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The Black Eyed Peas have just premiered their video for their third dance-til-you-drop single "Don't Stop the Party," taken from the quartet's recently released sixth studio album "The Beginning." The new video is giving fans a bird's-eye view of life on the road, and offers behind-the-scenes footage and concert clips from the band's recent tours.
"Don't Stop the Party" is bound to continue the success. Produced by the Los Angeles-based high-energy Damien "DJ Ammo" LeRoy, this hot club jam features Will.i.am rapping in a thick, Caribbean patois. The Black Eyed Peas songwriter told Spin magazine that he is proud enough of the song that he'd even play it for Jay-Z. "I would go to Jay's studio and play this be like 'Boom! Check it out!,' said Will. "Then I go dirty Caribbean on him on the last verse." The song itself is another adventure in high-octane Auto Tune studio wizardry. So if that's what you dig, then by all means, party on!
The Ben Mor-directed video was shot on tour in South America. In the video, the hip hop group uses tour footage from numerous trips overseas to show that folks from every hemisphere are dancing to their grooves. It features highlights even from their 2011 Super Bowl performance. But more than anything, the video shows the euphoria of the fans as the performers entertain the enormous crowds. It is truly amazing to see the bird's eye views of the crowds that attended their shows. The video is like a "breath of fresh air" as it promotes a message of happiness. All the way through, it displays people enjoying the music, the dance, the costumes, the lights and the colors of the event and, as the end of the clip apparently indicates, listening to vinyl.
What could possibly stop The Black Eyed Peas's party? The busy life of the Peas looks like a whirlwind tour of non-stop good times and their career as Energizer bunny-like entertainers is aptly dubbed a "party." The band is clearly looking at "Don't Stop the Party's" video to get this "Party" started instead of giving it a jump start after its radio life is well underway. Resistance to The Black Eyed Peas's party reign is futile. Their joyous club records have not only taken over America, but country by country, the planet.

The Black Eyed Peas have dedicated their latest video for "Just Can't Get Enough" to the victims of the natural disaster in Japan. The Peas teamed up with director Ben Mor and traveled to Tokyo for the shoot which took place only one week before the devastating natural disaster occurred in Japan. It opens with the message for the people in the country: "This video was filmed in Japan one week before the earthquake. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all the people of Japan. We love you." The band hope that their video for "Just Can't Get Enough" will raise awareness and funds for those who need help.
"Just Can't Get Enough" is the second single from American hip hop group's sixth studio album, "The Beginning," available on iTunes now. The electro song is an attempt to showcase the "physical and emotional range" of the voice of band member Fergie. It vaults suddenly from the rare dignity of string-synth textures to a sweatily pumping techno finale. Apl.de.ap told Beatweek Magazine why he wanted this to be the follow up to "The Time (Dirty Bit). Said the mohawked Black Eyed Peas co-founder: "It's a different tempo and it's also paying homage to the ladies. It's a love song and it's got a nice melody to it. So I think it would be a great different taste for our listeners."
"It was the easiest video I ever shot because it was us living our lives," Fergie told Entertainment Tonight. "I love that it's showing a true perspective of how it can sometimes be lonely on the road away from our loved ones. It also demonstrates the love and connection we have with Japan. Our heart goes out to all of the Japanese people who have been affected by this natural disaster." True to form, the video plays out like a love letter to the thriving metropolis and culture-rich city that made Tokyo. Taboo expressed, "It was an amazing moment in time because Japan has always been my favorite place on the planet. It was great to do our video there. God bless the Japanese. Our love goes out to them." Apl.de.ap also confirmed that "doing it guerrilla style in Tokyo was the way to capture it!"
The music video is about them living their lives on the road even though they are away from their loved ones. It will also be dedicated to the victims in Japan as it was filmed a week before the earthquake. Stacy Ferguson is seen enjoying her solitude in hotel room, sitting by the window and enjoying Tokyo's night city view. will.i.am, Taboo and Apl.de.ap, meanwhile, take a tour around the town, giving fans a look at the thriving metropolis and culture-rich city that made Tokyo. The tribute video closed with a request to donate to the Red Cross, urging fans to make donation for the relief effort. The four-member group are set to perform the track live on 'American Idol' tonight.

The Black Eyed Peas are back with another blockbuster new video on will.i.am's favorite social networking site Dipdiva for "The Time (Dirty Bit)", also known as "The Time (The Dirty Bit)." This club anthem is the first single lifted from the pop-dance supergroup's sixth studio album, "The Beginning," which hits stores on November 30. will.i.am described the LP on his blog as a sequel to their previous set, The E.N.D., adding it "symbolizes growth, new beginnings and starts a fresh new perspective." Their tracks tend to creep into our brains over time and eventually convert us, so anything's possible.
The song samples the 1987 single "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" from the film "Dirty Dancing." The song features group members will.i.am and Vocalist Fergie singing and rapping over a dance and techno beat. This is the kind of song that would get people in the mood when performed live in a big venue. "It's like you're there with all your friends," will.i.am told Billboard. "You're there in front of 50,000 people and they're there to watch you and your friends. Nothing gets any better than that. It's the best feeling, the best one yet." Fergie added: "The song is a celebration of this amazing time in our lives. We've been on tour all over the world, and looking out at stadiums full of people who came out to see us – that's as big as it gets. After the shows, we go out to the clubs and meet the fans; those are moments that we have to remember."
The Rich Lee-directed video, was shot in Los Angeles last month, stays true to the up-beat mood, showing club scenes as well as a lot of visual effects including fast-moving city life. The video features all four members of the Peas (sometimes their full bodies, and sometimes their face on a screen…on a body) having the time of their life dancing away as half humans and half pixellated digital caricatures throughout the visually-intoxicating short film. They even each get an avatar of themselves that grooves to the dirty bit as well. The not-yet-released Blackberry PlayBook is also heavily featured in the video.
The Black Eyed Peas's journeys through the annals of hip-hop pop are friendly, trendy and, most of all, fun; they manage to come off as both glamorous and accessible. In other words, just about everyone can find something to like about (or at least crib fashion tips from) Fergie, will.I.Am, Apl and Taboo, and their humps, lumps and overall phunkiness. Stutter and echo effects welded to one of the most instantly recognizable songs of the late 1980s played out over a skeletal electronic dance beat is all likely to stick in your mind, and this does. Black Eyed Peas songs are not to be judged on their depth. They are best judged on how they make you feel, and "The Time (Dirty Bit)" does make me feel good.

It's a double music video premiered back to back on Dipdive! Futuristic four-piece the Black Eyed Peas have proven that they really so 3008 with their latest fourth music video "Imma Be Rocking That Body", which is actually a combination of the songs "Imma Be"(U.S. single) and "Rock That Body"(U.K. & Europe single) from the groups chart topping and Grammy-award winning multi-platinum album "The E.N.D." which has pulled in more than 5 million copies worldwide since being released in June last year.
The Black Eyed Peas are looking and sounding like they are going the charts again with this double slammer of a video that lasts 10 minutes plus. The Black Eyed Peas battle robots in their sci-fi adventure two-in-one video, which was shot in a desert road in Lancaster, California on January 13 and directed by Rich Lee. The filming process was once forced to be halted when a sudden gust of sand swept the set and made it an unsafe environment for the artists and crew. The video, including robotic dancers, falls along the futuristic path and the combined tune is all about the beats, partying and the future. The two new singles are catchy and funnily enough make the lackluster passion from the disc mean something.
It kicks off with will.i.am explaining his vision about the group's future in the next millennium and telling the group how the future won't need them any more. Stacy Ferguson aka Fergie, wearing Louboutin designer footwear and a black metallic leotard, who disagrees with the idea leaves the group in outrage, driving a BMW motorcycle and strutting down a desert road surrounded by freaky reptiles, followed by an insane battle between the Peas, their robot friends, and some less friendly robot bad guys. Then, the video is rolled featuring lots of futuristic scenes, and it gets all 'Terminator'/'District 9' styled. The weirdness continues but the message is clear if you are aware enough to understand it. The visually stunning Rich Lee-directed music video features lots of computerized special effects and comprises of Transformers/robots getting into the groove of things. You've got to give it to them for setting the bar with their latest videos. Both epic and hypnotizing!

The Black Eyed Peas (BEP) have had a tremendous chart run for an unprecedented 26 consecutive weeks this year, and hit No.1 for the first time on the albums chart with "The E.N.D." and with the two singles "Boom Boom Pow" and "I Gotta Feeling". Since their album "Elephunk" in 2003, the group's hip hop/dance-oriented style has sold an estimated 20 million albums worldwide and 13 million singles. The biggest aspect of their success this year is not simply good, danceable music, but the ethereal aspect of it. The hip hop group is back and smash launched a CGI-filled (unembeddable) video for "Meet Me Halfway," the third official single from their awesome latest 5th studio album "The E.N.D.".
Entertainment Weekly writes that "When the group's glitchy future-funk beats, plagiarized shamelessly from Novaspace's 2002 hit single Time After Time sync up with Fergie's unabashedly feminine melodies, as on the sweetly insidious "Meet Me Halfway", they find pure Top 40 nirvana. Prefix magazine also gave the song a positive review, stating, "Meet Me Halfway" is notable mostly for being better than a new-wave-y ballad by the Black Eyed Peas has any right to be.
The music video was directed by Ben Mor (director of "I Gotta Feeling"), and was released onto the iTunes Music store on October 13. The video features the four members of the Hip-hop group being separated in different places and going on a quest to find each other. Stacy Ferguson aka Fergie rolling around in a pretty risque nude dress in some sort of jungle, while Taboo is an astronaut flying in the outer space near the sun. Apl takes out a map and will.i.am uses a compass to search for a path to the other members. All the members use the gateway, turn into shooting stars, and land on the planet, with the road in the middle of the desert. The "Meet Me Halfway" video is reminiscent of "Lord of the Rings", with its animal and earth themes, but the effects and galactic setting are more "I Am Legend".

The Black Eyed Peas is an American four-piece hip hop/pop group based in LA, who have broken a new record after scoring the longest successive stay at the top of the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with 17 straight weeks(12 with the single "Boom Boom Pow" and 5 for "I Gotta Feeling") in total by a duo or group. Both singles come off their 5th new studio album "The E.N.D."(Energy Never Dies) The record was previously held by Boyz II Men, who had 16 weeks at the top spot. As for the longest consecutive number one by a solo artist, that record is taken by Usher, who enjoyed 19 straight weeks on top of the charts.
The LA-based quartet have also knocked JLS's "Beat Again" off the top of the UK's Official Singles Chart with their latest release "I Gotta Feeling", matching their same accomplishment in the US.
The official music video was released on June 2 on Dipdive and on June 16 on iTunes. The video first starts out with some scenes in Hollywood Blvd. Then it shows will.i.am combing his hair and Fergie putting on makeup wearing lingerie. It also shows Taboo and apl.de.ap getting ready for the party. Then it cuts to the party as the first verse starts. In the uncensored version, two woman are kissing at the two minute mark, at which point the lyrics "Let's take it...off!" are heard, and a hand grabs the top of the dress of one of the women, and pulls it down, exposing her breasts. All members of the Black Eyed Peas are shown dancing. Later, they are dancing with their faces and hands painted with phosphorescent paint. The video ends with a large sign with human-sized letters that reads "The E.N.D."