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Kisah Dibalik Lagu: Where Is the Love? Lagu Sarat akan Pesan Kedamaian

Kisah Dibalik Lagu: Where Is the Love? Lagu Sarat akan Pesan Kedamaian
Black Eyed Peas. (dok: Instagram/@blackeyedpeas)

SEAToday.com, Jakarta - Where Is the Love? merupakan sebuah lagu yang dipopulerkan oleh grup musik asal Amerika Serikat, Black Eyed Peas.

Black Eyed Peas merupakan grup hip hop alternatif yang dibentuk di Los Angeles, California, tahun 1995 dan terdiri dari rapper will.i.am, apl.de.ap, dan Taboo, serta penyanyi Fergie.

Lagu ini merupakan lagu ke-13 dalam album bertajuk "Elephunk (International Version)" yang dirilis pada Juni 2003 dan merupakan lagu pertama yang menampilkan anggota baru mereka, Fergie.

Black Eyed Peas merilis "Where is the Love" bersama Justin Timberlake, yang terinspirasi dari peristiwa penyerangan menara kembar World Trade Center (WTC) pada 11 September 2001 di Amerika Serikat.

Lagu ini mengkritik pemberantasan terorisme di luar negeri sementara mengabaikan isu-isu seperti diskriminasi dan kebencian di dalam negeri.

Tidak hanya itu, para pemimpin yang mengobarkan perang demi keserakahan dan berbohong tentang motif mereka dan media yang mempromosikan kebencian dan memecah belah masyarakat.

Pada bulan September 2016, The Black Eyed Peas merilis “#WHERESTHELOVE ft. The World”

Personil BEP seperti Will.I.Am, Apl.De.Ap, Taboo, dan Fergie bersama artis-artis besar di industri musik lainnya berkolaborasi dalam remake "Where is The Love".

Versi "Where Is the Love?" ini dibuat usai melihat situasi dunia yang penuh kekerasan dan tragedi.

Setelah diisi dengan tragedi memilukan, mulai dari penyerangan teroris dan kasus rasisme yang terjadi dalam beberapa kejadian seperti penembakan di klub malam Orlando, Paris, dan Belgia, juga kekerasan yang dilakukan oleh polisi terhadap warga sipil.

Hal itu membuat BEP dan semua orang di seluruh dunia seakan bertanya-tanya, "Where Is the love?".

Hal inilah yang mendorong mereka untuk menghidupkan kembali hype lagu ini sebagai pesan perdamaian.

Lagu ini kembali dirilis agar memperluas pesan untuk membahas isu-isu sosial dan politik yang lebih luas, namun tetap membawa pesan persatuan, cinta, dan perdamaian yang sama kuatnya.

Buat SEAtizens yang ingin sing along lagu ini, berikut lirik lagu "Where Is the Love?" dari Black Eyed Peas.

Verse

What's wrong with the world, mama?

People livin' like they ain't got no mamas

I think the whole world's addicted to the drama

Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma

 

Overseas, yeah, we tryna stop terrorism

But we still got terrorists here livin'

In the USA, the big CIA

The Bloods and The Crips and the KKK

 

But if you only have love for your own race

Then you only leave space to discriminate

And to discriminate only generates hate

And when you hate, then you're bound to get irate, yeah

 

Madness is what you demonstrate

And that's exactly how anger works and operates

Man, you gotta have love just to set it straight

Take control of your mind and meditate

Let your soul gravitate to the love, y'all, y'all

 

Chorus

People killin', people dyin'

Children hurt, hear them cryin'

Can you practice what you preach

Or would you turn the other cheek?

 

Father, Father, Father, help us

Send some guidance from above

'Cause people got me, got me questionin'

Where is the love (love)

 

Where is the love? (The love)

Where is the love? (The love)

Where is the love, the love, the love?

 

Verse 2

It just ain't the same, old ways have changed

New days are strange, is the world insane?

If love and peace are so strong

Why are there pieces of love that don't belong?

 

Nations droppin' bombs

Chemical gasses fillin' lungs of little ones

With ongoin' sufferin' as the youth die young

So ask yourself, is the lovin' really gone?

 

So I could ask myself really what is goin' wrong

In this world that we livin' in people keep on givin' in

Makin' wrong decisions, only visions of them dividends

Not respectin' each other, deny thy brother

A war is goin' on but the reason's undercover

 

The truth is kept secret, it's swept under the rug

If you never know truth then you never know love

Where's the love, y'all, come on? (I don't know)

Where's the truth, y'all, come on? (I don't know)

Where's the love, y'all?

 

Chorus

People killin', people dyin'

Children hurt, hear them cryin'

Can you practice what you preach

Or would you turn the other cheek?

 

Father, Father, Father, help us

Send some guidance from above

'Cause people got me, got me questionin'

Where is the love (love)

 

Where is the love? (The love)

Where is the love? (The love)

Where is the love? (The love)

Where is the love? (The love)

Where is the love? (The love)

Where is the love? (The love)

Where is the love, the love, the love?

 

Verse 3

I feel the weight of the world on my shoulder

As I'm gettin' older, y'all, people gets colder

Most of us only care about money makin'

Selfishness got us followin' the wrong direction

 

Wrong information always shown by the media

Negative images is the main criteria

Infecting the young minds faster than bacteria

Kids wanna act like what they see in the cinema, yo'

 

Whatever happened to the values of humanity?

Whatever happened to the fairness and equality?

Instead of spreading love we're spreading animosity

Lack of understanding, leading us away from unity

 

That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' under

That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' down

There's no wonder why sometimes I'm feelin' under

Gotta keep my faith alive 'til love is found

Now ask yourself

 

Bridge

Where is the love?

Where is the love?

Where is the love?

Where is the love?

 

Father, Father, Father, help us

Send some guidance from above

'Cause people got me, got me questionin'

Where is the love?

 

Outro

Sing with me y'all (one world, one world)

We only got (one world, one world)

That's all we got (one world, one world)

And something's wrong with it (yeah)

Something's wrong with it (yeah)

Something's wrong with the wo-wo-world, yeah

We only got (one world, one world)

That's all we got (one world, one world)

 

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