Gwen Stefani - "What You Waiting For"

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(first single from solo album)

starts off with a ballad-y piano intro and then goes into a bouncy europop thing. on first listen the line "take a chance you stupid ho" kind of came out of nowhere, but most of the lyrics are dreadful popstar meta stuff ("look at your watch now/you're still a superhot female/you've got your million dollar contract/and they're all waiting for your hot track"). the best part is the bridge, which reminds me of the bridge from "Spiderwebs".

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 25 September 2004 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

is this the track she made with new order? i am looking forward to this record.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 25 September 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

that lyric is icky

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 25 September 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Absolutely brilliant.

― edward o (edwardo), Saturday, 25 September 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"waiting in line, position 3"

come on, come on

― Magic City (ano ano), Saturday, 25 September 2004 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Better than anything No Doubt ever did with the exception of "Bathwater".

(NB. this is possible overreaction. I have only listened to it six times)

― edward o (edwardo), Saturday, 25 September 2004 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not a big ND fan but at least half their singles are better than this.

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 25 September 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

"Bathwater" is the shit, though.

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 25 September 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

she's working with new order on this new record? now i'm even more excited!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 25 September 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone got an mp3?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 25 September 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

On a tangent, why was "Return Of Saturn" such a comparative flop when it has "Bathwater" and "New", their two best singles, on it?

― edward o (edwardo), Saturday, 25 September 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

their best single is hella good!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 25 September 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

it was a flop because she dyed her hair pink. when she went back to blonde she was famous again.

(x-post)

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 25 September 2004 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

No way. "Hella Good" is like fourth. "Sunday Morning" is hella underrated.

― edward o (edwardo), Saturday, 25 September 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

edward o, you and I are in some sort of mindmeld, at least on the subject of No Doubt singles, if not the relative worth of Gwen's solo single.

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 25 September 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

SURRENDER TO EUROPOP. SURRENDER TO EUROPOP. SURRENDER TO EUROPOP. SURRENDER TO EUROPOP. SURRENDER TO EUROPOP. SURRENDER TO EUROPOP. SURRENDER TO EUROPOP. SURRENDER TO EUROPOP. SURRENDER TO EUROPOP. SURRENDER TO EUROPOP. SURRENDER TO EUROPOP. SURRENDER TO EUROPOP.

― edward o (edwardo), Saturday, 25 September 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

stop that.

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

their best single is "underneath it all" by lightyears

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

definitely the best video!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

that's the one where they're biking around magical rainbow jamaicaland and then she's dancing around on the bed right? or did i dream that?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

JESS IS ON THE OMENY

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Damiany.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

slocki: you are correct

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah that's pretty fine too. but the hella good video is also great, it's all black&white watersports and stuff right?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

right jess?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

right?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm not even sure if i LIKE no doubt! i still think all the early singles are pretty bad.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

but the hella good video is also great, it's all black&white watersports and stuff right?

"Hella Good" is far and away the worst thing they ever did. and the video is "Waterworld" styled garbage (and the EXPLOITED sticker on the boombox made we want to kill seventeen innocent bystanders).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

come on it rules!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

why does it make you angry when artists you don't like like the artists you do?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

why does it make you angry when artists you don't like like the artists you do?

Appropriated coolness. They're signifying some sort've alleigance with the Exploited, when in fact -- they've become just another silly, shitty pop/poop band.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

haha poop band! alex i love you

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

are there alex in nyc-type literature fans who get furious at inappropriate allusions to chaucer and stuff?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://punkpaper.propagande.org/Papers/exploited09.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

alex what would you do if gwen stefani just pasted her own name and album title at the top and used that image as the cover of her new lp?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd be upset.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

do you think maybe Gwen is just really cleverly and likes the idea of EXPLOITING a band called THE EXPLOITED?

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

cleverly=clever, obv.

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah they kind of asked for it!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

gygax thinks No Doubt INVENTED ska!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 26 September 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hey Baby" is far worse than "Hella Good".

At least "Hella Good" has catchiness mixed with the annoyingness.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Sunday, 26 September 2004 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

This is where I again take the opportunity to pass on talking about my gwen stefani dream.
-- Darcus How? (nordicskill...), January 15th, 2004.

i'm sure it's no worse than my kelly osbourne dream
-- the surface noise (electricsoun...), January 15th, 2004.

dude you wanked to gwen stefani, just admit it
-- fiddo centington (dubplatestyl...), January 15th, 2004.

I didn't say "wank".

I said "dream".

-- Darcus How? (nordicskill...), January

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 26 September 2004 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone else with me here on hella good being a great fucking song?! and amazingly fun to dance to? it sounds so good in the club!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 26 September 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

It is.

Oh, and s1ocki, if I had a copy of this song, would you want me to gmail it to you?

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 26 September 2004 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

if you did i would i would i would!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 26 September 2004 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

you know what song from rocksteady was really good and never released as a single? "making out"!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 26 September 2004 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

(this reference only will make sense to 5 people on here)
Gwen should do a cover of "Travel Girl" like NOW!

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 26 September 2004 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I agree with Jess that "Underneath It All," is part of why I'm realizing these guys are almost kind of overrated now, oddly enough.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 26 September 2004 02:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"Simple Kind of Life" and "Excuse Me Mr." are also really good.

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Sunday, 26 September 2004 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got Rock Steady and I think my fave track of there's is "Don't Let Me Down."

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 26 September 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

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My wife said the same thing on Thursday.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 22 November 2004 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I like this song too, and ditto the not being too impressed with No Doubt's previous output (excepting Hella Good) but this is just hitting me totally out of left field in that good-weird way.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 22 November 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

THIS ALBUM IS SO BLISTERINGLY BAD. SHE EVEN MANAGES TO RUIN A TRACK BY JAM AND LEWIS. GOD THIS SUCKS SHES AN IDIOT.

― big chaki (chaki), Monday, 22 November 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

would she have been paid for having an ipod in the filmclip to this song?

― gem (trisk), Monday, 22 November 2004 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The remix is one of my favorite songs of the year.

The melody to hash pipe was bothering me forever since I don't really listen to weezer or like them but I knew i'd heard it before and I thought I was going to have to stick a drill bit into my brain in order to keep from struggling with where that melody came from.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Monday, 22 November 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn, the link expired.

Can anyone put it up again?

― papa november (papa november), Monday, 22 November 2004 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I can Gmail it to anyone who still needs it.

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Monday, 22 November 2004 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

cool, can you send it to me at katealice.obrien [at] gmail.com?

― papa november (papa november), Monday, 22 November 2004 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Kate, I tried, but Gmail is acting up. Not sure if it was sent or not -- I'll try again later.

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Monday, 22 November 2004 05:22 (twenty-one years ago)

http://s13.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=D4C15CA766225109E253774947D44A37

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Monday, 22 November 2004 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Shower me w/ thanks plz.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Monday, 22 November 2004 05:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I was about to :)

Thanks Jay for trying and thanks djdee for suceeding.

― papa november (papa november), Monday, 22 November 2004 05:31 (twenty-one years ago)

danke

― Does John Coltrane Dream of a Merry-go-round? (ex machina), Monday, 22 November 2004 05:51 (twenty-one years ago)

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― youngn (ndeyoung), Monday, 22 November 2004 05:54 (twenty-one years ago)

magic kingdom was the first i heard of them but hte first album i sthe best and has at east 6 somngs that coulda been singles.
"new" and single life" were brilliant but didn't sell,that box-set was gr8

― gwenboy, Monday, 22 November 2004 06:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think I've got the remix yet? [email protected] if anyone could -- thanks much!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 November 2004 06:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoops, cancel that, jaymc is sending me a copy. Rah!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 November 2004 06:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned -- I had the same problem sending as I did with Kate -- not sure why, since I was able to send it to my brother the other day. Anyway, djdee just posted it a few posts back!

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Monday, 22 November 2004 06:53 (twenty-one years ago)

You guys made teh baby Alba cry.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Monday, 22 November 2004 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow that remix is gorgeous!

The album is out today right? I'm so going to get it. This is the surprise of the year for me - I'd always had time for a few No Doubt songs here and there but never come close to buying any of their stuff, and now suddenly this magnificence!

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 22 November 2004 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

*sob*

The thread for gmail offers and requests

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 22 November 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd do her backing dancers.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Monday, 22 November 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

ha, while we're on that subject, i am in madly in love with one of the backing dancers for Michael Gray

this JLC remix of Gwen is grand

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 22 November 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

JLC in channelling Braxe and A Flock Of Seagulls shockah

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 22 November 2004 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

They made her sing "Take a chance you stupid crow" on the MTV Europe awards.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 22 November 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i hope her backing dancers were dressed as crows

altho that might shed disturbing new light on barima's...'preferences'

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 22 November 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Really? I had the TV on mute while deciding which order I'd like the dancers in.

x-post

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Monday, 22 November 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I play dese hos like crows. Mind you, Ste, I've never watched The Wiz with an erection and I'm not gonna start now.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Monday, 22 November 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

For that I thank you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 November 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

No need to thank me. Sidney Lumet knew how to craft one fuckshit-disturbing movie. And Steve knows how to undermine perfectly innocent sexual fantasies about funky attractive Japanese girls in fluffy dresses. It's the circle of life.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Monday, 22 November 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

And now, Wheel Of Fortune...

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 22 November 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"you stupid crow"! haha!

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

this is really loathsome. the remix is good except for the parts with her voice. I had totally come around on No Doubt too, and was looking forward to this album.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 22 November 2004 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

i just remixed this if anybody is interested:

http://s11.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=26EO0KNR122593435S3NLAHIC8

i kinda like the music i did but i dunno how well it fits.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 21 January 2005 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

for that small but influential community of Gwen-loving fans frustrated by Blizzard's server performance in World of Warcraft:

http://www.leagueofpirates.com/sirvival/queuedance.html

― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Friday, 21 January 2005 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Anybody else think this sounds just like Sparks?

― nash, Friday, 21 January 2005 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I found the 12" with the JLQ remix at gramaphone. I was so happy! I paid 11 bucks for it!!

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 21 January 2005 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

deej? Boo!

― Brett Hickman (Bhickman), Friday, 21 January 2005 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Revive!

Why isn't ILM talking about the most annoying song I have ever heard in my life, so annoying that it makes "Hollaback Girl" sound like Selected Ambient Works Volume II?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

I caught this on Popworld at the weekend. Just embarrassing. I came round to Hollaback Girl eventually but this is in the My Humps league of badness.

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

This song is awesome. It goes beyond embarrassing straight into "FUCK YOU" territory.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

blurry

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Anybody else think this sounds just like Sparks?
More like Weezer's "Hash Pipe," eh?

― Turangalila (Salvador), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

As always: what aweful lyrics. Music is great though.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

wow!! this is dogshit!!

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

― edward o (edwardo), Saturday, September 25, 2004 7:58 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark

― alan2dyk (some dude), Saturday, 8 October 2011 03:09 (fourteen years ago)

chaki turned out to be otm there.

― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Saturday, 8 October 2011 04:31 (fourteen years ago)

Naw, this album was mostly p dope.

― turfin' bird (The Reverend), Saturday, 8 October 2011 09:08 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

Still sounds great.

― jaymc, Monday, 27 July 2015 04:53 (ten years ago)

I found the 12" with the JLQ remix at gramaphone. I was so happy! I paid 11 bucks for it!!
― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, January 21, 2005 3:43 PM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

aw! i would've been excited, too, if i were a dj in early 2005.

― jaymc, Monday, 27 July 2015 04:54 (ten years ago)

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