Fergie can sing!

The Dutchess appeared to have downed 3 gallons of herbal tea and pumped up her lungs for bigger, higher-ranging notes when the Black Eyed Peas performed at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on Oct 22.

Belting out notes and stretching her vocals (for as long as 15 seconds in one instance) for hit singles like “Don’t Lie”, “Shut Up” and “Hey Mama”, the 32-year-old proved to be more than just a girl with “lovely lady lumps” or a girl who simply got lucky with 3 number-one hits in her solo career thus far. With a slight echo effect and a higher audio level allocated to her microphone, she almost resembled an Aguilera.

The Biggest Party In Town

The Peas partied hard. For more than 2 hours (far longer than what most international artists would spend in a concert), they gave Singapore fans yet another riveting performance in their 3rd concert here in the last 3 years.

Will.i.Am, Taboo, apl.de.ap and Fergie got more than 8,000 attendees constantly on their feet and hollering back at them with massive numbers like “Don’t Phunk With My Heart”, “Let’s Get It Started” (also known as “Let’s Get Retarded”) and “Pump It”. One girl’s loose tooth even popped out from the intense jumping.

Fergie’s Special Feature

This time around, screaming fans got to enjoy an additional solo segment by Fergie, who turned up the heat with “London Bridge”, “Fergilicious” and broke it down with “Big Girls Don’t Cry”.

“I put on my little girly outfit for you!” said Fergie, before singing “Glamorous”. The girl was playful throughout the concert, shimmying her bosom with every beat of “My Humps”, throwing U.S. dollar bills towards the crowd, and pulling off a naughty British accent, which resembled a younger Geri Halliwell.

What’s always awesome about a Black Eyed Peas concert is the wide and fabulous collection of hits that the group’s been able to achieve over the years and which can easily sustain a crowd for 2 hours’ worth of non-stop sheer excitement. There’s hardly a number you won’t find favourable and familiar – from “Where Is The Love?” to “Bebot” – and hardly a number you won’t be able to groove to.

The Power of The Click Five
If there was anything disappointing about the Peas, it was the show’s could-have-been-louder opening. The quartet’s unexciting walk from behind the stage following the 20th Century Fox music theme hardly lived up to the heat and energy that opening act, The Click Five, pumped up among the audience for the 3-time Grammy-winning group.

The Peas could not have asked for a more electrifying act than The Click Five. The boys from Boston blew the crowd into a screaming chorus with their boyish good looks and signature tunes like “Catch Your Wave“, “Just The Girl” and tracks from their latest album, Modern Minds And Pastimes, including their newest single, “Empty”. But it was “Jenny” that invited the wildest roar and had female fans risking losing their voices and frantically jumping, as if calling out “I’m Jenny! Jenny’s here! And I’m saying ‘I will’ once and for all” as in the song.

Both acts were such crowd-pleasers in their own right and ways and secured at least as huge a crowd for their next gig in Singapore which, Will.i.Am shared for the Black Eyed Peas, could possibly be as soon as early next year.