FERGIE'S HUMPS, ETC.
On the sonic booty bazaar of 2005 smash My Humps, the Black Eyed Peas’ Fergie showed off her most outrageous body parts as bandleader Will.i.am played X-rated auctioneer. The lascivious hit was wrong in so many ways — and I loved it.
On The Dutchess, Fergie’s consistently soft-core solo debut album, the singer/pinup born Stacy Ferguson is back to hawk the rest of her groove thing, and Will.i.am is also there to overproduce and drool. At 13 randy tracks, Fergie’s Ferg’s Pea-less coming-out party makes My Humps look subtle in comparison. Which means I kind of like this one, too.
Fergie isn’t a very good singer — she puts a street-hard edge on her singing, and she’s most comfortable cooing or chanting come-ons — so Will.i.am makes up for her talent void by framing her in over-the-top musical numbers. Opening song Fergalicious borrows its arrogance from LL Cool J’s I’m That Type of Guy and an old-school hip-hop beat from J.J. Fad’s Supersonic.
Will.i.am isn’t shy about swiping samples from the pop-music canon. On the clever, catchy Clumsy, he uses a trippy echo of Little Richard’s The Girl Can’t Help It as a hook for the soulful midtempo love song. The cool reggae bounce of Mary Jane Shoes "contains an interpolation of No Woman, No Cry" — a tricky way of saying he’s poaching from Bob Marley. Nevertheless, Will.i.am makes for a likable thief.
Curiously enough, Will didn’t have a hand in first single London Bridge, an inventive bit of smut that uses the regal span as a metaphor for Fergie’s naughty bits. The song was produced by Pussycat Dolls collaborator Polow Da Don, who also knows a thing or two about borrowing great ideas: London Bridge is essentially Gwen Stefani’s Hollaback Girl gone to seed. Naturally, I love it.
Sean Daly is the pop music critic for the St. Petersburg Times. His CD collection -- from Journey to Dylan, Prince to U2, Public Enemy to Stan Getz -- is much bigger and better than yours.
You have a great style of writing-and i love it! I usually don't like this type of music, but after reading this I think I'll check it out.
Posted by: Tina | September 20, 2006 at 05:56 PM
Wasn't she on Kids Incorporated?
Posted by: Mike T | September 20, 2006 at 06:58 PM
>the singer/pinup born Stacy Ferguson
He's really hot, isn't he? Like Jeff Goldblum hot.
Posted by: WizzNutzz | September 21, 2006 at 11:11 AM
Yo, Daly!
Sorry for the OT post, but I don't know your e-mail addy.
Did you get that .mp3 I sent ya? E-mail me please. :)
Posted by: Six | September 21, 2006 at 04:11 PM
Hey, Daly ...
If you haven't ... gotta check out website http://pandora.com ...
it starts out, you type in a band you like .. then it comes up with the full, free, streaming, song it thinks you'll like, based on what you entered ...
and you have the option: like it, don't like it ...
and the next song, and the next, and the next ... and it hones in on what you like, and starts popping out awesome tunes by bands you never knew about, but will soon be buying from Russian MP3 purveyors ... it's cool.
try.
chase
Posted by: chase | September 22, 2006 at 12:54 AM
I can't stand the song London Bridge. I am a wedding DJ, and I am forced to play that song all the time. I will only be getting the singles from this album, not because I want to, but because I know there are fools who will pay me to play them at their wedding receptions. By the way, I hated My Humps too.
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