A quick listen to Love.Angel.Music.Baby, her 2004 solo debut, reveals that this is not an album she could have made with the group - it's too club-centric, too fashion-obsessed, too willfully weird to be a No Doubt album. Working with far too many collaborators - including Dr. Dre, the Neptunes, Linda Perry, Dallas Austin, Andre 3000, Nellee Hooper, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, and her No Doubt bandmate (and ex-boyfriend) Tony Kanal - Stefani has created a garish, neon-colored, deliberately stylish solo album ...   [ read more ]

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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 artif...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. 'The times were crying out for a pop star like Lady GaGa - a self-styled, self-made shooting star, one who mocked the tabloid digital age while still wanting to wallow in it - and one who's smart enough to pull it all off, too. That self-awareness and satire were absent in the pop of the new millennium, where even the best of the lot operated only on one level, which may be why Lady GaGa turned into such a sensation in 2009: everybody was thirsty for music like this, music for and about their...   [ read more ]

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