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Later, in the song "[[Give_It_To_Me#History|Give It To Me]]", Nelly wrote a verse, which she confirmed,<ref>[http://youtube.com/watch?v=tmqMACNxf7g Nelly's lines directed at Fergie]</ref> directed at Fergie.
Later, in the song "[[Give_It_To_Me#History|Give It To Me]]", Nelly wrote a verse, which she confirmed,<ref>[http://youtube.com/watch?v=tmqMACNxf7g Nelly's lines directed at Fergie]</ref> directed at Fergie.


Then in Fergie's lines in [[Impacto#Controversy|Impacto (remix)]] by [[Daddy Yankee]], she stated: "If you got a problem say it to my face", which is speculate that its directed toward Nelly Furtado.
Then in Fergie's lines in "[[Impacto#Controversy|Impacto (remix)]]" by [[Daddy Yankee]], she stated: "If you got a problem say it to my face", which is speculate that its directed toward Nelly Furtado.


==Music video==
==Music video==

Revision as of 17:20, 21 August 2007

"Fergalicious"
Song
B-side"Paradise"

"Fergalicious" is the second single from Fergie's debut solo album, The Dutchess. It features Black Eyed Peas member will.i.am, who also produced the track. "Fergalicious" was not officially released in the UK, where "Glamorous" was officially made the second single instead.[1] However, "Fergalicious" still managed to chart at number 26 on the UK Official Download Chart.

Song information

The song peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 several months after its release. However, "Fergalicious" managed to top the Pop 100 chart and spent fourteen weeks in the top ten of the Hot 100. "Fergalicious" was extremely successful as a digital song. In fact, it's one of the very few tracks which have been certified 2x platinum in the U.S., thanks to the heavy downloads. This achievement was very easy as, in January 2007, it sold 295,000 downloads in a single week, being immediately certificated platinum and holding the record for the most dowloaded song in a single week. Template:Multi-listen start Template:Multi-listen item Template:Multi-listen end Template:Sample box end

The song heavily samples "Give It All You Got" by Afro-Rican and "Supersonic" by J.J. Fad.[2] It also features elements from "Night Train" by James Brown and "It's More Fun to Compute" by Kraftwerk (both sampled in "Give It All You Got"). will.i.am's opening line is an interpolation of the opening line of 2 Live Crew's "Throw The D." The word "Fergalicious" is a portmanteau of the words 'Fergie' and 'delicious'. Spelling is a large part of the song's lyrics, with vocalists spelling Fergie's name, the word 'delicious,' and a misspelling of the word 'tasty' (the vocalist spells it as 'tastey').

On December 4, 2006, Fergie and will.i.am performed the song live at the 2006 Billboard Music Awards and Big In '06 Awards. In 2007, this song was nominated by rock station WNEW as for "most annoying song" of 2006, but, apart from this, it was nominated for various other awards: infact, it won the "Sexiest Video of the Year" at MTV Australia Video Music Awards and, always with this song, Fergie was given the award for "Best International Video - Artist" at Much Music Video Awards. "Fergalicious", for unknown reasons, was not released in the UK or Ireland.

Controversy

The song caused controversy between Fergie and Nelly Furtado. In the lyrics, Fergie wrote: "But I'm not Promiscuous", which referred to Nelly Furtado's successful single.

Later, in the song "Give It To Me", Nelly wrote a verse, which she confirmed,[3] directed at Fergie.

Then in Fergie's lines in "Impacto (remix)" by Daddy Yankee, she stated: "If you got a problem say it to my face", which is speculate that its directed toward Nelly Furtado.

Music video

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Fergie dressed as a Girl Scout in the music video.

The video premiered on MTV on October 24, 2006 and premiered on Yahoo! Music on October 31, 2006. The music video was filmed in Hollywood, and directed by Fatima Robinson, who also directed the "My Humps" music video. will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas also appears in the video, which features Fergie in a Willy Wonka-inspired factory, called "Fergieland" filled with various types of candy. The video starts with factory workers packaging boxes of "Fergalicious" candy. In the beginning of the video, Fergie sings in a field of candy canes with many other people wearing strange outfits. Throughout the video, she wears a tan and khaki girl scout outfit, sports a black one-piece swimsuit while lying in a pile of candy, works out in a colorful gym, sings in a room filled with lollipops and other candies while dressed like Shirley Temple, and pops out of a cake while wearing a tiny blue swimsuit with gems encrusted on the exterior. She then starts watching two women wrestle in ice cream before joining them at the end of the video.

References in pop culture

  • In the film Epic Movie when Willy Wonka kidnapped the "children" to use their body parts as bits of his candies, he danced to "Fergalicious", thus spoofing the music video.[4][5]

Track listings

European Maxi-CD
  1. "Fergalicious" (Album version) — 4:52
  2. "Paradise" — 4:08
  3. "London Bridge" (Live version) — 2:43
  4. "Fergalicious" (Music video) — 3:52
Australian CD single
  1. "Fergalicious" (album version) — 4:54
  2. "Paradise" — 4:07

Charts

Chart (2006) Peak
position[6]
Norway Singles Chart 1
Russian Airplay Chart[7] 1
Swedish Charts 1
U.S. Billboard Pop 100 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 2
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs[8] 71
Finland Singles Chart 3
Ibero-America Top 100[9] 3
United World Chart 4
Australian ARIA Singles Chart 4
Latin America Airplay Chart[10] 3
France Singles Chart 15
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart 3
Belgium Top 50 Singles 11
Polish Singles Chart[11] 50
Preceded by U.S. Billboard Pop 100 number-one single
January 13, 2007 - January 20, 2007 		Succeeded by

References

  1. ^ http://www.fergieofficial.co.uk Fergie's official UK website.
  2. ^ http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/feature/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003157589
  3. ^ Nelly's lines directed at Fergie
  4. ^ Epic Movie - DVD Movie Central
  5. ^ Epic Movie details Hollywood.com
  6. ^ "Fergie's Fergalicious: Chart Positions". Retrieved November 14. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ http://tophit.ru/cgi-bin/trackinfo.cgi?id=6793
  8. ^ http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:wnfexqy0ldke~T51
  9. ^ Ibero-America Top 100. AmericaTop100. Retrieved on 2007-February 19
  10. ^ Top Latino. Top Latino. Retrieved on 2007-February 7
  11. ^ Polish Singles Chart

External links

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