The Gwen Stefani-Verse

[evalionisameme 13,889]

Inspired by the Closer Verse thread-

Name songs that clearly imitate Gwen Stefani.

 

Songs in the Gwen Stefani-verse contain high pitched bratty vocals, breathy seductive verses and either High octane pop production or ska influenced dance rock.

 

The interesting thing about this phenomenon is that often singers sound nothing like Gwen except on the one particular song.

 

this is the earliest song I can find:

 

Other examples:

 

 

 

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Honorary mention to Lana participating in the trend at 2.57

the way @SlowGinFizzzz would love this 

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Found country Gwen circa Blake Shelton era 

 

 

[Crimson and Clover 22,505]

My mom thought this was a Gwen song for years lol

 

[Sis 2,098]

 

 

[SlowGinFizzzz 15,354]

Loving this topic @evalionisameme!

 

I've always thought that Kim Petras sounds a lot like Gwen on Broken:

 

I also agree with the Charli XCX examples posted earlier, even though I hear her even more in Charli's balladesque songs (e.g. Emotional, White Mercedes). And yeah, in a different timeline Selena's Same Old Love was definitely a Gwen Stefani song too just like The Heart Wants What It Wants.

[SoftwareUpgrade 19,349]

The "Bubblebath" EP was clearly reminiscent of Gwen Stefani. I remember the Lowlife era/very beginning stages of the Poppy Project mentioned No Doubt & Gwen as inspirations. The "That Poppy" era.

Excuse the low(ish) quality, I don't feel like scanning my copy. Gwen is mentioned in this Teen Vogue interview from 2016.

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1 hour ago, SoftwareUpgrade said:

The "Bubblebath" EP was clearly reminiscent of Gwen Stefani. I remember the Lowlife era/very beginning stages of the Poppy Project mentioned No Doubt & Gwen as inspirations. The "That Poppy" era.

Excuse the low(ish) quality, I don't feel like scanning my copy. Gwen is mentioned in this Teen Vogue interview from 2016.

Yes I can hear bits of Gwen musically in low life-less the voice and more the song itself though of course.

 

the Selena song makes sense aswell considering charli is on the chorus aswell and wrote the track 

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1 minute ago, evalionisameme said:

Yes I can hear bits of Gwen musically in low life-less the voice and more the song itself though of course.

 

 

Quoting the lone Poppy stan with this, nahhh

 

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12 hours ago, SoftwareUpgrade said:

Quoting the lone Poppy stan with this, nahhh

 

Lol I actually like the song- the drag was unintentional 💅 I’m just naturally rude.

 

here’s another pseudo Gwen song