Black Eyed Peas - My Humps
jeff recently lent me Monkey Business by Black Eyed Peas, and I’ve been listening to it on and off over the past few days.
It’s good. There’s several tracks that have, in the immutable words of our generation, huge, catchy hooks. “Pump It”, “Don’t Phunk with My Heart” and “My Style” among them. A couple are pretty sweet remixes of old classics including “Union” (of Sting’s “Englishman in New York”), and “Pump it” again (of Dick Dale’s “Miserlou”). And one track’s just plain fantastic: “Don’t Lie”. Though a couple lines are overly steeped in poppy vocals, the song manages to make it despite.
But the quality of the album as a whole is not what I wanted to comment on today. Rather, I’m more interested in dissecting the lyrics of one song in particular: “My Humps”, a fair to middlingly catchy song about a… shall we say ‘curvaceous’ hot girl. Allow me to reproduce a stanza of the lyrics here.
Tryna feel my hump hump,
lookin at my lump lump.
You can look but you can’t
touch it. If you touch it, I’ma
start some drama.
You don’t want no drama.
No no drama.
No no no no drama.
Consider those last two lines in particular: “No no drama. / No no no no drama.”
That’s one of the worst lyrics I have ever had the misfortune of hearing. I think I can honestly feel a little rivulet of blood pouring from my ears every time I hear that song. What was the songwriter thinking? “Uh… Something that rhymes with ‘drama’. How about ‘drama’? Yeah, that”ll do. And for the next line I’ll use… meh… ‘drama’ again. And for the forth… screw it. Slap another ‘drama’ in there, throw in a few ‘no’s for rhythm’s sake and call it good.”
Well, allow me to retort. You’re a no talent ass-clown. That’s right: no no talent. No no no no talent. And for this reason, I proclaim “My Humps” by Black Eyed Peas a work of sheer Musical Genius.
Sounds like a strong potential entrant to be in the next Dave Barry book on popular American music.
The thing that really gets me about that is that there are so many choices to go with ‘drama’ there. I mean, the three that come to my mind immediately are ‘yo momma’, ‘pajama’, and ‘Senator Barack Obama’. Hell, you could even stretch with some improper pronunciation and go with ‘the state of Alabama’.
I would love to hear the ‘Senator Barack Obama’ remix, personally.
Common Kate! I find Fergie quite sexy when she goes like “My hump, my hump …”. Ohhh weee
It’s not the lyrics that are…. weird. Look at her dancers:
http://www.jannis.to/daily/archives/674-Black-Eyed-Peas-My-Humps.html
Funky…
Wow, Jannis… that’s… a little scary…
Anyway, in case you forgot about this from from Tuesday, Mike, you need to add this to your Musical Genius post:
Kool and the Gang - Open Sesame
It’s a combination of really bad lyrics and really awesome funk. How can you go wrong with a song about a funk genie?
“I am the Genie of Sound, everybody get down. Hooah!”
“Get on your camel and ride!”
“Alacazam! Abracadabra!”
“Climb abord my magic carpet and let us take a ride, to the oasis of our minds.”
“Feel the power and the spirit of the genie! Yeah, c’mon! Doit Toit! Uh-hooah! Up, up, and away!”
By the way, “My Humps” came up on “Soul Train” today (what can I say, the Olympics were boring, so I started flipping channels). I’d have to list that as one of the more bizzare songs I’ve ever heard. And not particularly in a good way. You call it “a fair to middlingly catchy song”. I agree with the “middlingly catchy” part, but I think I might call “The Macarena” a better song, and that frightens me.
M’kay, I’ve done a week’s worth of research on this, mainly involving nicking Monkey Business and listening to it on the bus to work.
Now, I agree it ain’t up to much in the lyrical genius bit, but I don’t think the drama bit is the worst - the “boys all think I’m sexy/they say they want to sex me” line is a crime beyond redemption.
I think its a good song sure my sis says its a breast cancer song but its a good song
[...] To my knowledge, Ger enjoyed his birthday party, and we all collected our tickets to buy some shot glasses and a kickass kazoo. Mike then proceeded to serenade us with the Black Eyed Peas’ “My Humps” on the kazoo. A fitting end to the evening. Happy Birthday Ger! [...]
i just have to say that pump it and my humps are the best songs in the world and i love dancing and singing to them. i am hoping to get the black eyed peas cd for my b.day on 11th of july i am turning 12 i cant wait. you guys the black eyed peas are my favourite band in the world and 1 of y best friends Shelley love your band 2 and we always make up a dance to it an so does Ashley. GO BLACK EYED PEAS!!!!LUV YA GUYS fROM CATRINA
I ABSOLUTLEY LOVE THAT SONG EXCPICIALLY PUMP IT YOU ARE MY FAVOURITE BAND!!!!!FROM JAYDEN
go black eyed peas i luv your song did you know that my cousin whenever it says make you work make you work work make you work she always does that dance move to it it is so digusting and she even does it in front of the class in school.!!!
go black eyed peas!!! did you know that my cousin whenever it says make you work make you work work make you work she always does that dance move to it it is so digusting and she even does it in front of the class in school.!!!
lil john should have not been in the remixs he should be in the reai thing and trina and buster should have well that what ever body say well i think that yall should do ya thing because yall have been doing ya thing seens yall started to me if i meat yall i would pass out and i can”t wait to meat you and i hope that you and your kids thanks see ya
I think it was sooooooooooo awesome! my friends and I listen 2 it all the time! GO GO GO! my friends and i watched the vidieo so many times we know all the moves. with love,
melissa
I think My Humps has too many bad words. They should make a clean version.
Well pump it by black eyed peas is very weard but its great. And my hump is better than james.
I want the whole words for my humps!!!!
Why don’t you search Google for “my humps lyrics”?
great band- wassup with THESE lyrics??
Led Zeppelin / Houses of the Holy
D’yer Mak’er
(Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant)
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You don’t have to go oh oh oh oh oh
You don’t have to go oh oh oh oh oh
Baby please don’t go.
Ay ay ay ay ay ay
All those tears I cry ay ay ay ay ay
All those tears I cry ay ay ay ay ay
Baby please don’t go.
*CHORUS
When I read the letter you wrote, it made me mad mad mad
When I read the news that it brought me, t made me sad sad sad.
But I still love you so, I can’t let you go
I love you- ooh baby I love you.
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Every breath I take oh oh oh oh oh
Every move I make oh oh oh oh oh
Baby please don’t go.
Ay ay ay ay ay ay
You hurt me to my soul ay ay ay ay ay
You hurt me to my soul ay ay ay ay ay
Darling please don’t go.
CHORUS
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You don’t have to go oh oh oh oh oh
You don’t have to go oh oh oh oh oh
(Baby please don’t go)
Uh oh, it looks like we might have hurt someone’s feelings.
naaa. I have always laughed when I hear this song and think to myself..Great band but how stoned were they when they wrote this one.
grat song!!! verry good band I love it!!
some songs I dont like them but it doesent matter!!
cant be botherd
fuck off u muder fuckers u need 2 fucking suck ur dads cock
U SUCK!!!!!!!!!!1 EVERYONE KNOWS THAT SONG ROCKS UR JUST INTO GAY OLD MUSIC SO SHUT IT!
I WANTED THE WORDS TO THE SONG
THEN SEARCH GOOGLE FOR “MY HUMPS LYRICS”
you
I HATE THAT SONG “my humps” THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A GAYER SONG THAN THAT ONE! THAT SONG IS A INsult to all singers everywhere it kills me that people LIKE that shit TEENYBOPPER MUSIC! THAT SONG SUCKS THE SINGERS IN THAT SONG SUCK! nobody in that hole band has any talent what so ever! infact i plan out HATE THE BLACK EYED PEAS!
“THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A GAYER SONG THAN THAT ONE!”
You know, I have to agree here. If I was to pick one song that would be most likely to sexually prefer another song, the Black Eyed Peas’ ‘My Humps’ would almost certainly be it.
But, now that I think about it, what would the sexual preference of a heterosexual song be? A poem?
I love my hump it is so so cool and bad day is so so cool to I love sonogs.
i need to know how to get black eyed peas tickets on the enternet.
i don’t think thats messed up i think ur messed up that was a good song but now its old and so ttly boring and lame. but whoeva made this website has alot of issuses keepem too urself. we don’t need that
meow…………..cherry pie is cooler than pump it and my humps!!!
the very first time i heard black eyed peas was when i was in a bad mood and it cheered me up and made me laugh
Could some one plz tell me what the first part of the song pump it …. that “HA ha haaaa” is called, it was a very old song and I’ve been looking for it for ages!!!! hope you can help!!! PLZ!!!!!!
Anonymous, as the original post mentions, “Pump it” is based on Dick Dale’s “Miserlou”.
Wikipedia has an informative article on Misirlou’s provenance.
Hey, my boyfriend is Mexican and this is the 1st American song that he has listened to and liked
Let’s not make so much drama
about a song. No drama
We don’t want no drama
No no no no drama
No drama
Lol.
i completely agree…this is such mixed up garbage, it can’t be called music
hello.my name is asuman:)I’am from TURKEY.
I think this musice My Humps” is awsome at my town we think its the bome and you guys and girls who read this GET A DAME LIFE this page is for commets not to say bad stuff losers later.
Asuman your from Turkey, okay good to know, what does that have to do with the topic???
Myself I enjoy the song.
this song its beatifule but the voice is horrible andddddd tekst its good goood
i like this song its very good and i have this song in my CD and i lisen this song every daay in my life acept wikends
this song its very black yak
im natasha from spain i have seen one time BLACK EYED PEAS
WHAT YOU GONAA DO WITH ALL THET,,,,,,,,,,IM MAKE MAKE YOU,,,,,MY HEART MY HEART MYAHEART,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
My Humps is a good song. Nasty, but I like it.
Fergie has great back up dancers. She wears this
cute clothes.
Ohh.. Fergi is the best in that band!! Yes, of course they other are also good! On my dance we have Black eyed peace song every time! And guess who want to have it? YES, Its me! Are its not funny?:( huh… Ok next time I have a funny schetch. O I love the simpsons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Its fun? Huh… huh…?? Ok I are so boring!! Chiao
THIS SONG(MY HUMPS)IS SO COOL!!!
HAVE SOMEONE A SONG-MY HUMPS,I LOVE FERGIE SO…
Fergie is AWSOME! I love her more than any of you people out there! I am Fergie crazy!
I love Fergie the most in my whole school and high-school! Where as you fool above does not even know how to spell sweet Fergie!
Her real name is Stacy Ann Ferguson if you do not know! She has stared in a actual movie you people who don’t know about it! I wanna see it but I am too young… (Wail, sob…)
In fact I am listening to her song Glamorous while I am writing this message! I have watched the video now and a million more times!
So I think I have done bosting for now, even though I have alot more to say I do not want to bore you and put you off this excelent spectacular blog and one of the best speeches in the universe! (Sorry, still boasting!) Love from Fergie fan! Did I mention I was part of the Fergie fan website- (www.fergie.com)! FanFergie is my username! (Fergiefan & Fergie & Stacy & Ann & Ferguson and so on were taken)
ay ne yaziyimm ya sprr ötesii bişii ztn fergienin hastasıyım ı love you fergie
um
ya ben bu fergieyii çokk sewiyorumm hastasıyımm ya resimlerini bulmak için çablıomm bilgisayardaa fergieeeeeeeeee black eyed peas grubudakileride çok sewiyomm yaaa a fergieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee cnmm bnm bu yazıları fergie okuyomuu acabaa her nessee fergii jnömmmm beaaa
musica beyonce
I love all your songs Fergie. I love waking up to your wonderful music in the mornin. I love your new song Glamorous! My friends and I sing it all the time. Keep on making those wonderful songs.
You Rock fergie!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You rock my socks!!! and mabye even my undies!!!
IHIHIHIHI YA BN BU FERGİEYİİİİİ ÇOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK SEWYOMM BLACK EYED PEASDAKİLERİDE TABİKİİ HAN WAR YA 3 KİŞİ FERGİEYEYLE GÖRÜŞCEKK ONA KATILMAK İSTİOMM AMAAA ACABA YİNE GRUPP TÜRKİYEYE GELCEK Mİİİİ GELSİNNNNNNNNNN
fergie askomm oo bnm yaacok sewyomm onuuu bnm kdr bsk kimse sewemezzzzzzzzzzz
FERGİEE HIP HOP YAA BNM GİBİİ ASKOOMMM OO BNMM Bİ BN FERGİEYİ SEWDİMMM HER KESS SEWMEYEEEBASLADII ÖZENTİLERR FERGİEYİİ BİLMEYENLERR BİLEEEEEE AMA BNM KDR BASKA KİMSEEE SEWEMEZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
oieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
eu amo amo amo amo amo amo amo amo amo amo amo amo amo amo amo amo amo amo amo amo o black edey
peas
cannot hear than not niceeey oledi lo…
pump it şarkına bayılıyorum ya offfffffff
amazon - com has made up alot of stuff the Black Eyed Peas are not similar to Billy Joel the Black Eyed Peas are rappers and there dirty Billy Joel is not a rapper and hes not dirty
My Humps is a good song.
all are the best
Okay i know some ppl hate bep but that is your thing and I for one think that BEP is great… BUT U CAN CHASE A FIRE TRUCK!!
my humps is so awesome it awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!well g2g cya
Does anyone have the words to the dirty version of this song? I have the songs, but not the words. I for one love it, and I am 50.
In the Philippines, these retards think the whole band is Filipino. One band member was a bastard child of a US serviceman and a prostitute in Angels City outside of Clark AFB - left when he was 11 to get adopted by a rich white guy -turned down all offers of paid-for college education in the US -became homeless, in the USA - never returned to the Fils until after he was rich.
And I swear to all that is wrong with the world, this entire society thinks the whole band is a national treasure of the Philippines.
i really like your music you are neally my favourite band but not quite. it would be good if your could write back
sincerly chantelle
lovvveeee iiiiiiittttttttttttt
this song is nasty ….but with a good rythem so it is aceptable.*(singing my humps outloud)*
Gawd, you’re all idiots. Not only is it one of the lamest songs ever written (if that’s what you call it). It’s also quite derogatory - let me explain to your dumb assess: Here you have this tired white chick talking about how she has all these dumb ass borthers buying her stuff, which by the way she’s willing to take, but she wants nothing to do with them! Wake up people, stop being so damn mindless. Music is so much more than just a beat, but most of you are too effen stupid to notice!
hold on a sec, while i take a dump on this black eyed peas cd.
Fucking talentless twats!