Remember when people thought "My Humps" was the worst song ever?

They hadn't been introduced to Katy Perry yet?

If you haven't heard it for a while, it doesn't seem so bad. But if you heard it again right now...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aD_vJRatx-A
...you'll find as I did that your teeth start to itch before you're even 30 seconds through it because it's so bad. Maybe not the worst song ever, but still up there...

Peaches covered the song in 2006, altering the lyrics humorously and changing the title to "My Dumps".

Alanis Morissette covered the song in 2007, seemingly as an April Fools' Day prank, although she has not confirmed this.[6] In contrast to the original "My Humps", Morissette's cover is performed slowly and in the style of a ballad, with only a piano accompanying the vocal. On April 2, a video in which Morissette parodies Fergie's dancing moves in the original "My Humps" music video was added to the website YouTube. By April 3, the video was the most viewed on Technorati,[7] and it was viewed 4 million times six days later.[6] The Associated Press wrote that Morissette's "quiet, somber version only highlights the ridiculousness of Fergie's original lyrics".[8] The video has been hosted on Morissette's official website. TIME stated that the parody proved that Morissette "understands" irony, in reference to her hit single, Ironic. On April 15, Fergie confirmed to E! News that she thought that the parody was "hilarious", and "genius". Fergie also said that she sent Alanis a cake in the shape of a "derrière".

American Greetings parodied the song in their Christmas e-card, "Three Wise Camels", in which the camels of the Three Wise Men rap about the gifts awaiting baby Jesus, which are sitting on their humps.

Afroman parodied the song for his album "Waiting to Inhale" entitled "My Chunc" where he raps about his genitals.

Peaches then covered the Alanis Morissette parody, changing the title again to "My Dumps". This version combines Peaches' original "My Dumps" lyrics with Alanis' melody.

Sketch-comedy show MADtv did a parody titled "My Slump" that featured George W. Bush.

Katy Perry cover version is inevitable

a negative plus times a negative equals a positive. it will be fantastic!

It's probably somewhere in my top 20 to be fair.

Also in a similar songs-that-are-trying-to-be-sexy-but-are-just-cringeingly-embarrassing is the Pussycat Dolls' "Beep", coincidentally (or perhaps not) featuring Will.I.Am

cancer still

snoball is correct. It is a ROTTEN track, def one of the worst singles I've ever heard.

I mean, the backing is sort of half-decent, maybe. What makes it so bad is the singer's HORRIBLE whiny voice, the embarrasing stupid lyrics and the "milky milky riight" bit. It's horrible, still.

The backing is all sample, though, making My Humps essentially an unwanted downgrade.

there's a good chance this was the best single BEP ever released.

Wait, has something replaced it as being worst song ever? If so, I've yet to hear it.

Oh yeah, and my Fatwa on Fergie remains!

I remember and nothing has changed!

actually it's one of the best pop songs of the decade, morans!

this song has been replaced by soulja boy, who has managed to have the most hated song for a longer period than either this OR laffy taffy

snakes on a plane

Nice to see some of the world's leading sexologists weighing in on this track!

I remember when people thought "MMMMMBop" was the worst song ever.

No stupid dance-pop song can be as bad as "Rockabye" or "Bad Day".

remember SARS?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_in_English_labeled_the_worst_ever

ugh 'bad day' might actually be the worst song ever

i feel bad that ppl already forgot about "ay bay bay" that songs rulez

http://www.cpyu.org/files/3D%20Reviews/Winter%202005/My%20Humps%20-%20Black%20Eyed%20Peas.jpg

why is 'my ding a ling' in the worst songs wiki page

"The Cheeky Song (Touch my Bum)", The Cheeky Girls (2003)

* This song was voted the #1 worst pop recording by Channel Four viewers, in one of Channel Four's 472 polls on the subject (up to July 2008).[2]

Fuck is that?

comparing KP to my humps is funny because she's bad but this was a crime against humanity

"Lollipop" is a worse song than "My Humps," partly because of the repeated references to "My Humps." don't ask me how that works.

worst all time b/w my ding a ling, my humps & lollipop could be a not bad poll

deeznuts want to see 2 dicks compete w/ a pair of tits

Man, this Cheeky Girls is worse than any of that.

we built this city is great wtf?

Nothing makes me prouder to be an American than my complete obliviousness to the Cheeky Girls

my ding a ling has the theory of relativity working against it bigtime

so does mine!

lolllll

chuckz berriez

Wife says that Midnight at the Oasis is worst song ever.

That Wikipedia entry, there are no words.

Barbie Girl? Anyone who doesn't like that has no taste, or possibly too much taste. No, right first time. "We Built This City" is awesome.

Um, maybe somebody amended that Wikipedia entry?

My Humps thinks it's the jam of the decade.. like while they were recording it they were like "yeah nigga, this song is sex" whereas Cheeky Girls were pretty much just throwing together something to see what happens.

i still don't know if i've heard this song, and i'm not sure if i need to!

The Cheeky Girls' second single was great, y'know?
TAKE YOUR SHOOSIES OFF! WOO!

billstevejim's Black Eyed Peas fanfic is suspect

haha

I knew a girl who danced in the video and was bragging about it before it aired. Her scenes were eventually cut, and I lost touch with her before I could find out what her opinion on the song was.

I saw the Cheeky Girls live once.

Was Lembit there?

Sadly it was pre-Lembit, as far as public knowledge goes. They played a Greatest Hit set.

was it a cheeky holiday?

Have to say they were marginally less terrifyingly Nosferatu-ish in the flesh.

Still you wouldn't turn the back of your neck on them would you?

Have the Ting Tings covered this on the Live Lounge yet?

No but I see Dizzee's covered the Ting Tings.

what's he covered them with :(

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CMRRJ4EBL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

my ting tings

my lovely lady ting tings

now i've said that we can finally blast this thread into space, taking all the music inside with it

"Blood, don't make me get milky blood"

My Humps is the best black eyed peas song, because it's honest in its total soullessness. There's no pretensions to hip-hop, no earnestness whatsoever, just blatant chart ambition.

The backing track sounds like a ringtone already, and there seems to be an almost deliberate attempt to make the lyrics a) nonsensical, and b) non rhyming.

blend of 'my humps' with 'when doves cry' was hot

^^^exactly!^^^ xpost

I find the lyrics offensive, not because of the materialism that they represent, but because they put across such a tiny worldview. There's a whole world out there, but all that matters to the performers is jumping around in a dingy basement club dressed like an aerobics instructor wearing platinum and diamond jewellery that's so gaudy it looks like it's made of plastic. Or standing around trying to affect some kind of badass pimp/gangsta look when really the closest you've got to crime is shoplifting sweets from the newsagents when you were six. If you're going to wear a watch that costs $10,000, get one that doesn't look like it came free with eight tokens from a cornflakes packet. And putting metallised cardboard pie plates on your hubcaps does not make you look like Iceberg Slim.

But you could say this about every other late BEP single! The reason why My Humps works is because it suggests that perhaps the band knows that they're ridiculous!

Do the lyrics "my humps my humps my humps, my lovely lady lumps" suggest "affecting some kind of badass pimp/gangsta look"???

The song isn't a parody, so their knowing that they're ridiculous doesn't excuse them. The lyrics go on and on about D&G, LV, and bling-blah-de-bling, but it's the video that suggests the "badass pimp/gangsta look". Sorry about that, in my previous post I got caught up in slagging off Will.I.Am.

Is it not about breast cancer awareness?

haha xpost

The song isn't a parody, so their knowing that they're ridiculous doesn't excuse them.

You talk like there's only two types of songs, Weird Al parodies and 'regular' songs, in which there is not a trace of irony, parodic intent, or (gasp!) humor. Parody is not a genre regulated by an on/off switch; it is a strategy, one of many in an art-maker's arsenel.

What really drives me nuts about the nature of opposition to this song is the common assumption that pop artists (and people of color in particular) aren't self-aware. Those simpletons in Black Eyed Peas couldn't possibly be making fun of themselves (and pop music in general); they *do* love bling!

sorry for challopian tubes

The song can be interpreted as a parody, but I don't think they set out to make it as one. I don't assume that pop stars aren't self aware - most are. BEP are certainly aware of the ridiculousness of their image, but instead of using it to make humorous comment, they are pulling a Stones' Satanic Majesties' Request style "let's give people what we think they want", which comes down to them treating the audience as simpletons.

like while they were recording it they were like "yeah nigga, this song is sex"

If someone fires up Rock 'N' Roll Comics again, this NEEDS to be a very prominent panel in the Black Eyed Peas entry.

P.S. "My Humps" = near masterpiece.

Anyone remember the gloriously wrong BEP-Arcade Fire mashup "Hump My Tunnel?"

everyone shut up, My Humps is terrible and shit in every respect, altho RHCP "Hump De Bump" might well be worse

woah talk about sticking your neck out

your smarm quotient has been up recently my dear fellow

well obsoived

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/4476/humpingyn1.jpg

everyone shut up, My Humps is terrible and shit in every respect, altho RHCP "Hump De Bump" might well be worse

-- Just got offed, Thursday, 10 July 2008 12:25 (18 minutes ago) Link

i like that song too!

anyway "My Humps" isn't a 'near masterpiece,' it's just better than most/all other BEP songs.

although Fergie and (to a lesser degree) will.i.am have done better tunes outside the group.

e.g. 'Clumsy'

e.g. every single off The Dutchess except "Big Girls Don't Cry," really

"Clumsy" is a great song, but it really should have been given to some other whitegirl because it deserved to be a first single of an album, not a fourth one.

Remember when critics thought "My Humps" criticism was over the top so they overreacted by saying it was a "near masterpiece"?

i pretty much ignored The Duchess so when i heard 'Clumsy' about five different times over the last 6 weeks i thought it was some new summer jam by a new Rihanna at first

I can't even comprehend the Solange-esque levels of failed sass that would result if Rihanna had recorded "Clumsy"

e.g. every single off The Dutchess except "Big Girls Don't Cry," really

pretty much every song on the dutchess including 'big girls don't cry', really

also will.i.am's done loads of really great non-ferg productions

Making excuses for Fergie = totally lame. The best thing she ever sang on was when Kids Incorporated covered "A Million Miles Away."

"Clumsy" contains about five great things that don't work together one bit.

I can't remember the last time I was so impressed by the constituent parts of a song, but thoroughly nauseated by the song itself.

sweet fucking jesus - i really really like a black eyed peas song

There's nothing wrong with "My Humps". It's above average for BEP (which isn't saying much) and far, FAR from being the worst song ever. Now that Alanis cover...

hey momma is still my fave bep radio toon

TS: Akon "Lonely" -vs- "Black Eyed Peas "Hey Mama"

this song has been replaced by soulja boy, who has managed to have the most hated song for a longer period than either this OR laffy taffy

― deej, Thursday, 10 July 2008 00:54 (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Soulja Boy still holds this position in the wider sphere, and yes, he has managed it for a lot longer than BEP or D4L did.

Soulja Boy I can stand, "Humps" on the other hands is absolute shit.

i dreamt i was trying BEP to perform at one of my club nights and they were saying no. i hate BEP, don't know why they were at my house drinking beer with me in my dream.

Yeah, "Humps" is way worse than Soulja Boy.

blend of 'my humps' with 'when doves cry' was hot

Let's agree to disagree.

(xpost) perhaps you were hoping that they'd fall through the floor like they do in that P3psi/C0ke (I don't remember which one) advert.