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Watch will.i.am forget his lyrics and read them off his phone during a TV appearance

by Nicole Villeneuve

Okay Will.I.Am, you’re not Michael Stipe. You shouldn’t need to read your lyrics while performing live, off your cell phone no less.

Like if there was any other way for the Black Eyed Peas to be more mechanic than they already are, this’d do it. This performance right here on Taratata, a live music show in France, with Belgian rapper Stromae, where Will shamelessly reads from his cell phone and then talks through autotune, presumably to sound like a robot. One that was not programmed to remember nursery-rhyme level stuff. You can watch the video above.