Gwen Stefani Slow Clap is out

[JRCF29 8,229]

This sounds like a song she wrote for fun, it's a fun song, it's silly, it's not single material. She needs to keep this upcoming album to herself if it's going to take this route. Was hoping that LMRIM was just a minor misstep, but please. She needs to release greatest hits (many in her fanbase will buy physical albums, trust me) and be done with it, because this type of output will only serve to tarnish her reputation as one of the biggest and brightest pop stars of the 2000s

[JRCF29 8,229]

1 hour ago, JusKeepBreathin said:

I wish she would reunite with No Doubt and give us a great album.  

They don't even need a new album. Just a tour would be great, a few festival appearances, a couple awards shows. They should have done it for Tragic Kingdom anniversary, but for some reason they didn't. I am always trying to explain to people that Gwen was HUGE in the 90s

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4 minutes ago, JRCF29 said:

They don't even need a new album. Just a tour would be great, a few festival appearances, a couple awards shows. They should have done it for Tragic Kingdom anniversary, but for some reason they didn't. I am always trying to explain to people that Gwen was HUGE in the 90s

Yeah, she was like the alternative to the pop superstars like Madonna and Mariah. 

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6 hours ago, Varys said:

This is like a Jojo Siwa song 

 

that doesnt give me much hope

[Franch Toast 27,371]

49 minutes ago, JRCF29 said:

They don't even need a new album. Just a tour would be great, a few festival appearances, a couple awards shows. They should have done it for Tragic Kingdom anniversary, but for some reason they didn't. I am always trying to explain to people that Gwen was HUGE in the 90s

Covid messed that up, but 2022 is the 30th anniversary of the band, so let’s hope they do a few shows together. I’d fly just about anywhere to see them. 

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2 hours ago, JusKeepBreathin said:

I really love gwen but, I'm not feeling this at all. I wish she would reunite with No Doubt and give us a great album.  

 

What's sad is that when they reunited in 2012 they were panned by critics and fans despite Push and Shove being a solid album and having amazing singles. I still don't understand how Looking Hot and Push and Shove weren't hits.. they are bops that fit in perfectly with pop at the time.

No Doubt fans complained it sounded too much like Solo Gwen.

Gwen solo fans were nowhere to be found because we were too busy being spoiled by Gaga, Miley, Britney, and Rihanna at their peak.

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22 minutes ago, MonsterofFame said:

What's sad is that when they reunited in 2012 they were panned by critics and fans despite Push and Shove being a solid album and having amazing singles. I still don't understand how Looking Hot and Push and Shove weren't hits.. they are bops that fit in perfectly with pop at the time.

No Doubt fans complained it sounded too much like Solo Gwen.

Gwen solo fans were nowhere to be found because we were too busy being spoiled by Gaga, Miley, Britney, and Rihanna at their peak.

I also think Settle Down is one of their best songs, and I really like Sparkle. I hope they don't give up just because Push & Shove didn't do that well commercially. 

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16 minutes ago, Franch Toast said:

I also think Settle Down is one of their best songs, and I really like Sparkle. I hope they don't give up just because Push & Shove didn't do that well commercially. 

Unfortunately, I think that album flopping is why Gwen is doubling down on this strange style we're hearing with her past 2 singles. They clearly have a No Doubt sound with the reggae dancepop beat, and she's taking the quirky silliness of Hollaback Girl and Wind It Up hoping that the combination will be a hit.

Problem is, despite Gwen saying otherwise she does need a reintroduction to Gen Z because they weren't around the last time she was hugely successful as a musician. Millennials and Gen X are no longer the crowds that cause fun and silly pop songs like her past 2 to go viral.

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2 hours ago, JRCF29 said:

They don't even need a new album. Just a tour would be great, a few festival appearances, a couple awards shows. They should have done it for Tragic Kingdom anniversary, but for some reason they didn't. I am always trying to explain to people that Gwen was HUGE in the 90s

The band have all but split up at this point – I'm surprised they don't just rip the band-aid off already. Tom made a post last year pretty much alluding to the fact they don't even talk anymore and not to expect a reunion, which was pretty obvious back in 2016 when Gwen said she wasn't even aware of the band's other band, Dreamcar, until it was publicly announced and she read the news online. The writing has been on the wall ever since she went solo, honestly. When they finally reunited and attempted to write together in 2009, they seemingly kept clashing – in Gwen's own words from that era:

"Everybody's making it like there's all this tension, you know, like I stepped away from the band and now they're jealous of me, and look, maybe there is a little bit of that," she admits, while emphasizing that she never actually quit the band. More important, though, is the personal transformation she's gone through. When No Doubt recorded its last studio album, 2001's Rock Steady, she points out, "I wasn't even married. Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore. My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing."

Originally, No Doubt hoped to record a new album before going on tour, like bands usually do. But when they got together to write new material, Stefani says, nothing really gelled. Practically every day at noon for four months, bass player Tony Kanal and guitarist Tom Dumont turned up at her house, where she and her husband, Gavin Rossdale, have a studio, and thought about music. "At about 4:45, we'd be like, `Okay, the magic's going to happen right now,' " she says. "And it just wasn't happening." When they recorded a cover of Adam and the Ants' "Stand and Deliver" for a forthcoming episode of Gossip Girl, Gwen and Tony wound up having "a heated conversation" over how the song should sound.

There was another interview where Gwen said she didn't enjoy the experience of working on Push and Shove because she felt like they were forcing it.

[beli8 1,463]

I kind of like it (the chorus not so much), but I have low expectations for Gwen now. I do wish someday the guys will be on good terms with her again and they'll do a reunion tour. But I'm not holding my breath for it.

 

@ChicaSkas @skaxboy @Franch Toast were you guys on the Unofficial forum back in the day? I was beli8 on there as well. Huge, huge fan here. I got on stage and made a fool of myself during the 2nd leg of the RS tour in 2002 lol video evidence exists. In 2009 I went to 7 shows during their summer tour (6 of them in California) and did a meet & greet with just 3 other fans which was awesome, because the meet & greets were normally of very large groups that tour. Ours ended up being just the 4 of us because they had to re-schedule us to a different day, and they scheduled us to one of their "off" days so no one else was there. We were in freaking heaven lol 15-20 minutes alone with the whole band, I don't know how I didn't lose my ****! The last time I saw them live was for the small Push & Shove tour at the end of 2012 (flew to Cali for one of those shows). I am so glad I did that... little did I know they wouldn't go on any major tour after that. I miss them so much, but at least we have some great records to cherish forever.

[Chromatography 10,186]

sounds like a kesha animal reject 

[skaxboy 6,160]

1 hour ago, beli8 said:

I kind of like it (the chorus not so much), but I have low expectations for Gwen now. I do wish someday the guys will be on good terms with her again and they'll do a reunion tour. But I'm not holding my breath for it.

 

@ChicaSkas @skaxboy @Franch Toast were you guys on the Unofficial forum back in the day? I was beli8 on there as well. Huge, huge fan here. I got on stage and made a fool of myself during the 2nd leg of the RS tour in 2002 lol video evidence exists. In 2009 I went to 7 shows during their summer tour (6 of them in California) and did a meet & greet with just 3 other fans which was awesome, because the meet & greets were normally of very large groups that tour. Ours ended up being just the 4 of us because they had to re-schedule us to a different day, and they scheduled us to one of their "off" days so no one else was there. We were in freaking heaven lol 15-20 minutes alone with the whole band, I don't know how I didn't lose my ****! The last time I saw them live was for the small Push & Shove tour at the end of 2012 (flew to Cali for one of those shows). I am so glad I did that... little did I know they wouldn't go on any major tour after that. I miss them so much, but at least we have some great records to cherish forever.

Yes I was part of that forum! I do recall a user named Lamb83 that always gave informative answers. Me and my friend would jokingly say that user was secretly Gwen lol. At The Sweet Escape tour in Oakland, I remember one of the frequently banned forum members had a shirt with the cute cartoon forum logo header that was signed by the boys. Gwen saw it and was like “take it off” and his undershirt lifted and she was like “take them both off!” And she signed the shirt under her character and scribbled all over Tony’s characters face. Lol. 
 

I went to two 2009 shows, Mountain View and Concord. I wish I had gone to one with a pit because I saw people would challenge Gwen to a push up competition before Just A Girl and she’s bring them up onstage. I wish I went to some of the Push & Shove shows but hoped they would have toured. 
 

I was planning on doing EDC last year and was gonna go to the final LV shows for Enigma and Just A Girl before heading to EDC and was gonna fork over the $1000 for Gwen M&G. I really hope she finishes her residency. 

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This is another No Doubt rehash. Looks like her upcoming album, if there is one, is going to be Mo Doubt reminiscent. I am not oppose to this tho. But it'd be so much better of she just go back with ND instead of solo.

[beli8 1,463]

@skaxboy I remember that user too ha! Oh man, I didnt go to the Mt View or Concord ones but my friends (who I went to the other shows with) were there. One of my friends from Australia was starting her career as a photographer and got to shoot the Mt View show! And then she and I think one of two others from our group got on stage that night. Ahhh yeah the push up challenge was awesome on that tour lol. The pits were amazing but we had to line up at 8am to be in the front row, it was brutal (we took turns going back to hotel to rest). No way would I have been able to do that now.

That is awesome about Gwen having signed that shirt (and scribbled Tony out haha)! They were always very interactive with the fans during shows. I know that nowadays a lot of bands/artists are too but I feel like ND was only one of the few who would do it way back in the day.

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This is actually terrible. I feel so bad for her fans.