GWEN
STEFANI
-
THE
SWEET
ESCAPE on
CD -
The
CD
is new.
Awkward
and
alluring
in
equal
measures,
Gwen
Stefani's
2004
solo
debut,
Love
Angel
Music
Baby,
did
its
job:
it
made
Gwen
a
bigger
star
on
her
own
than
she
was
as
the
lead
singer
of
No
Doubt.
With
that
established
and
her
long-desired
wish
for
a
baby
finally
fulfilled,
there
was
no
rush
for
Gwen
to
get
back
to
her
regular
gig,
so
she
made
another
solo
album,
The
Sweet
Escape,
which
expanded
on
what
really
sold
her
debut:
her
tenuous
connections
to
Californian
club
culture.
There
was
always
a
sense
of
artifice
behind
the
turn-of-the-century
makeover
that
brought
Gwen
from
a
ska-punk
sweetheart
to
a
dance
club
queen,
but
that
doesn't
mean
it
didn't
work
at
least
on
occasion,
most
spectacularly
so
on
the
gloriously
dumb
marching-band
rap
of
"Hollaback
Girl,"
the
Neptunes
production
that
turned
L
A
M
B.
into
a
blockbuster.
There,
as
on
her
duet
with
Eve
on
"Let
Me
Blow
Ya
Mind,"
Gwen
made
the
transition
into
a
modern-day
material
girl
with
ease,
but
when
she
tried
to
shoehorn
this
ghetto-fabulous
persona
into
her
original
new
wave
girl
character,
it
felt
forced,
nowhere
more
so
than
on
the
Linda
Perry
written
and
produced
"What
You
Waiting
For."
Gwen
doesn't
make
that
mistake
again
on
The
Sweet
Escape
--
by
and
large,
she
keeps
these
two
sides
of
her
personality
separate,
favoring
the
streets
and
nightclubs
to
the
comfort
of
her
new
wave
home.
Just
because
she
wants
to
run
in
the
streets
doesn't
mean
she
belongs
there;
she
continues
to
sound
far
more
comfortable
mining
new
wave
pop,
as
only
a
child
of
the
'80s
could.
As
always,
it's
those
celebrations
of
cool
synths
and
stylish
pop
hooks
that
work
the
best
for
Stefani,
whether
she's
approximating
the
chilliness
of
early-MTV
new
romantics
on
"Wonderful
Life,"
mashing
Prince
and
Madonna
on
"Fluorescent,"
or
lying
back
on
the
coolly
sensual
"4
in
the
Morning."
The
Tracks
are...
Wind
It
Up
The
Sweet
Escape
Orange
County
Girl
Early
Winter
Now
That
You
Got
It
4
in
the
Morning
Yummy
Fluorescent
Breakin'
Up
Don't
Get
It
Twisted
U
Started
It
Wonderful
Life
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Your
Music.