Black Eyed Peas Gunning for Club Domination on "The E.N.D." : Rolling Stone

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The Black Eyed Peas are dosing their next album, The E.N.D., with a bit of club culture.

"The Peas' album isn't electro, but it's influenced by it," says Will.i.am.

Taking its name from an acronym for The Energy Never Dies, the band's fifth set is a collection of hyperactive dance tracks. The project was born during a night of clubbing Will did in Australia last year while filming X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The night's electro grooves immediately turned Will on. "It was hard, and it felt like hip-hop, only faster," he says.

Will reached out to Toronto's MSTRKRFT, Italy's Crookers and other emerging producers for fresh beats. The club-inspired songs that fill The E.N.D., like the Auto-Tune-heavy "Rock Your Body" and the woofer-rattling single "Boom Boom Pow," reflect the quartet's love of going out. "This is the first album that represents our touring life as far as how hard we party," says Will.

The E.N.D. track that captures that lifestyle best might be "Out of My Head," a funk groove that Will says features vocals from a tipsy Fergie. "[She] parties harder than all of us, which is dope. I think this song sums up exactly who Fergie is."

The B.E.P. guru plans to take his party global. "Every song on the record is for the clubs," says Will. "I want to own Vegas, Ibiza, St. Tropez, Dubai, London, France and Brazil. And for the college kids who just want to party in their dorm room, you should put this record on beginning to end. It's already DJ'd for you."