"No Doubt", no doubt.

Now, this is a comparison between the band No Doubt and the singer-entity, not Gwen vs. Adrian-Tony-Tom. I love Gwen Stefani and wish I were her in success, talent, and beauty - always have been and always will be. That being said, I really dislike the solo singer Gwen Stefani for several reasons:

#1: Why the hell is Gwen sampling from famous musicals? Rich Girl = Fiddler On The Roof? Wind Up = Sound of Music? They make me throw up a little in my mouth whenever I hear those songs. Let Jewel yodel, Gwen.

#2: The growing dumbness of her lyrics. Compare "Just A Girl" to "Wind Up". Have we really "evolved" from a smart, sarcastic song about how society forces females to be girls, that "that's all that you'll let me be..." to "they like that way that L.A.M.B. is going across my shirt; they like the way my pants, it compliments my shape"?

#3: Gwen has turned from a symbol of strong female identity, empowerment & strength who is also attractive but not slutty-sexy ...to a bad knock-off version of Fergie (as I once read a news article reviewing her new CD describe her - and that's bad!). I want to cry when I think that girls in middle school will grow up thinking of her as yet another pop-dance-trying-to-dance chick and not as the ska-punk princess I grew to love her as.

But that, of course, is my opinion.