"Clumsy" was produced by Fergie's Black Eyed Peas colleague Will.I.Am. She told Interview magazine: "Will is such a great musical encyclopedia. I've learned so much from being in the studio with him and talking to him."
In the same interview Fergie said about this song: "It's kind of a throwback to '60s pop - a modernized version of that. I do a little speech, like the Shangri-Las did in their songs. The vernacular of it very much pays homage to that period."
This samples the 1956 song "The Girl Can't Help It" by Little Richard, which peaked at #9 in the UK and #49 in the US. Little Richard's song was the theme from one of the first great Rock movies, The Girl Can't Help It, which starred Jayne Mansfield.
This appears on the soundtrack of the 2007 movie Knocked Up.
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