Black Eyed Peas Wear Rainbow Armbands During NYE Poland Show - TMZ

Black Eyed Peas Rainbow Armbands astatine Polish NYE Show ... Played connected State TV!!!

1/1/2023 10:41 AM PT

The Black Eyed Peas showed solidarity with the LGBT assemblage to ringing successful the caller twelvemonth -- doing truthful connected Polish territory ... and connected a state-sanctioned TV channel, nary less.

The euphony radical was hired arsenic the headlining gig for TVP's "New Year's of Dreams" show, and erstwhile they yet deed the signifier ... each 4 members came retired wearing rainbow armbands. It seems they kept them connected for a bully while, too, arsenic they went done their set.

Of course, that sparked outrage among Poland's Law and Justice Party (PiS), which is successful powerfulness astatine the infinitesimal -- and which has taken connected precise beardown anti-LGBT views and policies ... trickling passim overmuch of the state and embraced by respective citizens arsenic well.

One specified subordinate of PiS, Marcin Warchol, expressed his indignation astatine the BEP's accessories, penning ... "LGBT promotion successful TVP2 . DISGRACE! It’s not a New Year’s Eve of Dreams but a New Year’s Eve of Deviance."

The comic happening is that TVP is, much oregon less, a authorities broadcaster -- they regularly aerial programming that aligns with PiS ... and the Black Eyed Peas were presumably hired by idiosyncratic moving there/with ties to the ruling party. So ... this is kinda connected them.

Will.i.am caught upwind of the backlash and responded, penning ... "#WHEREStheLOVE??? Unity, tolerance, understanding, oneness, respect, diverseness & inclusion…THATS LOVE…people are radical & we should each signifier to grant & emotion each the antithetic types of radical connected world & larn from them…I LOVE YOU your country…"

He further addressed the substance connected video, posting a clip of himself talking astir wherefore they did what they did -- and it each comes down to trying to scope radical who don't spot oculus to eye.

Will besides emphasized what the Black Eyed Peas person ever stood for -- and successful airy of that, yea ... it's beauteous wide they're not the far-right enactment PiS might've thought they wanted for NYE.