Gwen Stefani's Solo CD

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he played mostly his own tracks, the No Doubt remix, the Gwen Stefani remix, finished with the Felix remix and he also played his Zoot Woman remix, Hypnotize off the LRD Darkdancer record, and the Psychedlic Waltons remix, and maybe the Madonna remix too!

http://www.bodytonicmusic.com/backlashpics/jacques_01.11.04/IMGP0759.jpg

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― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link

http://pictures.lime-light.org/102404/gwen2.jpg

I don't trust a chick that wears those kinda tights.

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link

All I've heard is the single, which was, of course, dire. The cover isn't helping matters.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00064AEJW.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link

What the...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link

My sentiment exactly.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I find the whole of GS to be criminally mediocre. (No, I haven't heard the new album.)

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I kind of like that album cover. She's meeeelllltttiiinnngg!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't mind the single, it grows on your despite the video ripping some bjork and madonna clips off wholesale.

― choo choo the herky jerky dancer (papa november), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Ha ha, nice name, "choo choo."

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link

the video may actually be directed by mark romanek (which would explain the bjork and madonna ripping off nicely...)

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link

the cover is cool

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh and something about these lyrics is a little reminiscent of the insanely horrid "rap" from Madonna's American Life:

Look at your watch now
You're still a super hot female
You got your million dollar contract
and they're all waiting for your hot track

― choo choo the herky jerky dancer (papa november), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link

xx-post

Thanks n/a.

― choo choo the herky jerky dancer (papa november), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Except the rap was the best bit about American Life, the single is insane and great, and the cover has at least had a bit of thought put into it. Okay, most of those thoughts are WRONG, but still!

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 00:07 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.gunsnet.net/album/uploads//19265/give_a_damn_progress.gif

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 09:37 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

OK. Never cared for No Doubt, liked that single GS did with Eve, but otherwise couldn't give a hmph. Just out of curiosity I slsk'd the album and 4 songs in I'm in love. WTF?

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I never cared about No Doubt either, I like a few singles here and there, but this album is bonkers and magnificent. I mean it really is a bit insane, two tracks in she interpolates "If I Was A Rich Girl" and three tracks in she shrieks B-A-N-A-N-A-S. wtf is exactly right.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 20:07 (nineteen years ago) link

And "The Real Thing" with that Hooky bass in the intro - yipes!. Really an insane mashup of styles and influences just used in all the right ways. Loving this record.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 20:26 (nineteen years ago) link

linda perry isn't getting enough credit for the single.

― jones (actual), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 20:30 (nineteen years ago) link

(especially considering GS cried about having to work with her - GOOD CALL)

― jones (actual), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm glad to hear that a lot of you are liking it too. It seems like a pretty divisive record right now, but the people who like it enjoy the hell out of it. My favorites are "What You Waiting For?," "Luxurious," "Cool," and "Bubble Pop Electric."

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link

worst record of the year.

― chaki in charge (chaki), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I like the thing she did on the MTV europe awards.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Bit disappointing that the single and first track on the album is the BEST track.
But it's a good CD. "Whatchoowaitinfor" screams LENE LOVICH to my new wave attuned ears.

― DR SCott, Wednesday, 1 December 2004 21:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Chaki is a wise and good man.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I dunno. My vote's for that new U2 piece o' turd as Worst /Most Overhyped record of the year. The GS record at least pulls off what I think it attempts, which is to pay homage to the music she loves to listen to, poor taste or not.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link

i think they are both awful but gwen actually has worse lyrics than bono if you can imagine that.

― chaki in charge (chaki), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

At least Gwen hasn't promoted her new record by booking the Clinton Presidential Library and a moving Manhattan flatbed truck. Just saying.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link

by the way, the correct way to make a Lene Lovich comparison is à la Bruce LaBruce – "it's so Lene, I Lovich!"

― jones (actual), Thursday, 2 December 2004 02:04 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

"rich girl" interpolates the fiddler on the roof song in pretty much exactly the same way as lady saw's (at least a year old?) "if i was a rich girl"

― m. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 25 December 2004 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link

why aren't people excited about "hollaback girl"?? so reinvented pop-fascists pfork lambast it for lacking "club potential", big fucking deal - shit is bananas!! neptunes extremist beat of the year (ok so it's kinda like 'belly dancer', but who heard that anyway)! when the guitar comes in for the first time i get the shivers!

― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 26 December 2004 12:36 (nineteen years ago) link

(ps thanks spizzazzz)

― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 26 December 2004 12:38 (nineteen years ago) link

it has synth horns that quote 'another one bites the dust'! i really don't know what's not to like here

― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 26 December 2004 12:41 (nineteen years ago) link

'bubble pop electric' is really nice too! for better or worse i now equate andre's name with 'overreaching', so i can't help feel it's trying a BIT too hard (plus after that 'my favourite things' cover on TLB he should be ordered to stay 500 yards away from DnB at all). i'm prob just too uptight tho, it really is good

― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 26 December 2004 12:57 (nineteen years ago) link

somehow i managed to accquire this on LP for free. ive listened to sides 1 & 2 and then lost interest.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Sunday, 26 December 2004 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link

feel free to pass it on to me, maria

― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 26 December 2004 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link

im not passing it along to anyone, except for perhaps, ebay.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Sunday, 26 December 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link

while i dislike no doubt, linda perry, and andre 3000, i really dig this. it's vying with scissor sisters for frankensteinian pop guilty pleasure of the year for me.

― Beta (abeta), Sunday, 26 December 2004 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link

merry christmas beta

― Nick Sylvester, Sunday, 26 December 2004 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Still quite bored, but Jacques worked that Magic Stick, yesireebob.

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Monday, 27 December 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link

i suppose i should add that i do love the jacques remix

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 00:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Gwen is more fun that Pink.
This is good earwormwood.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 14:18 (nineteen years ago) link

i wanna know what tim finney thinks of 'hollaback'.

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

At first I thought this was massively frontloaded - What You Waiting For? through to Bubble Pop Electric are all amazing - but dropped off really quickly, but the second half is great as well, it's just that Luxurious is unlistenable.

Hollaback Girl really does encapsulate Gwen's whole agenda - make a shiny pop album which could be a complete flop or complete success, no telling which, but in the process hitch yourself unashamedly to big name producers but also be as bonkers as you want because life is short, you're capable.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Is there only the album mix of "Hollaback Girl" - it's a monster at some clubs I've been to, but when I listen to the album version it's nowhere near as good...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 25 February 2005 22:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I think "Hollaback Girl" is one of the most horrible things I've ever heard.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 25 February 2005 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh I think that's my favorite on the record. The way she says "bananas" kills me.

― dan. (dan.), Friday, 25 February 2005 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link

haha speak of the devil, they just played it on the radio...thankfully they cut it off before the "bananas" part.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 25 February 2005 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link

it is a good record.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 25 February 2005 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

The sample on "Luxurious" is the best omg! wtf! moment of the whole album. ILX totally has been sleeping on this.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 20 March 2005 05:01 (nineteen years ago) link

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Gwen Stefani or Jessica Suarez?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 May 2005 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I like Hollaback Girl, but Gwen's voice isn't really the best for it...I keep imagining how awesome it would be as a Kelis song instead.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 26 May 2005 21:52 (eighteen years ago) link

has it been uch a success???

haha seriously?!

― deej., Thursday, 26 May 2005 23:40 (eighteen years ago) link

It's fine with me if Suarez finds Gwen's succes puzzling (I find many other people's succes puzzling) but what's so borderline racist about selling cameras?

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 27 May 2005 00:04 (eighteen years ago) link

there's a joke about the stereotype of Asian tourists with cameras lurking around here somewhere.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 27 May 2005 00:11 (eighteen years ago) link

six months pass...

i'm surprised not to find more about 'luxurious'

i was struck by this song, driving through dubuque. it has an interesting structure.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 17 December 2005 04:55 (eighteen years ago) link

ten months pass...

new single WIND IT UP (sampling er.. the sound of music)
is floating around.

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link

equal rights and justice in this time!

― ;_; (blueski), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 12:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm surprised she's back so soon! but happy!

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link

xxxxtremely silly idea to rush back for the arse end of 2006, what can she hope to achieve? everyone's quite happy to wait. it just looks like she's desperate to head off fergie, who in fact should release 'glamorous' (which was once gwen's 'luxurious' rmx)(superhackneyed factoid, holla) the minute the gwen drops just to rub it in.

also a live version of 'wind it up' was already on the internets when l.a.m.b. was out and proud. i fear this new album will end up being offcuts and rushjobs :(

― rtccc (mwah), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link

terrible tune anyway. perhaps she owed andrew lloyd webber a favour.

― rtccc (mwah), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link

actually yeah i remember now, this was just a track for the catwalk shows! it was a lot oompa loompier crazier then i seem to recall, big long cartoon speedy gonzalez codas and stuff

― rtccc (mwah), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

wtf!
was Jewel not available?

I hate it and I want to dance to it.
Why is her stuff so ridiculous? It's better (worse) than London Bridge.
I like the delivery at "keep going girl it's your night" probably because it sounds like Lady Sov or MIA, one of those.

― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I was kinda hoping for new No Doubt, but I guess that's not going to happen.

― Rodney... (R. J. Greene), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha, I like Am's post about driving through Dubuque.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

so 'Wind It Up' is terrible BUT that bass sound is GREAT

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

i came around the corner and saw the massive poster artwork for the album and i just thought 'that thing is dead in the water already'. the front cover picture is awful and she looks like jimmy saville, while the release date (december 4th) just *screams* that the record company don't like it. december 4th!!

now then, now then : http://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Escape-Gwen-Stefani/dp/B000JJRIN4

― pisces (piscesx), Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

ha ha ha

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Thursday, 23 November 2006 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link

why is teh release date a sign her company doesn't like it?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 23 November 2006 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

it wont qualify for this year's 'best of 2006' threads ;_;

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 23 November 2006 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

People only buy Best Of albums and stuff by fullblown marquee players (Westlife, etc) at Xmas

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Thursday, 23 November 2006 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

but her last album came out only two weeks before that!

she is a marquee name now.

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 23 November 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

five months pass...

just listening to Hollaback Girl, which is really quite amazing

― Surmounter, Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

Baby Don't Lie has Ryan Tedder's stink all over it. v disappointing.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 20 October 2014 04:31 (nine years ago) link

agreed it's pretty bad :(

― dyl, Monday, 20 October 2014 14:41 (nine years ago) link

i think it's decent -- sounds like a bangerz left over though

generally just feels very of the moment & generic, maybe that was to be expected though given how long she's been away

― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Monday, 20 October 2014 15:26 (nine years ago) link

eight months pass...

this holds up so well (loveangelmusicbaby), classic status for me. cool, rich girl, hollaback girl, luxurious- ridiculously good. harajuku girls, the real thing, bubble pop, what you waiting for, crash- also great. Cool is pretty much perfect.
listening to a lot of charlie xcx at the same time and gwen's vocals are like this fantastic mellow version of charlies, only gwen has immensely better production behind her here.

― dutch_justice, Thursday, 25 June 2015 04:10 (eight years ago) link

two years pass...

I used to think she was so cool, now she creeps me out. And her taste in men is like one notch superior to that of Serena Williams

― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Thursday, 23 November 2017 20:43 (six years ago) link

https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/gwen-stefani-is-older-than-ted-cruz/

― Josefa, Friday, 24 November 2017 04:53 (six years ago) link

http://res.cloudinary.com/westfielddg/image/upload/batz2dxzgfqrn8zmfqqv.jpg

just look at this stiff!

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 24 November 2017 10:37 (six years ago) link

three years pass...

The title / cover art of this new single are kinda pathetic-feeling (the song suxx, too):

https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2020/12/gwen-stefani-let-me-reintroduce-myself-1607354305.jpeg

― good karma, my aesthetic (morrisp), Friday, 18 December 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link

(The single is called "Let Me Reintroduce Myself," btw)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbrYmSsgPTw

― good karma, my aesthetic (morrisp), Friday, 18 December 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link

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