really? is "lady lumps" any less sophisticated a entendre as "love gun", Alex? they're both pretty dumb...plus love gun has a sorta creepy dick/violence thing going on...better song though.

Okay, that's it though, I'm getting off before I waste time sort of defending a song I hate....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 11 November 2005 01:43 (nineteen years ago)

"Love Gun," as dumb as it is, doesn't sound like a car alarm. And, again, it has an Ace Frehley solo on it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 November 2005 01:51 (nineteen years ago)

I really want to hear a Spinal Tap cover of My Humps now.

Arguably "Big Bottom" is an early iteration of what that would sound like anyway.

― monkeybutler, Friday, 11 November 2005 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

I really want to hear a Spinal Tap cover of My Humps now.

Arguably "Big Bottom" is an early iteration of what that would sound like anyway.

...only "Big Botton" is funny, well-written and listenable.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 November 2005 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

...only "Big Botton" is funny, well-written and listenable.

i'd KILL for either ciara or fergie to do a song called "big button," about their clits.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 11 November 2005 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

.only "Big Botton" is funny, well-written and listenable.

Which only goes to show that even tongue-in-cheek dumb hard rock/heavy metal renders stuff like BEP irrelevant.

― monkeybutler, Friday, 11 November 2005 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

It's also not just the slackjawed, bottom-feeder (pardon the pun) subject matter, it's the execution.

alex OTfuckingM

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 11 November 2005 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Alex hates to see a woman objectify herself.

― 'Twan (miccio), Friday, 11 November 2005 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

Especially over a decent rhythm track.

― 'Twan (miccio), Friday, 11 November 2005 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

I'm all for anyone objectifying themselves SO LONG AS THEY DO IT IN A WAY THAT ISN'T INSANELY FUCKING ANNOYING AND DEPRESSING, and you really must raise your standards, Antoine.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 November 2005 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

Only aging brits in leather from now on, I promise.

― 'Twan (miccio), Friday, 11 November 2005 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

aging brits in leather

that sounds like a subject line from those wierd abstract porn emails i get 100 of everyday!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 11 November 2005 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

"decent rhythm track"

― oops (Oops), Friday, 11 November 2005 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp/secret_shots/images/20050622_taboo.jpg

this thread needs more Taboo.

― 'Twan (miccio), Friday, 11 November 2005 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.vault49.com/reviews/BEP/BEP_Taboo01%5B1%5D.jpg

― 'Twan (miccio), Friday, 11 November 2005 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

dude freaks me out.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 12 November 2005 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

That guy is a threat to the continuing function of cameras.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 12 November 2005 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

I THOUGHT NO SONG COULD BE WORSE THAN MILKSHAKE!!!

Then I heard this...

This song is the reason why we have elected representatives.
The masses are completely clueless...Who would even like this shit
...?

I, like someone else up there, just recently found out it was the
Black Eyed Peas!!! I had a feeling they sold out when they got that girl. This song by all means confirmed it.

― Latin Assassin, Monday, 14 November 2005 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

I THOUGHT NO SONG COULD BE WORSE THAN MILKSHAKE!!!

Wow, you're dumb.

― Dan (Don't Criticize Until You Stop Breathing Through Your Mouth, Mr. FeebFace) , Monday, 14 November 2005 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

what's wrong w/ "milkshake"?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 14 November 2005 04:01 (nineteen years ago)

This song is the reason why we have elected representatives.

― 'Twan (miccio), Monday, 14 November 2005 04:06 (nineteen years ago)

My bad. "Milkshake" is genius. Those lyrics are captivating.
Disregard her connections (Nas), it's her talent that got her
where she was/is.
That song just moves me so...
Her music rates right up there with Chaka Khan, Janet Jackson, Billie Holiday. Good stuff.

And the beat...man, so deep, so full of soul.

"I can teach you, but I have to charge..."

So lost is this generation...

I get chills through my spine every time I hear that.

I apologize everybody.

― Latin Assassin (Latin Assassin), Monday, 14 November 2005 05:07 (nineteen years ago)

And the beat...man, so deep, so full of soul. It will be played
on classic R&B stations 10-20 years from now.

"I can teach you, but I have to charge..."

I get chills through my spine every time I hear that.

I apologize everybody. I was wrong.

(So lost is this generation...)

― Latin Assassin (Latin Assassin), Monday, 14 November 2005 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it posted before I was ready. So what.

― Latin Assassin (Latin Assassin), Monday, 14 November 2005 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA LMFAO Do you expect philisophical genius from a pop record its aimed at teeny bopers who are more interested in the beat than the lyrics. If you want something profound go and read discartes ffs HA HA HAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

― Anna Edwards, Monday, 14 November 2005 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

So this is the Google Laugh.

― blunt (blunt), Monday, 14 November 2005 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

Who let the dorks out?

"discartes" = rofflicious

― Le Marquis de Salade (noodle vague), Monday, 14 November 2005 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

"iwasaneasygeeza@yahoo.co.uk"

― Confounded (Confounded), Monday, 14 November 2005 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

You could have just posted this with a ROFL emoticon. http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/roll.gif Y'know how the kids are down with those silly gifs. I also bet you can sing that Clueless track, Rollin'With The Homies, backwards while you roll your tongue.

I think the problem with My Humps is that it tries to appear stylish, classy and feminist but it's the opposite. The production/beats *are* great, only they don't fit the lyrics.

― Nathalie is in Da Base II Dark (stevie nixed), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Beats mean nothing. Sorry, but there it is.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 14 November 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Thing is, it's not so much the kids...it's the freakin' young adults who love this song!

I agree with Nathalie inDBIID: it is the exact opposite of what it
tries to be.

Music just seems to be getting worse and worse, as far as hip-hop/rap
is concerned. I think it's reached its limits.

(How many "I Got 5 on it" beat samples can we take?)

― Latin Assassin (Latin Assassin), Monday, 14 November 2005 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

Latin Assassin, are you a 14yr old that smokes cheroots and sneers at girls not dressed in black? Pretentious codswallop and ugly phrases like 'my bad' all in one post...it can point only to one thing.

Ah well, back to my "discartes" book.

― Mippy (Mippy), Monday, 14 November 2005 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not a fan of Kelis but "Milkshake" is worlds better than "My Humps"! (also she "got where she is" before she hooked up with Nas, that jab would make more sense if it referenced Pharrell)

Whoever said it sounds written by someone who's never had sex is OTM, the lyrics reminds me of that guy from "40 Year Old Virgin" saying "you know when you touch the girl's breast and it's like... a bag of sand?"

The music's not THAT bad though, without the references to "humps" and "lumps" it'd just be another harmless BEP mediocrity.

― Jay Smooth (jsmooth995), Monday, 14 November 2005 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

"lyrics remind" that is

― Jay Smooth (jsmooth995), Monday, 14 November 2005 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Pharrel. My bad.
I still didn't hear of her until that song. If that was her "breakout" then...

Thing is, those references dominate the whole damn song, making it
utterly reprehensible.
The beat ain't exactly inspiring, either.

― Latin Assassin (Latin Assassin), Monday, 14 November 2005 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

Mippy,it does point to one thing: this 32 year-old dick you're
gonna be sucking.

― Latin Assassin (Latin Assassin), Monday, 14 November 2005 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

(How many "I Got 5 on it" beat samples can we take?)

as many as I can get!

Jay Smooth OTM on 40 yR old virgin.

I think that's the reason I don't like this song, it just seems like a short bus vers. of hollaback girl and milkshake.....both awesome songs....although as I feel obligated to mention every time it comes up, I really wish Kelis had done hollaback instead of Gwen...

Mippy,it does point to one thing: this 32 year-old dick you're
gonna be sucking.

Uh...you seem like, how you say? An asshole.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 14 November 2005 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm...so someone talks a little shit to me and I respond.
That makes me an asshole?

― Latin Assassin (Latin Assassin), Monday, 14 November 2005 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of assholes, I'll be going deep up inside yours--
prison-style, bitch.

Now be a good girl and just sit down and shut up.

― Latin Assassin (Latin Assassin), Monday, 14 November 2005 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

You can calm down now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 November 2005 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Latin's lucky he didn't know me in my hobo-knifin' days, Ned. But I'll keep this beef on wax, I promise.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 14 November 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

lmao at yet more random google mentalism.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 14 November 2005 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Beats mean nothing. Sorry, but there it is.

this is the best 2-sentence summary of yer musical philosophy that i've read yet, alex!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 14 November 2005 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'm calm now.

― Latin Assassin (Latin Assassin), Monday, 14 November 2005 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

"hobo-knifin' days"...lol.

That one actually made me laugh. I like the way that sounds...

― Latin Assassin (Latin Assassin), Monday, 14 November 2005 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

Mippy,it does point to one thing: this 32 year-old dick you're
gonna be sucking.@

Very very unlikely. And at 32, aren't you a little old to be sexually harassing random girls on the internet.

Back to da music innit. My Humps smells like week-old dog vomit.

― Mippy (Mippy), Monday, 14 November 2005 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

Beats mean nothing but Ace Frehley guitar solo does?

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Monday, 14 November 2005 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

Beats mean nothing but Ace Frehley guitar solo does?

Well, it's like this....it's not that beats mean nothing, it's that beats cannot possibly compensate for the idiocy of the rest of the track in question. I'm no beat-afficianado (as you can probably tell), but I certainly don't remember them as being especially memorable. Perhaps they can soften the blow, if you're dancing so intently that you're tuning out the vocals, but that sounds like an awful lot of work.

And everything is better with Ace Frehley. If the Black Eyed Peas employed the Space Ace to liven up some of their dreadful product, perhaps I'd feel differently.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 14 November 2005 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

Mippy, you're never too little old to sexually harass random girls on the internet.

― Latin Assassin (Latin Assassin), Monday, 14 November 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

i think there is only one way to describe the song you lot are talking about and that is absolutely shit. I mean come the bird hasnt even got any humps to talk about for fuck sake.my lovely lady lumps how about my dirty great thumps...........on her head. she needs beating with a used dildo purchased from ebay for a $ hahahaha dirty old scag whore that she is. wannabe negroid is what she is the black eyed fleas could bite a better song. oh yeah whats with the furry caps for christ sake is that meant to be fashion or just another ghetto accessory. THATS MY RANT FINISHED MAYBE ILL GO KNIFE SOME HOBOS NOW LOL.

― Darrell, Monday, 14 November 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

The beat is awful too! what's wrong with you people.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

FINALLY some sanity...

― Latin Assassin (Latin Assassin), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

have you been with each other for a long time

― hayley lee wells, Wednesday, 16 November 2005 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

Can I get some Fergie n00dz posted already?

― Reggie, Thursday, 17 November 2005 03:33 (nineteen years ago)

They didn't always suck. It was after they smelled money... and then rolled them up in which to snort more, tiny, granulated piles of money, that they got bad.

― hydrallus (hydraulis2), Thursday, 17 November 2005 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

hi how r u guys? I' Really good and i love your new song i reckon it is mad? Well i just wanted to say that so yer. Well I hope you keep going with your music program and i love 2 here wat u're new song will b like.

bye

― Tennille, Friday, 18 November 2005 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

BACK IN THE NY GROOVE FUCKERS

― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 18 November 2005 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

i just saw the vid for this today and afterwards felt like i couldn't get the smell of fish to leave the room.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 19 November 2005 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

Bahahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 19 November 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yuck this song is an example of stupidity in most manufactured singers. It's kind of sad that BEP started out with "Where's the love" to Singing about Fergies breasts and ass. O_O

― Omta, Sunday, 20 November 2005 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

It's kind of sad that BEP started out with "Where's the love" to Singing about Fergies breasts and ass. O_O

Er...well, technically, the Black Eyed Peas had a career in full bloom with two albums under their belt before they even employed the gimmick that is is Fergie.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 20 November 2005 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

everything is better with Ace Frehley.

WORDS TO LIVE BY.

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 20 November 2005 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

My Humps is like hearing an idiot tell you about how great a certain song is, only they don't get it at all and you're like 'no no i like that sort of thing, stop filling my mind with your verbal diahorrea'. in this case, for 'song' insert 'pop rap'.

― yuengling participle (rotten03), Monday, 21 November 2005 04:21 (nineteen years ago)

wow, i just caught this for the first time over the weekend, and i can say with no exaggeration that it is quite possibly the worst thing i have ever heard in my life.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Monday, 21 November 2005 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

YAY!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 21 November 2005 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's a rather catchy pop ditty myself.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 21 November 2005 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

Alright, after all the talk, I finally watched it.

My eyes! My ears!

"The horror, the horror."

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Monday, 21 November 2005 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

i love that new song from the black eyed peas my humps its AWESOME,i have people at school singing it becaz i cant stop singing it

― chelsea carson, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

Oh My God You guys are Dick Heads The Bleackeyed Peas Are the best.
Because they were never around when you were young. I love them they are the best. But don't get me wrong i love Tom Jones and Abba and all the old music so don't go winging about our generation music
just because they have have done better then you.
And for Fergie and here "Wet patch" It is possible to sweat there you know!!!!
So get over it and if you don't like it don't listen to it.
And For all you cool guys out there who reackon the BEP's rock i Love You.

I also love their song My Humps

― Vicki Johnson, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 06:41 (nineteen years ago)

i love Tom Jones and Abba and all the old music

!!!

― yuengling participle (rotten03), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 07:19 (nineteen years ago)

!!! aren't old music.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 08:03 (nineteen years ago)

I don't mind this song. I actually kinda like the "Spendin' all your money on me." line.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 00:26 (nineteen years ago)

The Bleackeyed Peas

― monkeybutler, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

Vicki's South African?

My colleague just accidentally sang this down the phone to a client's answering machine.

― BARMS, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

Have any of the wacky morning radio shows done their "My Dumps" parodies yet?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

this song is absolutely huge with the middle school crowd, as is d4l's laffy taffy. i know... i teach middle school. but, in this song's defense, it samples from a really great disco not disco track, sexual harassment's "freaks." check it out, and tell me you wouldn't run that mix.

― dj caz, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

realy? pissing on stage? that not good, rite? who the fuk would do such a thing? wel i wouldn't put any thing past that bitch. wat wil it be next? shel b singing about her lips between her hips. my lips, my lips, my lips, the lips between my hips. they look like sour cram dip.

― cool dude, Thursday, 24 November 2005 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

theres more words that Ryme with "Hump" like jump and bump...this is annoying and pointless, they went from were is the love to "My lovely lady lumps"?!?! Now there just like every other wanna be pop stars out there..I see no humps accept for the ones on her face

Imma give give give give this two thumbs down, two thumbs way down two thumbs down

― Des, Saturday, 26 November 2005 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

i think this song rocks... iv bin told i look identical to her in this vidio.. n i av them jeans true religion :D shes ace xxx

― Annabel, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

"shel b singing about her lips between her hips. my lips, my lips, my lips, the lips between my hips. they look like sour cram dip"

for the love of god, lock thread

― JD from CDepot, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Out of curiosity, I checked out a clip of this video on the iTunes store. I think I can understand why someone would hate the song if seen in conjunction with Fergie prancing around like that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

yo black eyed peas man u got me humpin out nigga and please if u can send me a i pod at surrey please my home number is 604 501 9236 k im out peaCe bitches and batches hahaha just kidden peaCe.

― Akashdeep Lal, Saturday, 3 December 2005 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

. . . iv bin told i look identical to her in this vidio . . .

Fergie Has A Face Only A Mother Could Love

― phil d. (Phil D.), Saturday, 3 December 2005 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

akashdeep OTM

― dj383jmsj, Saturday, 3 December 2005 04:49 (nineteen years ago)

.hov:hover{background-color:yellow}Watch Video:MY HUMPS (Black Eyed Peas)

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― ROMEO, Monday, 5 December 2005 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

Slate is a little late to the game...

― Confounded (Confounded), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

That article is pathetic.

― 'Twan (miccio), Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

last friday, i watched someone perform a figure skating routine to "my humps" in complete seriousness. my mind was blown.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

That article is pathetic.

The only insight, I thought -- and someone could've mentioned this upthread -- was the possibility of it being "most successful unsolicited single in history."

And then I also like to envision Black-Eyed Peas listening to Sexual Harassment.

― Confounded (Confounded), Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

I think that "unsolicited" single is off mark. They eventually did make a video promoting it - "Lovers & Friends" became a no. 3 single without ever being pushed.

― 'Twan (miccio), Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

maria is there a bit torrent of that somewhere?

― 'Twan (miccio), Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

no, there isnt, anthony. i should have taken some footage with my camphone!

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

the black eyed peas are soooooooo siiiiccckkkk dont bag am out you dickheads

― milsy, Saturday, 10 December 2005 06:58 (nineteen years ago)

I WOULD LIKETO PLAY MY HUMPS

― chelsea wright, Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

PFFFT LOL FUCK BLACK EYED PEAS THEY SUCK ANAL!!!!!, FUCK HIP HOP AND RAP SHIT, LONG LIVE METALLICA, CHILDREN OF BODOM !! REAL FUCKIN MUSIC NOT PUSSY GAY ASS SHIT!!, ROCK ON !! , .. MAKE ME LAUGH.... SLIPKNOT SO PWNS THEM BADLY..

― Cloakofshadows, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 05:34 (nineteen years ago)

This is the best ILM thread I've ever read. It has also cured my insomnia. Hurrah.

For the record, I'm on the "it fucking sucks" side. I've always disliked BEP but this track just firms it up to "loathe". Did anyone see the faux commercial on Mad TV(I think) about renting the Peas out for parties and the like? That was great.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 08:13 (nineteen years ago)

i dont watch mad tv.

― howell huser (chaki), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 08:15 (nineteen years ago)

primary school: my humps
high school: my goodies
adulthood: my neck, my back, lick my pussy and my crack

i worry about you.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

lex.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

why?!

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

i suppose for personal reasons i associate 'my neck...' with the MP3 Girls of north london public transport, rather than with adulthood as such.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

REAL FUCKIN MUSIC NOT PUSSY GAY ASS SHIT!!

Someone's really not paying attention. FOR GOD'S SAKE, MAN, THE SONG IN QUESTION COULDN'T BE ANY MORE HETERO!

...that doesn't mean that it doesn't, in fact, suck a big Christmas basket of turds,.....but anyone who supports bands like Children of Bodom and Slipknot isn't really in a position to be critiscizing.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Lesbians have tits as well, Alex.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Did anyone see the faux commercial on Mad TV(I think) about renting the Peas out for parties and the like? That was great.

I didn't, but along this line, they're the band playing on New Year's Eve on the doomed ocean liner in the trailer for Wolfgang Peterson's "Poseidon Adventure" remake.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

I heard this for the first time over the weekend. It's not very good.
I'm absolutely astonished there's all this furor over a song that takes it's hook from the 1812 Overture.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

It gets worse.

― telephone thing, Monday, 26 December 2005 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

that is the greatest e-card ever!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 26 December 2005 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

its... awfulsome.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Monday, 26 December 2005 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

can we all agree now, that once the revolution comes.. the person that did that card will be First against the wall.

First.

not second.

― Danny boy, Monday, 26 December 2005 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

This song sucks.

― CacaFace, Friday, 6 January 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

FUCK YOU, WHORE.

― 'Twan (miccio), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

I feel rap is very shallow genre of music. They have no depth. Therefore, I feel as though ignorant people listen to that music.

― clouded vision, Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

MARY WORTH/BLACK EYED PEAS MASHUP!
http://www.intebridge.com/images/Mary_Worth_My_Humps.gif

― Sengai, Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:25 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, I see we have a Comics Curmudgeon fan here...

― telephone thing, Saturday, 7 January 2006 05:12 (nineteen years ago)

raps not bad.. But discriminating rap is.

― Liza, Wednesday, 18 January 2006 05:39 (nineteen years ago)

i saw alex in nyc last week and he said he didn't have time to post any more, but could i just say on his behalf he's had a total 180 on this track -- it's practically an all-time favourite of his now.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

I knew he'd come around.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahahaha

― Dan ("Character Assassination" (Quotes Intentional) Is Awesome) Perry (Dan Perry, Wednesday, 18 January 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

As fucking if.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 January 2006 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

I hated this song at first, but now since all the hype has died down about it I've started to truly appreciate its genius. Sometimes true beauty is deeper than skin deep. This is one of those cases. Keep it coming B.E.P.'s!

― Bootey Shakar, Friday, 27 January 2006 08:09 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

FUCK THEM ALL THAT HUMPS SONG IS SO DAMN STUPID, MY HUMPS, MY HUMPS, STUPID ASS SONG SUCKS

― fuckblack, Monday, 13 February 2006 04:29 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

hey, guys just want to draw ur attention to the fact that
the black eyed peas song on where is the love is toally great i mean ,its asking and making everyone think about what we as people are doing in life and how ever one has a bad image of wat is right.

― stacey, Saturday, 11 March 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

Stacey, what other stuff might I like if I totally get this message and want to spred the luv to others?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Sunday, 12 March 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

,its asking and making everyone think about what we as people are doing in life and how ever one has a bad image of wat is right.

yet as an emu, i feel that the song simply does not speak to me.

― Emu-teurist (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 12 March 2006 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

U probablly lik that My Smelly romance, they are emu.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Sunday, 12 March 2006 00:26 (nineteen years ago)

My Humps My Humps My Humps My Humps My Humps My Humps My Humps My Humps My Humps My Humps My Humps My Humps My Humps My Humps My Humps My Humps My Humps My Humps My Humps My Humps My Humps My Humps My Humps My Humps My Humps My Humps My Humps My Humps My Humps My Humps

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 12 March 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

okaaaay

― gear (gear), Sunday, 12 March 2006 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

This song is so bad that is crosses over into genius territory.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Sunday, 12 March 2006 05:52 (nineteen years ago)

impressive, as that border is one of the most heavily militarized in existence

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 12 March 2006 07:27 (nineteen years ago)

This song is so bad that is crosses over into genius territory.

No, it doesn't. At all.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 12 March 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

This is true.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Sunday, 12 March 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

It's not as bad as getting punched in the nose! Although it has lasted a lot longer.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 12 March 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

I think i'd take the nose punch.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 12 March 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Still horrible almost six months later.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Sunday, 12 March 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

THE ONES WHO DISS FERGIE EAT A DICK THATS ALL I KARE ABOUT SHE KAN SING SHE GOT SUMTHIN NO OTHER BITCH HAS GOT THATS DIFFERENCE....I BETCHA SHE KAN MAKE U CUM JUST BY TOUCHING YOU SO FUCK OFF AND GO FUCK DIRTBALLS OFF THE STREET AND STOP HATING YA NERDZ

― be.jelous.of.fergie, Wednesday, 12 April 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

Mmm, dick. That's good eatin'.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

Never deindex this thread!

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

i can't stop listening to this song.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.malaspina.org/gif/machiavelli.jpg

TEH FERGIE GIVE ME A BON3R, YO

― NICCOLO (Telephonething), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

'well, allow me to retort...'

http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myspace.com%2Fklubhouzekillas

― eedd, Wednesday, 12 April 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

George Saunders in this week's New Yorker:

Same with music, though, right? I used to love music, back when it had melody and chords and lyrics. But now it has no melody and no chords, just thwack-thwacking, and they even seem to be cutting back on the thwack-thwacking, so now itâ€™s sometimes just thwa,, and, as far as lyrics, do you consider these lyrics?

Hump my hump,
My stumpy lumpy hump!
Hump my dump, you lumpy slumpy dump!
Iâ€™ll dump your hump, and then just hump your dump,
You lumpy frumply clump.

Iâ€™m sorry. To me? Those are not lyrics. In my day, lyrics were used to express real emotion, like the emotion of being totally stoned and trying to talk this totally stoned chick into sleeping with you in the name of love, which lasted forever, if only you held on to your dreams.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Fergie has a fish face.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 13 April 2006 06:33 (nineteen years ago)

The lyrics sound like they were written by someone who has read about but never had sex.

Best post in thread.

Fergie has a fish face.

True.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 13 April 2006 07:49 (nineteen years ago)

Allright! I was wondering if anyone had ever noticed the bass-ness!

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 13 April 2006 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

Please folks, never lose sight of the fact that Coldplay is the real enemy. BEP = pop genius. FACT.

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Thursday, 13 April 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

i love the way that all the lyrics seem to be entirely ad libbed, and fergie only appears to notice that some of them don't scan halfway through her line, and so she just...repeats words at random to make it scan!

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 13 April 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

Very very OTM, Lex.

You know...this song is at least danceable. Not terribly, but it's got that going for it. My problems with it are entirely lyrical. Specifically:

1. All references to "lumps" and "humps"
2. "Milky milky cocoa puff"
3. The mindless repetition (e.g. "No no no no drama drama")

I don't mind 'dumb' (and often outright love it, in fact), but those lyrical abortions pull me right out of the song.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 13 April 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

no no no those wtf-bad lyrics make the song FANTASTIC.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 13 April 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

The Pussycat Dolls song along these lines is even better.

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Friday, 14 April 2006 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

I only heard it because the song is featured in a verizon(?) commercial... I have to pause my tv when that ad comes on, then fast forward through it. This treatment is only employed for one other terrible assault on the senses that somehow passes itself off as an advertisement: the "pressure" anti-drug commercial with the floppy squashed girl with monkey arms. bleh. sorry, i meant say it makes me want to hurt someone. actually, I wouldn't mind if songwriters took an indefinite hiatus from using the word 'hump'.

― ebrecht, Friday, 14 April 2006 05:01 (nineteen years ago)

I hate this song but eagerly anticipate the lipsync video that the "Chinese Backstreet Boys" reportedly plan to make...

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 14 April 2006 05:33 (nineteen years ago)

Fergie is a fishwife.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 14 April 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

Is that a Ramones B-Side?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 14 April 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

It's almost too good...

― Kyle Bass, Monday, 1 May 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

you're an idiot.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

black eyed peas suck balls, its seriously making me feel sick in the stomach that people like them to such an extent. im checking what everyone is listening to on msn and they are all like sheeps hearding to the one band seriously making me feel sick. im 16 and i want to know where all individual minded people?

its all run by mtv. they never play anything good just what the sheep of the world can follow to a new trend.

seriously if you like this band you must have been brain washed or are just a sheep hearding to shit. you cant hind from this banned they seem to be on every radio all the time. i swear this band must have sucked alot of anal and i mean that they physicaly stuck their tounge into a mtv's executives ass hole.

people need to get over the trends and shitty bands. get your style and stick to it you morons.

― Sd In Australia, Thursday, 11 May 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

WORD.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 11 May 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

this is their best song since 'Joints & Jams'!

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 11 May 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

Is there a point to this thread?

-- Konal Doddz (stevem7...), May 11th, 2006. (blueski)

― Doktor Faustus (noodle vague), Thursday, 11 May 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

so don't pull on my HAND BOY
you ain't my MAN BOY
i'm just tryna DANCE BOY
and move my HUMPS

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 11 May 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

my lovely lady LUMPS

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 11 May 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

(I feel dirty now)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 11 May 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

the point of this thread is/was to discuss the song, noodle? it's effectively a C/D thread without the C/D.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 11 May 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

I think Killing Joke are covering this on their new album.

― hector (hector), Thursday, 11 May 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

Jesus is that Australian dude obsessed with sheep!

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 11 May 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

i swear this band must have sucked alot of anal

physicaly stuck their tounge into a mtv's executives ass hole.

!!!!

― lf (lfam), Thursday, 11 May 2006 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

WOULD YOU HAVE GIVEN THEM A DEAL?

― lf (lfam), Thursday, 11 May 2006 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

maybe

― lf (lfam), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

I'm playing this out tonight but mashed up with something else (can't say what, don't wanna spoil surprise). It'll be interesting to see the reaction.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

worst song ever, yet part of the inspiration behind my EMP paper this year!!!

― mts (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

That's right! I remember being initially flummoxed by its mention.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

i finally heard this. my god.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

that good eh?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

"Jesus is that Australian dude obsessed with sheep! "

Nabisco, this nation rides on the sheep's back.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

HOW did you manage to avoid hearing this, may i ask??!!!
it's been played EVERYWHERE!
you cannot walk down the street without hearing this song!
i shit you not.
why, just yesterday in fact...

― eedd, Friday, 12 May 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

its godawful, but in such an off-putting and weird way

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Latebloomer is hearing the Siren's song. Steer away from the rocks, my friend.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'm playing this out tonight but mashed up with something else (can't say what, don't wanna spoil surprise). It'll be interesting to see the reaction.

-- Konal Doddz (stevem7...), May 12th, 2006.

The Humpty Dance?

Lump by the Presidents of the USA?

Humpin' Around by Bobby Brown?

This is fun!

― Ash (ashbyman), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

close but you're way off

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.google.com/trends?q=lovely+lady+lumps

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 12 May 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.google.com/trends?q=hey+ya&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 13 May 2006 01:45 (nineteen years ago)

This is my favourite of all ILM threads...

The Hatred is so righteous, but you can tell were all totally lovin the song.......and hiding it from ourselves.

― Danny boy, Saturday, 13 May 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

WHEN HUMPS CRY

― permanent revolution (cis), Saturday, 13 May 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

but you can tell were all totally lovin the song.......and hiding it from ourselves.

Nope. Not even close.

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Sunday, 14 May 2006 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

WHEN HUMPS CRY

― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 14 May 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Peaches responds: http://myspace.com/peaches

(nsfw)

― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

weird al eat your heart out

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. As if the original wasn't nauseating enough.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

i think it was all the cancerous hunchbacks buying this song

― FACEBRACE (FACEBRACE), Thursday, 1 June 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

That started playing whilst Lambchop was playing in iTunes and now I think my brain has melted.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 1 June 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Peaches is still going? Why?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 1 June 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

omg

― lex pretend, Thursday, 19 July 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

Woah.

― The Reverend, Thursday, 19 July 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

guh

― babedad, Friday, 20 July 2007 01:48 (eighteen years ago)

Okay, didn't expect THAT.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 July 2007 01:49 (eighteen years ago)

awesome

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 20 July 2007 02:29 (eighteen years ago)

And all this hand-wringing about the status of the summer jam. Bet this sounds epic blasting outta car speakers on a hot day.

― dabug, Friday, 20 July 2007 03:12 (eighteen years ago)

Frightenly wonderful. A modern day Dark Side of the Moon-Wizard of Oz revelation.

― Jiminy Krokus, Friday, 20 July 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

Fergie is a fishwife.
-- Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, April 14, 2006 10:38 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

sometimes I just want to be Alex in NYC's hypeman and say stuff like "now that's GANGSTA" after every post he makes.

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 20 July 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

imma bee imma bee imma bee imma bee imma bee

http://smafccp.org/Leaping%20Learners/Busy%20Bee/Busy%20Bees/BB%20Bee2.gif

black eyed bees!

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 11:17 (sixteen years ago)

also contains couplet

imma be a brotha but my name ain't lehman
imma be a bank i'll be loanin' out semen

o_0

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 11:17 (sixteen years ago)

Alex in NYC's so unbelievably, embarassingly bad. He should be rounded up and imprisoned.

― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 15:29 (sixteen years ago)

(-_^)

― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 15:30 (sixteen years ago)

the black eyed peas annoy me usually but I'll rep for "My Humps"

― liberated erotic voyage of disco (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 16:32 (sixteen years ago)

same here

― TynanDaNdy (some dude), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 16:33 (sixteen years ago)

Come and get me

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 17:13 (sixteen years ago)

sometimes I just want to be Alex in NYC's hypeman and say stuff like "now that's GANGSTA" after every post he makes.

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, July 20, 2007 1:48 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

― straight fire beautiful hongro (some dude), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 17:16 (sixteen years ago)

fergie was on the show kids inc. back in the day. back then she was known merely as "stacy." ain't that a pip?

― macaulay culkin's bukkake shocker (bug), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 17:36 (sixteen years ago)

They had good taste in cover material!

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 18:29 (sixteen years ago)

Why are they making another album again? "Imma Bee" is hot, but really it should just be Fergie solo... she owns the song. Same for "Boom Boom Pow".

― i'm educated in sex, yes (The Brainwasher), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 02:40 (sixteen years ago)

kids incorporated was so dope

― indescribably adjustable dwarfism (Matt P), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 03:26 (sixteen years ago)

Fergie is the most annoying thing about "Boom Boom Pow"

― autobahn mi (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 03:26 (sixteen years ago)

rong. "i'm so 3008/ ur so 2000-and-late" >>>>>>>>> the rest of the song

― i'm educated in sex, yes (The Brainwasher), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 03:28 (sixteen years ago)

fergie is pretty much always the best thing about BEP singles now

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 06:34 (sixteen years ago)

man i am so desperate to hate these corny motherfuckers but theyve got a kind of unbelievable track record w/ singles

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 25 May 2009 01:11 (sixteen years ago)

How are you measuring said track record? By quality or merely sales/chart-placement? Because the latter means nothing.

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 25 May 2009 14:31 (sixteen years ago)

it doesnt mean "nothing"

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 25 May 2009 14:35 (sixteen years ago)

Sure it does.

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 25 May 2009 20:05 (sixteen years ago)

"quality" means even less than sales imho.

― ian, Monday, 25 May 2009 20:13 (sixteen years ago)

Sales just indicate that lots of people bought it. Big deal. Lots of people buy lots of abject crap.

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 25 May 2009 20:16 (sixteen years ago)

they have some really terrible singles but i think "boom boom pow" is great and "i'mma be" (or whatever) also sounded kinda dope

― some people wait a lifetime for a momus like this (J0rdan S.), Monday, 25 May 2009 20:21 (sixteen years ago)

both those songs are trying way too hard to be bonkers and energetic and 'different,' imo the Fergie solo singls and some of the earlier BEP stuff kills it

― some dude, Monday, 25 May 2009 20:47 (sixteen years ago)

"Boom Boom Pow" is one of the worst singles of the year, easy. The most cringeworthy part is right after fergie screams 'will.i.am drop the beat now!!!' Like, i just have to bury my head in my shoulder everytime.

― have the lime of your life, heyyyyyy (Tape Store), Monday, 25 May 2009 20:59 (sixteen years ago)

i guess what makes it bad is that they just seem so...into it. like they really believe that they're recording the greatest track of the year, you can just imagine them high-fiving each other after each verse

― have the lime of your life, heyyyyyy (Tape Store), Monday, 25 May 2009 21:01 (sixteen years ago)

both those songs are trying way too hard to be bonkers and energetic and 'different,' imo the Fergie solo singls and some of the earlier BEP stuff kills it

― some dude, Monday, May 25, 2009 3:47 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

well certainly BEP have always tried to be 'bonkers' and 'energetic' and "boom boom pow" is undeniably 'different' but i admire that they took a risk with a song and i much prefer will's take on bangladeshian minimalism to horrible built-in kidz bop shit "let's get it started" or "don't phunk with my heart"

"glamorous" and "fergalicious" do kinda pwn tho

― some people wait a lifetime for a momus like this (J0rdan S.), Monday, 25 May 2009 21:02 (sixteen years ago)

http://media.nowpublic.net/images//bb/0/bb04f4cf1e26f5e379ba6767fac638e0.jpg

― Eazy, Monday, 25 May 2009 21:03 (sixteen years ago)

im pretty sure will's spent the rest of his time since then attempting to become a full time hologram - "boom boom pow" being exhibit a

― some people wait a lifetime for a momus like this (J0rdan S.), Monday, 25 May 2009 21:04 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

RIP

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 April 2011 21:43 (fourteen years ago)

very relieved that Ned's humps are alive and well

― some dude, Friday, 22 April 2011 21:46 (fourteen years ago)

It's been touch and go all this time.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 April 2011 21:49 (fourteen years ago)

two months pass...

In June 2011, Lynn Tolliver, a Cleveland, Ohio disk jockey who wrote "I Need a Freak" for his concept band Sexual Harrassment, won a $1.2 million judgment by a New York jury as a result of the band's unauthorized sampling of his song in "My Humps." The lawsuit purportedly lasted for over ten years, in effect, it began five years prior to the actual release of the song.[1]

― bed bath and beyoncé (The Reverend), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 17:45 (fourteen years ago)

his concept band Sexual Harrassment

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 17:59 (fourteen years ago)

we already have an Odd Future thread

― HOOBASTANK is my co-pilot (DJP), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:08 (fourteen years ago)

There's no good way of saying "I love Sexual Harrassment" here is there? :(

― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:11 (fourteen years ago)

if you're a cute girl in my office there sure is

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:27 (fourteen years ago)

I sort of don't think any album Fergie does now will be able to compete with The Dutchess.

― Breezy Summer Jam (MintIce), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:28 (fourteen years ago)

What a tragedy for Fergie!

― bed bath and beyoncé (The Reverend), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:34 (fourteen years ago)

it's sad she was a Black Eyed Pea

― HOOBASTANK is my co-pilot (DJP), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:36 (fourteen years ago)

two years pass...

I am part of a cabaret benefit show that will be doing a version of this song

― WHAT DOES SAMANTHA FOX SAY (DJP), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 18:50 (twelve years ago)

we're also doing the Rock of Ages" love duet version of "Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore"

― WHAT DOES SAMANTHA FOX SAY (DJP), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 18:51 (twelve years ago)

Weird. A friend just posted on facebook that her kid came home from second grade singing My Humps today.

― how's life, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 19:04 (twelve years ago)

her son

― how's life, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 19:05 (twelve years ago)

more like wack eyed pees

― ienjoyhotdogs, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 19:58 (twelve years ago)

MILKY, MILKY RIIIIIIIGHT

― marcos, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 20:42 (twelve years ago)

it amazes me that will.i.am is publicly, vocally embarrassed about the lyrics to this song, but not any of his other songs.

― some dude, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 20:53 (twelve years ago)

haha that is ridiculous

― WHAT DOES SAMANTHA FOX SAY (DJP), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 20:59 (twelve years ago)

"I don't know what possessed me to write this song, I was so happy when I was able to get back to insightful lyrics like 'I'm so 3008/You so 2000 and late' and really the entirety of 'Pump It'"

― WHAT DOES SAMANTHA FOX SAY (DJP), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 21:02 (twelve years ago)

I swear this band seems to exist in the same parallel universecas the Idiocracy movie.

― Moka, Thursday, 12 September 2013 05:07 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

i... think this is... good?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anJYoItYeyM

― Cory Sklar, Sunday, 19 July 2015 02:18 (ten years ago)

https://twitter.com/alshipley/status/622299487399231488

― The Reverend, Sunday, 19 July 2015 02:26 (ten years ago)

Tru

― Cory Sklar, Sunday, 19 July 2015 02:31 (ten years ago)

i want the 20th anniversary of "let's get it started"

― soyrev, Sunday, 19 July 2015 02:44 (ten years ago)

just makes me want to hear the originals..

― where the sterls have no name (s.clover), Sunday, 19 July 2015 02:59 (ten years ago)

when they move from golden-age and conscious where it sorta works up thru gangsta it just sorta shows they don't have the chops.

― where the sterls have no name (s.clover), Sunday, 19 July 2015 03:01 (ten years ago)

delivery sounds awkard to me, they look p awkard in the video too

but I'm glad that they made DJ Premier happy
https://twitter.com/REALDJPREMIER/status/622535410657292289

― niels, Monday, 27 July 2015 15:57 (ten years ago)

there's never been a moment in the last 20 years that will.i.am, taboo and apl.de.ap haven't looked and sounded incredibly awkward

― teenage good-ass kinja turtles (some dude), Monday, 27 July 2015 16:25 (ten years ago)

it is a super awkward and terrible song like most black eyed peas songs and tbh i felt embarrassed for them and myself when i watched the video, plus erykah badu did that exact video idea for "honey" years ago and it was fucking 100% better

― marcos, Monday, 27 July 2015 16:27 (ten years ago)

I did like the clever touch of putting some of the original sampled records alongside the hip hop songs that sampled it.

― MarkoP, Monday, 27 July 2015 16:29 (ten years ago)

also re: "my humps" i still lol everytime i hear or think of "mix your milk wit my cocoa puff, milky, milky riiiiiiight"

― marcos, Monday, 27 July 2015 16:30 (ten years ago)

"My Humps" didn't sound as horrible last time I tried listening to it, shockingly. Same with "London Bridge."

― billstevejim, Monday, 27 July 2015 17:32 (ten years ago)

three years pass...

well I liek it

― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Monday, 27 August 2018 14:57 (seven years ago)

my lovely lady lumps

could/would anyone but fergie sing that

― a roomba of one's own (rip van wanko), Monday, 27 August 2018 15:02 (seven years ago)

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