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Post by Mack on Jan 7, 2014 13:37:01 GMT -5
I don't even care that will.i.cant will be involved, because his work on her first album was top-notch: 'Fergalicious', Clumsy', 'All That I Got', 'Here I Come', 'Big Girls Don't Cry'...all fantastic songs. Of course, he's gone downhill since then, but I have faith that he and Fergie will come up with some good s**t.
I hope she has a single out by summertime!
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Post by Glove Slap on Jan 7, 2014 15:40:24 GMT -5
I'm probably one of the only ones who would actually prefer a new BEP album, but I'll still check out whatever ends up being released from this project.
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Post by Ling-Ling on Jan 7, 2014 15:41:58 GMT -5
I wish the last BEP album NEVER happened. She should have released a solo album instead, seems a little late at this point. Hope it's hot!
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Post by circadian on Jan 7, 2014 15:47:07 GMT -5
I want her to work with Pharrell so bad. They both could make magic.
I'm sure will.i.am will be involved, but I think it'll be interesting to see how those songs end up sounding like. I always felt that the change of sound of BEP was more of a will.i.am idea than BEP's idea. I'm sure Fergie has her own vision for this album, so instead of her following will's desires, they will meet halfway at some point.
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Post by BDGeek on Jan 7, 2014 22:52:57 GMT -5
I enjoyed The Dutchess, but I'd love for her next single (and album as a whole) to really showcase her voice. A lot of people assume she can't sing based on "London Bridge," "Fergalicious," and the last couple BEP albums, so I'd love to hear her prove them wrong with a kick-ass vocal and more mature lyrics (still keeping some fun songs of course).
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Post by K. on Feb 24, 2014 19:46:20 GMT -5
I can't believe this isn't being talked about more here. I had no idea she was working on a new album until I randomly googled her today.
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Post by Gray. on Feb 24, 2014 22:20:02 GMT -5
^I had no idea until this thread right now.
I want that second solo album ASAP. The Dutchess is still better than everything BEP has ever put out. Wish will.i.am didn't have to be involved though.
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Post by ListenToItTwice on Feb 24, 2014 22:26:40 GMT -5
WHAT SECOND ALBUM WHAT STOP I CAN'T BREATHE
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Post by MyLastView on Aug 16, 2014 11:03:12 GMT -5
I CANNOT wait for this.
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Post by Music Fan on Aug 23, 2014 1:07:29 GMT -5
Not sure if she meant that it will be done before the end of the year or it will drop this year. Hoping for the latter, and have her have a Q4 release.
From Glamour
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Post by Agent Yoncé on Aug 23, 2014 1:34:33 GMT -5
Though I want new BEP music a tad bit more, I'm excited to hear she's back in the studio. My anticipation level isn't as high like it was 5yrs ago. Nonetheless, it should be impactful.
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Post by Flip on Aug 23, 2014 2:30:03 GMT -5
Nooo I want Black Eyed Peas reunion
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2014 4:19:19 GMT -5
The Duchess was such a kick-@$$ album. I'm over the moon in anticipation for this one. I just hope she hasn't waited too much time for the audiences to welcome her back (solo, I mean), but with a right first single, she should come back on top.
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Post by Gray. on Aug 23, 2014 10:59:40 GMT -5
Yesssss I need this ASAP.
And lol please no BEP for the next decade kthx.
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Post by SHOOTER on Aug 23, 2014 11:21:32 GMT -5
I'm cautiously optimistic. I feel like The Dutchess set such a high standard for her solo career that this next album will either be an amazing extension or a total dud.
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Post by Music Fan on Aug 23, 2014 15:37:22 GMT -5
I'm cautiously optimistic. I feel like The Dutchess set such a high standard for her solo career that this next album will either be an amazing extension or a total dud. I hope the album's success is not similar to Gwen Stefani's sophomore album. I don't know if it's just me, but I kind of put them in the same category: coming from a band, becoming a solo artist at their early 30s, successful hits right of the bat. Gwen's second album was no where near a hit as "Love Angel Music Baby." With that said, I hope Fergie nearing 40 doesn't affect her singles on radio. I think people don't tend to think of her as a 39 year old woman necessarily, but I mean look at JLO. With that said though, Fergie is definitely miles better than JLo and in no means will I ever compare them.
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Post by Juanca on Aug 23, 2014 16:37:03 GMT -5
I wonder if she'd be asked to participate in a TV show? In any case I'm happy! I loved Dutchess and look forward to great fun music from her :) Would be awesome to have new Gwen too. Both gave great female albums!
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Post by YourFaveIsAFlop on Aug 24, 2014 8:36:11 GMT -5
I'm cautiously optimistic. I feel like The Dutchess set such a high standard for her solo career that this next album will either be an amazing extension or a total dud. I hope the album's success is not similar to Gwen Stefani's sophomore album. I don't know if it's just me, but I kind of put them in the same category: coming from a band, becoming a solo artist at their early 30s, successful hits right of the bat. Gwen's second album was no where near a hit as "Love Angel Music Baby." With that said, I hope Fergie nearing 40 doesn't affect her singles on radio. I think people don't tend to think of her as a 39 year old woman necessarily, but I mean look at JLO. With that said though, Fergie is definitely miles better than JLo and in no means will I ever compare them. Gwen had one of the biggest hits of 2007 with Sweet Escape (3rd most downloaded song, 5th most played on radio) but yes, the album sales were significantly less. But she was also being compared to a monstrously huge hit like Hollaback Girl, so pretty much anything coming after it will look weaker in comparison.
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Post by Juan Carlos on Sept 15, 2014 17:02:13 GMT -5
Looks like there will be a new song from Fergie at the end of 2014 and a new album next year! From Billboard:
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Post by Music Fan on Sept 15, 2014 17:03:01 GMT -5
Fergie’s ‘The Dutchess’ Turns Eight: An Appreciationwww.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/6251548/fergie-the-dutchess-appreciation?facebook_20140915The Black Eyed Pea singer still has yet to follow her solo debut -- and that's okay, because "The Dutchess" rules. Fergie’s debut solo album, The Dutchess, was released on Sept. 13, 2006, meaning that the album celebrated its eighth birthday over the weekend. And since there is no follow-up album to speak of, that also means that Fergie has not released an album in over eight years. Eight years. So, two full presidential terms. For some perspective, here are a few things that were going on when The Dutchess was released eight years ago: - Britney Spears had just had her second child with Kevin Federline. - The film Borat was about to hit theaters. - Microsoft was preparing the first generation of Zunes. - Outkast was still promoting its Idlewild album and film. - Barack Obama was still a senator, and hadn’t declared his intent to run for president yet. - Brett Favre was kicking off his next-to-last season with the Green Bay Packers -- he had five more years left in the NFL. - “SexyBack” by Justin Timberlake had yet to reach the top of the Hot 100 chart. It was about to take over No. 1 from… “London Bridge,” by Fergie. Timberlake’s sophomore album, FutureSex/LoveSounds, came out the same weekend as The Dutchess, and in the years following the release of FutureSex/LoveSounds, music fans audibly yearned for Timberlake to return to music. There has not been the same level of “come back to us!” outcry in Fergie’s direction, which is partially due to the fact that fans could hear Fergie’s voice alongside the rest of the Black Eyed Peas, Timberlake released very little music in between FutureSex and 20/20 Experience, making his absence all the more glaring. However, Fergie’s first solo venture was by no means a "side project": debuting at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart and spending 94 weeks on the albums tally, The Dutchess would go on to sell 3.9 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The album also generated five Top 5 hits on the Hot 100 chart: “London Bridge” (No. 1 for three weeks), “Fergalicious” (No. 2), “Glamorous” (No. 1 for two weeks), “Big Girls Don’t Cry” (No. 1) and “Clumsy” (No. 5). Since 2000, only two albums have produced at least five Top 5 singles on the Hot 100: The Dutchess, and Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream. Now, imagine if Perry had taken more than eight years to follow up that album. The lack of a follow-up does not minimize The Dutchess artistically, of course, but… we’re used to sequels. Whenever a piece of media becomes blindingly successful, be it a superhero movie or zombie TV series, the general population thirsts for more. And that’s exactly what Fergie’s first solo album was: a monster hit by any metric, as well as an underrated pop pastiche that introduced the world to a fearlessly individual female artist that had been hiding in plain sight. It arrived, it conquered, and eight years later, it still has no upshot. That's a hell of a break for a pop star to take, especially for one with whose typical music video has over 10 million views on YouTube. Looking back, though, the delay has been understandable. It’s one thing to return to a group after scoring a solo breakout to put a bow on an origin story (see: Destiny’s Child), but it’s quite another to rejoin a collective that becomes the biggest pop group on the planet. After notching hits like “Don’t Phunk with My Heart” and “Pump It” on their 2005 album Monkey Business, the Black Eyed Peas (which Fergie had joined in 2003) unequivocally owned the summer of 2009 with the one-two punch of “Boom Boom Pow” and “I Gotta Feeling,” pushing the album The E.N.D. to sales of 3.2 million, according to Nielsen SoundScan. More importantly, the Peas had accrued enough hits at that point to put together an international arena tour, which began in late 2009 and ran for over a year. The Black Eyed Peas then pumped out another album, The Beginning, and toured behind that one through late 2011, before going on another hiatus. Meanwhile, Fergie popped up on a few tracks (Kanye West’s “All of the Lights” and the Great Gatsby soundtrack tune “A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got)” being the most memorable) and kept building her brand with fragrances and feature film roles. In February 2013, she announced that she was pregnant, and welcomed her first son, Axl Jack, that August. But in those eight years of taking over the world as a Pea and becoming a mother, Fergie’s debut solo album — and specifically, the Top 5 hits it spawned — have aged remarkably well. “London Bridge” is dumb, brassy fun with a call-and-response structure that would work in the club today, as it did in 2006. “Fergalicious” allowed Fergie to lump electronica, hip-hop and dance music together while rapping competently over J.J. Fad’s “Supersonic”; it turns on a dime at the 1:55 mark and tosses out the album’s best, boldest girl-power slogans. “Glamorous” is sleek, stylish R&B, a revision of “Jenny From The Block’s” thesis that’s perfect for a summer drive (bonus: peak-era Ludacris!). The magnetic bubblegum of “Clumsy” probably has the strongest production of any Will.i.am song not named “American Boy.” And “Big Girls Don’t Cry” might be the best of the bunch, a killer ballad with careful lyrics and a top-notch vocal take by someone not known for her slowing things down. “Big Girls Don’t Cry” deserves to haunt karaoke bars for years to come. “Sometimes I can be tomboyish, and sometimes I can be girly,” Fergie told Rolling Stone in a 2006 cover story. “It depends on what mood I'm in. I like the balance. That whole woman/little girl thing, I like to play both of those." That’s the greatest strength of The Dutchess: balance. None of those five hit singles sound similar to each other, and are scattered throughout the album’s track list, preventing a top-heavy listen. The non-hits follow through in giving the listener a clear sense of what Stacy Ann Ferguson can accomplish — there’s desperation on “Losing My Ground,” haters getting served on “Pedestal” and blunts being rolled on the reggae-tinged “Mary Jane Shoes.” Aside from a cringe-worthy Will.i.am verse, “All That I Got (The Make Up Song)” soars, a doo-wop he-likes-me-for-me track on which Fergie asks, “Would you love me if I didn’t work out or I didn’t change my natural hair?” On The Dutchess, Fergie tries a little bit of everything and doesn’t take any noticeable missteps; freed from the group dynamic but trained on big stages, she has established charisma but the exploratory nature of a brand-new voice. It’s a weird, wild debut, and one of the most successful ones of this century. There might finally be new music coming, which is welcome news, and also a little unnerving. What will the unyielding 31-year-old of The Dutchess sound like as a 39-year-old mother? Will she still be so hard to categorize? Time will tell. Until that elusive sophomore album arrives, Fergie deserves retroactive praise for an uncompromising first look, and we’ll keep spelling “tasty” with an E tucked in the middle.
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Post by josh on Sept 15, 2014 19:43:40 GMT -5
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Post by bat1990 on Sept 16, 2014 12:54:14 GMT -5
She's coming!!!!!! *opens umbrella*
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Post by Caviar on Sept 16, 2014 17:36:49 GMT -5
I want another Polow collab! "Glamorous" still knocks.
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Post by Kishi KCM on Sept 16, 2014 17:52:48 GMT -5
Gosh, "The Dutchess" brings back memories. I just graduated high school when that album released. Memories...please come back 2006!
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Post by josh on Sept 16, 2014 19:37:11 GMT -5
"L.A.LOVE (La La)" Surprise! New Fergie single drops Monday and goes for adds September 30, according to Interscope's promo site PlayIGA.
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Post by Nick on Sept 16, 2014 19:52:03 GMT -5
Hope it's great.
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Post by Zeebz on Sept 16, 2014 20:41:52 GMT -5
The Dutchess still hasn't burned on me. The singles from it were especially on point.
I really hope this turns out to be true. I'm excited for the prospect of new material from her.
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Post by LoveKiller on Sept 16, 2014 21:15:43 GMT -5
How does everyone think she'll do this era? It'll never match the success of The Dutchess but I think she'll do well based on hype alone. She was so massive before and then left us all hanging so I can't see her flopping.
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Post by circadian on Sept 16, 2014 23:41:45 GMT -5
A Little Party Never Killed Nobody was well received, so I think the interest is still there for Fergie's solo music.
I'm sure the material will be solid, but I'm interested in seeing if will.i.am had any involvement in the album at all (Probably a track or two, but I don't think he'll be involved that much). He was involved in pretty much the whole 'The Dutchess'. It'll be exciting to see the material Fergie can create without him.
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