Black Eyed Peas: 'The Time (Dirty Bit)'

And the award for most WTF?! single of the year goes to... It begins with a riff that's oh so familiar but that much synthier than you remember, proceeds to declare itself an "international big radio smasher" in the style of a Macedonian commercial radio DJ, before will.i.am and Fergie take it in turns to belt out the hook from '(I've Had) The Time Of My Life'. Then the repeat button goes into spasm and we're treated to a baffling interjection of "dirty bit". That, by the way, is just the first minute.

The following four flit between clunky couplets delivered over modish electro-hoppy verses, that classic Dirty Dancing hook, a nice bit of group shouting, another proclamation from the Balkan Dr Fox, and a few more of those "dirty bit"s - is this perhaps the Peas' pet name for Fergie? Even after 30-plus spins, it still sounds like the result of a p*ss-up in the recording studio - though, to be fair, we're kinda starting to wish we'd been there. Dirty bit.