Black Eyed Peas plan for The End
Thought Will.i.Am’s holograms and pro-Obama songs were exciting? Well, if you believe the rapper’s recent words to Billboard concerning his main outfit’s upcoming plans, you haven’t seen anything yet. After all, just take a look at the title of the Black Eyed Peas’ forthcoming album for example:
Group leader will.i.am tells Billboard.com that “The END” stands for “The Energy Never Dies,” which describes his model for a project that will be living and frequently updated throughout its designated cycle.
Good start, eh? And we haven’t gotten into any of the nitty gritty. Composed of 12 tracks and scheduled for
release in March of next year, the band’s fifth full-length effort is described as being more of a “diary” of sorts rather than an collection of cohesive material.
“It’s a diary … of music that at any given time, depending on the inspiration, you can add to it,” the artist/producer/songwriter explains. “When it comes out, there’ll be 12 songs on it, but the next day there could be 100 songs, 50 sketches, 1,000 blogs all (online) around ‘The End,’ so the energy really, truly never dies.
“I’m trying to break away from the concept of an album. What is an album when you put 12 songs on iTunes and people can pick at it like scabs? That’s not an album. There is no album anymore.”
As for the sound, Will.i.Am describes the music as “a lot of dance stuff, real melodic, electronic, soulful. We call it, like, electric static funk, something like that.”
The release of The End will be supported by a worldwide, “fucking ridiculous tour, or at least that’s Fergie is hoping for, beginning in May.
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