Worst of Music: Black Eyed Peas – The Time (Dirty Bit)

This week’s Worst of Music winner seems to be a regular when it comes to discussions for the weekly award. The Black Eyed Peas have been on a steady free-fall when it comes to their music since Let’s Get It Started and that wasn’t even that good. This week’s WoM worthy BEP song is an attempt at dance music that shoehorns an 80s pop classic in for good measure. And it’s slightly inexplicably called “The Time (Dirty Bit).”

I’m pretty sure that the “Dirty Bit” music was a mistake. For those of us that remember VHS, it sounds like a tape where the tracking is wrong so the audio sounds off key. As for “I’ve had the time of my life,” the autotuning has Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes not just rolling over in their graves but spinning like tops… Well, I know they’re still alive but they’ll make up for it when they die. And to think this lot is going to be the Super Bowl halftime show. Jerry Jones will roll over in his grave when he hears it… Well, if he wasn’t a reanimated corpse.

So congrats, BEP. You’ve won the prestigious Worst of Music award for this week.

Have a better WoM candidate for next week? Drop it in the comments.

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