Clumsy (Fergie song)

"Clumsy" is a song by American pop/R&B singer Fergie recorded for her debut solo album The Dutchess. The song was written by Fergie and will.i.am, sampling Little Richard's "The Girl Can't Help It" and Dee-Lite's "Who Was that" and a small part of MC Lyte's "Poor Georgie". The song was released as the album's fifth single. The song peaked at number five in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100, making it the fifth consecutive top-five single from The Dutchess. Fergie has also had five consecutive top 5 hits from a debut album on the ARIA Charts in Australia making her the first artist to do so since Delta Goodrem in 2003 with Innocent Eyes who had five consecutive number ones. "Clumsy" is featured in the movie Knocked Up directed by Judd Apatow.^[1]

Fergie has performed the song numerous times, one performance being on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve 2008 in which she co-hosted in Hollywood. United World Chart registered more than two millions copies for this single.^{[citation needed]}

1 Music video
2 Track listing
3 Remix
4 Chart performance
5 References

[edit] Music video

Fergie singing at the pop-up concert.

The music video for "Clumsy" is directed by Marc Webb and Rich Lee. It was wrapped up on September 7, 2007. The video premiere was on AOL Music site in October 12, 2007. The video premiered on iTunes October 26, 2007.

The video is done in the style of a pop-up book. It begins with the book opening, displaying the directors' names, the artist and the title. Fergie begins to sing and the page flips to reveal a little pop-up concert, featuring Fergie with a beehive hairstyle, followed by a pop-up of a Dsquared fashion show where Fergie becomes attracted to a man (Swedish supermodel and Professional Paintball Player for the Russian Legion, Alex Lundqvist) in the audience. Another page flip reveals Fergie in a car, and she sees the man again. She then shows off with the car, but it breaks down and the man leaves. At the song's bridge she is singing in a pop-up rocket and at the same time at the concert she then knocks down a dancer and the concert begins to fall down. While in the rocket she pushes the "airlock" button, which blows the man out of the rocket. After this, it shows Fergie in a plane flying around a pop-up world. To conclude the video, Fergie is getting ready on a rooftop photo shoot and she sits down on a ledge to read a message and she falls off the building and is caught by the man. They walk off toward a sunset and the book closes.

As of June 10, 2008 the music video for "Clumsy" has been viewed 17,721,741 times on popular video-sharing website YouTube.

[edit] Track listing

CD

"Clumsy" (radio edit)
"Clumsy" (instrumental)
"Clumsy" (revisited)
"Clumsy" (music video)

Australian CD

"Clumsy" (radio edit)
"Clumsy" (revisited)

[edit] Remix

“Clumsy (Collipark Remix)”

Single by Fergie featuring Soulja Boy Tell'em
from the album The Dutchess Australian Tour Edition and The Dutchess:Deluxe Edition

B-side

"Get Your Hands Up

Released

Format

Recorded

Length

3:51

Label

A&M

Soulja Boy Tell'em singles chronology

"Soulja Girl"
(2007)

"Clumsy (Collipark Remix)"
(2007)

"Let Me Get Em"
(2007)

The remix version was released on iTunes in December 2007. It featured Soulja Boy Tell'em and is entitled "Clumsy (Collipark Remix)".

[edit] Chart performance

In New Zealand, after the success of the previous single "Big Girls Don't Cry", "Clumsy" started being downloaded, peaking at number thirty-five on the country's iTunes Store and eventually debuting at number thirty-one on the official RIANZ Top 40 Chart. It has since climbed to number-four in New Zealand.^[2] "Clumsy" has also become a top 5 success in the U.S., where it has reached number-two on the Pop 100 and number-five on the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks.^[2] This achievement makes Fergie the first female artist to pull five top 5 singles from a debut album since Paula Abdul during 1989-1990 with her album, Forever Your Girl .

"Clumsy" has also peaked at number-four on the Canadian Hot 100.^[2] "Clumsy," has been able to do well on the Billboard Hot 100 even with "Big Girls Don't Cry," still receiving attention. The song has peaked at number five for six weeks, the fifth single off of Fergie's debut album to reach the top five of the Hot 100. This achievement makes Fergie the first artist in 17 years to pull five top five Hot 100 hits from an album, since Janet Jackson pulled seven top five singles with her 1989 release, Rhythm Nation 1814 album.^[3]

Following the release of the "Radio Edit" version of the song on the iTunes Music Store in Australia (along with a new more rock friendly revisited version) it immediately entered the Top 100 Songs at number 10. After two days, it has already ascended to number-two and topped the Pop Store. Exclusively with the benefit of digital downloads it managed to debut at number-twelve on the ARIA Singles Chart. "Clumsy" has since become Fergie's fifth consecutive top 5 hit from the album, peaking at number three for three consecutive weeks.

Clumsy was less successful in Europe than Fergie's previous singles. In the UK, the single only managed a peak of number sixty-two but it wasnt officially released in as a CD single only a download.

Chart (2007)	Peak position
Austrian Singles Chart^[4]	53
Australian ARIA Singles Chart^[2]	3
Canadian Hot 100^[2]	4
Danish Singles Top 40^[5]	38
Dutch Singles Top 100 Chart^[6]	84
German Singles Chart^[7]	50
Irish Singles Chart^[8]	17
New Zealand Singles Chart^[2]	4
Swedish Singles Chart^[9]	15
UK Singles Chart^[10]	62
U.S. Billboard Hot 100^[2]	5
U.S. Billboard Pop 100	2
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs	89
United World Chart^[11]	6

[edit] References

v • d • e Fergie

Album	The Dutchess (2006)

Singles	"London Bridge" · "Fergalicious" · "Glamorous" · "Big Girls Don't Cry" · "Clumsy" · "Pick It Up" · "Here I Come" · "Finally" · "Labels Or Love"

Guest singles	"Impacto (Remix)" · "The Look of Love" · "Party People" · "That Ain't Cool"

Related articles	Wild Orchid · Kids Incorporated · Black Eyed Peas · Fergie discography · Dance on Sunset