Fergie The Dutchess (Universal) Sometimes your past will come back to haunt you. For Stacy Ferguson, better known as Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas, it will be the awful My Humps. How do you get over something like that? Here's a clue: you don't. Instead, Fergie has chosen to see how the limelight feels on her own, with her debut solo release The Dutchess. And yes, she's spelling it with a T - an offence worthy of impeachment from her self-assumed throne. Co-conspirator and fellow Black Eyed Peas bandmate will.i.am has taken up residence in the producer's chair for many of the tracks, alongside venerable music alumni contributors Rita Marley and John Legend. Sadly, The Dutchess' strengths are on the back of three tracks. Glamorous could have done with some original lyrics: 'I still go to Taco Bell/ Drive-thru, raw as hell', she muses - trying to convince us that behind her bulging bank balance she's just a girl who enjoys hastily made quesadillas. London Bridge is this year's Hollaback Girl - grating at first, but laden with hooks - and Fergalicious is the perfect primer - but only for an album that lives up to the hype. No amount of prior success can liberate this album from sounding more like the work of a footman, not a duchess. Despite the undeniably slick production, the remaining tracks are a disappointment, and although the album won't be bad enough to haunt her, perhaps Fergie should remain in the pod ... with the other Peas.