Notes and Questions re: My Humps

- post-feminist "look but don't touch"-for-material goods arrangement? - guys get to enjoy her "humps" in exchange for $? (pre-feminist?) cf. Blackalicious lyric "get it how you live!"
- incisive commentary on interracial relationships = "mix your milk with my cocoa puff" -- to be fair, were they all that insightful about this when they were "indie" and "conscious?" That song where they're just listing women of different ethnicities...equal opportunity ogling
- what is she gonna do with all that breasts?
- things to look up: Fendi, Nadanna - are these brands of clothing?
- Is Fergie "important" as an artist? Is she a cipher? Did they recruit a "hot chick" for more notoriety?
- Kids, Inc.
- "get you love drunk off my hump" -- camels store water in their humps, so they can "drink" it later when there's no water around
- why change to "lump?" (lump = breast cancer?)
- I just now realized that "hump" can also be a verb. a truly, blindingly obvious double entendre.
- If she's just trying to dance, why did she bring any of this up at all?
- who is the narrator/protagonist of this song?
- according to wikipedia, fake videos circulated for this song that were actually just pornography. this seems significant.
- how exactly did this become a single by the "people's choice" -- what were the actual steps it took?
- according to AZLyrics, will.i.am says "so real" seventeen times at the end of the song. WHY??? A desperate attempt to convince us that the BEP still have hip-hop realness/cred?
- In a post-sellout world, this song is still truly a sell-out
- in the fine tradition of Kelis’ “Milkshake” and Gwen Stefani’s “Hollaback Girl,” it is catchy not in spite of being persistently grating and annoying, but because of it.
-more to come