{"id":7373,"date":"2012-09-12T22:05:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T05:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=7373"},"modified":"2012-09-12T22:12:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T05:12:14","slug":"no-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/09\/no-doubt\/","title":{"rendered":"NO DOUBT"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>NO DOUBT<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Push and Shove\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

[Interscope]<\/p>\n

When Gwen Stefani sings, \u201cNever, ever, ever gonna be the same,\u201d the opening line on \u201cSparkle,\u201d a standout track from No Doubt\u2019s first new album in 10 years, she\u2019s not kidding. With its brassy accents and fat-bottom, pop-reggae bounce, the tune recalls the 2002 hit \u201cUnderneath It All,\u201d itself a reminder of No Doubt\u2019s roots as the little SoCal ska band that could. But \u201cSparkle\u201d is the exception that proves the rule. Alongside lead single \u201cSettle Down\u201d and the chassis-rattling title track, it\u2019s one of a scant few Jamaican-tinged songs skanking in a sea of club \u00a0beats and stadium-rock choruses.<\/p>\n

Things will never be the same, but they\u2019ve been changing for a while. On its last album, 2001\u2019s Rock Steady<\/em>, No Doubt was already incorporating elements of electronic dance music, and on her two subsequent solo records, Stefani took it several stiletto steps further, reinventing herself as a modern-day Madonna. Here, Gwen and the boys move deeper onto the dance floor, doing achy synth-pop and glossy \u00a0Euro-throb without losing themselves in the process. What shines through on songs like \u201cLooking Hot,\u201d \u201cUndercover\u201d and \u201cGravity\u201d\u00a0are their basic pop instincts, which remain very much intact.\u00a0Another thing that hasn\u2019t changed is Gwen\u2019s guileless, confessional songwriting. When she\u2019s not hinting at trouble in paradise with hubby\u00a0Gavin Rossdale, the father of her two children, she\u2019s treating her happiness like a hard-won victory. After a decade away\u2014a lifetime in pop years\u2014No Doubt might view this comeback album the same way. \u2013Kenneth Partridge<\/p>\n

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NO DOUBT Push and Shove\u00a0 [Interscope] When Gwen Stefani sings, \u201cNever, ever, ever gonna be the same,\u201d the opening line on \u201cSparkle,\u201d a standout track from No Doubt\u2019s first new album in 10 years, she\u2019s not kidding. With its brassy accents and fat-bottom, pop-reggae bounce, the tune recalls the 2002 hit \u201cUnderneath It All,\u201d itself […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,628,4538,4794,4795],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7377,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7373\/revisions\/7377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}