Gays, do we like Gwen Stefani?

No she's gross now and married to that troll

No. She is a try-hard, super frau!

"Cool (Richard X Remix)" is on the November 2005 Gap and GapKids In-Store Playlists!

Gap Playlists Troll, you should pace yourself :p

We do however, love "GAP Playlists Guy"

Her current/new face was Madonna’s original face

Meh, I've had sufficient of Gap Playlists Troll.

I like the Harajuku Girls more.

Song is just.. okay. I did love NO DOUBT back in the day. They made wonderfully catchy (but ultimately disposable) pop that felt so of-the-moment.

The visuals in OP's song are actually better than the song itself: Gwen looks younger and more innocent as a brunette in the flashbacks. She really might want to rethink the platinum blonde thing if she wants to stay fresh and/or current.

About fifteen years ago, my sister's bf was bartending at a Silverlake dive. I went in to say hi and Gwen and Gavin Rossdale were in there. We were the only customers. We all ended up doing blow. Both were super nice.

I miss Gwen. She is fun.

"Just A Girl" is on the June 1996 Gap In-Store Playlist!

"Spiderwebs" is on the July 1996 Gap In-Store Playlist!

Her first husband was Gavin Rossdale who was involved with a drag queen for quite some time before he married her.

She's getting older - 49 now.

R13 maybe that’s why she dumped him and is now with a country bumpkin. Blake is more safe for her.

She's getting older, too...

Gavin sings Stevie Nicks' classic "Landslide" while Gwen watches in 2010.

He's gorgeous and sings it wonderfully!

I LOVED No Doubt growing up. Great music. And I didn't always like her solo career but she showed great creativity with songs like Hollaback Girl and Wind it Up. I respect that

She slaughtered Talk Talk's "It's My Life." Ugh!

Never care for her but gotta admit that she’s aging backwards #50yearsold

The problem with Gwen is she went from being cool with the first No Doubt album to being a new Gloria Estefan. From hosting TV specials to hacking shit on QVC to recording anything that someone tells her might score her a hit, she's just not credible anymore. Worse, though, it's been so long since she offered up any good music.

R18 She turned 49 last October 3rd.

hell no she is bald and dumb as a box of cowboy piss.

Isnt she like pushin 50?

Yeah. She rather be a starlet now compared to the cool ‘it’ girl back in the day. She wasn’t incredibly talented but savy to surround herself with talented people. Also was good at appropriating artistic visuals and ethnic culture. VERY similar to Madonna. At least Madonna still makes music even if it is questionable now.

Gavin R was hot as fuck back in the day.

He is not aging as well as Gwen.

Her No Doubt stuff is superb.

Her solo stuff is shit.

I'd hardly call Blake safe.

R24 At 53 Gavin Rossdale looks good for his age. And no belly flab.

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So her husband cheated on her with the nanny, then she went out and broke up someone else’s marriage?

Why is she some kind of heroine to der frauen?

R13, Gavin was with Marilyn back in his salad days. Boy George and Marilyn himself blabbed about it, forcing Gavin to fess up about the relationship.

Not a fan.

She looks amazing! Her and J-Lo are really aging nicely compared to someone like Ladygags who looks 50.

I don't know what a Hollaback girl is but I imagine it was a stanky, filthy creature whose thighs stuck together if they touched.

Church photo.

She's had loads of plastic surgery which is why she looks "great." Her face looks nothing like her original one which is creepy and she will eventually look completely Madonna. Her music sucks, too.

all she wanted was the simple things, a simple kind of life

I had totally forgotten about "Cool." What a great song. It sounds like a throwback to sixties power pop. I didnt care much for No Doubt, but I thought some of her solo songs were well written and good. She seems appealing and likable, although I have no idea if she is.

LOVED her back in the day. with the pop punk rock and had a great solo debut and follow up. Now shes boring as fuck and her residency in Las Vegas looks tacky and awful. Not much of a performer. She can dance worth a lick either. And that cringe Xmas album, like wtf so random. I still like some of her newer stuff, the last album had some good tunes. and I believe shes working on a new album.

Cher went too far with plastic surgery and now looks great. Same with Jane Fonda. Madonna doesn't look bad at all when she fucking fixes herself up right. Gwen, whatever she has done, looks not a day over 30. And a GOOD 30.

It’s too bad that No Doubt (or was it the record company?) freaked out and changed their sound after the relative failure of Return to Saturn. That record sounded like No Doubt and has some great songs. But they wanted to be #1 so they released the awful Hella Good garbage and it was the beginning of the end.

I like Gwen but her solo stuff sucks “This shit is bananas. B A N A N A S!” She shoukd be so embarrassed by that lyric. Oh well, life goes on.

Stuffed Guanini

r40 well she isn't a lyrical genius like saying rah rah rah gagagaagaagaa la la la rah rah rah roma ma. They cant all be......

How hasn't her hair fallen out with the decades of bleaching?

R43, and the constant Croydon facelift.

It was fun watching the video for “Don't Speak” back in the day endlessly because it was so good.

Wasn't she like 47 when her last kid was born? That's kind of crazy.

Some women have kids late in life lol

Her voice has always grated to me. Worse than Britney, Madonna, any of them.

She had two good hits but her voice is grating. Sounds more like braying. Also She came across as completely vacuous on The Voice.

She doesn't look anything like her old self. Is that considered "great"?

The last few times I've seen her she's ditched the red lipstick and heavy makeup for a more natural look. Bored with her now though.

I just saw a clip of her a couple days ago and she looked like she used to, for the first time in a long time. Some of her makeup and style choices are part of the problem, like when she does the Ariana Grande ponytail and eyebrows. If she'd stop trying to follow styles and instead did what looked best for her face, she wouldn't look so processed.

^ That's not the clip of her looking normal, btw

She had such an iconic look during "Don't Speak"...it was so evocative of everything 90s pop was. I don't necessarily think she should have totally kept that style, but to evoke it with plaid/wife-beaters/grunge would have made her someone iconic instead of some old pop star trying to keep up with the present in increasingly bad looks. Oh, well.

The Top Lip!

Her and Blake fascinate me because they are such an odd match

I thought she was cool back in her No Doubt days. But once she got with Gavin and talked about how she wouldn't let him ever see her without a stitch of makeup on, i found the insecurity off putting. I loved her solo stuff but she hasn't had a hit in a long time.

Before ombré was even a thing she wore this iconic piece.

I liked a few No Doubt songs, but she really kicked it up a notch with her first solo album. She was having fun with pop music in a way that was reminiscent of Madonna at her peak. But since she's done nothing of note since then, I have to assume she's a little lazy and likes money more than music-making or being a pop star.

[quote] Meh, I've had sufficient of Gap Playlists Troll.

haven't we all

Attempted to act in The Aviator. She played Jean Harlow, but Scorsese, who doesn't like to cut anything, cut her few scenes. Her appearance in the film ended up being just a brief cameo.

Agree that her voice is grating. It's affected. She deliberately sings with a closed throat to sound more "cutesy" and cupie-doll. It's too bad, because when you hear her natural tone, it sounds good.

She could reinvent herself as a normal mousy brunette with a simple clear and unaffected voice, and do jazz standards or something, and I would be down with that. But that's not who she is...

“What You Waiting For?” By her is amazing. Love that she was trying different sounds in pop and experimenting with her first album.

SO, we go to the western clothing store in KC, Nigro's, this morning and upon check out I notice an autographed picture taped to the cash register of Gwen visiting the store. I wanted to say "we just discussed here on DL today!"

Her first solo era was so good. Great songs, videos, remixes and look.

Follow up The Sweet Escape was a disappointment and she waited too long to release her third album, just as Fergie did with her second album. People had moved on.

Having said that, Gwen’s Christmas album is very good.

No. She is singing in a Chevy car ad. super annoying. not a fan.

R63 I get so hype over ‘WYWF?’. It’s a killer FU to an ageist sexist industry, and super fierce.

She always seemed like the grade school version of a Madonna to me. Same red lipstick, pop songs, but totally safe. Like a Kidz Bop version of her

I don’t know if she has been to the Hollywood machine because I don’t keep up with her at all. But I remember in the 90s when they first were starting out she confessed that she had to work her ass off and really diet to look the way that she did. She didn’t pretend that she ate burgers all day and Never went to the gym. That probably endeared her to women from the get go

She has never been single has she? She jumped immediately from Tony Kanal to Gavin Rossdale then to Blake Shelton. And probably just put up with Gavin’s cheating rather than be single. She had good plastic surgery, but she is now overdoing it.

She was cool in the 90s and 2000s with No Doubt. Cool when her first solo album came out, still sort of cool for her second album...now she is insufferable, her third album is mostly trash, she tries way too hard and she married Blake Shelton. She cancelled herself

R71 I didn’t think they were married? Remember 500 magazines covers at the grocery checkout

She isn't married to Blake, not even engaged. Her wedding dress from her marriage to Gavin was beautiful r58

Indeed

Remember when Gwen played Jean Harlow in The Aviator? Did she decide an acting career was not in the cards?

“Take a chance, you stupid ho”

I don’t understand the love for “What You Waiting For.” The lyrics, like all of her song lyrics, are so embarrassingly bad.

That “Cool” video was her audition for Scorsese.

I always despised her cake foundation, marker eyeliner, brown Sharpie brow, fluorescent red lip, with the early-on gummy smile.

Not a very fan of her songs but i like her 00's fashion style.

[quote]And probably just put up with Gavin’s cheating rather than be single.

I don't know the timeline but by all accounts she dumped him as soon as she found out about his affair.

She put up with his other shit for a long time. I was a fan of both Bush and No Doubt and not long after Gwen and Gavin began dating Gavin was interviewed for a magazine and Gwen told a story about how he hated the music she listens to so as they were driving he threw some of her cds out the window. She told it like it was a cute anecdote to show how different they were but it was an insight on how much of an asshole he could be.

Absolutely I love her.

I just wish she would make catchy songs again. Her last several attempts have sucked -- they're nothing like the music in her heyday.

Here is my favorite song:

She got replaced by Katy Perry: the same derivative but of its moment pop, with limited shelf life. By the way, Fergie says hello and feels she should be included in this group.

I feel solo Gwen was the sweet spot between P!nk & Katy Perry; she invented Perry’s lipglossed camp first but presented it with a snarl of P!nk’s tough party-hardy bravado to make it less annoying & cutesy.

I’m not sure looking back if Stefani was ever straight-ahead cool without No Doubt, but she was a short blast of surly fun pop-madness. I can still remember every line of ‘Hollaback’ and see its creativity as an anthem while admitting it is totally vapid.

Contemporaneously it was women like Ciara who made the cooler pop music.

she lip syncs most all of the time.....

[Quote] But I remember in the 90s when they first were starting out she confessed that she had to work her ass off and really diet to look the way that she did. She didn’t pretend that she ate burgers all day and Never went to the gym.

Aside from teenagers, does anyone buy that bullshit?? I always laugh when celebs say that they just walk their dog or that they don't really exercise.

[Quote] she lip syncs most all of the time.....

Shocker 😐

I’ve always seen her as a pop star whose talent is image and once was trendiness. She doesn’t have a very high-quality voice but her early ska was different and her Hollaback thing was different. I am really surprised she has managed to stay in the public eye beyond age 35 and I give her credit for doing so without resorting to any manufactured crash-and-burn/great comeback events as so many do. And overall I like her positive and grateful persona. I don’t see any real reason to dislike the woman. I never liked her music very much but I think she is fine for the space she holds in pop culture.

She jumped the shark when she got implants. I thought she was cool for not hiding her flat chest like in the video at r80 so it seemed so unlike her to get fake boobies.

[quote] “Take a chance, you stupid ho” I don’t understand the love for “What You Waiting For.” The lyrics, like all of her song lyrics, are so embarrassingly bad.

Then R76, you weren’t a young woman in the ‘90s/00s. That’s who that song is for and who it speaks to, same as ‘Hollaback’ & ‘Rich Girl’ and the rest of L.A.M.B. I also posit you perhaps don’t get what Stefani was ever trying to do and get across, but that’s ok if it wasn’t for your ears anyway. It’s about finding a way to cope with the society Madonna described in ‘Material Girl’, when moxie and a sick beat (sorry, Swifty) is all you have at your disposal. Western girls became more outspoken and competitive as well as more visible in typically aggressive male-led artist genre around this time thanks to crossover popstars like GS. I mean “this my shit, this my shit” isn’t something you’d ever have heard Britney or Madge say at that time. No one is saying some of her stuff isn’t dumb or pop fluff, but it isn’t as empty as you’re making out.

As for “stupid Ho”: a) it isn’t directly offensive to her listeners as she’s addressing herself in the lyric, psyching herself up & out of a funk by way of strong language; b) it’s confronting a sexist & hypersexed industry by throwing its own crass terminology right back; c) it’s a reference to TLC’s ‘Silly Ho’ which should be obvious to anyone who knows female-driven pop music beyond Madonna. GS has never been about lyrics anyway, she exists to sound off and show an attitude/strut.

If anything she did in her solo career was a bad stupid (hah) misstep it was that whole voiceless/nameless Japanese backup dancers thing, but she was even well-intentioned with that as she did have a cohesive concept in mind when using it plus a real admiration for Harajuku style before the Western mainstream choked the life out of it. She also sincerely wanted to give those dancers career exposure and a payday, it just came over wrong.

tl;dr ‘WYWF?’ actually a banger if you’re a girl but maybe you had to be there. Also the whole L.A.M.B is killer and no one should apologise for liking it (even the visual).

^Welcome to DL, Gwen.

I flipped the channels last night and saw her live from somewhere (Vegas?) on CNN. She was wearing a tight, sleeveless top.

Bish is keeping it all high and tight. She looks fantastic.

Minaj lifted that whole ‘Harajuku Barbie’ gimmick from Stefani who did it better.

Used to adore her but the latest incarnation with Blake Shelton to boot just nope

[quote]Western girls became more outspoken and competitive as well as more visible in typically aggressive male-led artist genre around this time thanks to crossover popstars like GS. I mean “this my shit, this my shit” isn’t something you’d ever have heard Britney or Madge say at that time.

Honey, Madonna's entire œuvre has been about what you described.

R84 I was a teenager at the time and was sneaking a read of my sister’s copy of 17 I believe. It was even cooler that she was admitting to the teenage audience that she had to work so hard for her body. Someone must believe that BS about eating junk all day with no exercise because that seems to be the line for the last 25 years. I think around the time of Kate moss it started because no one wanted to admit that they were constantly high instead of eating.

R92 That is because Britney is audience has mainly been 12-year-olds who are now grown enough to buy a ticket to Vegas.

Britney can’t sell tickets to her Vegas act now.

Why the fuck is her 4 year old kid still sucking on a pacifier and being carried around like an infant? Also, hate the pretentious names of the kids: Kingston, Zuma and Apollo.

Not a great vocal talent of course, but like the other Madonna-like smart pop tarts, she knew how to make the most of it.

She is so fake looking with all the makeup

Rockstars always give their kids “pretentious” names.

There was a blind item that suggested Gwen was really pro-life but kept it hidden so she wouldn't lose her (presumably) pro choice majority fan base of young female admirers.

I believe she had said something politically pro-life at a concert & was booed (like Donna Summer before her with "the gays") & her handlers/marketing told her it was a losing cause for her to speak out about. Her reason was she supported the church doctrine on this issue. It made me wonder if Gwen secretly supports church doctrine on LGBT issues as well. There was also another blind item that she secretly donated money from one of her products to a pro-life group.

she fake as the wigs she plop on her bald head

and as are the giggles she make as a 45 yr old broad...

I liked her. Her videos were fun, I find her attractive and likable.

Madonna was never my cup of tea. I thought some of her videos were beautiful -- but her music never really did shit for me. Of the two, I felt Gwen was definitely more aware of her vocal limitations. A friend who met her at a party also said she was extraordinarily nice. I don't know anyone who has met Madonna - or know of anyone who says she is particularly nice.

As a lesbian I definitely felt like athletic Gwen made music for me more than Madonna. Her music was always actually GOOD for cardio.

FUN FACT: Gwen and I went the same hs, Loara High School, Anaheim, CA. That's why the first No Doubt album is called Tragic Kingdom, because if you're a high schooler in Anaheim, that's what you call Disneyland. We are about ten years apart so I never knew her.

FUN FACT II: I went to junior high with Stacey Swain, who later became Stacey Q, of "Two of Hearts' fame. I know!!! Ball Junior High School, Anaheim, CA. Two years ahead me grade-wise. She was pretty and very popular, but she went to the 'wrong' high school when all the cool kids went to the right one from junior to high, and she sort of vanished. I could never figure that one out.

If what r100 says is true, that’s scandalous.

Wouldn't surprise me. She's married to that FAS poster child country redneck, after all. Birds of a feather, etc...

What’s the scandal? That a 90s pop star is quietly to-life? Or that her handlers have encouraged her to keep her briefs private?

Scratch the surface and most celebrities have crazy ideas that would kill their careers if their viewpoints became pubic.

If you read as well as your write R106 then I can see how you distorted her very public pro-life statements as "quietly to-life" as you put it.

She's being a hypocritical phony. Gwen's now saying she is fine with abortion rights (when she is really not) & has revealed herself to be a zombie church follower on social issues that impact other people's lives.

Now do understand the problems some progressives/independents might have with her? Money talks loudly for her (also with other celebs but the OP asked only about her standing in our community).

There was also a blind item that she was a big fan of laxatives.

She looks like a damn clown

Well she grew up in Orange County, does that answer these questions?

Does she still bleach all her sons hair platinum blonde?

She is as fake as it gets. Too much plastic surgery. Doesn’t surprise me in the least she’s a bible thumping pro life bimbo. That’s where her and Blake Shelton bonded.

She interests me but I have never cared for her music.

Why do people keep saying she is married to Blake? Once again, they are not even engaged.

R100 a more recent blind said that she divorced Rossdale for being a controlling cheating bisexual Narc, and a hypocrite (telling her she could only have eyes for him while keeping multiple side pieces himself).

Does this endear her more to us?

R115

I don't think her stupid relationship or the end of it is going to have any effect on her popularity. She is a singer who made fun videos a couple of decades ago. She could come back on a wave of nostalgia for her old persona if someone revisited her old stuff I guess. She could put out new music that we like. But she isn't Jennifer Anniston who can apparently keep getting job after job based on how tabloids portray her failed romantic life.

Stefani's fame and popularity are 100% linked to the appeal of her music. And right now faux ska isn't even retro-hip.

She allegedly had a sexual relationship with Angelina Jolie. How do we feel about that? It's gross, but also kind of hot.

the song with the rollerskating was very catchy the refrain was "why you make me wanna..." and not only was the video artistic and fun the melody was very good - but it never caught on.

R80 That's my favorite song from them.

Love that song but the "thank god" part is cringe lol. don't think she ever pushed it. seemed kind of like a one off to let people know she's alive. creative(ish) but awful video because of her forced facial expressions. love the rollerskating scene though.

This thread is Bananas, B! A-n A-n A-S!

R121 LOL! What a Lyricist!!!

Gwen Stefani revealed how facile and annoying and stupid she is on THE VOICE. I hated her ever since.

Hollaback Girl is an absolute assault to the ears and I like(d) her.

"Make Me Like You" is a great song with a terrible title. No wonder it failed but I see no problem with her facial expressions. Maybe she had released too many singles and confused her fans or they were tired of her by that point.

Its the pouty lips I suppose. Or maybe thats the work she had done. Just noticed the body double switch when she falls rollerskating ha

She tried to reignite her stalled solo career by reuniting with No Doubt and no one cared. So she changed up her sound and released another solo record and no one cared. So she released a Christmas record and no one cared.

If she wants to sell tickets to anyone, she’ll have to be a 50-something singing “I’m Just A Girl” at county fairs.

She would never get away with the Harajuku Girls nowadays. Very un-PC.

I can't fucking STAND her!

No Doubt was great but that was only because of Gwen's brother, Eric. Eric Stefani wrote Tragic Kingdom, their breakthrough album, and then left the band to go be an animator on the Simpsons JUST before they hit it big outside of Orange County.

Gwen was just window dressing for No Doubt. She has no musical talent to speak of except a passable voice. I don't like her because she is a huge fraud and a poser. She is somehow known as this iconoclastic girl power feminist rocker chic (think of the lyrics to 'Just a Girl'), but literally ALL she cares about is vapid problematic fashion and being a wife/mother.

She is the epitome of a basic frau! She slept around with the No Doubt members causing drama (think of the video for 'Don't Speak') and has never been single for more than a day in her adult life. She jumped from Tony Kanal of No Doubt straight to Gavin Rossdale and then straight to Blake Shelton. She's just a trophy who has never in her life defined herself apart from a man whether it's her brother or her lovers.

And she gets a total pass on this problematic hypocrisy from the whole of society I guess because she's pretty?

True, she’s no Kim Gordon.

She looked and sounded pretty fucking cool at one point, though. And I give her mad props for insisting on getting paid to be a brash popstar Grrrl at like 36 years old or whatever. It turned out hollow but yeah, it felt fresh and fun for a minute.

R128 no matter how bad it was, Lavigne’s ‘Hello Kitty’ will always look worse.

Wouldn't see this unless deeply discounted tickets or someone invited me free of charge and I had a bottle to swig on.

I was a fan during the early No Doubt years but didn’t care for anything after tragic kingdom except for the song New from the Go soundtrack.

I always did appreciate her sense of style, but yeah she’s a total frau now. She always did seem too clingy and dependent on validation from boyfriends. Pathetic.

My favorite song off the lesser known Beacon St Collection- released the same year as Tragic Kingdom

She's one of those people who seems to completely absorb the personality and style of whoever(or is it whomever? ) they are fucking.

No Doubt was great, her first solo album was great, everything since then has been a mess.

My fav song off Tragic Kingdom

I was a No Doubt fan and some of her solo stuff isn't too bad. She's now older and who can blame her --she's on the cusp of 50. She's more a celebrity than a singer now, like J Lo.

I think she looks pretty good even if she does cake on the makeup. I wonder if Blake has ever seen her without make up.

She probably doesn’t get enough credit for her influence on style. When No Doubt hit it big, female pop stars looked disheveled/post grunge like Alanis and the Lilith Fair hippy types. Gwen’s bare midriff and hyper girlie makeup made her stand out and soon all the girls were dressing like her.

R136 my store has this song on their playlist.

She is gorgeous , smart, talented, classy, stylish, rich, successful, creative,loyal, funny, trustworthy, responsible, and a good mother and partner. What's not to like?

Her voice is like Minnie Mouse getting fucked with a rusty crowbar on a chalkboard bad.

I associate Gwen with Shirley Manson of Garbage even though their look and sound are not similar, but because they were both chick rockers fronting a mostly male band that hit it big around the same time, and they frequently were on the same rock concert bill. Shirley has remained cool, while Gwen has not.

R140 Hi Gwen!!

Nope, not a fan.

She’s a fraud. Plays the game well. Is denfined by the men she dates. Some see through it other buy into the hype

she is hated almost as much as ms kidman….. fake as the hair on her head

That's a very ignorant comment, R142. Her fashion has always been derivative. She helped popularize 50's revival ska/rockabilly style to flyover America but it was already quite prevalent here in SoCal way before she got famous. I also take issue with your statement that female popstars in the 90's were grungy until Gwen came along and made them all feminine. Seriously? All she has ever done is hopped on the coattails of established trends. She dropped the ska look and started wearing bindis and henna tattoos after she got famous (cause she was dating South Asian Tony Kanal). Then she morphed into a grunge rocker chick when she was with Gavin Rossdale, and now she's all countrified with Blake Shelton. She's just a blank canvas who decorates herself for whatever man she is with at the time. Literally the ONLY thing she cares about is trapping and keeping a man. I'll leave you with the lyrics from Simple Kind of Life which I believe are some of the only lyrics she has actually written herself:

[quote]I always thought I'd be a mom. [quote]Sometimes I'd wish, for a mistake. [quote]The longer that I wait the more selfish that I get. [quote]You look like, you'd be a good dad.

This video is all her face.

Does anyone remember her foray into clothing? It was called LAMB I just remember her talking about how she created everything, designed everything ,and bitch acted like she sewed every piece! That said, I believe the clothing line did make her bank.

Maybe it’s just makeup... but between R142 and R148 it does look like she’s had her face completely rebuilt!

She and No Doubt have never made good music. No serious music fan thinks of them as anything but garbage. Her voice is affected and annoying —I can’t stand that “you make me feel like Christmas” car ad she did last month—and I’ve never understood her appeal (looks, attitude, etc.) at all.

Gavin is hot, though, and if I were given the opportunity to lick every part of his body, I wouldn’t turn it down.

She was always fun and her flaws could be overlooked because she didn’t take herself seriously. I always felt uncomfortable with the Gavin relationship because it was obvious he thought he was so much cooler than her. I don’t get the Blake thing at all but then I didn’t watch The Voice.

Bush never really had a lot of cred either. They were the epitome of generic corporate grunge. At least No Doubt/Gwen had some fun pop songs.

Given the choice between listening to a Bush song and a No Doubt song, I would choose the retarded “Glycerine” every time. At least Bush’s songs aren’t obnoxious, and they don’t feature Gwen’s strangulated vocal affectation.

She wasn't the lead singer of No Doubt when it was first formed. The lead guy killed himself before they hit it big. Like someone upthread said, her brother was the main No Doubt man and probably promoted her to lead just because their Mom told him or else.

I have no opinion about her personally or her singing. I am way older than her demographic skews.

Who knows about her L A M B clothing line? Did she design it? Did she make a fortune??

Wonderful Life from her second album, The Sweetest Escape, is great and should have been a single. It doesn't sound like the rest of the album which is a good thing.

That reminds me: there IS actually a Gwen Stefani song I like, that “I know I been a real bad girl” song. It’s called “Sweet Escape”, right? And that phrase doesn’t appear anywhere in the song except for when the guest rapper(? Male vocalist) repeats, “sweet escape, sweet escape” a few times so that the stupid radio listener isn’t confused by the song not featuring its title in the lyrics.

R156 I know nothing about her clothing line but assume it was streetwear Loli gear in the style of Juicy Couture & Onitsuka Tiger.

I do recall that in the mid-late ‘00s her fragrance line was EVERYWHERE. Walmart and every drugstore carried it. For teens she had cutesy figurine bottles molded on the Love Angel Music Baby dancers and with Claire’s Boutique scent inside (at the time these were like $15) and for adults she had L.a L.A.M.B juice which came in a square glass ‘Rasta’ bottle released to compete in the celebrity frag market (originally L.L was expensive but you can pick up 50ml boxed for $30/35 now). It’s almost impossible to find her fragrances to buy in stores now, and online it’s more rare.

L.a L.A.M.B came out in 2007 and has since changed name (it’s just called ‘L’ now) and has been reformulated (I.e. watered down and made cheaper/worse). Reviews for the new perfume draw comparisons to Benefit’s gingery Maybe Baby and any of the pear scents at Bath & Body Works. While on some skin it is allegedly a femme acquatic with pretty elementals there are also many people who complain that it’s too floral and bombs others with the silage, so acquire and use flaçons at own risk.

She looks like a drag queen

I still like "Hellagood" and "Hey Baby" from the No Doubt album with the Stephen Sprouse lettering.

Zaldy Goco designed the fashion line until 2007, with the understanding that he’d do his other work simultaneously.

If you asked him what went wrong he’d probably say too many cooks in the kitchen; cooks with very, very strong opinions about how things should look, but with no idea of the impossibility of translating some of those ideas to mass production.

If you asked Gwen, she’d say that he should have dropped everything else and concentrated 100% of his time and attention on her and her ideas.

I'm sure her Voice salary makes up for the fact she's no longer relevant.

Here is some answers about her L.A.M.B. clothing company, where she tirelessly designed everything herself!

I wish she didn’t cave and get all that work done.

Her pussy stinks.

Hollaback Girl was written about Courtney Love supposedly. Courtney called out Gwen in an interview in the early 2000’s and it pissed Gwen off. Not to mention that When Gavin and Gwen were briefly separated in the late 90’s Courtney pushed herself on him and her and Gavin had a fling.

It’s easy to forget now, but back in the 90’s Gwen was a style trendsetter and icon. Remember when she made the Bindi popular? Crop tops, two toned shoes and Adidas pants? I was in high school in 95-99 and there was a ton of “Gwenabbes” as we called them... all with platinum blonde hair in ponytails. No Doubt was also one of the bands that brought 3rd wave Ska mainstream along with Sublime and Reel Big Fish, but they did it best, combining 80’s sound with pop sensibilities and dancehall reggae. “Tragic Kingdom” is still a classic and their other albums were pretty good too.

Her solo stuff is really not my thing but I applaud her for adding in even more genres such as rap and country. At least she’s experimenting. Gavin was/is way hotter then Blake but they made their relationship last quite a while for the industry and Blake seems like more of “safe” choice after pussyhound/dickhound Gavin.

I would like to say that there was some overlap in 95-97 regarding who was Gavin sleeping with. Gavin & Gwen had a very off/on relationship in the beginning. When he wasn't with Gwen, he and Courtney Love sometimes hooked up, that is, whenever Courtney wasn't busy with Edward Norton or Billy Corgan or whoever else. Years later, Courtney brought up her "affair" with Gavin, but Gavin was merely one of her flings, and Gwen knew that already.

There are some things I don't like about Gwen. I don't think it's right to build your "comeback" off a single (and accompanying publicity campaign) that details how much you hate your ex and the father of your children. 'Used to Love You' was a shitty move worthy of someone Taylor Swift's age. As a Courtney fan though, I got turned off Gwen for good when she and her "Voice" team of singers sang 'You Get what You give' complete with the line... "Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson, Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson, you're all fakes run to your mansions." Again, the woman is juvenile and her style is clownish.

Wow, never heard about Gavin Rossdale having a sexual relationship with Courtney Love. Courtney Love is too problematic. That would be a deal-breaker for me. I would not ever again want to have sex with Gavin Rossdale after he fucked Courtney Love.

Eh, as long as he washed his dick I'd hit it.

It was public knowledge Gavin was with Love along with one if the Corrs whores. He wasn’t exactly discreet. I believe Courtney said the song ‘Awful’ was about him.

Those lyrics are repeated from that New Radicals song R168.

I love “Hey Baby”

I wish she would do more songs like The Sweetest Escape etc.

I liked 90's GS but despised her when she began indulging in that gross, hyper-capitalist, post 9/11 trend of glorifying money in songs and 'shouting out' fashion labels.

This abomination stands out as one of her worst.

Did anyone ever notice 'The Sweetest Escape" sounds a LOT like the Welcome Back Kotter theme?

Do you hear it?

She's a Mars in Capricorn lady, meaning she means business and always did. I'm into it.

R173 I agree with your description of her music. Rich girl is awful but nothing, and I mean nothing, was worse than Hollaback Girl. You know you've failed as an artist when you're singing about "meeting someone behind the bleachers " at 40.

She's hideous. She gets to fuck Blake Shelton and I don't. I hate her.

r153 I present, Gwen and Gavin singing Glycerine. This gay loves Gwen Stefani. I felt sophisticated having posters of Gwen on my walls, unlike my other closeted middle school friends with their cliche Britney Spears posters.

I don't know why but I live for that stumbling syncopated walk punctuated with near arm-drags that she does in all her videos. You know the one.

If Gaga stole Madonna's look I think we can admit Arianna lifted a LOT from Gwen Stefani.

Tragic Kingdom was the first Album I ever bought. I think I was 11.

Return of Saturn is possibly the only album I've ever been able to listen to all the way through, and I still can.

Its My Life is a great track

she tried too long to look young n kool.

she could be a granny, she 41

dint her clothing company go under long ago?

She is responsilbe for Trump....So no.

Beautiful woman, great style.

R156 Early Winter and 4 in the Morning are in a similar vein and are both great.

I also loved the last No Doubt album. Have no idea why radio ignored it.

r189 Used To Love You is great too

R181 are you saying that Ariana Grande copies Gwen Stefani? How?

Push and Shove wasn't exactly a return to form for the band, but who cares when you have such gorgeous ballads as this one?

Only song of her’s I like isn’t even her’s — she was featured on a song with Eve in 2001, “Let Me Blow Ya Mind.”

I don’t like rap either but it’s got a very catchy bridge (or is it the chorus? I don’t know musical terms)

“I had to give you up, it’s only been a year...”

she blew trump? I knew there was sumpin bout her I loathed.

R193, love that too!

old biddy tryin look young

taint workin hun

She’s alright. I like some of her songs.

I do feel bad for her about Gavin's cheating with the nanny for THREE FUCKING YEARS. And the cunt of a nanny trying so hard to dress and look just like Gwen. (Except she's hideous)

Not sure what to say about this getup.

If one is in the mood for reading a long ass article on the subject of the public persona of Gwen Stefani:

She seems very humble and sweet

Can't stand her baby cooing voice.

Wow, no one cares enough about Gwen to read all of that at R200. Not even Gwen. Maybe her mother but I doubt it.

She’s such a minor blip in pop culture. Her music career has been dead for many years. Nobody wants to endure “Hollaback Girl” ever again. No one cares about her TV career. She seems nice but totally unworthy of obsession.

This gay lovesGwen Stefani. I’m glad she’s on the voice instead of Alicia Keys this season. Alicia is too arrogant and her fake Blackcent gets old fast. She didn’t grow up in the hood.

[quote]Gap Playlists Troll, you should pace yourself :p

If by 'pace' you mean 'kill' yourself, this dumb troll deserves it. Worst Troll Ever!

I saw her on a youtube video the other day and she is lying about not having work done. Her lips looked like Lisa Rinna's gross "inside-out" lips with the weird caterpillar segments on either side of the middle. They always look like they have difficulty speaking normally with those hideous fake lips.

see?

One of the few women with whom I could successfully have sex.