Boom and Pow. Two words that make me think of the 1960s Batman series featuring Adam West. The series renowned for its use of descriptive words to accompany Batman or Robin knocking seven bells out of some henchmen.
Despite these nostalgic memories, the Black Eyed Peas song "Boom Boom Pow" has nothing about it that I would ever want to remember, except how attrocious it is.
Music and talent are both at a premium here. The lyrics are ridiculous to the point of meaningless. They are mainly summed up by the repetition of the following phrase: "Gotta get that boom boom boom." I am sure I could dig up plenty of long-dead corpses with better lyrical talents.
These terrible lyrics are accompanied by a monotonous looping quasi-techno beat. Basically someone pressed a couple of buttons on a computer and, hey presto, the song was done.
But what about the vocals? Surely they are alright, despite being constrained by the tiny vocabulary on display? Alas, even they have been auto-tuned beyond recognition. What we get to hear is akin to a techno robot medley.
The sad thing about this track is that it is clearly just there to make a quick buck. There is no thought behind it, no talent on display - just a tediously repetitive beat with equally tediously repetitive lyrics. This from the same act that made "Where is the Love" in 2003, a song loaded with meaning, even if it was contrived and patronising.
And despite all this, there are people who will have bought and downloaded it. It's enough to make you write off the human race and hope to be abducted by aliens just to escape it.
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