Great Moments in Journalism: Don't Tell Me, 'Cause It Hurts
Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Your Moment today comes from a recent EW (yes) profile of Gwen Stefani. The stylish musician (can you feel the air quotes around both of those words?) is a big Sound of Music fan, which leads to this unfortunate, if inevitable, comparison:
''I was threatening for a while to put The Sound of Music to a beat,'' Stefani says. ''When I heard [''Wind It Up''] for the first time, I was in tears. I was, like, That is the craziest s—- I've ever heard! It's bizarre how that movie has followed my life.'' Indeed, their plots are similar: Naive and chatty but well-meaning young Catholic girl — who makes her own clothes! — goes out into the big wide world, where she survives assorted adventures and meets the man of her dreams. Of course, in Stefani's case, the ''assorted adventures'' didn't involve escaping from Nazis but selling 26 million albums worldwide with a globe-trotting ska-pop band, then 7 million more with her 2004 solo debut, Love.Angel.Music.Baby.
The next line does mention that Gavin Rossdale is not "an Austrian naval captain." Thanks, EW.