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.

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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.