The Black Eyed Peas 2015-present: 20th anniversary, new projects Did they record a new album in 2015? Black Eyed Peas would start recording sessions for their seventh studio album in 2015. Have they toured during this time period? I don't know. Are all the original members still in the band? On February 18, 2018, will.i.am confirmed Fergie's departure from the band, in an interview with the Daily Star. Are there any other interesting aspects about this article? The performance, which included a pyrotechnic display, ran over time and forced the kick-off to be delayed by several minutes. Did they do a special event for their 20th Anniversary? On the 20th anniversary of their debut, the Peas premiered a new song titled "Yesterday" through Apple Music, Has Yesterday become a hit song? I don't know.
Is Fergie still performing on her own?
Is Fergie still performing on her own?
During an interview with NRJ, will.i.am in talking about his solo album also confirmed that the Black Eyed Peas would start recording sessions for their seventh studio album in 2015. In an interview on Capital Breakfast, will.i.am said that the Peas will reform in 2015 for their 20th anniversary. The Peas premiered a new song titled "Awesome" that was included in commercials for the 2015 NBA playoffs. The song did not include Fergie, with people questioning if she would be a part of the upcoming album. On the 20th anniversary of their debut, the Peas premiered a new song titled "Yesterday" through Apple Music, though the song also does not feature Fergie. On August 31, 2016, the Black Eyed Peas released a new version of their song "Where Is the Love?". The song is titled #WHERESTHELOVE and is credited to "The Black Eyed Peas featuring The World". The song as well as the accompanying video feature many other popular artists and all four members of the group, will.i.am, Fergie, apl.de.ap & Taboo. On June 3, 2017, they performed at the opening ceremony of the 2017 UEFA Champions League Final in Millennium Stadium, Cardiff. The performance, which included a pyrotechnic display, ran over time and forced the kick-off to be delayed by several minutes. On June 2, 2017, a Billboard article rumored that Fergie was departing from the band. will.i.am dismissed this, but they did announce that she was taking a break from the group to work on her sophomore solo album Double Dutchess while the remaining members were working on the graphic novel Masters of the Sun. On January 9, 2018, Black Eyed Peas released their first single in seven years, without Fergie, titled "Street Livin'". On February 18, 2018, will.i.am confirmed Fergie's departure from the band, in an interview with the Daily Star. CANNOTANSWER
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Fergie MacDonald MBE (born 1938, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish accordionist who specializes in ceilidh music and plays the button key accordion.  A trained physiotherapist and an international clay pigeon shooter, MacDonald is considered to be the man who popularised the West Highland style of traditional Scottish dance music. He was brought up in Moidart.

MacDonald topped the Scottish Singles Chart in 1966 with his tune "Loch Maree Islands". He was initially banned from appearing on the BBC due to the traditional audition process, but is now regularly featured on BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Radio nan Gaidheal.

He still tours today throughout the world and has released 23 albums to date. He is well known through the tales told by fellow Scottish accordionist Phil Cunningham as part of his stage act.

He released his autobiography in 2003, Fergie: Memories of a Musical Legend.

Selected discography
It's Scotland's Music – Fergie MacDonald and his Highland Band, Shona SH 7001
21st Album: Traditional Ceilidh Music – Fergie MacDonald (1997), Greentrax Recordings

References

External links
Fergie On-line
Fergie MacDonald Profile

Scottish accordionists
British physiotherapists
People from Lochaber
Living people
21st-century accordionists
1938 births "A Little Work" is a song recorded by American singer Fergie for her second solo studio album, Double Dutchess (2017). The song was released as the album's fifth single and distributed to contemporary hit radio on November 14 in the United States by Dutchess Music and BMG Rights Management.

An accompanying music video, directed by Jonas Åkerlund, was released alongside the album.

Promotion
Fergie first performed the song live on The Today Show on September 22, 2017 at the launch of Double Dutchess. After the song was chosen as a single, it was promoted on The Talk on October 24, and then on The Late Late Show with James Corden on October 30. She additionally performed the song on Miss Universe on November 26 during the evening gown competition. The song was later performed on Late Night with Seth Meyers on December 14, 2017.

Music video

The complete video for “A Little Work” runs for over 11 minutes and was directed by Jonas Åkerlund. Deemed a short film, it begins showing scenes of the singer battling her demons in a padded room and in a straitjacket as Fergie herself narrates how she often felt watched and how difficult it was leaving in constant fear due to drug abuse. It was then that she saw an empty church on Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, and in fear of her own demons, tried to hide through the different aisles and started praying. As Fergie continues to share her story, the video also shows visions of soldiers in war before she embraces one, who wears her surname - Ferguson - on his name badge, as a kind of homage to her late grandfather, whom she calls her “guardian angel”, and then flashbacks of his funeral, as she believes he was the one that guided her in the right direction. At the ending, Fergie is shown walking out of the church, holding hands with her son Axl as she realizes that she needed to honor herself, and she still works on it even today.

It enlights a specific situation in the singer's life she once narrated to Oprah Winfrey in an episode of Oprah's Next Chapter back in 2012 when talking about her previous addiction issues. "I got into a scene. I started going out and taking ecstasy. From ecstasy, it went to crystal meth. With any drugs, everything is great at the beginning, and then slowly your life starts to spiral down." She described her worst moment as being paranoid in a church and thinking that the FBI and SWAT teams were waiting for her outside. When she emerged from the building and discovered drugs were playing tricks on her and she had imagined the whole thing, she finally decided to quit it for good. To Women's Wear Daily, she said: Jonas found this church that was going to be torn down very soon, and all this amazing graffiti that was on there [...] Part of that whole song is just a battle in your mind about overcoming negativity and anything that’s in your way, and just powering through that and finding your tools to overcome that, whatever they may be. And being in that church, there was a presence and it was thick. It was a moment, for sure.

The idea to dramatize Fergie's previous experience with addiction came after Åkerlund conducted an in-depth conversation with the singer about her life in her own home, footage which was also used in the final cut. In an interview for Rolling Stone, Fergie spoke of its conception: "It was very interesting, the idea of wanting to play that out in the cinema – and not only that, but make it larger than life, make it grand."
On October 30, 2017, right before the song got serviced to radios, a short edit of the video running over 3 minutes long was uploaded to online outlets.

Personnel
Taken from Tidal.
 Fergie Duhamel – vocals, performer, songwriter
 Henry Russell Walter – producer, vocals, songwriter
 Serban Ghenea – mixing engineer
 John Haynes – mixing engineer
 Rachel Findlen – engineer
 Clint Gibbs – engineer
 Jacob Kasher Hindlin – vocals
 Theron Thomas – vocals, songwriter
 Kevin Fisher – vocals
 Sophia Black – vocals
 Lukasz Gottwald – vocals, songwriter
 Chloe Angelides – vocals
 Timothy Thomas – vocals, songwriter
 Tyler Sheppard – vocals
 Jennifer Eashoo – vocals
 Cameron Montgomery – assistant engineer

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Release history

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2017 songs
2017 singles
Songs written by Fergie (singer)
Songs written by Theron Thomas
Songs written by Timothy Thomas
Songs written by Cirkut (record producer)
Song recordings produced by Cirkut (record producer)
Fergie (singer) songs
Music videos directed by Jonas Åkerlund
Contemporary R&B ballads
Songs written by Dr. Luke "Finally" is a song recorded by American singer Fergie for her debut studio album, The Dutchess (2006). It was written by Fergie, Stefanie Ridel and John Legend, who produced the song alongside Ron Fair. The song was released as single on March 18, 2008.

Background and promotion 
A music video for "Finally" was shot by director Marc Webb, but never released – it was canceled in post-production without explanation. The video shoot took place at the former Hollywood Hills home of Frank Sinatra and featured several male models from Wilhelmina Models as part of the shoot.

Writing and production 
"Finally" was written by John Stephens (John Legend), Stacy Ferguson (Fergie) and Stefanie Ridel. The song was produced by John Legend and Ron Fair. Ridel and Fair produced Fergie's vocals, which were recorded at Chung King Recording Studios in New York City and Conway Recording Studios in Hollywood. The strings were arranged and conducted by Fair and recorded by Allen Sides at Signet Sound in West Hollywood, California. Anatoly Rosinsky, Bruce Dukov, Helen Nightengale, Josefina Vergara, Julie Gigante, Liane Mautner, Natalie Leggett, Becky Bunnell, Roberto Cani, Sarah Thornblade, Shoshana Claman, Sid Page, Tiffany Hu, Katia Popov, Michele Richards, Phillip Levy, Songa Lee and Tammy Hatwan performed the strings for "Finally".

The viola was performed by Andrew Duckles, Brian Dembow, Thomas Diener and Vicky Misckolczy, while the cello was performed by David Low, Larry Corbett, Suzie Katayama and Tim Loo. Nico Abondolo and Mike Valerio performed the bass in the song, while John Legend performed the piano. Additional Pro Tools editing was done by Tal Herzberg. The song was engineered by Josh Chervokas and "Angry" Mike Eleopoulos, with assistance from Anthony Caruso and Bevin Robinson. The song was mixed by Sides.

Composition and critical response 
"Finally" is a "bombastic ballad", set to the style of Broadway theatre. It features a "dramatic piano" and "string-laden" coda. The song is set in common time composed in a moderate tempo of 84 beats per minute, with a main key of C major with a vocal range from the tone of G3 to the note of E5. Fergie "gets introspective" and "lets loose" about her past troubles and dreams in the song. According to Bill Lamb of About.com, Fergie "blows the listener away" with "Finally", a track that is "truly huge".

"Finally", according to Spence D. of IGN, would "on paper" seem to be a "flop", "just like her other attempts at serious sounding tunes" on The Dutchess. He, however, stated that the song "actually works", mostly because Fergie "lets loose with her voice", showing that she has range and a "nice, warm set of pipes". He concluded by stating that while the song "may be at odds with her bangin' club persona", it is a "rich, introspective number" that showcases Fergie's "maturity and sincerity rather nicely". According to a reviewer from Alloy, Fergie shines "without a trace" of hip hop, reggae, or rap, which proves that she does not need sexual lyrics or synth-produced dance beats to "show off her pipes". That same reviewer wrote that "Finally" is "the biggest surprise" on The Dutchess.

Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly wrote that Fergie's "ardent joy" on "Finally" is probably as "publicly naked as she's ever allowed herself to be". She wrote that "not that she's morphing into some kind of "My Heart Will Go On" ballad queen; Fergie is too adept on the dance floor to forsake it." While giving a negative review of The Dutchess, Mike Joseph of PopMatters wrote that Fergie "shows hints of promise" in "Finally". According to Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times, the song "may one day conquer radio".

Live performances 
Fergie and Legend performed the song together at the 50th Grammy Awards. Fergie performed the track multiple times on television, most notably on 2008's Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve and The Tyra Banks Show. Fergie performed the song with John Legend at the Idol Gives Back show on Wednesday, April 9, 2008. Fergie has also performed the song in an episode of Nickelodeon's "Dance on Sunset".

Charts

Release history

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2006 songs
2008 singles
Fergie (singer) songs
Songs written by Fergie (singer)
Song recordings produced by Ron Fair
2000s ballads
Songs written by John Legend
Songs written by Stefanie Ridel
Pop ballads