 The success of the album 's urban contemporary @-@ oriented songs in the adult contemporary market allowed for the success of other artists while Stefani was pregnant and later recording The Sweet Escape . Nelly Furtado 's third album Loose was released in June 2006 and was primarily produced by and written with hip hop producers Timbaland and Danja . Furtado 's reinvention from a worldbeat singer @-@ songwriter was to Stefani 's previous forays into urban contemporary music . In his review of Loose , Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone stated that Timbaland aimed to " produce an omnipop multiformat blockbuster in the style of [ Love . Angel . Music . Baby . ] — but without Gwen . " The Black Eyed Peas member Fergie released her solo debut album The Dutchess in September 2006 . The cholas that accompanied Fergie in some of her music videos were viewed as derivatives of the Harajuku Girls and Stefani 's " Luxurious " music video . The album 's lead single " London Bridge " was paralleled to " Hollaback Girl " and the third single " Glamorous " to " Luxurious " . Fergie refuted accusations of piggybacking on Stefani 's music , stating that " this is all so ridiculous [ ... ] The Peas and I make music we love , and for others to speculate is their problem . " 
