Apparently she can't sing that well. Who knew? And nobody knows why those lame Japanese dancers are hanging out with her. I guess she thinks it is cool. But the millions of screaming teenage girls in the audience seem to approve. I think she should go back to No Doubt and work on making real music.

i never heard any bad reviews about her voice when she toured with no doubt.

maybe her ear isn't as attuned to a dance pop performance as it is to singing with a rock band? dunno.

I saw her perform on November 18th. Her show was awesome!!!! And she sang very well all throughout. Oh and btw, not all those oriental girls are Japanese, Gwen introduced them each and told where they were from. One of them is a Filipina from California.

My sister saw her and was more impressed with the opening act, the Black Eyed Peas. I think she was dissapointed that she didn't do any No Doubt songs. She said she did all of her songs, though, but that's like only 12. Big fucking deal!

Where are the lame reviews?

Here is one.....

It almost sounded like an apology when Gwen Stefani paused her Las Vegas performance Saturday night to explain to throngs of fans why her solo album departs so heavily from the sound of No Doubt, the quartet she has led for 15 years.


"I basically just wanted to make a dance record," she said.


Unfortunately, she made a very bad dance record.


Sure, some of the best dance music can seem mindless and repetitive. But "Love.Angel.Music.Baby," Stefani's year-old solo debut, makes Madonna look like Gershwin.


It's a superficial, banal album focused on fashion and consumer culture, and Stefani's decision to draw almost exclusively from the CD during her 80-minute show at the Aladdin this weekend deflated a spirited performance.


If anything, Stefani's 14-song set looked to channel the Material Girl, brimming with constant costume changes (I counted nine) and other stage spectacles, from the brightly colored, multi-level stage setup to the Harajuku Girls, Stefani's all-Asian quartet of backup dancers clad like Japanese schoolgirls.


But Madonna was savvy enough early on to recognize she could only be carried so far on a mediocre voice, ability to court controversy and uncanny knack for divining which way the pop culture wind was blowing. She has maintained two decades of longevity by relying on the world's finest pop-smiths and producers to come up with top-rate material, at least top-rate as far as dance-pop goes.


Stefani, 36, would do well to follow her lead.


On Saturday, she was an energetic and enthusiastically colorful performer. Her voice was decent, if unnotable. The choreographed dance routines came off well enough. And her precise, five-piece backing band was amplified with clarion sound.


But she was constantly hamstrung by strikingly poor material.


After emerging onstage in a throne, Stefani strangely kicked off her set with a mid-tempo dud, "Harajuku Girls," rather than jumpstarting it with one of the myriad upbeat ditties from "Love.Angel.Music.Baby."


Yet even when running through her bouncing, club-centric solo repertoire, the staleness of the songs held her back.


Whether she was ripping off "Fiddler On The Roof" (the dancehall takeoff "Rich Girl") or a junior-high pep rally (the insipid "Hollaback Girl"), the lyrics sounded like they were culled from scribblings tweens a third Stefani's age pass back and forth in class.


"Long Way To Go," where Stefani relates the difficulties of a bi-racial relationship, proved itself a particularly grating lyrical nadir.


"It's beyond Martin Luther/Upgrade computer," she sang, repeating the throwaway, nonsense line ad infinitum.


Yet the act was eaten up by an adoring audience than ran about 4-1 in favor of female fans, many of whom swarmed the Stefani merchandise booth afterward to purchase items like $90 hooded sweatshirts.


The only song where Stefani seemed to transcend the shallowness of the rest of her solo work was the recent single, "Cool." The new wave track sounds like it could've dropped off the "Pretty In Pink" soundtrack, but Stefani was oddly compelling relating her tale of reconciling with an ex.


In "Cool," Stefani showed she can still pen heartrending work on par with "Don't Speak," the 1996 hit that was her finest moment with No Doubt. But as that group continued shifting from their ska/punk beginnings into late '90s mainstream rock, she also demonstrated a command of upbeat pop ("Ex-Girlfriend," "Hella Good") much better than anything on "Love.Angel."


Stefani, no doubt, can do better than this.

That's not a bad review of the tour, per se, but more a bad review of the LAMB album.

Bottom line is, if you hate the LAMB album, you will hate the tour.

Then again, the author thinks her finest moment with No Doubt was "Don't Speak" (which was a good song, but her best?)

pkidwell said:

$90? WTF?!? did she fart in it or sumthin? hell to the naww! she better be coming home with it for that much

jtgillia said:

i agree

love the song..... but no doubt are alot more than just -dont speak-.

L.A.M.E.

Hopefully this will stop all those emo/anime/raver twinks from thinking that's she's cool just becaus of her J-Pop hoes.

pkidwell said:

This guy is an asshole! The Madonna knocks show just how sexist he is. Like Madonna has no involvement in her albums. Fuck off!

jtgillia said:

What is the setlist for the album? What does she sing besides the songs from the album. I half love, half hate the album.

We took my lil sis on Thurs. an I, yes I enjoyed the show. My mother even enjoyed it. Maybe the reviewer expected to much. We went in knowing what to expect, Good fun. Gwen voice was surprisingly stronger than I thought, the stage set was cute, her costumes (esp. her shoes) kept my attention. Yes crap was overpriced ($35 for one pair of undies). But we settled on getting a tourbook for my sis, because the concert WAS for her. On thing that did trip me out was when Gwen sung Hollaback Girl unedited they bought lil kids on stage and lil 10yr olds are going "...that's my sh*t, that my sh*t" I was like *insert scooby voice*. It was that damn Ciara that was crap...whooo man...she seems sweet and all but girl sucks.