Gwen Stefani may not think that many people are old enough to remember Adam and the Ants (or the British New Wave movement, or the New Romantic movement), but I'm here to serve as a glaring reminder to that wannabe-Minnie Mouse that SOME people were weaned on Malibu Sue and WDRE.
Why the venom, folks?
No Doubt has just released a cover version of Adam and the Ants' "Stand and Deliver" (which, for the benefit of those Upper East Side, Gossip Girl obsessed snobs who wouldn't know culture if it smacked them in their reconstructed nose, literally defined Adam Ant and the entire New Romantic movement with the application of makeup at the beginning of the video), and frankly, it makes me barf. Violently.
Gwen's cartoon voice works for some of No Doubt's poppiest stuff, but it completely RUINS Adam Ant's song. Plus, the No Doubt version is MUCH slower than the original, causing it to completely lose whatever appeal it had left. Hang up the music cape, Gwen, it's time. When you're FORTY years old (with two beautiful kids), dressing up like you're 16, and doing lousy covers of 28-year-old songs (like I said, Malibu Sue used to play this song until the grooves wore off the record -- I can still sing every word, but you don't see ME recording it. Consider yourselves blessed...), it's time to call it a day.
Here's the original version (pardon the production values, it WAS the 1980's after all):
And here's No Doubt's travesty of a version:
You be the judge.
