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The girl can't help it — if 'it' means advertising Mac and Motorola…

  • October 15, 2007
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There are a few things you might expect to see in a new Fergie video, and we are pleased to see that the 'Clumsy' video delivers on all counts. It is a generally decent song, it is well sung, there is a clever little sample and Fergie herself looks twenty years younger than whatever age is on her passport.

Here is the 'Clumsy' video.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7odN3S52VyE

There may be some product placement at the end of that, but the waving around of that enormous box of clearly labeled make-up and then a mobile phone was so subtle that we could be seeing things that are not there…

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