{"id":602,"date":"2004-12-06T19:44:07","date_gmt":"2004-12-06T23:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blg\/2004\/12\/06\/gwen-stefanis-debut-love-angel-music-baby\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T05:07:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T10:07:39","slug":"gwen-stefanis-debut-love-angel-music-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/06\/gwen-stefanis-debut-love-angel-music-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwen Stefani&#8217;s debut: Love, Angel, Music, Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take my word here, i&#8217;ve never been a No Doubt fan, and Gwen Stefani&#8217;s voice never really charmed the pop music lover that i am, but with collaborators such as Linda Perry, Nellee Hooper, Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook of New Order, i had to give up my pre-conceptions and give this album a try. <\/p>\n<p>Inspired by Gwen&#8217;s pop idols &#8211; Depeche Mode, Club Nouveau, early Madonna, Prince and The Cure &#8211; Love, Angel, Music, Baby happily suprised me with its groovy girly electro funk tracks.<\/p>\n<p>The album takes pop music from the 80&#8217;s up &#8217;till now, with tracks such as &#8216;<i>What you waiting for<\/i>&#8216;, where she&#8217;s into writter&#8217;s block <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <i>Like an echo pedal you&#8217;re repeating yourself. You know it all by heart, why are you standing in one place? Born to blossom, bloom to perish<\/i> &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>and the romantic &#8216;<i>The real thing<\/i>&#8216;, with beautiful \u00e0 la New Order baselines and 90&#8217;s house beat <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <i>Don&#8217;t go away. My lover. I need you, you&#8217;re my love supply<\/i> &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>while songs like &#8216;<i>Cool<\/i>&#8216; and &#8216;<i>Serious<\/i>&#8216; are gonna give you the feeling that you are listening to newly mixed madonna stuff recorded in the 80&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p><i> &#8220;I wanted to make a very good feeling, classic upbeat dance record that when you first heard it, it would be your guilty pleasure.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>With this album and his few outstanding tracks, Gwen Stefani will definitely join the like Madonna, Kellis, Missy Elliot and Kylie as a pop diva.<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gwenstefani.com\">Gwen Stefani&#8217;s debut: Love, Angel, Music, Baby website<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00064AEJW\/wheniridemybi-20\">link to the album<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take my word here, i&#8217;ve never been a No Doubt fan, and Gwen Stefani&#8217;s voice never really charmed the pop music lover that i am, but with collaborators such as Linda Perry, Nellee Hooper, Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook of New Order, i had to give up my pre-conceptions and give this album a try.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/06\/gwen-stefanis-debut-love-angel-music-baby\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gwen Stefani&#8217;s debut: Love, Angel, Music, Baby<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10275,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/10275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}