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May 03, 2005
Shame On You, Gwen
One of the truths we learned in our recent road trip, along with "pick up and use those free hotel coupon books you get at Interstate rest areas" is "never turn off your CD player and check the radio".
Because the radio is, to be blunt, horrible. We heard 50's "Candy Shop" a couple of times (bad enough), but also a song so bad - so awfully, awfully bad - that we were just captivated by the sheer horror, and actually thought that it was a joke. Maybe some latter-day Weird Al had come along and recorded a tune so preposterously ludicrous as to skewer the entire crap-hop genre.
Sadly, no. The song is "Holla Back Girl" by Gwen Stefani. And it has zoomed past "Macarthur Park" and "Jenny From the Block" to claim the coveted Worst Song Ever Recorded honor from this space.
You knew Gwen's career was going to crash and burn eventually. Her cover of "It's My Life" was writing on the wall, writing large enough to see from three counties over. But there was always the assumption that her downward spiral into total irrelevance would be slow and gentle, and might include the phrase "appearing in next month's Playboy" somewhere along the line. But this is jump-the-shark-and-into-a-damn-brick-wall time. And if it's real then I don't want to knooooooow.....
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