The theme, purpose and audience are important elements of a song are valuing people’s lives and backgrounds even though they are different. The lyric of “Where is the love” by The Black Eyed Peas tells the listener that they can easily pick up on when listening to the song with no video. Even without watching the music video or searching for lyrics of the song, we can see the disappointment being expressed over the lack of togetherness in the world. I believe that this song is empowered by teenagers. It encourages young adults to stop the behaviours that reinforce the negativities in the world. I think that the older generation would be disempowered from this song because they wouldn’t really take much notice to what they are saying because it’s just “teen rap”.
Ron Fair, who was the producer of Vanessa Carlton’s “A Thousand Miles”, met will I am when he recruited the Black Eyed Peas for the legally blonde soundtrack and the pair hit off. Later that month they started writing the song with Justin Timberlake, and in June, 2003 the song “where is the love” was produced. On the night after Christmas in 2001, Will I am came up with a beat and wrote a guitar part he liked. He then got some thoughts off his chest he'd been holding in since September 11, including