Gwen Stefani Blasts Critics

[tiffany]

lol I find it funny when celebrities "blast" or "slam" people - it sounds so dramatic

 

[Mr-Dale]

Exactly, it's a disco album as she has stated many times. She wanted to do something else than rock for once and has always wanted to do a disco record and now she has.

I love Gwen. I love her music and I love her style. To me, she is an icon in both ways...

 

[skyred]

I like her music, but I hope she doesn't think she is really a musician. To be a musician, you need to play an instrument,and I don't think she does.

 

[Ms. Diorella]

She actually writes music i believe, not just lyrics, she didn't wehn she started in no doubt, but she learnt too - thats what i read somewhere anyway.

 

[Sweets]

Her album is amazing... ok its not serious rock'n'roll but it is sooo fun and catchy and stupid and i adore it.

 

[Kimkhuu]

I don't see why she's claiming to be a true rock star, she's got a long way to go before being able to get that title. She's more pop than anything, and her material is way too catchy, you get bored of her tunes really rapidly.

She used to make relatively decent music with her band, I like her new sound less now that she's going solo.

 

[joues-rouges]

Gwen was always concerned about her image as a musician. Didn't she turn down a photo editorial with the rest of the female cast leads of the Aviator because it might dilute her credibility as a musician or was this all just a figment of my overworked brain?

 

[Neo_Classic]

There isn't a link to this story...

 

[agirlcalledk1ll]

the quote is from a magazine interview (NME)...
this 'article' took it out of context....... this is how the quote is in the magazine....

"Everyone has a veiw on Gwen Stefani: She's a punk-rock pin up, female david bowie, the new pricess of pop, a style icon, a hip-hop superstar, a movie starlet, the red-carpet goddess, a cultural chameleon. Just don't call her a faker...
"What would I say to those people," spits Stefani in her helium-tipped Cali-purr. "is do your research. I was in a band with all guys since i was 16 years old. I've been in a f***ing rock band touring the f***ing world for 18 years. So if you're gonna try and erase that, then I'm going to stick my finger right up in your face. 'Cos you know what? I did it. And you try to be a girl and do that in 1987.
"I know what it's like to be up onstage with anyone from a stupid f***ing wannabe punk rock band with a bunch of f***ing wannabe punk rock kids in the audience to, like, opening for U2, opening for the Rolling Stones. I've mean we've shared the stage with so many different kinds of groups. We played the f***ing warped tour! I was one of the first females to do that- it was like (tampon-flinging girl grungers) l7 and No Doubt!"
A pause for breath and a flash of that winning Hollywood smile: "You can tell i get a little bit angry...No, not angry, but I feel a little bit like y'know what? I don't need to hear it."

so, it's pointed towards people who call her 'fake'...
it's not saying what she's doing is 'rock'....but that it's really not fair to deny her the time she's done being real and working for her position as a part of recent rock history.....

no, love. angel. music. baby. is NOT rock....
but she's talking about No Doubt, not her current endeavour. no doubt have always had a 'pop' edge to 'em, but what hugely successful rock band doesn't? gwen is as much a part of that success as the rest of the band, just cos she's the lead singer and writes the lyrics doesn't make her less worthy than her band members (one of which hasn't done any writing on any of their albums, as far as i know..but i don't have my booklets here to double check..hah, so i could be wrong, he couldn've helped with a song or two) ....almost all of their songs are collaborations between them all..
but yes, gwen does know guitar, enough to write music, at least. she solely wrote two songs on the return of saturn album...one of which was a single ('simple kind of life')

 

[ShOe GaL 19]

I liked her back in her "Just A Girl" days... but that girl is just long gone! Not really a big fan of hers..

 

[hugobossdaria]

she gets away with alot of fashion don'ts

 

[MayaPapaya9]

I loved No Doubt but everything on her new CD is so stupid that I always switch radio stations whenever her inane crap comes on.

If I was a rich girl (na, na....)
See, I'd have all the money in the world, if I was a wealthy girl

What the hell does that mean?! Soooo stupid...

 

[Gallianogown]

LAMB was always supposed to be a fun record.And i don't see why gwen can't defend herself when she's being slated

 

[Ms. Diorella]

Exactly gallianogown, she said that herself, that she probably won;'t even care about the lamb record in ten years its just pop music.

She did get a little worked up over it, but still, she's proud of her music and she has worked for it.

 

[morgan38]

LAMB was always supposed to be a fun record.And i don't see why gwen can't defend herself when she's being slated

Well there's defending youself logically and intelligently...and then there's just sounding like an idiot. Imagine if Geoge Bush had said this to a reporter who criticized the war in Iraq.