In Chin Deep

I was listening to the radio this morning during the rush-hour crunch and heard an advertisement for upcoming concerts in the area. Of the list of bands, I heard a particular band that I was quite familiar with…mainly back in the day through high school…No Doubt. You could say I was pleasantly surprised to find out No Doubt was going to be touring again. Cool…so Tom Dumont, Tony Kanal, Adrian Young, and Gwen Stefani will be performing again as a group. The best part is that we will all get a break from Gwen Stefani’s stint at going solo. That stint has produced tons of suburban teeny-bopper music that is best suited at someone’s sweet sixteen instead of gracing my car radio.

I prefer to think of Gwen’s new music as an abortion of what was once a really hot chick in a cool band. I remember when I first saw the video of “Don’t Speak” and thinking, “Holy fuck, that girl is hot!” Flash forward several years and you get her breaking away from No Doubt to start producing songs like “Rich Girl “ and “Hollaback Girl.” Instead of a cool band, we have a hot chick covering herself up in some truly fucked up outfits and dancing around like a drugged-out circus monkey with a bunch of Asian back-up dancers called Harajuku girls. Where the fuck is the girl that filled many wet dreams? She got older, married the one-hit-wonder from BUSH, got knocked up, and spent many the day making really crappy music.

Now that No Doubt is back together and touring, does that mean we are done with Gwen’s terrible music? The truth is that I don’t know. I can only hope that just like a young girl whoring herself out to the football team, she has gotten her fill. In the meantime, I am going to buy some really over-priced tickets.

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