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"The Sweet Escape" chart performance and discussion
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Member Since: 10/1/2002
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Originally posted by XplicitNG
lmao this leak song is garbage, literally. Boing Boing
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Seriously.
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Member Since: 6/1/2006
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Well, we have the HQ now, and I have to say, it sucks. It's a little catchy, in terms of I can bop along to it. But in terms of quality, it really bites. I think that radio will definitely push it away. If this becomes a hit I will be very surprised. I was expecting more.
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Member Since: 7/1/2005
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Oh my gosh the HQ version is pretty ******!
London Bridge? They are like the same, except Fergie showed SOME talent. lol
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Member Since: 9/7/2004
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I like it, I guess
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Member Since: 7/24/2006
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I wasn't expecting something THIS bad!
"Let the beat wind you up
And don't stop 'til your time is up."
The Sound of Music-marionette beat is quite irritating, and this simply does not have the "catchiness" of that L.A.M.B. was all about.
I hope the first single is reconsidered to be something better... If a video is made for this song, it will be guaranteed to scare small children.
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Member Since: 9/20/2004
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I listened to it quite a bit today on my iPod and it's grown on me. I think it can be a hit. It's f'en weird though.
I think it may grow on people.
Also she said the Album is mostly NEW songs, only like 2-3 leftover tracks from before that were not used.
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Member Since: 7/27/2003
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Members at this forum are dramatic as usual...*yawn*
It really isn't bad, at all. I know most of us were expecting something else and not the whole white girl rapping/singing thing that quickly got old but this is pretty neat. I can see this performing well at radio.
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Member Since: 9/20/2004
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GWEN CALLS INTO Z100 and KISS
Thanks to Shelby, apparently Gwen Stefani called into Z100 as well to premiere "Wind It Up." In the interview, she said that No Doubt are working on new material now, and the DJ re-capped saying "their awaited album next year".
During her interview with Ryan Seacrest on KISS FM, Gwen Stefani said that they just moved into the new house, which was bought from Jennifer Lopez. She also cleared the rumor that she was never interested in Ryan's house awhile back, which many sources were saying. So cute, while on the interview, apparently Gwen's phone was beeping with another call, but she didn't know how to work the call-waiting!
The interview runs a little over 12 minutes long, the download is 11.4MB)
In the interview, Gwen also reveals that "Wind It Up" is one of the songs that she wrote with Pharrell Williams in Miami. The Sweet Escape is now NOT a record full of leftovers, there are only a couple from Love Angel Music Baby sessions, including "Wonderful Life," which was apparently a toss-up with "Bubble Pop Electric." Also, Gwen says that "Orange County Girl" is one of her favorite songs ever.
Five months after the birth of her son Kingston, Gwen Stefani managed to drop her pregnancy weight through a combination of healthy diet and exercise.
"Let's just talk about how hard it's been," Stefani told Ryan Seacrest during an interview Monday on his radio show on L.A.'s 102.7 KIIS FM. The singer called in to premiere her latest single, "Wind It Up."
"That's been really hard," she said, referring to her weight. "But it's almost gone." Stefani says that she's still nursing and that her exercise regime includes jogging regularly. "I've just been eating healthy," she said, adding, "I cheat every day at least once."
Stefani also said she's planning to shoot the cover art for her latest album, due out Dec. 5. She'll then head out on tour in April with Kingston in tow. "I'm excited to go out there and have the baby on the outside," said Stefani, who went out on her last tour while pregnant. Of Kingston, Stefani said: "He's the greatest thing in the world. There was no transition. It was just like, 'Where were you?'"
Stefani who designs her own clothing line, L.A.M.B. told Seacrest (after his admission that he admires Kingston's faux-hawk) that she enjoys dressing up her son. "He finally has enough hair to do something with it," she told the radio host. "I was trying to give him some cooler looks."
Stefani's new album the follow-up to 2004's Love Angel Music Baby has been tentatively titled The Sweet Escape. The "Wind It Up" single features a sample of the song "The Lonely Goatherd" complete with Julie Andrews yodel from The Sound Of Music. "It was a dream of mine to put The Sound of Music to a beat, because it's my favorite movie," said Stefani, adding that she cried when she first heard her rendition.
Other songs set to make the album include "Yummy" and "Orange County Girl," a track that Stefani who hails from Anaheim, in Orange County, Calif. explains is "about me."
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Member Since: 1/11/2006
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I Like It! O_O
And I Hate LOndon Bridge LOL
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Originally posted by B.R.I.A.N.
Members at this forum are dramatic as usual...*yawn*
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Thank you!!1
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Rico, if the song sucks, the it sucks.
Seriously, she needs to ome a LOT better than that hot mess of a single called "Wind It Up" if she doesn't wanna get lost in the shuffle.
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Member Since: 1/27/2006
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^I do agree. The song sucks a little. Especially the ****** HQ version, but just the sound of it makes it a guilty pleasure. I'm not saying it's the best song in the world. I'm just saying it's hot I never said it was good.
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The HQ is pure garbage. Its not even fun and stupid like the other rip.
F-
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Member Since: 1/11/2006
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And The Full HQ Version Is Out!
Love It More! <3333333333333333333333
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Member Since: 1/19/2004
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I like this song to be honest. I don't see why everyone is hating on it, just because it seems like the "cool" thing to do. It is different and Gwen is doing something different besides what is expected of her.
I've grown so tired of people throwing out the term "real music/ real artist" I mean honestly, what is the proper definition? If people just did the same sort of style/act constantly the industry would never grow. Not saying everything new is necessarily better, but in order to explore new territory you have to try new things and Gwen is doing just that.
No Doubt was great for its time, and I'm sure they will come back with a great new album, however if Gwen only sang the ska/rock type of music that made the band famous we'd never get anything new and different from her as a solo artist.
Give it a chance. A few months from now I'm sure you'll hear it everywhere just like Hollaback Girl.
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Originally posted by B.R.I.A.N.
Members at this forum are dramatic as usual...*yawn*
It really isn't bad, at all. I know most of us were expecting something else and not the whole white girl rapping/singing thing that quickly got old but this is pretty neat. I can see this performing well at radio.
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Thank You very much B.R.I.A.N. Seriously the members of this forum need to stop being so overdramatic and stuff..It gets quite irritating..I was obviously thinking that this song was gonna be utter trash because of all the comments but now i just heard it today and its really creative..Its kinda weird at first but later u begin to groove to it..The sound of music sampling scared me though..LOL..Gwen sounded like she was high when she started singing that part..I can't wait to hear the HQ version..Can u please pm me it if u can..Thanks aight..
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Member Since: 11/23/2005
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OMG!
Loves it Loves It!!!!!!!!!!
I see a HOT VIDEO coming on the way!
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http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/st...efani_is_1.php
Gwen Stefani is Crazy
Gwen Stefani's career should've ended about fifteen different times by now. Not too many other beneficiaries of the mid-90s ska-pop boom are still around. The guy from Sugar Ray is hosting Extra. The guy from the Mighty Mighty Bosstones was a drive-time radio DJ in L.A. before he got fired earlier this year. According to Wikipedia, both Reel Big Fish and Goldfinger still exist; their recent achievements include getting dropped from their label and covering "99 Red Balloons" on the Eurotrip soundtrack, respectively. I have no idea what's become of Save Ferris. And the girl from No Doubt has sold eight million copies of a schizophrenic teenpop solo album.
Of course, No Doubt was hardly ever a ska band; they just wore checkerboard pants and talked about Madness in interviews. Still, Stefani's chameleon act is pretty stunning in retrospect. She can't sing, but that's never been much of a problem. Tragic Kingdom blew up on the strength of a feminist bubblepunk jam and blew up further from a terrible power ballad that egregiously jacked Aerosmith's "Dream On." No Doubt's second big-label album flopped, and she married the guy from Bush, who has since become yet another alterna-rock casualty even if he did manage to score a role in Constantine. No Doubt managed to pull of the dubious discovering-dancehall move on Rock Steady, and Stefani's big solo breakout came when she appeared on singles by Eve and Moby, both of whom have largely faded into pop-cult nonentity status. Her solo album and obligatory clothing line both had terrible names, and her clothes are ugly as all hell. Her solo singles are as follows: a heavily vocoderized Eurotechno cheese-blast (#47 US), an awkward but still pretty great repurposing of a mid-90s dancehall classic (#7 US), a deeply bizarre stomp-clap cheerleader chant with acoustic guitars and farting tubas shoehorned in (#1 US), a shivery bells-and-whistles new-wave prom-theme power-ballad (#13 US), a soft-focus new-romantic dancepop track with Slim Thug rapping on it #21 US), and a bleepy electro club-jam (#49 US). She's released half of the songs from her album as singles and managed to turn all of them into at least minor hits. None of them have sounded much like each other, and the two that sound most like typical top-40 radio fodder are the only two that didn't crack the top 40. "Hollaback Girl" is probably the weirdest #1 single in years, and it's also the first song to hit #1 after Billboard decided to start counting iTunes downloads toward its totals. So that means it managed to climb to the top because people were actually buying it, not just because radio programmers thought they could use it to keep people from flipping channels. Stefani has managed to turn herself into a pop mainstay, the sort of teflon figure who can navigate shifting trends effortlessly and still maintain her preteen appeal after her 35th birthday. Boomer-rock is one thing, but top 40 radio just doesn't allow for that kind of longevity; just watch Janet Jackson desperately thrash around as her record bricks hard enough to get Jermaine Dupri fired.
All that said, I can't imagine Stefani is going to keep her winning streak going with her new single, a ghastly mess called "Wind It Up." The Neptunes had something to do with the track; it's got their spit-bubble "Drop It Like It's Hot" drums and wobbly bass-noises and Pharrell's hypeman mumbles. But it's also got waves of off-center polka-march horns and sub-Fergie rapping and an utterly superfluous timbale break. And the hook is Gwen yodeling. It makes some sense that Stefani is using this nonsense as the leadoff single from her new album; it's as deeply inexplicable in its own way as "Hollaback Girl" was, and it has chants and marching-band signifiers that sound vaguely similar if you listen hard enough. But Stefani managed to invest "Hollaback Girl" with a sort of goofily likable tough-chick swagger; it might've been pantomime, but at least it was something. "Wind It Up" takes all those elements and makes them as repulsive and otherworldly as possible. Everything about the song is unpleasant enough to make me doubt my own sanity. If this thing actually turns out to be a hit, it's going to be a very, very long winter for some of us. I don't take any pleasure whatsoever in announcing an immediate and visceral dislike for this song. Stefani mostly makes the type of frothy, vigorous, hooky dancepop that I've sort of made a career out of defending. In a lot of ways, she's everything I want out of a pop-star right now: danceable, happily frivolous, open-hearted, experimental, expensively produced. But I can't imagine how she convinced herself that anyone would ever want to hear her yodel.
The best part of the song is where Pharrell mutters, "She's crazy, right?" Yes. Yes, she is.
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^ lol at that article. I agree with a lot of it, but I feel like even this sound will become infused in to top 40.
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