No Doubt aren't just 11 years older than they were when they released their last LP. They're determined to be wiser. Push and Shove leans toward synthpop-flavored ballads with grown-up themes: relationship struggles, the rewards of long-term romance. The songs are catchy, but Gwen Stefani doesn't have the voice, or the gravitas, for grandiose tunes. And do we really want a "mature" No Doubt record, anyway? The band sounds more at home on the title track, a ska/dub fusion where Stefani rhymes "La-la-la-la vida loca/We speeding it up like soca." That's the No Doubt we love: hopped-up ambassadors from a fairy-tale SoCal where la vida is, eternally, loca.

No Doubt自發(fā)行最后一張專輯起已經(jīng)老了不只11歲了，他們下定決心要變得更明智。專輯《Push and Shove》傾向于成人主題下有synthpop味道的抒情曲：人際關(guān)系的抉擇，愛情長跑下的結(jié)晶。專輯歌曲都非常抓耳，但雞瘟的嗓音不太好，或是缺少帶莊重感的華麗曲調(diào)。不管怎樣，我們真的想要一張“成熟”的No Doubt專輯嗎？No Doubt在專輯同名曲上聽起來更自在。在這首ska/dub融合風(fēng)的歌曲中，雞瘟的押韻“La-la-la-la vida loca/We it up like soca”(La-la-la-la -la vida loca/We it up like soca)。絕對是我們喜歡的No Doubt風(fēng)范：來自那“瘋狂生活”精神永存，童話故事般的南部加州，一群熱血澎湃的沖鋒者。