Gwen Stefani's Time Isn't Up yet

“Take a chance you stupid ho,” No Doubt crooner Gwen Stefani repeats in “What You Waiting For?,” the lead single from her premier solo excursion Love. Angel. Music. Baby. As the clock ticked and tocked Stefani, “still a super hot female,” unnervingly yet willingly employed time as her minion (in addition to 4 supposed Harajuku Girls) and delivered one of 2005’s greatest accomplishments.

Spawning hits such as the nonchalant “Cool” and imaginative Fiddler on the Roof-influenced “Rich Girl,” Gwen was living luxuriously, “Like Egyptian cotton” (whatever that means). However, nothing eclipsed the successfulness of the controversial marvel “Hollaback Girl.” Produced by The Neptunes, the song flaunted a hip-hop beat cross-bred with a marching band trumpet line and the trademark phrase, “This shit is bananas/ B-A-N-A-N-A-S.”

After the immense prosperity of Love. Angel. Music. Baby. Gwen took a minor hiatus from the music scene, relaxing somewhere high on a hill in an ornately decorated cottage, surrounded by husband Gavin Rossdale, baby Kingston, and a lonely goatherd watching The Sound of Music. Who knew that a goatherd and Julie Andrews’ yodeling would motivate Stefani, “still a super hot female,” to once again enslave time and her Harajuku Girls as she unlocked the door to her own personal Garden of Eden, or as she calls it The Sweet Escape.