"Let's Get It Started", originally titled "Let's Get Retarded", appears on The Black Eyed Peas' 2003 album Elephunk. It is the fourth single from the album. When it was released as a single in 2004.

The song was included on the soundtrack for the 2006 romantic comedy It's a Boy Girl Thing. The song was STAR World's first SID.^{[disambiguation needed ]} It gained popularity as the theme song for the 2004 NBA Playoffs on ABC and was performed live at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. It was featured in the film White Chicks. It was used in UK advertisements for the game The Urbz: Sims in the City. The song was remixed for The Black Eyed Peas' fifth studio album The E.N.D. as "Let's Get Re-Started", it was also featured on their remix album The E.N.D. Summer 2010 Canadian Invasion Tour: Remix Collection

"Let's Get it Started" won Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group at the 2005 Grammy Awards, and was also nominated for Record of the Year and Best Rap Song.

Composition[link]

The introduction of the song is a homage to Alicia Keys' 2001 single "Fallin'". The song also samples the single "Bass Is Loaded" by Leaders of the New School.

Music video[link]

The music video, directed by Francis Lawrence, takes place in a nighttime setting in an urban area. It features The Black Eyed Peas, particularly will.i.am, performing energetic dances while singing the song, while varying objects in the background (including a grand piano) smash against the ground in real-time, slow and fast motion, and in reverse. The choruses feature the band on stage singing to a large crowd.

Charts[link]

"Let's Get It Started" was the first song to sell 500,000 downloads in the United States meaning that it was once the best-selling digital song of all time. That title now belongs to their song "I Gotta Feeling", which recently was the first song to cross the 7,000,000 downloads. "Let's Get It Started" has so far sold 2,000,000 copies as of May 2009.^[1]

The video went to #34 on "MuchMusic's 50 Most Controversial Videos" for its original song title.

Track listing[link]

CD Single

1. "Let's Get It Started"
2. "Let's Get It Started" (Party Mix)
3. "Let's Get It Started" (Spike Mix)

The Urbz Edition – EP

1. "Let's Get It Started" (Spike Mix) – 3:39
2. "Ga Ra Ta Da" (Simlish Version) – 3:28
3. "The Sticky" – 4:39
4. "Friddy Dope" (Simlish Version) – 3:46

UK Single

1. "Let's Get It Started"
2. "Bridging The Gaps"
3. "Let's Get It Started" (Enhanced music video)

Official Versions[link]

• "Let's Get It Started" (Current Version)
• "Let's Get It Started" (Party Mix)
• "Let's Get It Started" (Spike Mix)

Personnel[link]

References[link]

Jack Michael is a researcher, professor and author in the field of the experimental analysis of behavior best known for his elucidations of the motivating operation(MO), comprising Establishing Operation (EO) and Abolishing Operations (AO).

Biographic Information[link]

He was born on January 16, 1926 in Los Angeles, California.^[1] He has no siblings.^[2] His father was an automobile mechanic, His mother did not work outside of the home.^[3] He lived in a lower middle class neighborhood near downtown L.A. from the time he was 5 years old until he was drafted into the army at 18.^[4]

He attended elementary School from 1931-1937(walking distance from home), Junior High School from 1938-1940(short bike ride from home), and High School from 1941-1943.^[5] He was in the Boy Scouts for about 3 years, took drum lessons, and played in a youth orchestra/marching band.^[6]

Entered UCLA as a chemistry major in Fall 1943, completed one semester, then was drafted into the army in June 1944 (in the middle of his second semester).^[7] He did not do very well at UCLA—although he was a very good student in high school, when he got to UCLA he was only average or less than average in terms of college skills.^[8] He made a C average his first semester and about the same during second semester.^[9]

Publications[link]

He has published over 70 articles and 1 book, Concepts and Principles of Behavior Analysis.^[10] Probably his most influential publication was in 1959 which helped to set behavior modification in motion. This, in turn, lead to the establishment of the discipline of applied behavior analysis and the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis(JABA).^[11] ,^[12] Jack Michael is also the past editor of The Analysis of Verbal Behavior (TAVB), which publishes theoretical and experimental work related to extensions of Skinner's analysis of Verbal Behavior.

Present day[link]

He is currently an emeritus professor at Western Michigan University. He began teaching at WMU in 1967 and retired from the University in April 2003, teaching for a total of 36 years at WMU.^[13] He is currently married to Dr. Alyce Dickinson, Chairman of the I/O department at Western Michigan University.

References[link]

www.jackmichael.org