Fergie’s 2006 solo debut, The Dutchess, became a platinum-selling international hit, but the star feared her album would flop after her dad called the lead-off track, “London Bridge,” “The worst song that he’d ever heard in his life.”

“(I said) ‘Dad, I respect that, but I hope you’re wrong, because it’s my first single,” in an interview with the July issue of Allure Magazine.