Summer Heat of the 2000s: Beyonce and Black Eyed Peas (Pt. II)

Published: Aug. 23, 2018, 1 p.m.

The final episode of our Switched on Summer throwback series finds us deconstructing more early aughts bangers.\nUnder consideration: two of the biggest hits since Y2K, Beyonc\xe9's "Crazy in Love" and the Black Eyed Peas' "I Got a Feeling." Tune in to dig how these tracks keeps the temperature rising through harmonic suspension, and to ask if will.i.am cribbed "Chopsticks."\nSwitched On Summer Winner: Slow Dance\nCongrats to Slow Dance for winning our Switched On Summer contest with their song "I'm Your Guy Tonight." Listen to the whole track here: https://soundcloud.com/slowdancemusic/im-your-guy-tonight\nYou can get all of our song of summer chord loops, song packs and listen to the awesome entires to our Splice Firestarter competition on Splice here: http://splice.com/onpop\nSongs Discussed:\n\u2022 Beyonc\xe9 - Crazy in Love\n\u2022 The Chi-lites - Are You My Woman\n\u2022 Jay Z - 99 Problems\xa0\n\u2022 Black Eyed Peas - I Got a Feeling\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices