THE FERG IS BACK

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Q: How do you enliven what feels like the 60th release from your admittedly brilliant album?
A: Make the VIDEO OF THE YEAR to accompany it!

The bit where her car falls apart, the boy she's ogling sneers and walks away, and Ferg shrugs with resignation is lovely; I laughed out loud when she swung the microphone stand into her backing singers; her hair is FABULOUS; and the final scene reveals that all along she was just Fergie in Wonderland.

It's a great song, too, and it really stands out as a single without the distractions of, like, the rest of the album - the spoken word bit! And a good single release in that it chimes precisely with the Ferg persona, the endearingly klutzy girl who stumbles around and does wrong things but is such a disarmingly charming trouper that she comes out unscathed.

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Heheh marvellous! Good concept well executed. The spoken word bit works really well with video accompaniment.

It does feel strange that this is single number five and it's still really good - SEE we were SO RIGHT about The Dutchess being genius!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

And I can still see a good three more potential singles on the album! I listened to it all last night and my mind is kind of blown at the way she maintains her amazing level throughout - most albums have a one-two-three-four punch but The Dutchess takes it all the way to 12. The only bit I don't like is when 'Mary Jane Shoes' goes all Blink 182 but even then it's a laudably mental thing to have done.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Best two songs which haven't been singles yet: 'All That I Got (The Make Up Song)' and 'Here I Come'. And I adore the big self-affirming Disney ballad at the end, too.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

oh btw Kat! do you want to come to a Nicole Scherzinger showcase with me tonight? 7pm at the Soho Revue. I have a +1 and no one else cares about her :(

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

YES PLEASE! I am very underdressed but fvck it.

(I am still listening to TashBed & Sean Kingston (http://www.natashabedingfieldusa.com/) on rpt! I demand you go listen to it now if at all possible!)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

ace! when do you finish work? i'm nr picc circus which is just down the road from the soho revue - finish at 5.30 or just a bit after. we could grab something to eat in soho first?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Should be able to make it over to Soho by 5.45. We could always grab some sushi in Itsu just round the corner?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

sounds good! itsu, 5.45, see you there!

Movies that enhance one's appreciation of "Clumsy"

[koganbot]

Missed this thread since Mondays are when I'm frantically trying to figure what my column's supposed to be about. But anyway, when you get the chance you should see Blake Edwards' war comedy Operation Petticoat (Blake Edwards is the one director for whom "war comedy" makes perfect sense) starring Cary Grant and featuring Joan O'Brien as his love interest (you see, this damaged submarine is trying to elude Japanese capture and Tony Curtis somehow is assigned to it and manages to scarf up one expert conman/fence and five stranded nurses to pack into the listing tub), and Joan O'Brien is basically Fergie in this video, inadvertantly knocking things right and left with total aplomb.

And then of course there's The Girl Can't Help It starring Jayne Mansfield as the girl; Little Richard sings the title song, excellently.

Re: Movies that enhance one's appreciation of "Clumsy"

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Is that the one where Bing Crosby's brother randomly turns up on the desert island whilst they're fighting the crocodile? No wait, that's Road To Bali.