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This album has a real mix of styles. from the fantastic electro dance track "What you waiting for?" to the totally different sound of the 80's tinged "Cool". If you loved Gwen Stefani before this, you will love her even more after hearing her album. She put alot of effort into this production, although she never intended to sing one serious song on the album. as she wanted everyone that listened to "Get up and Dance to it"!. My personal favourites are "Serious" which has extremely fun lyrics about how she is coming down with something and needs to see a doctor, Basically a fun upbeat song about falling inlove, which has strong remences to "Fever" by Kylie which is also about catching the Love bug! (obviously its infectious). I also love "Harajuku Girls" an excellent song devotted to her alteregos the Harajuku Girls.. Its very girly, very oriental. and the lyrics are alot of fun! Anyway this cd is great. Some tracks are just Ok. but most of them make up for it by being extremely upbeat and alot of fun and catchy.Read full review
This album has a real mix of styles. from the fantastic electro dance track "What you waiting for?" to the totally different sound of the 80's tinged "Cool". If you loved Gwen Stefani before this, you will love her even more after hearing her album. She put alot of effort into this production, although she never intended to sing one serious song on the album. as she wanted everyone that listened to "Get up and Dance to it"!. My personal favourites are "Serious" which has extremely fun lyrics about how she is coming down with something and needs to see a doctor, Basically a fun upbeat song about falling inlove, which has strong remences to "Fever" by Kylie which is also about catching the Love bug! (obviously its infectious). I also love "Harajuku Girls" an excellent song devotted to her alteregos the Harajuku Girls.. Its very girly, very oriental. and the lyrics are alot of fun! Anyway this cd is great. Some tracks are just Ok. but most of them make up for it by being extremely upbeat and alot of fun and catchy.Read full review
Stefani breaks from No Doubt with her debut "Love.Angel.Music.Baby." (LAMB) Anyone who is Stefani's age, or anyone like myself who has lived through the 1980's, knows that No Doubt probably pioneered the return of the 80's new wave/punk scene that is now in full swing. That, and No Doubt's last album being highly retro, it comes as no surprise that Stefani's solo album is steeped in 80's retroactivity. He first single, "What You Waiting For?" is pure Cyndi Lauper circa "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" (1983). Stefani also blends 90's sensibilities such as the dull "Luxurious" hip-hop-crap that it is. She even endeavors to go for Broadway by taking "Fiddler On The Roof's" "If I Were A Rich Man" and morphing it into "If I Were A Rich Girl" on "Rich Girl"--which also has a short horn re-make of Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust" as a five second riff in the middle of the song. Sounding quite like Toni Basil on "Hollaback Girl", Stefani manages to make another cheerleading, pom-pom extravaganza replete with hood lyrics "This My Sh-t" for all those inner city mamas. She even works with 80's new wave icons New Order on the excellend "The Real Thing" and also seems in fine form on "Crash" and "Serious". She can be downright irritating on "Bubble Pop Electric" and "Harjuku Girls". Working with Andre 3000 from Outkast actually works on "Long Way To Go" more than "Bubble Pop Electric". Oddly, for a woman in her 30's, Gwen seems to pander to teens--just look at the lyrics for "Bubble Pop Electric", "Rich Girl" and "Hollaback Girl". It seems as if Stefani, who if I remember correctly is married to Bush's Gavin Rossdale (also in his 30's), has skipped adulthood and on her own is only able to conjure up forgettable adolescent hoopla. I'm sure her teen fans are not up to speed on what Harajuku is, unless of course they watch "America's Next Top Model", but it's funny that Gwen panders to the Japanese crowd as old as she is. One might gather that all Ms. Stefani cares about, looking over the themes of these songs, is Sex.Fashion.Money.Cheerleading. So, LAMB can be described as mindless fodder that's extremely catchy and well-produced (look at all the handy production teams she has on each song). To me, the best song on the disc is "What You Waiting For?" This song captures every good quality Stefani possesses--attitude, insecurity and an ability to write a classic song. If you're looking for an 80's fix, you can look no further than this ebullient slice from that era.Read full review
It's always a little scary when an artist steps out of the genre that they are knwn for. In this CD Gwen Stefansi shows that she is up for the task. With catchy tunes and beats produced by some of todays BIG HITTERS, she has a CD thats full of sound and rythm taking you from one song to the next. Each song has its own special something giving Gwen the outlet to showcase her talents. If you appreciates music you will appreciate the songs for what they are...From one girl to another....Rock on Gwen!!!!
What Are You Waiting For is the song everyone buys this album for. It's a great tune, but by itself it isn't enough to carry this album. Gwen Steffanie's early work as No Doubt was a bit more well balanced, with most albums having more than one song that was sensational. The CD is cheap enough in the used market that 4 stars still applies. Had I paid $20 for it when it first came out, would likely have gone only 3 stars.
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I understand some of the bad reviews because this sure is different than most of her work with No Doubt, but people are allowed to change and explore all tastes of music, right? I love the CD. Its definitely 'Pop' music...most of the songs I've listened to over and over again and now I don't care if I hear them again for a few years. That's the way pop music is. But, it's got some great songs to dance and have fun with for a while. Gwen is so cute no matter what she does!
Hard to describe and hard to classify. And in my opinion, its hard to take seriously and hard enjoy more than once or twice. On "Love, Angel, Music, Baby", Gwen Stefani ditches her band No Doubt to create an album as fragmented as the title. Really the album a staccato collection of music rooted in the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s - as well as funk, punk, rap, etc. I'm not sure what Gwen is trying to achieve - but I'll take a guess: musical freedom. Perhaps Gwen used this album as an opportunity to lay tracks and make different, truly pop music without taking it or herself too seriously. The songs are funky and some are catchy - but, for me, the songs are also short-lived. Gwen and No Doubt made music that still holds its own years later - I doubt tracks like Rich Girl or Hollaback Girl will be remembered in so much as a year. I will assume Gwen enjoyed creating this album because the creativity is obvious - but truthfully, I expected more. 1. What You Waiting For? 2. Rich Girl - Eve 3. Hollaback Girl 4. Cool 5. Bubble Pop Electric 6. Luxurious 7. Harajuku Girls 8. Crash 9. Real Thing 10. Serious 11. Danger Zone 12. Long Way to Go - Andre 3000Read full review
Those of you complaining about this album simply don't know of what you speak or don't like pop rock/r and bWhen a person enjoys the "b"-tracks of album just as much as they enjoy the top ten singles hits, then you know it's a good album! Judging from the tracks that have already cracked the top 40 charts and beyond, this piece of work is a force to be reckoned with. Those of you complaining about this album simply don't know of what you speak or don't like pop rock/r and b. Of course she's not performing the harder rock type of music on this album as she has in past with her colleagues of over ten years, (rock band, NO DOUBT) How trite that would be. This album was a chance to get away from that and broaden her repertoire Gwen has always had a versatile vocal style that mixes old and new, nostalgic and fast forward, which is one of the reasons she's such a big success. Her music doesn't just cover one generation, like rap does. It a mix (as with most good pop music) of all that stuff- old and new. In this album we get treated to the talent of a variety of different top notch producers, which fit Gwen like a glove, considering her versatility. I even hear some 80's band Missing Person's influence on one of the tracks and many of the tracks sound like they could have been released in the 1980's. Even so, the music on this album is timeless top notch pop/rock and rhythm and blues music. The kind that will last. Gwen's definitely where she deserves to be after almost 20 years of hard work : SMACK DAB ON TOP! Infectious rhythms, on the mark mezzo-soprano vocals, clever cascading vocal arrangements and harmony tracks....It's a great album. Phooey on those of you who don't like it, cause like I said before, you don't know of what you speak.Read full review
MUSICAL TASTES WILL ALWAYS DIFFER FOR US FOLKS... REALLY, I MEAN, WHATS WRONG WITH TRYING SOMETHING NEW? MAYBE BEING A LITTLE HARSH ON GWEN MAKES YOU FEEL BIG? WELL I DON'T THINK ITS ACCURATE TO SAY THAT THE MUSCI ON THIS CD IS HORRIBLE. THE SONGS ARE CATCHY (ALL MUSICIANS HOPE TO WRITE AND COMPOSE THAT ONE CATCHY SONG THAT WILL MAKE THEM WELL KNOWN. ANY MUSICIAN WHO SAYS OTHERWISE IS A HYPROCRYTE) i AM A MUSICIAN AS WELL AS THE FIRST PERSON WHO WROTE A REVIEW, I USED TO LOVE METAL AND ROCK EXCLUSIVELY, THE BLUES WAS WONDERFUL TOO. i HAVE ADAPTED TO MANY OTHER STYLES AS I HAVE MATURED AND FOUND THAT OTHER STYLES HAVE AS MUCH (SOME MORE) CREATIVITY THAN WHAT I CHOOSE TO BE ACEPTABLE. SO ANYWAY, WHAT IM TRYING TO SAY, WHILE RAMBLING ON IS DON'T HATE IT UNTIL YOU LIVE IT, STOP WITH THE "HATERZ" INSANITY. MOVE ON AND GROW. THANKS.Read full review
I guess the question is do you want to make music or do you want to make money? Do you play music because you love it or because you need to have your ego stroked? I figure Gwen does love music and enjoys making it but this record reeks of the desire to maximize exposure through all music formats. The first single was for alternative radio, the second for those horrible Hip Pop light stations and the latest is for easy listening stations. She'd sing polkas if there were polka stations. She'd endorse nuclear war if someone offered her a buck. "I designed the warhead myself, tee hee."
