No Doubt it's Not No Doubt
Amaranth | Northern California | 02/04/2008
(2 out of 5 stars)
"Fergie looks like a '50s diva on the cover of "Clumsy." One half-expects her to be doing doo-wop with Amy Winehouse,with dueling blonde beehive hairdos... but no. In "Clumsy",Fergie experiments with ska and reggae. She's encroaching on No Doubt's territory! She's impersonating Gwen Stefani! A tragic kingdom indeed.
"Clumsy" is all about love-induced clumsiness. And boy,is it clumsy with randomly thrown in raps,along with intrusive beeping and booping. Techno-reggae can work. In this case,it doesn't. In this song, Fergie stumbles."