Why oh why are the black eyed peas relevent?

Tuning in to Nick's Kid Choice Awards (yes I know I'm 21 and still watch Nick) and after a rather impressive opening video by Jack Black the black eyed peas graced the stage. Entirely in black pvc with neon accents even made this big gay throw up a little, not sick but glitter, at the campness of it all.

After a autotuned filled beginning from Will-I-haveAmassiveEgo-Am, began Fergie in all her Crystal Meth riddle face glory, screeching their way through 'Time of my life (dirty bit). A song song ridunculous it makes Cheryl Cole sound like a lyrical and musical genius. Unable to dance or rap/sing (without enough auto-tune to make Britney Spears soung like she is singing acoustically), so here is my question, Why are they considered one of the biggest bands in the world?

Would The Beatles have been so iconic if the decided to sample other people's songs while gyrating around on stage wearing PVC and oversized glasses? Or how about if the Rolling Stones decided to sing about getting their satisfaction from someone's "lovely lady lumps"? Would they still be icons ... me thinks not.

Now I hate to sound like a music Nazi but who is buying this music? I'm going to hold my hands up and admit that just two days ago I purcahsed Britney Spears' new album so I am probably in no position to judge anyone's musical taste, or lack of, but at least Britney is a pop culture icon and as big a part of my childhood as flies and looking for water is to a child in Ethiopia, whereas the Black Eyed Peas are being hailed as the second coming. A sentiment which I refuse to acknowledge unless the second coming is of the excrement variety.

Some of the lyrical genius spewed from The Black Eyed Peas:
1: "Trying to feel my hump hump, looking at my lump lumps, you can look but you can't touch it"
2: "Shut up just shut up shut up, shut it up just shut up shut up etc etc"
3: "Lets get retarded, in here ..."
4: "We multiply like we mathamatice"
5: "And say, oh oh oh oh, Say, oh oh oh oh, Yo, yo"
6: "Beats so big I'm steppin on leprechauns"
7: "Let's do it, let's do it, Let's do it, Let's do it, and do it, and do it"

End of Black Eyed Peas Rant.
Pepper out!!

Dear Ryan Murphy...

I love Glee! I watched the pilot the first and second time E4 transmitted it. I have watched every episode, downloaded and bought the music; have a Glee T-Shirt, phone sock, badge set. I even spent a ridiculous amount of money on tickets for Glee Live at the O2 in June.

One of the things I love about it is the camp quality, but mostly it's the music. Be it good or bad (Good Vibrations people?), I buy into it, because this small group of sarcastic, super-talented misfits are like crack to me. I tune in to watch the hilarious dancing, the reinterpretations, Rachel Berry mouth quiver; Puck spectacularly miss a dance step in the background; hear Finn struggle with relaying any real emotion; or Kurt spectacularly steal any solo he is given with his little doe eyes; and i live for Mercedes Diva.
That and the witty one liners that i could quote all day. I seriously think i want to be Sue Sylvester when i grow up!

BUT...

Don't make me start to hate the show. I can take the poor plots, the bad acting, and the sometimes shoddy characterisation. What i won't take is the show thinking it's more important then it is.
Yes i understand that you sincerely believe you are teaching people to embrace other peoples differences, to not accept conformity, or societal dictations of what is right or wrong. That you encourage kids to be themselves and stand up for who they are and what they believe in. That the message you are trying to present is "Be yourself, Love yourself, don't let anyone put you down!"

So why all the hate. If a band chooses not to let you use their music surely that is their right? At the end of the day their music means something to them, they have worked hard, writing, rehearsing, recording, nurturing that music. What it means to them might not possible be what it means to everyone else. What it represents to them might not have anything to do with what you want it to represent.
Or maybe simply they don't want to.

Surely for a show that's message is accepting peoples differences, then you should accept that these people don't like your show? That doesn't mean they don't care about music education, or bullying or teen pregnancy or any of the other plethora of things Glee 'stands for'.

Do i think Slash/Dave Grohl?KOL were right in how they went about what they had to say, not necessarily? But that doesn't mean i don't agree with it.

As a fan of the Foo Fighters (I've seen them 4 times) and a massive Gleek, as someone who is going to watch King's in June just days before Glee, i just wish that you could see how hypocritical it is to ask to use someones music and when they refuse start name calling.
Or apparently getting Elton John to criticise the bands (Dear Elton John, will be another letter, for another time...)

So please just accept it and let it go, because I'm not so sure your anger was aimed at them on behalf of arts education, and bullying, and more misplaced anger at your hurt ego!

regards
Salt
A massive Gleek aged 27 yrs)

xxx