Glamorous
by Fergie (featuring Ludacris)

Album: The Dutchess (2006)
Charted: 6 1
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Songfacts®:

  • Similar in sentiment to the Jennifer Lopez hit "Jenny From The Block," this song finds Fergie singing about how even though she enjoys a glamorous lifestyle, she's still the same person and continues to value her friends and family over fame and fortune. She makes sure to thank her fans for all they have given her. >>
    Suggestion credit:
    Donovan Berry - El Dorado, AR
  • This song is the third single from Fergie's debut album, The Dutchess, and her second #1 hit in the United States, after "London Bridge." >>
    Suggestion credit:
    Kye - Tullahoma, TN
  • Ludacris drops a guest verse where he boasts about having sufficient wealth to support Fergie's glamorous lifestyle.

    I've got enough money in the bank for the two of us
    Plus I gotta keep enough lettuce to support your shoe fetish
    Lifestyle so rich and famous, Robin Leach'll get jealous


    American celebrity reporter Robin Leach wrote and hosted the TV series Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. The show, which ran from 1984 to 1995, profiled the extravagant lifestyles of high-status celebrities.
  • Fergie and Ludacris wrote the song with Blac Elvis, the singer's Black Eyed Peas' bandmate, Will.i.am, and Atlanta hip-hop and R&B producer Polow da Don.

    Polow da Don also produced the track along with another The Dutchess hit single, "London Bridge."
  • Polow Da Don originally offered his beat to Gwen Stefani for a remix of her 2005 "Luxurious" single. Her label declined, preferring the remix she did with Slim Thug. Polow then offered it to Fergie, who accepted the beat.
  • The Dave Meyers video features Fergie in scenes in which she portrays a successful actress, with flashback scenes to before she became famous. Her Black Eyed Peas bandmate apl.de.ap, Freddy Rodriguez, Polow da Don, and B-Real from Cypress Hill all make cameos.
  • The Louisville rapper Jack Harlow samples the song in his 2022 single "First Class," which went to #1 in America. "Glamorous" was a big influence on Harlow, who was thrilled when Fergie cleared it. At the MTV Video Music Awards that year, Harlow and Fergie performed a mashup of the two songs, and when "First Class" won for Song Of The Summer, Harlow said: "'Glamorous' was one of the biggest and most important songs of my childhood. It influenced my whole style."

Comments: 7

  • Mike Jones from Souderton, PaAhh, this song takes me right back to simpler times when I was in High School. I miss those days. PHS Class of 2009.
  • Sierra from Lancaster, PaI agree with Fergie. It is not fair to be caught up in fame and fortune because then you won't know all of your family as much as u should.
  • Shannon from Hamilton, OhIt sounds to me like she's saying it's cool that she doesn't have to worry about money, but the fact that she has a lot of money isn't going to change her, or how she lives her life. Wow, what a run-on sentence.
  • E from Boston, MaActually Sam, the guy who actually sings the line is speaking in the roll of someone who marries another just for their money.
  • Sam from Chicago, Ilthis is a nice song but..... there is one thing i dont get at ALL why does she say if you dont got no money take your broke a** home?
    is she saying that she doesnt like people who dont get 5,000,000 a month?
    hmm...
  • Yos from Santo Domingo, Dominican RepublicThis track is more honest that J'lo's "jenny from the block".
  • Tim from Columbus, OhSong of the Year, 2007!
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