In the musical Gypsy some 50+ years ago, the three strippers (Electra, Mazeppa, and Tessie Tura) sing a great song called "You Gotta Get a Gimmick" ... which ends with "if you want to have a chance."
Sounds as if Stefani heard that song in a community-theater revival and adopted it as her personal mantra. It's what you do to make up for minimal, or missing, talent.
Is this an example of women losing themselves to the beliefs and lifestyle of a charismatic man? Or is it an appropriation? Or is it “on trend” for a Nashville-based artist?
I've always loathed GStef: apart from her crap "singing" and cultural appropriation, covering a Talk Talk song should've put her in musician jail (although clemency could be granted if it generated revenue for TT :)
This doesn't surprise me one bit, since Gwen and Blake do live near the shores of Lake Texoma and just a few miles from Tishomingo, which is the capital of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma. Everything down in that part of Oklahoma (which is close to the Texas border), from the online ads, your search algorithm, and the people themselves, both White and Natives, are, for the most part, full blown MAGA as you can get.
Since you like to "morph" into different cultures Gwen, how about you learn something about your literal Chickasaw neighbors down the road from you. Plus, you can learn something about their closest sibling Native Nation over in the next county from you, my own Nation, the Choctaw Nation.
Aside: For comparisons for Choctaws and Chickasaw based on similar Europeans ethnic groups based on my own observations. It would be like Serbs and Croatians, Norwegians and Swedish, or Austrians and Germans.
First thing to learn before this becomes exclusive knowledge again from the Native side, and banned by the US Government on the White Side, the Choctaw Code Talker's of World War I.
"Given that Stefani is (like me) Italian-American"
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I've had the opposite happen to me over the years. Thanks to my Dad's side of the family being from the British Isles, people have mistaken me for being Eye-tal-an. They were quite shocked that my natural, Native, tan come from my Mom's side of the family. Well, if I'm picked up by ICE and have to leave South Carolina, I'm going to try to be deported to Tuscany first, before I have to be honest, and have to be deported back to Durant, Caddo, Atoka, and Tishomingo part of Oklahoma. (That's where my Mom's family settled after being removed on the Trail of Tears back in the day)
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Once again, Yakoke (Turns out some Chickasaws use this word as thank you along with the Choctaws) and in northern Chickasaw dialect, Chokma'shki, for letting me use this place to laugh, vent, and share knowledge.
Hate? Just a portrait of reality. Like the one of Drumpf in the Colorado statehouse: it looks exactly like him, so the Fuhrer claims it's a hate portrait.
Things definitely got worse when she got together with Blake. Now he's her entire personality. Watching her on The Voice and make a drinking game of how often she mentions 'Blakey'. You'll have alcohol poisoning before the night is over.
She could’ve said “I love Ireland. I love Saint Paddy and the wool and the castles and the leprechauns. I am Irish.” And then gone on tour with four River dancers who could only speak Celtic and wear tweed.
gwen stefani has never been known as being the sharpest roller skate key in the toolbox...her turning magat after marrying a redneck trumper is no surprise
as far as her cultural appropriations shtick...it's all she's ever done...even her original 'No Doubt' personna was stolen skater-girl culture...this chick has no stable personality of her own, she's always been and always will be an impressionable 12yr-old tween, mirroring whatever scene in which she's currently immersed...she wont be missed
Ta, Robyn. I've never heard her until now, and it seems I missed nothing. I did know about the Harajuku Girls. She has a catchy face and a catchy name, no doubt.
In the musical Gypsy some 50+ years ago, the three strippers (Electra, Mazeppa, and Tessie Tura) sing a great song called "You Gotta Get a Gimmick" ... which ends with "if you want to have a chance."
Sounds as if Stefani heard that song in a community-theater revival and adopted it as her personal mantra. It's what you do to make up for minimal, or missing, talent.
Is this an example of women losing themselves to the beliefs and lifestyle of a charismatic man? Or is it an appropriation? Or is it “on trend” for a Nashville-based artist?
I've always loathed GStef: apart from her crap "singing" and cultural appropriation, covering a Talk Talk song should've put her in musician jail (although clemency could be granted if it generated revenue for TT :)
This doesn't surprise me one bit, since Gwen and Blake do live near the shores of Lake Texoma and just a few miles from Tishomingo, which is the capital of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma. Everything down in that part of Oklahoma (which is close to the Texas border), from the online ads, your search algorithm, and the people themselves, both White and Natives, are, for the most part, full blown MAGA as you can get.
Since you like to "morph" into different cultures Gwen, how about you learn something about your literal Chickasaw neighbors down the road from you. Plus, you can learn something about their closest sibling Native Nation over in the next county from you, my own Nation, the Choctaw Nation.
Aside: For comparisons for Choctaws and Chickasaw based on similar Europeans ethnic groups based on my own observations. It would be like Serbs and Croatians, Norwegians and Swedish, or Austrians and Germans.
First thing to learn before this becomes exclusive knowledge again from the Native side, and banned by the US Government on the White Side, the Choctaw Code Talker's of World War I.
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https://www.chickasawculturalcenter.com/experience/2025/films/choctaw-code-talkers/
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https://www.choctawnation.com/about/history/code-talkers/
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From WW II: Here is the story of a member of the Chickasaw Nation who assisted the Navaho Code talkers.
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https://www.chickasaw.tv/profiles/thelma-chincie-ross-profile
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/what-are-we-shoving-into-the-dei
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"Given that Stefani is (like me) Italian-American"
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I've had the opposite happen to me over the years. Thanks to my Dad's side of the family being from the British Isles, people have mistaken me for being Eye-tal-an. They were quite shocked that my natural, Native, tan come from my Mom's side of the family. Well, if I'm picked up by ICE and have to leave South Carolina, I'm going to try to be deported to Tuscany first, before I have to be honest, and have to be deported back to Durant, Caddo, Atoka, and Tishomingo part of Oklahoma. (That's where my Mom's family settled after being removed on the Trail of Tears back in the day)
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Once again, Yakoke (Turns out some Chickasaws use this word as thank you along with the Choctaws) and in northern Chickasaw dialect, Chokma'shki, for letting me use this place to laugh, vent, and share knowledge.
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Wow, a hate article on one of the nicest woman in the entertainment industry. You need to give your head a shake
Hate? Just a portrait of reality. Like the one of Drumpf in the Colorado statehouse: it looks exactly like him, so the Fuhrer claims it's a hate portrait.
In the Post Trumpcopalypse cultural landscape Gwen will cosplay Maurice Chevalier post-Occupation France. Apologies for the geezer reference…
I've never heard of her, and that seems like a good thing.
I like Tragic Kingdom, didn't like any of her later work even though I really tried to like it.
Nitwit. Is Blake one too?
Things definitely got worse when she got together with Blake. Now he's her entire personality. Watching her on The Voice and make a drinking game of how often she mentions 'Blakey'. You'll have alcohol poisoning before the night is over.
A middle aged woman calling her husband Blakey in public with a straight face seems kind of immature.
What if she had gone to Ireland instead of Japan?
She could’ve said “I love Ireland. I love Saint Paddy and the wool and the castles and the leprechauns. I am Irish.” And then gone on tour with four River dancers who could only speak Celtic and wear tweed.
“And ‘oo are the L’ittle People of Hollaback Grrrrrrrlllll…”
Well, perhaps she is a hollaback girl
She should take the advice of her own song and "Don't Speak"
gwen stefani has never been known as being the sharpest roller skate key in the toolbox...her turning magat after marrying a redneck trumper is no surprise
as far as her cultural appropriations shtick...it's all she's ever done...even her original 'No Doubt' personna was stolen skater-girl culture...this chick has no stable personality of her own, she's always been and always will be an impressionable 12yr-old tween, mirroring whatever scene in which she's currently immersed...she wont be missed
You can take the girl out of Orange County, but...
Ta, Robyn. I've never heard her until now, and it seems I missed nothing. I did know about the Harajuku Girls. She has a catchy face and a catchy name, no doubt.
To be fair, much like MAGAts, she always refused to grow up. This is hardly unexpected.