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How exactly did Gym Class Heroes “copy the formula” of Black Eyed Peas?

Black Eyed Peas- Formed in 1995
Gym Class Heroes- Formed in 1997
Black Eyed Peas- Broke through in 2003 with “Where is the Love” when they added sex appeal (Fergie).
Gym Class Heroes- Broke through in 2006 with “Cupid’s Chokehold,” reissue of a 2004 song. Did not add sex appeal.

So Gym Class Heroes copied the formula of Black Eyed Peas because both groups rap and both got popular after years of being underground? Is this your logic? If either of these bands can be accused of following a formula, its BEP (adding sex appeal to gain popularity). Also, GCH plays their own instruments live (guitar, bass, drums) while BEP does not. And that’s ignoring the fact that the two groups don’t really sound alike or rap about similar things. That was a pretty lazy comparison.

Skamp, the comments seem to be directed more towards the assertation from members of this band that the current music “scene” is a revolution comparable to 1968 or 1991. Absurd. This is a delayed reaction of bands attempting to copy the formula and success of bands such as blink-182 and Fall Out Boy (Against Me! and The Academy is…) and Black-Eyed Peas (Gym Class Heroes). This would be the equivalent of saying a rapper such as P. Diddy ushered in a hip-hop revolution such as we’ve never seen since Grandmaster Flash and the Sugarhill Gang.

The main problem with modern music is it’s so damn smug and ironic these days. That’s not to say there are not some great new bands out there but very few have the balls to stick their neck out without that ironic, half grin that says “hey, I’m just kidding you know, but kinda dead serious at the same time”. Even the legends having all these reunion tours have become parodies of themselves.

People make snarky comments because they are frustrated, frustrated because a guy singing in a band that has actually managed to copy Fall Out Boy is talking about a revolution in music. You know, the Russian Composer Alexander Scriabin’s atonal symphonies will make you feel everything that Slipknot and a million metal bands have only dreamed of, and the Clash’s London Calling has more to offer than the last 10 years of the Warped Tour. There is music and there is product, if people stopped watching television for a year and reclaimed their own minds they would know what I’m talking about. I haven’t watched television in 4 years and I feel like I am living a different life. When I was 17 some of my favorite bands were Blink 182, Korn and Limp Bizkit. I was in that MTV 6 hours of television a day unreality. Like I said, turn off your TV, reconnect to the real world and tell me in a year if you can still listen to The Academy Is…

People can hate on bands like this until the end of time. But it’s not worth it. Enjoy music. You don’t have to like this. like what you like and let others like theirs. No? Is it more fun to make snarky comments? Ok then.

Adam Siska must be a world class f’ing moron. He obviously wasn’t around to experience ‘68 or ‘91. Go practice your stupid faces in the mirror you tool.

“…if tickets sales are down then it’s the fans’ problem for not coming out.” - Beckett

So it’ll be everyone else’s fault but yours when your band gets dropped two years from now when the fad is over? You’re a toolbox.

no, just no, this style of music has already played it self out. It’s gotten as generic as the glam metal scene in the ’80s.

I agree, 97-99 is when music started going downhill - probably the single worst period of music EVER!

…more like 1997: blink-182, backstreet boys, n sync, britney spears…..yeah, groundbreaking