I’m not hating on Will.i.am, but I’m sick of people saying there is no logical reason why he is famous. Are you people crazy? LOOK at the RESUME'. I can’t think of many words to describe it. Stellar is one. Magical is another. Funky Funky Fresh are three more.
He was in one of the most influential groups of the last 25 years of music, the Black Eyed Peas! Yeah that’s right. There’s a list. There was Sinatra, then Elvis, then the Beatles, Michael Jackson, and then, Black Eyed Peas. It feels right.
Do you know that feeling you have in your chest when the sun rises over the morning to start a new day, and for one moment in your sad life, you think that your past is erased and you’re free to conquer the world? There’s a word in a dictionary for that: it’s WILL.I.AM.
Bless him. His talent cannot be measured. And why try? This is Will fucking I fucking AM. Why would I waste my time trying to name a “song” he’s made? Why would I disrespect his image by trying to associate a “hit” to his name?
Fuck that, let’s be like that Coke commercial and skip the middle man (songs) and compare him to Bob Dylan. He has to be the next Bob Dylan. What would we do if we didn’t have another Bob Dylan that we can manufacture for commercial purposes so easily? Why, the world would be lost!
There are haters. They say absurd things like, “You don’t really like the Black Eyed Peas, you just like Fergie! The Black Eyed Peas without Fergie is the Pips without Gladys Knight, it doesn’t make sense. Why would you want to see a Pip CNN?" My answer to you haters: I didn't see a PIP make a hologram appearance with Anderson Cooper! So there!
Did you hear Will.i.am’s Obama song? Genius, right? Genius in its simplicity, just take his speech and take an old used beat, then have a bunch of stars lip-synch the speech. It felt right. And that’s how you become a genius, you go with what feels right. You let other people do the bulk of the work and you come in at the end and put your little signature on it. Then you wear the fliest hat ever. Have you seen his hats? He must be a genius with that stingy brimmed fedora!
Guess what he went to school for!? Just guess! Fashion. It makes sense, the way he’s walked that runway into America’s heart! You look fierce, Will! You’re an animal!
His biggest achievement is that he was interviewed as a hologram on CNN. Yeah, that’s right. And now he is being compared to Bob Dylan? How did we make that leap? Do you really care? Really? Not me buddy!
Some haters - like Lavar Burton - would say he was doing Hologram shit for years on Star Trek and nobody is wondering about him. Nobody is asking Lavar Burton his perspective on America, and he was in ROOTS! My answer? Where is his stingy brimmed fedora? Best go shopping Geordi La Forge.
I’m not hating on Will.I.AM being famous, I’m just saying.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Will.I.AM is famous?
Posted by Seaton Smith at 11:12 AM
Labels: Anderson Cooper, fedoras, inexplicably famous black celebrities i.e. Soulja Boy, Lavar Burton, Obama, Roots, Will.I.Am
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