Black Eyed Peas “Meet Me Halfway (Joshua Bass & Aaron Jones Remix)”
Black Eyed Peas are finally moving on to a third single from their The E.N.D. set, and we’re actually quite excited about this. Not only because it seems we’re finally going to get a airplay break from the US chart-topping stranglehold of previous E.N.D. singles “Boom Boom Pow” and “I Gotta Feeling” (they’ve been at the top of the Hot 100 for a record-breaking TWENTY-THREE STRAIGHT WEEKS people-that’s more than enough love for two songs that were irksome long before they got played 50 billion times!!!), but also due to the fact that the album’s official junior joint will be the far more likable “Meet Me Halfway”, previously hyped here as “an amped-up ballad which bites the soaring drive of The Killers’ “When You Were Young” in it’s epic “oh-oh-oh” melody while The Dutchess commits a solid vocal performance that hints of a newly reinvigorated interest in her old, childhood Cyndi Lauper/ Madonna records” (ahh, we’re so good when we try).
And look, the track has already begun inspiring hot remixes.
Likely the first of many, this re-haul by the production duo of Joshua Bass and Aaron Jones is tricked out with some trash-can percussion stomp, synthesized marching band fanfare and flashes of electric guitar, nicely competing with the club-ready beat of the will.i.am/ Keith Harris-helmed original in the kitchen-sink, dance-hip-pop-crafting department.
DL: “Meet Me Halfway (Joshua Bass & Aaron Jones Remix)” (alt)
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