Thank you all for such a wonderful conversation. I've really enjoyed reading this thread (with all the different undercurrents of conversation) so far.
scheky wrote:As for TBEP, face it..the group IS will.I.am. Everybody else is simply a prop. Fergie is simply eye-candy ho with an OK voice.
I don't think this is entirely true. Fergie brought the Peas into
the mainstream. I suppose this could have been the case with a
different singer, but there is a reason will.i.am has hitched so
tightly to her solo career. He's riding her star as much as she's
riding his talent.
What made the blood come out of my ears was when Fergie
provided the shrill voice of Sally Brown in the more recent
"Peanuts" TV specials. Gaaaaah! "Get me Some Earplugs,
Charlie Brown!"
I entirely agree that she brought them into the mainstream. I'll also posit that they haven't been nearly as good since they added her. They were definately a better band talent-wise and originality-wise before they added the fluff.
djm wrote:On her second, Jagged Little Pill, she had a boyfriend who did all her arranging and production.
That's where all her hits came from and her fame, as well.
She dumped the boyfriend and has done very little to match that second album worth listening to.
Is he the gentleman she refers to in "Hands Clean"?
*OTOH,I don't listen to a lot of pop music, so there may well have been a song called "My B*lls" or some such...
The Austrailian band AC/DC had a song called "Big Balls" on their 1976 album "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap". It still gets airplay on classic rock stations...
