Black Eyed Peas - My Humps

Third single to be lifted from their top selling album Monkey Business. Tracks, My Humps (Single Version), My Humps (Lil Jon Remix), So Real (Non LP Version), My Humps (Video). A&M. 2005. Album Description

This song is genuinely awful...

I loathe the song to death. There is nothing valuable. It's not even musically pleasing. It's just annoying! July 1, 2007

BOO FOR MY HUMPS!

First of all, let me say I love the BEP. They are a very talented band. I love Pump It, Hey Mama, Fallin Up, and Lets Get ( It Started/ Retarted)
and alot of their other music. But this is horrible. Her butt? I am sorry to this talented band, but you have something else to write and rap/sing about. If Fergie- Ferg- " Ferguson" is going to be like this, then just don't let her be in the band. Your Behind The Front was a must have! And then it was this. It's on the charts- and it is #1 but IT SUCKS! Kids are (legally) downloading it. Make something else. That is all I am trying to say, because this is a piece of s***.


January 17, 2007

Come on, people

This song did get a lot of airplay (probably more than it deserved). But it's a catchy and decent enough song.

And now the main point of my review. Look at the history of BEP. Intelligent, meaningful music. Do you really think they would make this song with anything but irony in mind? It's so incredibly obvious that I felt they were beating me over the head with it. To make it mind-numbingly explicit, the song serves, in the postmodern ironic way, to parody the modern club scene as a callous meat market that objectifies women with stultifying, repetitious music. Fergie consciously chose superficially superficial lyrics to reduce modern man/woman to their mere physical embodiment--their lumps and their humps.

BEP assumed its audience would be, by and large, intelligent enough to decipher this. We've come a long way since the dullard uproar that attacked Swift for his modest proposal, or so you'd hope. But apparently not. Normally, it'd be hard to find anything more painful than seeing all you snobbish, Radiohead-listening poseurs screeching about how the song is sexist and a sign of the downfall of modern music. Sadly enough, the all-too numerous Lil Jon cohort who love this song in a non-ironic sense provide just that. Probably could write a thesis on the meta-cultural implications of it all. September 12, 2006

This song is so funny and IRONIC.

Isn't it ironic? Don't you think?
I could tell after a few listens that My Humps is supposed to be a (wink wink) kind of song. The song is exploring the negative mentality of women who subject themselves to disrespect by men for the sake of material possessions.
You can tell by Fergie's voice that she is playing a role.
I also notice a few other songs that sound like or have a similar set up to My Humps. Beep by The Pussycat Dolls and Promiscuous by Nelly Furtado come to mind. September 8, 2006

More commercial pop

I wont even rate the entire album since I haven't heard it. This the only trash that was forced on my ears while I was playin pool with my boy and I got my a** whipped, cause this annoyin song threw me off. This song is almost as annoying as the thong song. I stopped coppin black eyed peas along time ago. And with songs like this hittin the mainstream, I doubt if I ever cop anything else again. July 2, 2006

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