Black Eyed Peas’ ‘Translation’: Album Review

It’s hard to believe that 10 years have passed since Fergie has recorded with the Black Eyed Peas. The swaggering vocal presence who helped push BEP into the pop/EDM marketplace — in accordance with founding songwriter-producer will.i.am’s broadened soundscapes, of course — wanted a solo career, got it at first with the mega-selling “The Dutchess,” blew it with the dull “Fergie,” and became a second-rate singing competition host with “The Four: Battle for Stardom.”

This is not Fergie’s story,

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