A pre-teen Fergie mangles MIDDLE OF THE ROAD

Apparently it's 1980s Flashback Sunday here at Monsters and Rockets. I hadn't intended to post another music clip so soon, but this sucker is too weird to not share. It's Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas way back in 1985 (pre-"lady lumps"), performing a horrifyingly peppy cover of the Pretenders' Middle of the Road on an old kids show called Kids Incorporated.

One of the weirdest things about the clip is how they left most of the lyrics the same. "When you own a big chunk of the bloody third world, the babies just come with the scenery" becomes "when you own a big chunk of the whole darn world", but she still sings the parts about being 33 with a kid, having some little jerk on her back and bombs being dropped on her street. Only instead of Chrissie Hyde's weary snarl, Fergie does it all with a Mouseketeer grin.




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