After the NBA commercials, the Best Buy ads and appearances in videogames and TV shows, the Black Eyed Peas should've reached their media saturation point by now. Guess not. The PG-rated hip-hop party troupe is ready to get the party started again with Monkey Business, a disc packed with so many surefire club-ready hits it'll be impossible to avoid these jams over the next year. It's all about good times here: The joints deal largely with hitting the dance floor ("Disco Club"), appreciating somebody's booty ("Lady Lumps") or just moving ("Pump It"). It's fun throughout--even Sting, James Brown, Dick Dale and more join in--but hardly groundbreaking. Most cuts bite predictable styles that rely on a retro sample for a hook. But whatever--if you're gonna look like a fool on the dance floor, you could have a worse soundtrack.
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