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“SNL” Follows Taylor Swift Week With Three Black Eyed Peas Songs

11/16/09, 2:36 pm EST

No matter what Saturday Night Live threw at viewers over the weekend, it was going to be tough to top last week’s stellar episode featuring host/musical guest Taylor Swift. The reviews are in, and they’re not that kind: the January Jones-hosted SNL is being criticized as one of the show’s least funny episodes in quite some time. Fortunately, there was a break from the non-comedy: three songs performed by musical guests the Black Eyed Peas. U2 rocked a trio of tracks on the show’s season premiere in September and Phoenix did the same last April.

The Peas played three of The E.N.D.’s biggest hits, “I Gotta Feeling,” “Meet Me Halfway” (watch it above) and “Boom Boom Pow.” SNL’s intimate stage has always been kinder to bands than pop acts, but Fergie was still able to showcase her impressive vocal prowess — just last week Slash called her “a screamer at heart” — to an audience of millions. The Peas closed out the episode with “Boom Boom Pow,” which you can watch below.

Next week, after a stretch of episodes featuring country and pop music courtesy of the Peas, Swift, Shakira and Gaga, rock returns to SNL when the Dave Matthews Band take the stage.

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Boy they suck!! | 11/16/2009, 2:50 pm EST

Horrible, horrible music. And what’s with the two members of the “band” who are not Will I Am or Fergie? Who’s dick are they sucking to be Black Eyed Peas?

one can only hope | 11/16/2009, 2:50 pm EST

… this truly is “The E.N.D.” My ears are bleeding. Doesn’t anyone remember how to make music anymore?

Anonymous | 11/16/2009, 3:08 pm EST

SNL will never regain the laughs it had in the 70s, 80s, early 90s, and 99-00.

(1995-1998, and 2001-2008 were bad times for the show.)

The last several weeks, the show was almost watchable again.

But then this January Jones episode aired, and sucked SNL back into oblivion.

One of the worst episodes I’ve ever seen, and I’m a loyal SNL viewer.

Ramya | 11/16/2009, 5:23 pm EST

From the monologue itself with January Jones laughing and not even being able to keep a straight face, I knew she would be a terrible host. She should stick to looking pretty and dead like she does on her show and avoid anything slightly comic. Watching her was like watching a trainwreck.

t.rex | 11/16/2009, 6:14 pm EST

“No matter what Saturday Night Live threw at viewers over the weekend, it was going to be tough to top last week’s stellar episode featuring host/musical guest Taylor Swift.”

Uh, top WHAT, exactly? Taylor can’t carry a tune to save her life, nor is she funny. There was nothing “stellar” about that episode. Now if you meant top that episode in suckiness, that you got right. I didn’t watch SNL this past weekend because the entire season so far has been nothing but a lost cause. This is gearing to be SNL’s worst season in all of its 35 years of existence thus far, and its really sad. I’d like to know where exactly Lorne Michaels gets his writers from, because they suck. A 12-year-old with a penchant for toilet humor could come up with better material. The only thing that would entice me to watch SNL these days is if an artist I really like is performing. The Black Eyed Peas suck, so there’s no way I’d have watched SNL anyways. Oh yeah, and “Mad Men” is hugely overrated.

Anonymous | 11/16/2009, 11:45 pm EST

I am literally at a loss for words. The Black Eyed Peas have absolutely nothing to offer whatsoever. They can’t sing, their lyrics are sh*t and their beats are flat. I can’t believe this passes as music. Somehow this has to end…please.

But I disagree, Mad Med is not overrated…it’s great.

Jane | 11/17/2009, 10:28 am EST

You people don’t know about the Peas they are great and that’s the only reason i watched snl

john ford | 11/17/2009, 12:06 pm EST

i seen them open for u2 in vegas last month and everyone i was with thought they were great, high energy, good songs etc.,

S.O. | 11/17/2009, 1:03 pm EST

SNL episodes are hit and miss. There have been great episodes & not soo great episodes. Depends on the Host. Oh and when is SNL going to have some actual Rock bands play the show. When is Muse, Silversun Pickups, Dead Weather going to be on SNL?

Mel | 11/17/2009, 2:27 pm EST

Thanks t.rex. You said it all.

Jungleland2 | 11/17/2009, 4:51 pm EST

I can not think of a single pop act that leaves me as cold as The Black Eyed Peas..they kinda make me hate music overall.

erick | 11/17/2009, 5:22 pm EST

does anyone know the name of the DJ?

Lauren | 11/18/2009, 7:42 am EST

I’m still laughing at the first comment asking who the 2 BEP’s who aren’t Fergie or Will I Am are. You do realize Fergie wasn’t always in this group, right?? She joined years after the other 3 were making music as the Black Eyes Peas. Plus, she sucks.

Jon | 11/18/2009, 11:43 am EST

My roomate and I watched this episode and could not stop laughing…at the Black Eyed Peas. They were easily the funniest part of the show. The Rear Window skit and the Samberg on the toilet skit were funny…thats cause fart jokes never get old. But the Peas were literally the worst live “band” I have ever heard (I think thier songs are listenable on teh radio…)

tom | 11/20/2009, 12:50 pm EST

I agree with you, Jon, and other’s. The Black Eyed Peas, to me, are a case of, “the king is wearing no clothes”. None of the guys can sing, and they just plain looked funny on stage. I was almost embarrassed, in my own home, to sit there and listen to them. Oh well, what ever floats your boat. I just don’t see what all the enthusiasm for Black Eyed Peas is.

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