Look, I understand that I’m not supposed to like Fergie’s music. It’s the processed cheese of the pop charts, clogging my intellectual arteries with each listen. And yet, much like the half-empty bag of Blazin’ Buffalo & Ranch Doritos on my desk (yeah, I’m sliding down a very steep shame spiral as I write this), resisting Fergie is, for me, an exercise in futility. Take "Glamorous," the third single off her recent disc, The Dutchess (which is streaming now at AOL Music). Thematically, it’s a mashup of "Jenny From the Block" and "I’m Real," allowing Fergie to boast "I still go to Taco Bell," despite her first-class-flying, champagne-sipping lifestyle, and also to complain that her industry of choice is a cold and confusing one. Which kind of begs the questions: Do we really need another single in which a chart-topping diva lets us know that fame (and its hefty price tag) haven’t changed her? (No we do not.) And also, why must Fergie insist on spelling out her song titles? But then, before you know it, you kind of get caught up in that soft breeze of a melody, the occasional sounds of a plane taking off, Ludacris uttering the word "lettuce" in his rap interlude, and those backup singers cooing "flossy flossy." (Or is it "flouncy, flouncy"?) And then you worry for a second about Taco Bell’s lettuce. But then Fergie takes your mind off it again ’cause the whole darn affair is so frothy-catchy. And then you press the repeat button like a toddler playing peek-a-boo behind an airplane seat. Again! Again! Again! Is (help) there (me) a (kick) cure (my) for (Fergie) this (habit) PopWatchers?
Snap judgment: Fergie's 'Glamorous'
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I think they are saying “flopsy flopsy” but I could be wrong!!! I love the CD, so maybe I am not the right person! It may be cheezy & poppy, but I also love Gwen Stefani’s new cd! So sue me!
There is no cure, just grab on to her hot pants and enjoy the ride. T-A-S-T-E-Y Slezak you tastey.
Ah, Slezak. Once again you prove yourself to be my Soulmate In Pop Culture. I’ve been chiming in with “flossy, flossy” since the second time I heard this song, and I’m stickin’ to it! “Glamorous” is one of my favorites on an album I swore–SWORE!–to hate, yet fell in love with once I put aside my preconceptions and actually listened (on AOL the week it came out, natch). If only Fergie will listen to me again (I sooo predicted “Glamorous” to be the upcoming single, natch) and release “Big Girls Don’t Cry” next, she might show some range, earn some respect, and sell some albums (has “The Duchess” even gone gold yet!?).
Honey just embrace The Fergs. It’s a hot album!
Actually, “The Dutchess” (isn’t that spelled wrong?) has gone platinum. But I’m so glad that she released this song as her third single, I love it!!!
What is the guy saying at the end of this song when she talks about her daddy? I feel like it gets serious or something, but I can’t understand what he is saying.
I’m so happy she released Glamorous. I have been jamming out to for months when I workout!! AND I love that word… everything should be GLAMOROUS! Oh gawd! I sound like a 19-year-old who worships Paris Hilton… I promise I’m neither!
I have been in love with “The Dutchess” cd since its release in September & I have a personal attachment to it, since it, & the Justin Timberlake cds, were the last discs my brother bought me before he went off to serve a jail sentence. Both have been in rotation non-stop, and I have to admit, “Glamorous” is another great party track, with an infectious beat, and yeah, you catch yourself singing the letters to the title out YET AGAIN. My only complaint is that Fergie CAN sing and can hold a meoldy, and its sad that this great cd’s more somber moments like “Clumsy” “All That I Got(The Make-up Song)” or “Finally” have not been given any fair chance, in lieu of the faux rapping on “London Bridge” and “Fergalicious”. Here’s hoping “Glamorous” sends “The Dutchess” to wearing the platinum crown, so that a ballad can finally be released and showcase off that beautiful voice! I mean Fergie doesn’t have a voice like Xtina’s, but then again, Fergie now has what Xtina has never had… two back-to-back hits on the Hip-Hop & R&B charts. When was the last time a white girl accomplished that!?!
*sigh* – you are so right. i cannot stand that flossy floozy, and yet i listened to the song anyway (just like i don’t turn the radio station when her other songs come on), and i have to admit it’s actually kind of breezy like you said and the next thing you know i’m waiting to hear it in the car…it’s vicious like her body when she’s working on her fitness. damn that skank!
It’s too bad that people who have only heard her songs on the radio don’t realize what a good singer Fergie is. She’s the perfect pop artist with the ability to switch-up her vocal style so drastically between different songs. I love “Glomorous”, but “Clumsy” or “All That I Got” would’ve been better to convert the nay-sayers.
I like how she says “bougie scenes.”
I don’t see her as derivative of Gwen Stefani like so many say she is. I like Fergie better.
I love this song, and I love Fergie. It’s a weird and a little surreal to say that, but this song is so flippin’ good. A little sad, a little sentimental, really catchy.
I have to admit I was caught up in the magnetic thrall of ‘London Bridge’ and ‘Fergalicious’ but mainly because they’re danceable and I like to dance. Not so big on ‘Glamourous’ but it could grow on me like the other had to. Although I have to say if it’s an ETERNITY before I hear ‘diamond rings don’t mean a thing’ in a song again it will still be much too soon!!
PS. I’m pretty sure it’s ‘Flossy Flossy’
I love the new E.W look!
Anyway, I pretty much stopped listening to this album except for Fergalicious and London Bridges. The rest of that songs stank like graded cheese.
P.S. Love the new E.W look, again.
i agree with other posters, “all that i got” and “clumsy” are FAR superior songs to the released ones, but radio is afraid to go off the page a little, which is so sad. anyway, “glamorous” isn’t the worst song ever, but what did you expect.
she is HOT
It’s time to give up, Slezak and admit the the Fergie love like all of us had to. You’ll feel much better after you do; she’s just too hard to resist!
I think perhaps that Fergie’s need to spell all of her songs is from her training on “Kids Incorporated”. Even when she’s struttin’ her grown up stuff, she’s still educatin’!
As far as I concerned, London Bridge was THE song of 2006! SO if this song(which I have yet to hear) is half as good, then I’ll listen to it all of the time. Fergalicious was pretty good itself.
Slezak. I’m in the same boat. I know I shouldn’t like her, but I do. And Glamorous was one of my favorite songs off the disc from the getgo. Of course, I immediately noticed that she like spelling her song titles and a COUPLE of the tracks. She likes spelling her name too. Like she thinks for some reason we’ll forget how to correctly publish “F-E-R-G-I-E”? Anywho…
*presses repeat on “Glamorous”*
When London Bridge first came out people thought I was crazy to like something so ridiculous but cut to a month later and the song was atop Billboard’s charts. Gwen and Fergie may not make meaningful music but you can’t deny their ear candy appeal.
I love the Gwen’s CD, too! By the way, is it a brand new website? Geez, so fast…
I don’t understand the people who like these songs. I mean, I’m all for people being allowed to like whatever they want, but I seriously can’t take her music-nor Gwen’s for that matter.
It’s as if they’re middle schoolers! It’s trashy and dumbed down-way down. I love crappy pop songs too, but I feel music like this is just not interesting in the least, kind of odd since I am one of those people who usually goes for this kind of fun music. If I want to listen to nursery rhymes I’ll sing my own, thanks.
This song was ripped off of a remix done to Gwen’s “Luxurious” LAST YEAR!!! Not only do the lyrics poorly copy Gwen’s “Luxurious,” she is now using the music. I think its pretty shameless of Fergie, who obviously takes every que from Gwen, waters them down to be just bland enough, and then makes huge mainstream success.
Actually this song sounds more like a rip off of “johnny are you queer” from Valley Girl. That is why the hook is so good and catchy.
I swear to God, when she’s singing something about “reminiscing about my must-ang” I thought she was going to say “my mus-tache.” Listen to the song and tell me that that’s not what you think is coming next.
The song is kinda crappy. And seriously, does she have to spell E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G out? Or is that her subconscious bid for a Sesame Street gig?
Fergie is one of those signs of the apocalypse. Her, along with the Pussycat Dolls, simply must be stopped. Yuck, yuck, yuck.
Has JJ Fad sued Fergie for the total rip-off of “Supersonic” for “Fergalicious”? Listen to both of them you will have sworn that you pressed repeat. Come up with something original, Fergie!
original? when is the last time any of these famous-for-no reason “artists” have come up with something original?
Okay, I looked it up, it IS Flossy, Flossy – I was wrong, but I still love it! As for the Supersonic beats, I believe I read she got PERMISSION, give it a rest people!