What You Waiting For? (Love Angel Music Baby - Gwen Stefani)

Member Name: rleigh

Product:	Love Angel Music Baby - Gwen Stefani
Date:	02/07/08 (53 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: A fun album of terrific dance pop tunes.

Disadvantages: The lyrics are a bit cheesy.

Released in late 2004, 'Love. Angel. Music. Baby.' is the debut solo release from Gwen Stefani. The album consists of thirteen tracks and this therefore provides for over 50 minutes of music. It's a bubbly dance/pop album with which the voice of Gwen Stefani is incredibly well put across. The electronic instrumental sound is strong here, the vocal approach taken by Gwen Stefani also is excellent and always here the female artist has much to offer. Every track on this album is upbeat and energetic, it's a far cry from the music of No Doubt but is I feel equally excellently executed.

The album begins with 'What You Waiting For?' and never here is there ever a dull moment. From start to finish this album is full of fun and excitement. The choruses are incredibly well put across and the verses also are simply brilliant. 'What You Waiting For', 'Bubble Pop Electric', and 'Rich Girl' are my absolute favourites from this album and the tracks with which I feel the Gwen Stefani solo sound is best put across. 'What You Waiting For' has an incredibly bouncy feel, the chorus is excellent, and vocally here the sound created by Gwen Stefani is absolutely exceptional. The music is fast paced, frantic, and always the sound created is full of fun. This one provides the album with the perfect opening track and as the album unfolds the music is always full of excitement.

One track I'm not so keen on from this album is that of 'Hollaback Girl'; the track is just a little too repetitive and absolutely does my head in. 'Cool' follows it on the album however and the excellence of the Gwen Stefani sound is once more resumed. 'Bubble Pop Electric' is by far my favourite track from this album and never do I tire of hearing it. It's a super fun piece of music, highly energetic and packed full of fun. The digitally produced instrumental sound is brilliant here, the drumbeats are particularly effective and Gwen Stefani's voice over the top of this just sounds stunning. It's a fine presentation of pop music, an incredible track and one that I personally have listened to on many an occasion over the years.

I'm not sure what it is about 'Rich Girl' that makes it stand out so strongly to me, I definitely do love it however and perhaps it's the lyrical use that I'm so fond of here. The lyrics really are incredibly well sung by Gwen Stefani, it's a fun track and the lyrics just make me laugh. Gwen Stefani sings here that 'I'd have all the money in the world if I was a wealthy girl', I just find the placing of the word 'if' more than a little amusing; quite clearly Gwen Stefani is a wealthy 'girl', she doesn't quite have all the money in the world but she's certainly extremely well off.

This is a fun album of music from Gwen Stefani, it's not exactly going to change the world or anything like that but a number of tracks most definitely feature here that are supremely fun to listen to. It's an upbeat album of dance pop, a finely constructed album of music and one which I personally greatly enjoy listening to. This is not the best album ever produced, it is however a lot of fun to listen to and if you're after a bit of energetic pop fun then you can't really go far wrong with this. 'Love. Angel. Music. Baby.' can currently be found at Amazon.co.uk for the mere price of £4.98 and I personally would highly recommend investing in this fine album of pop music from the highly talented solo artist that is Gwen Stefani.

Summary: 'Love. Angel. Music. Baby.' is a fun album I'd personally highly recommend investing in.