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== Critical reception ==
== Critical reception ==
The song received fairly positive critical response. ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' wrote "When the group's glitchy future-funk beats sync up with Fergie's unabashedly feminine melodies, as on the sweetly insidious ''Meet Me Halfway,'' they find pure Top 40 nirvana."<ref>{{cite web|last=Greenblatt |first=Leah |url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20282707,00.html |title=The E.N.D. &#124; Music Review &#124; Entertainment Weekly |publisher=Ew.com |date= |accessdate=2009-08-16}}</ref> ''[[Prefix]]'' magazine also gave the song a positive review, stating, "Meet Me Halfway, is notable mostly for being better than a new -wave-y ballad by the Black Eyed Peas has any right to be."<ref name="prefix">{{cite web|author=Andrew Winistorfer |url=http://www.prefixmag.com/reviews/black-eyed-peas/the-end/26153/ |title=Black Eyed Peas: The E.N.D. (New Album) |publisher=Prefixmag.com |date= |accessdate=2009-08-16}}</ref> ''[[Billboard]]'' wrote "Fergie elongates each note for a sensual vocal and offers a nice complement to co-producer Will.i.am, who handles the majority of the rhymes over funk guitar, hand claps and distorted pulses. With this track already climbing the Hot 100, the Peas are proving that their hit parade is far from over.<ref> {{cite web|author=Kirk Honeycutt http://www.theusdaily.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=874832&type=EntertainmentMus |title=Black Eyed Peas: The E.N.D. (New Album) |publisher=Billboard.com |date= |accessdate=2009-10-16}}</ref> Bill Lamb of ''[[About.com]]'' stated that: "Fergie has the clear lead vocal here. She will never blow someone away with a bombastic voice or an otherworldly vocal range. However, she has an almost tearful edge to her voice that makes nearly any of her performances sound soaked with emotion. "Meet Me Halfway" is no exception. With the focus clearly on Fergie, this could in some ways be seen as a solo effort. However, the style of the song fits better in the context of the Black Eyed Peas album The E.N.D. instead of Fergie's The Dutchess. <ref name="about"> {{cite web|author=Bill Lamb http://top40.about.com/od/singles/gr/blackeyedpeasmeetmehalfway.htm |title=Black Eyed Peas: The E.N.D. (New Album) |publisher=About.com |date= |accessdate=2009-10-13}}</ref>
The song received fairly positive critical response. ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' wrote "When the group's glitchy future-funk beats sync up with Fergie's unabashedly feminine melodies, as on the sweetly insidious ''Meet Me Halfway,'' they find pure Top 40 nirvana."<ref>{{cite web|last=Greenblatt |first=Leah |url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20282707,00.html |title=The E.N.D. &#124; Music Review &#124; Entertainment Weekly |publisher=Ew.com |date= |accessdate=2009-08-16}}</ref> ''[[Prefix]]'' magazine also gave the song a positive review, stating, "Meet Me Halfway, is notable mostly for being better than a new -wave-y ballad by the Black Eyed Peas has any right to be."<ref name="prefix">{{cite web|author=Andrew Winistorfer |url=http://www.prefixmag.com/reviews/black-eyed-peas/the-end/26153/ |title=Black Eyed Peas: The E.N.D. (New Album) |publisher=Prefixmag.com |date= |accessdate=2009-08-16}}</ref> ''[[Billboard]]'' wrote "Fergie elongates each note for a sensual vocal and offers a nice complement to co-producer Will.i.am, who handles the majority of the rhymes over funk guitar, hand claps and distorted pulses. With this track already climbing the Hot 100, the Peas are proving that their hit parade is far from over.<ref> {{cite web|author=Kirk Honeycutt http://www.theusdaily.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=874832&type=EntertainmentMus |title=Black Eyed Peas: The E.N.D. (New Album) |publisher=Billboard.com |date= |accessdate=2009-10-16}}</ref> Bill Lamb of ''[[About.com]]'' stated that: "Fergie has the clear lead vocal here. She will never blow someone away with a bombastic voice or an otherworldly vocal range. However, she has an almost tearful edge to her voice that makes nearly any of her performances sound soaked with emotion. "Meet Me Halfway" is no exception. With the focus clearly on Fergie, this could in some ways be seen as a solo effort. However, the style of the song fits better in the context of the Black Eyed Peas album The E.N.D. instead of Fergie's The Dutchess. <ref name="about"> {{cite web|author=Bill Lamb http://top40.about.com/od/singles/gr/blackeyedpeasmeetmehalfway.htm |title=Black Eyed Peas: The E.N.D. (New Album) |publisher=About.com |date= |accessdate=2009-10-13}}</ref>

==Track listing==
;CD single <small>(Cat# 2721563)</small>
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| collapsed = no
| total_length = 7:50
| title1 = Meet Me Halfway
| note1 = Radio Edit
| length1 = 3:45
| title2 = Boom Boom Guetta
| note2 = David Guetta's Electro Hop Remix
| length2 = 4:05
}}


==Music video==
==Music video==

Revision as of 02:51, 4 November 2009

"Meet Me Halfway"
Song

"Meet Me Halfway" is a song by American hip hop group Black Eyed Peas. It was released as the third promo single from their 5th studio album The E.N.D. It was later released as the album's third single.[5].An official remix has been made by French DJ David Guetta and can be bought on the UK iTunes store. [6]

Background

The song was released as a promotional single, as part of the "Countdown to The E.N.D." where 3 album tracks were released once each week until the release of the album. This song was the final promotional single in the series, the first two (in order of release) were "Imma Be" and "Alive".

The song got early airplay on Today Networks' Hot30 Countdown in Australia,[7] and on radio stations across Canada.[8]

Fergie told the Daily Mail that when she was recording her vocals for "Meet Me Halfway", she "transported herself back to 1985, when she was 10 and saw Madonna in concert for the first time on the Virgin tour. She took on Madonna's persona in that song as an homage."[9]

Critical reception

The song received fairly positive critical response. Entertainment Weekly wrote "When the group's glitchy future-funk beats sync up with Fergie's unabashedly feminine melodies, as on the sweetly insidious Meet Me Halfway, they find pure Top 40 nirvana."[10] Prefix magazine also gave the song a positive review, stating, "Meet Me Halfway, is notable mostly for being better than a new -wave-y ballad by the Black Eyed Peas has any right to be."[11] Billboard wrote "Fergie elongates each note for a sensual vocal and offers a nice complement to co-producer Will.i.am, who handles the majority of the rhymes over funk guitar, hand claps and distorted pulses. With this track already climbing the Hot 100, the Peas are proving that their hit parade is far from over.[12] Bill Lamb of About.com stated that: "Fergie has the clear lead vocal here. She will never blow someone away with a bombastic voice or an otherworldly vocal range. However, she has an almost tearful edge to her voice that makes nearly any of her performances sound soaked with emotion. "Meet Me Halfway" is no exception. With the focus clearly on Fergie, this could in some ways be seen as a solo effort. However, the style of the song fits better in the context of the Black Eyed Peas album The E.N.D. instead of Fergie's The Dutchess. [13]

Track listing

CD single (Cat# 2721563)
No.TitleLength
1."Meet Me Halfway" (Radio Edit)3:45
2."Boom Boom Guetta" (David Guetta's Electro Hop Remix)4:05
Total length:7:50

Music video

File:Bepmeetmehalfwayvideo.jpg
Each member of the group in their part of the video

The music video has been confirmed by will.i.am to be directed by Ben Mor (director of "I Gotta Feeling"). "This is a very different type of video ... 'Boom Boom Pow' was very futuristic and 'I Gotta Feeling' had a party vibe, but this is more artistic video. It's very arty."[14]

The video premiered on October 12, 2009.[15] It was released onto the iTunes Music store on October 13, 2009. The video features the members in different parts of the Solar System[16]

The video opens on a road in the middle of a desert panning up to the cosmic sky which shifts to scenes of each of the members singing in different locations of space: Fergie lies in the middle of a lush, green jungle, apl.de.ap levitates on a desert planet in nomadic clothing, will.i.am rides an elephant on a moon of Jupiter, and Taboo glides around the Sun in a spacesuit. Apl takes out a map and will.i.am uses a compass to search for a path to the other members. After a while, will.i.am finds a dial which reveals gateways for each of the members to go through. All the members use the gateway, turn into shooting stars, and land on the planet (presumably Earth), with the road in the middle of the desert.Unlike the two previous videos of the album, the video doesn't end with the phrase "The E.N.D."

Charts

The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at #75 for the week ending October 3, 2009 and jumped to #47 the next week. The song has so far peaked at #7 in its sixth week on the Hot 100, making it their third top ten hit from the album.[17] It makes The E.N.D. the band's first album to contain three Hot 100 top ten hits. "Meet Me Halfway" entered the UK Singles Chart on October 11, 2009 at #67, it has since climbed to #26, #11 and then to #6 thereby becoming their 10th top 10 hit in the UK. It has also so far peaked at #2 on the UK R&B Chart.[18] It has so far topped the ARIA charts, becoming their third consecutive number 1 single from The E.N.D. On the New Zealand Top 40, the song has so far peaked at number 3, making it their third top three hit from the album. The song entered the Irish Singles Chart on the 15th October 2009 at number 27, it has so far peaked at number 6.

Chart (2009) Peak
position
Australian Singles Chart[19] 1
Canadian Hot 100[20] 6
Eurochart Hot 100 Singles 66
Irish Singles Chart[21] 6
New Zealand Singles Chart[22] 3
UK Singles Chart[23] 6
UK R&B Singles Chart[24] 2
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[25] 7
U.S. Billboard Pop Songs[26] 13
Preceded by Australian ARIA Singles Chart number-one single
November 2, 2009– - , 2009 		Succeeded by

References

  1. ^ "Radio Industry News, Music Industry Updates, Arbitron Ratings, Music News and more!". FMQB. Retrieved 2009-09-22.
  2. ^ http://www.sanity.com.au/ProductDetail.aspx?id=264418
  3. ^ "New Releases - UK Forthcoming Albums (Radio1 Rodos Greece ::: Top 40 Music Station ::: Promo Releases)". Radio1.gr. Retrieved 2009-09-22.
  4. ^ "Meet Me Halfway". Amazon.co.uk.
  5. ^ "Screenshot from Black Eyed Peas official UK newsletter". Retrieved 2009-09-22.
  6. ^ http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=337551794&s=143444
  7. ^ "Hot30 Countdown Vote". B105.com.au. 2008-07-21. Retrieved 2009-09-22.
  8. ^ "Canadian Hit 30". canadianhit30.com. Retrieved 2009-10-03.
  9. ^ "Meet Me Halfway Songfacts". Songfacts.com. Retrieved 2009-09-22.
  10. ^ Greenblatt, Leah. "The E.N.D. | Music Review | Entertainment Weekly". Ew.com. Retrieved 2009-08-16.
  11. ^ Andrew Winistorfer. "Black Eyed Peas: The E.N.D. (New Album)". Prefixmag.com. Retrieved 2009-08-16.
  12. ^ Kirk Honeycutt http://www.theusdaily.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=874832&type=EntertainmentMus. "Black Eyed Peas: The E.N.D. (New Album)". Billboard.com. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); External link in |author= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. ^ Bill Lamb http://top40.about.com/od/singles/gr/blackeyedpeasmeetmehalfway.htm. "Black Eyed Peas: The E.N.D. (New Album)". About.com. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); External link in |author= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ "Boom boom wow". channelnewsasia.com. 2009-09-10. Retrieved 2009-09-22.
  15. ^ "Video: Black Eyed Peas – 'Meet Me Halfway'". Rap-Up.com. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
  16. ^ "Meet Me Halfway Music Video Out". dutchessfergie.com. 2009-10-12. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
  17. ^ Retrivied in October 15, 2009
  18. ^ "The Black Eyed Peas - Meet Me Halfway". Chart Stats. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
  19. ^ "Australia Singles Top 50". Australian Recording Industry Association. (acharts.us). November 2, 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-01.
  20. ^ "Music Charts, Most Popular Music, Music by Genre & Top Music Charts". Billboard.com. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
  21. ^ "Chart Track". Chart Track. 2009-10-15. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
  22. ^ "The Black Eyed Peas - Meet Me Halfway". charts.org.nz. 2009-09-29. Retrieved 2009-09-29.
  23. ^ "UK Music Charts | The Official UK Top 75 Singles: Week of Mon 19 Oct - Yahoo! Music UK". Uk.launch.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
  24. ^ "Radio 1 - BBC Radio 1's Chart Show with Reggie Yates - UK Top 40 RnB Singles". BBC. 2007-02-24. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
  25. ^ Retrivied in October 14, 2009
  26. ^ Retrivied in October 29, 2009
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