Questions about Gwen Stefani’s politics have been percolating for a while, but in the past month, a lot of Gwen’s fans have now become convinced that she’s fully MAGA. Gwen has, in my opinion, always been more socially conservative and religious than her fans realize, and she also has a long history of problematic words and behavior around race. And yet… she used to be a huge Democrat and a huge Democratic donor and fundraiser. But things have changed – these days, she’s reposting hyper-religious-wingnut content, she’s boosting Tucker Carlson interviews and she’s following right-wing nutjobs on social media. Well, now the Mail is running an exclusive about how Gwen has basically adopted Blake Shelton’s Republican politics and the music industry doesn’t know what to do with her anymore because her new music sucks and she’s turned off all of her loyal fans.
Gwen Stefani has become ‘unrecognizable’ to her fans, friends and even her label – which is now said to be ‘considering dropping her’ after her alleged ‘MAGA makeover’. The No Doubt singer, 55, outraged her liberal fans last week when she publicly supported conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson, reposting one of his religious interviews. The move shocked her fans given her previous support for the Democratic party.
Now an insider has told the Daily Mail that Gwen ‘appears to have gone MAGA’ and ‘doesn’t care’ if it alienates her fans. They alleged that the change in her political views could be attributed to her husband, country singer Blake Shelton, who previously praised Donald Trump.
‘After massively supporting Democrats for years – she appears to have gone MAGA,’ the source explained. ‘Some of this can be attributed to her marriage, as Blake is an infamous Republican. She shut out everyone for him. She doesn’t seem to care about her fans anymore and has shed her persona to become the unrecognizable opposite of what she once was. The Tucker Carson situation is not anything new, though. This is who she has become,’ the source continued. ‘Gwen is not even trying to hide who she has become and this person is unrecognizable to her fans, friends and even her label.’
‘She cannot sell albums anymore and with her new holier-than-thou campaign, it has really turned a lot of people off,’ said our source. ‘After [teaming up with the Catholic] app, she released her last album Bouquet which was an absolute bomb. This has caused Interscope to consider dropping her which is a travesty considering she was once one of their top selling artists. But she has only herself to blame.’
Gwen’s last album debuted at number 95 on the Billboard Hot 200 chart and sold only 13,000 copies in its first week. The Daily Mail has reached out to Gwen and Interscope for comment.
For what it’s worth, I listened to a little bit of Gwen’s last album and it was a trainwreck, it’s like she’s completely lost her innate understanding of the pop-music zeitgeist. I guess her old producers don’t want to work with her anymore either. I think that was why the album bombed, not “fans were turned off by her politics” – the music was just bad. In the musical sense, Gwen had a good run – she was incredibly relevant for over two decades. She even had some hit songs with Blake in recent years. But yeah, this is her semi-retirement vibe: bad music, MAGA politics, being Blake’s perfect Republican wife, I guess.
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This is the LEAST surprising thing I have read in five years….😡
This shit is bananas!
b a n a n a s hahha
I heard that in my head before I scrolled further down and saw your comment!
Excellent work both of you.
Some people are MAGA at heart, some people are just weak minded. No Insight, no real character. Whatever their environment is, they are.
This completely but also add in the religious stuff and it’s pretty easy to see how this trajectory happened.
I was gonna say that she’ll probably age into a Madonna-like existence with all the plastic surgery and that kind of out-of-touch, endless quest for pop culture relevancy but at least Madonna has been fairly outspoken against Trump. Plus Madonna has always been more true to her real self (provocateur, controversialist, etc). When Madonna reinvents herself it feels like this is who she is at this moment–this is what she’s genuinely exploring–and not who she’s conforming to, like it does with Gwen.
How we choose to age is a personal matter, and more so as life expectancy increases over the next generations (at least, one hopes so!). Madonna has always rebelled against anyone putting her in a box, and women, especially female performing artists have benefited from this. Madonna is a trailblazer who’s made it possible for women to do their thang no matter their age or how people feel about it.
Madonna also supported LGBT people and issues back when it wasn’t easy to do, especially during the AIDS crisis.
Gwen Stefani is just a pick me girl who copied Madonna’s blonde look from the start and played cool girl when it was profitable to do so. By the time she was appropriating cultures that weren’t her own and doing racist stuff like the harakuju girls, her true self was showing.
THIS.
I guess it’s time to start recording country music.
Well those of us who started enjoying her music in 1995, realize she is just one of those women who has no center and will remake herself with every relationship because she does not know herself at all. I stopped being a fan when she started on with Blake because I knew this would come. and so it has, bye Gwen, it’s been real
One thousand percent, this.
This. Her only personality is her husband’s.
As a self-proclaimed “Old School No Doubter” (iykyk), this is so true. She has always morphed herself into whatever persona fit the guy she was with and never had a true sense of self. Many, many lyrics over the years tell us this. Sigh.
May she fade into obscurity!
Not before she does one last show at the KKKKennedy Center with her hubby.
She’ll retire from music and just go full trad wife. I can see Blake running for some political position and she’ll be the “perfect” supportive republican wife.
And in Oklahoma they will elect him.
And his platform will be all about men bringing women to heel with her as an example.
She always seemed to be the codependent type to me (if that’s the right term). Overly reliant and focused on the guy in her life.
I remember when she hired four Japanese ladies to follow her silently around during her Harajuku era.
RIP Gwen. You and those big chiclet teeth.
Hahahaha!
Hahahaaha!
She always turns into her guy but wow this is commitment. It was nice to know you Gwen
does this mean that her bandmates of no doubt actually were making her seem cool?…that maybe she was never cool to begin with and shes only as “cool” or relevant as the people shes making music with…hm…
Yes. It was Tony’s band and she just fell into it because she wanted to stay around him.
Full MAGA. That’s working well for Elon.
People are on the MAGA bandwagon until they, their spouse and children start losing jobs and have their lives turned upside down. Then it’s like, hey his was supposed to happen to other people, not me!!
Gwen’s always put getting a man’s love first, even if it means giving up her own values. I’ll go further and say she takes on her partner’s beliefs and “culture” and makes them her own. I think that’ll ruin her marriage. And let’s be real, even maggot men don’t want a yes-woman – it’s a recipe for resentment and boredom.
So her previous partner was Gavin Rossdale, right? What were the codependent ways she changed for him? Or someone else? I agree that it’s evident here with Blake, but I hadn’t seen it before.
So, when No Doubt debuted in the mainstream, Gwen almost single-handedly ushered in the late-90s aesthetic that used Indian cultural symbols in the form of make up and dress (bindis and saris for daaaaaays). She gave interviews at the time that acknowledged her interest in incorporating these significant cultural markers as “campy” fashion choices due to her relationship with ex and bandmate Tony Canal. I don’t want to say how 12-year-old me followed her culture vulturing in lock-step because it’s so mortifying, but I remember it well.
Later, when she got with Gavin before they married, she went a bit edgier with her look, but they were in overlapping genres, so it wasn’t a huge deal. She did have beef with actual hard-rocker Courtney Love, but I think there’s a host of issues that went into that. She did go all-in on him, though, even though he was a known philanderer and they broke up a few times. She wrote that song about bathing in his bathwater and all that before they married.
After they married, she went hip-hop lite and Harajuku fashion-wise, but she also made a really big deal about being a committed wife and mom. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that, but it seemed like — because she was more professionally successful than he was — that she really uplifted him, and all for nought because he cheated anyway. She’d even stopped going to church for a while, so it was a big deal when she started going back after they divorced.
She has always just seemed less like a person who brings her own things to the table in relationships, even though she has *so much* to bring. I think she always looks for security in her romantic attachments — she’s like J.Lo in that she’s not finding it in her self, but unlike J.Lo, she finds a partner and will go down with the ship unless they force her hand. And I think it’s important to say “seems like” because we don’t know any of these people…she might be fiercely independent behind the scenes for all we know, or maybe she and Blake genuinely have always shared the same interests and beliefs, and we as observers assumed they didn’t and he was “teaching” her all about hunting and ranch life or whatever when they got together. We’ll never know who she is behind her stage persona.
The Indian-inspired fashion choices were *a lot*, though…
I’m old enough to remember when Gavin Rossdale was in a relationship a singer called Marilyn, who was born male & dressed as Marilyn Monroe (I didn’t see the resemblance but that’s what he used to say). Then Rossdale gets involved Gwen Stefani. I remember thinking – well, he has a type, flat chested platinum blondes with red lipstick. Sorry not sorry….
Hmm, MAGAt men hate women, so they either try to break an independent one—or beat a submissive one down even more.
She and Tesla – goodbye to both!
Don’t Speak came on in the car. I used to crank it. Now I skipped it. No Doubt is dead to me.
Don’t punish the other band members…Tony Kanal, Tom Dumont and Adrian Young are such kind humans and don’t deserve that. Go ahead and skip all her solo crap, though!!
You can still enjoy it for the piece of time it was. People change, and that’s life. But art in all it’s forms is interpretative, don’t let her as the person ruin the vibes you get from her as an artist.
I hate R.Kelly with a passion, but I have a wonderful memory of singing “I Believe I Can Fly” during my Middle school graduation, and that summer with long passed family members. I abhor him profoundly, but when I hear that song, I get so wistful.
This is so unsurprising. I suppose next will be an album of Christian music.
She has already released a Christmas album!
I didn’t even know she had a new album.
I’m sure she’ll have a gig soon at the Kennedy center!!
The optimist in me wonders what will become of Stefani when we reclaim our nation and restore democracy. Because most folks won’t be forgiving of the magas and what they put us through.
I remember seeing photos of her dressed like a wealthy, devout, traditional pre Vatican II Catholic wife/mother walking into her family’s church in Anaheim. It was wild. She looked like Jackie Kennedy going to the Vatican.
I knew then she wasn’t who the public thought she was.
Also, she has the Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom plastic surgery face. She’s all in.
I recall watching an awards show about ten years ago and i did not recognize her as Stefani until she started signing. She did a lot of work and it wasn’t just fillers and botox.
She looks like Heidi Montag in that last photo. LA is truly a different world.
I find it interesting that people think Gwen has adopted Blake’s politics. Blake registered Republican years ago but he doesn’t even vote (his stealth fans did research). Gwen likes to avoid confrontation that’s why she hasn’t made any comments or given any interview on this yet. Also, Blake has made it clear in interviews that Gwen takes the lead in some aspects of their lives.
Another example of a woman adopting her husband’s views of the world and abandoning her previous beliefs when she gets married. What is that about? It really doesn’t say anything good about our gender.
She’s always been a church-going Catholic from a conservative upbringing. If anything, she’s finally with the type of man where she can drop the pretense of being hip and edgy and be her true self.
She was wearing a Bindi when she was first in No doubt, which was just appropriating her boyfriend’s culture at the time. This is who she has always been.
She has been giving off a drag queen version of herself for years. Like an unfunny Cher meets Will and Grace episode.
Well, she certainly has The Look for it.
Wasn’t she a judge on a musical talent competition show, for years? How has she lost touch with the pop-music zeitgeist?
IIRC, she was on The Voice. Shelton is currently on there.
I thought Blake left.
She’ll be fine until Blake — in the GOP way — drops her for a younger model.
Oh man. That’s absolutely going to happen, isn’t it?
This is the most media attention shes had in years, like girl. No one is worried about you for real. 🤣
I think shes entering the stage of a has-been. Didn’t even know she has an album lol
TBH her solo music always sucked (yes yes bananas was kinda fun but what else)
And even No Doubt’s last album push and shove sucked, which I feel like Gwen had more influence over. Gwen’s been a has-been for a while and was just riding the wave of early No Doubt love. And also made a lot of money with her gx and lamb collabs.
Will always have a spot for early Gwen but have not liked her personally for a long time
Well I remember when No Doubt was starting out, they used to play Orange County universities. This was when KROQ was big.
I saw them a number of times at my university and in clubs.
Make no mistake, the maga Gwen has always been there. She was raised in the maga part of Orange county ( before it was officially maga) They had money, very religious and fit into OC just fine with the politics and racism
So I see her as going back to her roots, the OC is trad wife central in southern California.