In more than three months I have tried to appreciate “The E.N.D.”, the latest album from The Black Eyed Peas but I fail to do so! The reason is that the album, despite being very trendy and tapping on the recent ELECTRO-fication of the Hip Hop and RnB genres, is a pure underachievement for this particular collective. They have previously been about groundbreaking, eclectic blending of genres and experimentation with vocal styles. In this album, however, they’ve got stuck in one single track which narrows down their register and while I can understand Will.i.am being severely influenced by the latest auto-tune frenzy (T-Pain, Kanye West, Lil’ Wayne), to hear the versatile voice of an able and seasoned vocalist like Fergie being filtered throughout the entire album just to “fit in” is just unjustifiable!
