Fergalicious

Infobox Single
Name = Fergalicious


Artist = Fergie featuring will.i.am
Album = The Dutchess
B-side = "Paradise"
Released = flagicon|World October 23, 2006
flagicon|UK flagicon|Ireland November 12, 2007 [http://www.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1&sku=730376 UK Release]
Format = CD single, digital download
Recorded = 2006
Genre = Pop, R&B, hip hop
Length = 4:52 (album version)
3:42 (radio edit)
Label = A&M
Writer = Will Adams, Stacy Ferguson, Dania Maria Birks, Michelle Juana, Juanita Lee, Kim Hazel, Fatima Shaneed, Derrick Rahming
Producer = will.i.am
Certification = 2x Multi-Platinum (RIAA)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Fergie singles
Type = singles
Last single = "London Bridge"
(2006)
This single = "Fergalicious"
(2006)
Next single = "Glamorous"
(2007)Extra chronology 2
Artist = Fergie UK singles
Type = singles
Last single = "Big Girls Don't Cry"
(2007)
This single = "Fergalicious"/"Clumsy"
(2007)
Next single = Extra chronology 2
Artist = will.i.am singles
Type = singles
Last single = "I Love My Bitch"
(2006)
This single = "Fergalicious"
(2006)
Next single = "Hip Hop Is Dead"
(2006)Extra track listing
Album = The Dutchess
Type = single
prev_track =
prev_no =
this_track = "Fergalicious"
track_no = 1
next_track = "Clumsy"
next_no = 2Extra album cover
Upper caption = Alternate covers


Lower caption = UK double A-side download single cover

"Fergalicious" is the second single from pop/R&B singer 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 as the second single in the UK, where "Glamorous" was officially made the second single instead. [http://www.fergieofficial.co.uk Fergie's official UK website.] However, "Fergalicious" still managed to chart at number 26 on the UK Official Download Chart and will be released as the fourth single there, over a year after the song's initial release, as a double A-side with "Clumsy". This is possibly due to the huge success of "Big Girls Don't Cry" in the UK which reached #2, saved the album, and even made it reach a new peak position at #18. As of August 2008, the single has sold over 2,700,000 copies. Also, "The Dutchess" had a re-release in Japan & Australia. The cover of the new CD was Fergie in a cake scene from this video.

ong 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 (certificated?) platinum and holding the record for the most downloaded song in a single week (which has since been broken by Flo Rida's "Low"). As of August 2008, "Fergalicious" has been downloaded for over 2,740,000 times in the U.S. only, being in the Top 10 of the most downloaded songs in the U.S. history. "Fergalicious" was not released in the U.K. or Ireland in 2006 but was later released as a double A side with "Clumsy" in October 2007.

The song heavily samples "Give It All You Got" by Afro-Rican and "Supersonic" by J.J. Fad. [ [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/feature/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003157589 Q&A: Fergie And Will.I.Am On "The Dutchess" ] ] 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"). The riff at the opening of the song and featured throughout is from Dominic Frontiere's theme music for the 60's TV show "The Rat Patrol". 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 the word 'tasty', albeit 'tastey'. Besides in the song Fergie uses three foreign words, such as "tres" (Spanish number translated as "three"), "uno" (Italian & Spanish number translated as "one") and "loco" (Spanish adjective translated as "crazy").

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: in fact, 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. The song was used on the videogame Boogie.

Controversy

The song caused controversy between Fergie and Nelly Furtado. In the lyrics, Fergie wrote: "But I ain't "promiscuous", which Furtado thought had referred to her successful single. Later, in the song "Give It to Me", Furtado wrote a verse, which she confirmed, [ [http://youtube.com/watch?v=tmqMACNxf7g Nelly's lines directed at Fergie] ] was directed at Fergie. In a possible response to Furtado, Fergie sings that if "You got a problem, come say in to my face", in the music video for the remix song Impacto (by Daddy Yankee).

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 as Willy Wonka in a candy factory called "Fergieland" (the factory was nameless in the original book and both film versions). The video starts with the Oompa Loompas packaging pink and purple boxes of "Fergalicious" candy. In the beginning of the video, Fergie sings in a field of candy canes with the Oompa Loompas. 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, (often in a kaleidoscope view) works out in a colorful gym flexing her biceps, 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.

Towards the end of the video, Fergie opens and then plays a few notes on a Samsung K5 MP3 Player, giving it center focus in the screen; there then follow, interspersed in the remaining frames of the videos, shots of other characters in the video either listening to the player, presenting it to the camera with a big smile, or carefully handing the player to another extra. [cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=Fergalicious Samsung K5 MP3 Player | date=2007-01-15 | publisher=Sugar, Inc. | url =http://www.geeksugar.com/103468 | work =Geeksugar | pages = | accessdate = 2008-06-14 | language = ]

As of September 8, 2008 the music video for "Fergalicious" has been viewed 19,489,704 times on popular video-sharing website, YouTube.

2006 Billboard Music Awards

At the 2006 Billboard Music Awards, Fergie reported that there would be a surprise at her performance. It was revealed that the surprise was her outfit, the only outfit produced for but never used in the music video. [http://www.fergiez.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/Fergie-Billboard-Music-Awards-01.jpg] When Fergie was asked to pick her own outfit, she decided to wear her "blue dress" very similar to her red shirley temple outfit seen in the beginning of the video.

Track listings

;European Maxi-CD
#"Fergalicious" (Album version) — 4:52
#"Paradise" — 4:08
#"London Bridge" (Live version) — 2:43
#"Fergalicious" (Music video) — 3:52;Australian CD single
#"Fergalicious" (album version) — 4:54
#"Paradise" — 4:07;UK 2006 Promo CD Single
#"Fergalicious" (Radio Edit) — 3:47;UK 2007 Promo CD single
#"Fergalicious" (Radio Edit) — 3:47
#"Clumsy" (Radio Edit) — 3:17;UK Download Single
#"Clumsy" (Album Version) — 4:00
#"Fergalicious" (Album Version) — 4:52

Charts

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