Gwen Stefani’s new album has a lovesong to the girls of Harajuku.
Love. Angel. Music. Baby. is very nearly a theme album about Harajuku girls, the wacky teenage fashion plates who parade through Tokyo’s Harajuku shopping district wearing pink earmuffs, Minnie Mouse hairstyles, and skirts made out of neckties. Stefani has called these girls her muses, and they crop up everywhere, flanking the singer on her album cover, rescuing her from drowning in the “What You Waiting For?” video, and starring in several songs, notably “Harajuku Girls,” the most extravagant piece of musical Orientalism this side of The Mikado. “Harajuku girls, I am your biggest fan,” Stefani exults. “Your accessories are dead-on. … Your underground culture, visual grammar, the language of your clothing is something to encounter.”
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gwen stefani rocks and I love her new album. I hope she will tour Astralia some time soon.
I was a bit dissapointed by her album it was a bit shallow, i love no doubt and Gwen and think she sooo cool but yeah…
I LOVE Gwen Stefani and her HARAJUKU GIRLS!!!!!!
They are all so COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gwen Stefani is ok but her Harajuku girls are really nothing like real Harajuku’s. The only person that looks anything like an Harajuku girl is Gewn herself.
hello all. i love the harajuku and qwen stefanis look its so different and fabulous. xxxx