I don't really want to like Fergie

I was loving this new song on the radio, and thinking how the voice was a LITTLE familiar (Pink). But I really, really liked it, as in, "pay 99 cents on iTunes to purchase the song even though it's on high play on the radio" like it.

(Unlike the Rihanna/Jay-Z song, which went from mildly annoying, to stuck in my head, to me liking it...but I am sure that the radio will beat the crap out of it soon enough...)

But I could never figure out who was singing it. I actually said "no way" out loud in the car when they were saying it's Fergie. Which guarantees it will get the crap played out of it, but maybe it will be one of those songs, like "Irreplaceable" or "What Goes Around" that I seriously cannot get sick of.

I really want to dislike Fergie, her physical appearance scares the crap out of me for one thing. But more importantly, most of her songs are all about lady lumps and using them to get boys spending money...even if that's not the song's main focus, a Fergie song is guaranteed to have at least one line that makes me say, "Is she really singing about that?" with a scrunched up face. And when you have to wonder what the metaphor is really about (um, London Bridge?) you know it's super dirty!!

But I do find myself head-bopping a little to the (usually borrowed) beats and somewhat clever rhymes, and I guess I can pretend it's about female empowerment in the same way that the Pussycat Dolls keep saying that they are.

Or maybe I can not take it all so seriously?!

Postscript...Um, I can only find the "explicit" version on iTunes, so I'm sure I'll be mildly offended by some of the content. But I'll leave all the indignation to Oprah and her town hall meetings. This is somehow all Russell Simmons' fault, isn't it?