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Product Type: ABIS_MUSIC
Label: Interscope Records
Manufacturer: Interscope Records
Publisher: Interscope Records
Studio: Interscope Records
Release Date: 2006-09-19
The Dutchess
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If you thought Black Eyed Pea-sized bites of Fergie might be all you could handle--that a full plate of Fergie is possibly too much for any discerning musical palate--The Dutchess might change your mind. For here the lumpen lady throws caution to the wind and threads her pop needle with an ambitious ribbon of yet-to-be-conquered genres: reggae and ska on "Mary Jane Shoes," with Rita Marley; vintage soul on "Here I Come"; '80s hip-hop on "Fergalicious"; and sophisticated R&B on the John Legend-assisted "Finally." It's a tremendous and unpredictable expenditure of effort that mostly pays off--echoes of more talented vocalists like Pink, Beyoncé, and Christina Aguilera poke through in places. But while unbridled messing about can pay handsome artistic dividends (here, the guitar-propelled rock-like track "Big Girls Don't Cry" coughs them up), ultimately it's when Fergie's at her Peas-iest that she's most lovable; cases in point are the raunchily irresistible "London Bridge," which earned every week of its chart-topping success, and the will.i.am-assisted "Clumsy," a girl-group-styled bump-a-thon that showcases Fergie's coolest and most distinctive asset--her personality--to winning effect. --Tammy La Gorce
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Incredible!
This is a fabulous CD with such a wide range of styles. This girl's amazing!The Dutchess
Not! Fergalicious, a disappointing start for Fergie
Fergie has great pipes, it is a shame they were wasted on this album. I'm not a prude by any means but the gratuitous cursing throughout "London Bridge" gets tedious. She tries to make everyone happy by hitting every musical genre but ends up satisfying no one. I expected better.
Advice: Don't waste your money...buy the singles!
enjoying this cd
while this is a chick album...chris long has this downloaded into his ipod...when i was listening to his ipod..i came across this song finally...had to buy the cd myself..
FERGIE - THE DUTCHESS
A VERY TALENTED ARTIST WHO FELL A LITTLE SHORT HERE
SEE "THE LOOK OF LOVE" WITH SERGIO MENDES"
this album is on constant rotation in guantanamo bay
To say that this album is horrendous would be an understatement. At least when Gwen started out in her solo career, she was trying to be a little ironic. But Fergie can't seem to see that you can inject intelligence into dumb pop music. she seems to earnestly believe that her album is well...good. and it isn't. and shame on fergie for fooling innocent people into believing so. When you are famous...even for as shameful a reason as being in the black eyes peas...you must do your part to lead by example. after all, children might be watching. But Fergie didn't work in a soup kitchen or adopt a child from malawi; she instead had the audacity to release this mess. The first single was London Bridge, which could be described as a mix between the classic gwen stefani track hollaback girl, and someone literally stabbing a burning hot curling iron into your ear. Fergie disgustingly copies Gwen again for the song Glamerous, which is a poor mans version of a song called Luxurious. Another hit was Big Girl's Don't cry...which lindsay lohan gushed about and actually said it motivated her to return to the studio to make another album! Clearly that alone is proof this album is not for good, but for evil. All That I Go (The Make-up song) is so terrible that it was actually chosen as the new theme song for the tyra banks show! Need I go on? Mary Jane Shoes is the only song that approaches anything remotely listenable. And even that song has it's faults...subliminally encouraging young girls to smoke marijuana.
This is music that represents everything that is wrong in this world. So it is fitting that it went triple platinum in the second term of the bush administration. The masses don't always get it right.