Many of you may have had the pleasure of seeing the music-video for the Gwen Stefani (hot blonde girl from No Doubt) song “Holla-Back Girl”. The video features some kind of logo with a banana and the Chinese characters “yuan2” (original or raw) and “su4” (old or the first syllable in the chinese word for dormitory). What do these characters mean together in Chinese (if anything, assuming they’re not Japanese characters)? Just curious… And as a side note, I wonder why they didn’t put the characters for “banana” (xiangjiao). Hmm…
They say “Harajuku,” a trendy spot in Tokyo. Kind of what Ximen wishes it were. And for why? Because she’s another of these stupid twits who have jumped on the OMGJAPANESECOOL!!! bandwagon. Like her disgusting and physically nauseating mangling of the word “kawaii” at the start of that video.
So, I take it you’re not a No Doubt fan, Tetsuo? 
Actually I didn’t mind No Doubt. But her solo stuff irks me, and she as a person seems remarkably vapid.
Thirty years ago, an edgy new pop star looked set to take over the world. With her peroxide blonde hair, camo trousers and rebellious spirit, No Doubt frontwoman Gwen Stefani seemed like a breath of cigarette-smoke-tinged air: cooler and sexier than Britney Spears, but not quite as chaotic as Courtney Love; an artist who appealed to both rock and pop fans.
No Doubt’s third album, Tragic Kingdom (1995), sold more than 16 million copies, earned the band two Grammy nominations (for best new artist and best rock album) and spawned the colossal hit single Don’t Speak. Stefani’s decision to go solo in 2004 catapulted her to the A-list, with number one singles, sold-out tours and countless magazine front covers. She was the US’s favourite cool girl, whose empowering songs formed the soundtrack of millennial adolescence. Until she wasn’t. Two decades later, Stefani has found herself with a very different identifier: enemy of liberals everywhere.
But Stefani is presumably unbothered by all the backlash. She was raised a devout Catholic in one of California’s wealthiest and most conservative enclaves, Orange County.
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