Gwen Stefani - Bouquet 2024

Исполнитель: Gwen Stefani
Альбом: Bouquet
Жанр: Pop, Pop Rock
Год: 2024
Страна: USA (Fullerton, California)
Лейбл: Interscope Records
Формат: FLAC (tracks)
Official DR value: DR5
Разрядность: 24bit / 48kHz Stereo
Размер: 424 MB
Инфо: wiki
Залито на: XFile (3% восстановление)

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Both on her own and with No Doubt, Gwen Stefani has long been a cultural magpie, sometimes even drawing cries of appropriation as she has flaunted bindis, chola makeup, Harajuku gear, Native American headdress and her birthright SoCal skater-girl wardrobe. On the cover of her fifth solo album, Stefani wears a cowboy hat. And while she has wildly (and perhaps blindly) claimed Bouquet is not a country album—saying instead it's influenced by 1970s Chicago and Steely Dan—if it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck… Spending time in husband Blake Shelton's home state of Oklahoma has clearly rubbed off on the ultimate New Wave pop girl, now 55 years old. "Pretty" evokes '90s Faith Hill, and "Somebody Else's"—a brutal kiss-off, perhaps to her ex-husband Gavin Rossdale, with lines like "Every day with you is rock bottom" and "Leaving you saved me, my god"—features brawny heartland guitar alongside Stefani's signature vocal hiccups and piercing power notes. And her decided non-twang is remarkably well-suited to the clear country rock of the title track, which tells the story of how she and Shelton met and fell in love as coaches on The Voice not long after each was "heartbroken" by divorce. "You bring the diamond, I bring the promise/ You bring the dogs, I'll bring the boys," she sings, nodding to her three sons. "I drive you crazy, you drive the truck." It's one of many songs that burnish the couple's origin story. Stefani also loyally sticks to a garden theme, pollinating with floral metaphors and flowery language on the ballad "Empty Vase," "Marigolds" (which could almost be countrified No Doubt song, although clearly missing the rich pop-funk bass of Tony Kanal) and "Late To Bloom"—a middle-aged bop that also hammers home another of the album's metaphorical touchstones. "And now we're driving in the truck/ Under a full strawberry moon/ Wish we could hit the brakes/ And stay forever" she sings, employing country music's four-wheeled hero as a symbol of red-blooded security and to underscore the switcheroo from her high-gloss Beverly Hills life. But Stefani remains self-aware, insisting, "It's not 1999, but this face is still mine" on "Purple Irises," a duet with Shelton that just hints at Todd Rundgren's brilliant "I Saw The Light." Shelton, never known for his subtlety, does not hold back, absolutely belting his verses; but he pulls back on the chorus, letting Stefani take the driver's seat of this pickup.

Трэклист:

01. Somebody Else's
02. Bouquet
03. Pretty
04. Empty Vase
05. Marigolds
06. Late To Bloom
07. Swallow My Tears
08. Reminders
09. All Your Fault
10. Purple Irises

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