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.
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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 June 2020, the music video has over 360 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. It's true, it will remind us that we are, after all, not God." Boom Boom Pow" is a song recorded by American group the Black Eyed Peas for their fifth studio album The E.N.D. And your father's name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy.
Then, having reached the heights, this all-but-divine race perished in a single night, and nothing was preserved above ground.Īlta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy. Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the mysteries of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space. In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell.
United Planets Cruiser C57D, now more than a year out from Earth Base on a special mission to the planetary system of the great main-sequence star Altair. And so, at last, mankind began the conquest and colonization of deep space.
Almost at once there followed the discovery of hyperdrive through which the speed of light was first obtained and later greatly surpassed. By 2200 A.D., they had reached the other planets of our solar system. In the final decade of the 21st Century, men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon.
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