![]() ![]() The song is to the left, but it works, because we're being true to ourselves. We've always been kind of misfits, and so it kind of fits. It's not the typical, let's do a hooky chorus, and you know, have a feel good-heart love song, or anything like that. I feel that "Boom Boom Pow" is not your typical first single. Fergie has commented on the unusual structure of the song, stating: The song concludes with Fergie repeating her initial verse, forming an outro of sorts and taking the listener more or less full-circle. Fergie, Taboo, and apl.de.ap each offer a variation on this theme, after which will.i.am, introduced by Fergie, demonstrates the theme at work in a series of rapid-fire raps, punctuated with digital effects. It opens with will.i.am meditating on and affirming a new, futuristic sound for the group: "I got that rock-and-roll, that future flow". "Boom Boom Pow" features a vocal sample from the 1990 song "Reach Out" by British house duo Sweet Mercy featuring singer Rowetta. As of October 2023, the music video has over 469 million views on YouTube. Rolling Stone ranked the song at number 14 on their list "Best 25 Songs of 2009". As of 2015, it has sold over six million units in the US.Ĭritically acclaimed, "Boom Boom Pow" was nominated for Best Dance Recording and won Best Short Form Music Video at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards (2010). It was ranked atop the Billboard Hot 100 year-end chart for 2009, at number seven on the decade-end chart for the 2000s, and at number 51 on the all-time chart. The song also topped the charts in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, as well as reaching the top ten in more than 20 countries. It is the second longest-running single to stay atop the chart in 2009, beaten only by their own " I Gotta Feeling", which held the top spot for 14 consecutive weeks. "Boom Boom Pow" topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 12 weeks, making it the group's first number-one single on the chart. ![]() on February 22, 2009, by Interscope Records. It was released as the lead single from The E.N.D. The song features a vocal sample from the 1990 song "Reach Out" by British house duo Sweet Mercy featuring singer Rowetta. It was written by group members will.i.am, apl.de.ap, Taboo and Fergie, being produced by will.i.am. “Saturday night is givin’ me a reason to rely on the strobe lights / The lifeline of a promise in a shot glass, and I’ll take that / If you’re givin’ out love from a plastic bag,” Ed sings on the chorus, as his friend turns to new vices in hopes of feeling better." Boom Boom Pow" is a song recorded by American group the Black Eyed Peas for their fifth studio album The E.N.D. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer. He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment. “I overthink and have trouble sleepin’ / All purpose gone and don’t have a reason / And there’s no doctor to stop this bleedin’ / So I left home and jumped in the deep end,” Ed Sheeran sings in verse one. ![]() Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it. Ed Sheeran tells the story of his friend and the myriad of troubles he is going through. “Plastic Bag” is a song about searching for an escape from personal problems and hoping to find it in the lively atmosphere of a Saturday night party. Let the beat rock (let the beat rock, rock, rock, rock) I be rockin' them beats (yep, yep, yep, yep, ha, ha, ha)īeats so big, I'm steppin' on leprechauns ![]() When-when I step inside the room, them girls go apeshit, uh ![]()
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