
Last year this month, Black Eyed Pea Fergie released her now-double-platinum solo album The Dutchess, and she hasn’t exactly taken a breather since. MTV News reports that she just shot a clip for “Clumsy,” and fellow Pea Will.i.am, who executive produced her LP, tells Rock Daily they’re well on their way to album number two. “It’s already half done,” Will.i.am says. “If [label head] Jimmy Iovine said, ‘Will, I need a Fergie record, turn it into me next week.’ I’d have it.” (Apparently Fergie nixed the idea of getting it in stores for Christmas: “Would have been dope though,” Will laments). So how exactly does a Fergie album come together? “When I record, I like to record fifty songs,” the producer, who’s also currently working in the studio with Michael Jackson, explains. “For Fergie’s record it’s like, okay, we need two songs that are like ‘Fergilicious.’ We need two songs that are like ‘Glamorous’ for balance. We need two songs that are like ‘Big Girls Don’t Cry.’ You can’t have too much of the same shit. You’re gonna be sitting on great songs, it’s just that for diversity, you’ve got to make cuts.” With all the Fergie in the hopper, does Will.i.am ever worry that older tracks might seem stale? “What’s stale to me is fresh to you,” he quips and launches into a condemnation of artists who turn their backs on stellar material. “You could be sitting on great things and because you’re tired of it you don’t put it out. I know a lot of artists that are like, ‘I just don’t like that song no more.’ Fool! You’re an idiot, that song is dope. Their new shit is doo-doo, that shit is wack, and they just like it ’cause it’s new. You don’t ever want to like something just ’cause it’s new.”
New Fergie Album? Will.i.am Says the Dutchess Has Plenty of Songs
9/26/07, 5:44 pm EST
Comments
Roar | 9/5/2008, 4:14 pm EST
Booooo, Booooo. Go squeek on some other planet!
ferg fan | 5/24/2008, 12:21 pm EST
ready for new album!
ferg fan | 5/24/2008, 12:21 pm EST
ready for new album
Lefteris | 12/29/2007, 11:13 am EST
Cool!
mikaele | 12/18/2007, 8:44 am EST
eu gosto das musicas dela
Angel-itto | 12/16/2007, 2:05 pm EST
Fergie showed us what she can do,, so this new album needs to be better,,obviously it wil..
i love you fergie
it me | 12/12/2007, 2:01 pm EST
fuck all u haters shut the fuck up cuz i want another album fergie is a really awesome singer n u all know that
it me | 12/12/2007, 2:00 pm EST
all u fucker shut the fuck up cuz i want another album shit
fergie-fan | 11/30/2007, 4:39 pm EST
PETER..ur da bitch..shut tha fuck up!!!
GO FERGIE..i want another CD!!!
Christian | 11/4/2007, 10:53 am EST
OMG! REALLY?! Fergie rocks, yall. Shes the best!’
I love how u all diss her yet u seem to all like her being how she won “Best Female Artist” at the VMAs and Teen Choice Awards
>:3 | 10/6/2007, 6:11 pm EST
RAWR!
HENRY | 10/4/2007, 4:17 pm EST
U FCKINGPPL THATS TALKING SHYT BOUT FERGIE SHUT THE FCK UP BOUT NAG NAG NAG IF FERGIE WAS THERE SAY IT IN HER FACE FUCKING PPL DONT FUCKING TALK SHYT FORE I FCKING TRACK U DOWN FCKING PPL KUC ANYWAYS IF U HAVE SOMTHING FCKING BAD TO FCKING SAY DONT FCKING SAY IT DUMB FCK DOOSU ANYWAYSSSSSS FERGIIE GO MAKE UR ALBUM ILL BUY 20 LMAO
Fergie.4fans.org | 10/4/2007, 12:34 pm EST
Yeahhh…it will be great if she will release a new album
tkaik13 | 10/2/2007, 8:24 pm EST
Bukowski - He doesn’t have a diagram on assembling a record, he was just saying that the album is supposed to have a lot of variety. He said that he likes to make a lot of songs and then he picks and chooses which songs make the album. Because he wants the album to sound diverse, and a fraction of the songs make the album, only two or three of the songs on the album end up sounding alike. That’s all he meant.
aviv | 9/30/2007, 7:09 am EST
peter you suck you mother fucker!
fergie rocks!!bep to!!
sammy souza | 9/30/2007, 3:46 am EST
thats fukin awesome if she did release it on christmas
Kevin | 9/29/2007, 10:23 pm EST
You guys are haters.
I’m excited as fuck for a new Fergie album.
Peter | 9/28/2007, 7:23 pm EST
Fergie Sucks, that bitch
Johnny Kickass | 9/27/2007, 3:41 pm EST
Talking like an 18th Century Englishman is the new black.
Zouks!
Bukowski | 9/26/2007, 8:57 pm EST
In other words, I agree with “Male Majority”!
Bukowski | 9/26/2007, 8:56 pm EST
““For Fergie’s record it’s like, okay, we need two songs that are like ‘Fergilicious.’ We need two songs that are like ‘Glamorous’ for balance. We need two songs that are like ‘Big Girls Don’t Cry.’”
Musical artistry at its purest and finest.
For some reason I have the scene from “I Love Lucy” where Lucy and Ethel are working in the candy factory and they’re working furiously to try to pack the candies as fast as they can before they’re completely overwhelmed by product.
Talk about contrived, mechanical, predicatable crap. Do they also have a diagram called,
“How to Assemble A Hit Record.” It’s sad that this guy has no clue as to how ridiculous this all sounds.
Male Majority | 9/26/2007, 7:34 pm EST
Stop singing and just show us your tits, baby.
JJ SNUGS | 9/26/2007, 6:27 pm EST
NOOOOOOOOOO! I’m a big girl and I will cry if puts out another cd!
Moss | 9/26/2007, 6:23 pm EST
“You could be sitting on great things and because you’re tired of it you don’t put it out. I know a lot of artists that are like, ‘I just don’t like that song no more.’ Fool! You’re an idiot, that song is dope. Their new shit is doo-doo, that shit is wack, and they just like it ’cause it’s new. You don’t ever want to like something just ’cause it’s new.”
Brilliant.
in da house | 9/26/2007, 6:13 pm EST
I thought when white people could start mimicking certain phrases black people moved on to new ones. “that shit is wack”? Really? Will, You’re not keeping ahead of us whities, better hurry up.

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