Why?

A combination of having a twelve year old daughter and going to a gym that plays MTV ad nauseum is that you get exposed to various types of music, whether you want to or not.

Now I know I'm going to sound like an old fart but whenever Gwen Stefani appears on either the T.V at home or in the gym a three word question appears in my head: Why?

What is the point of Gwen Stefani? Her tunes are so poor they could have been written by a three year old with learning difficulties, her sense of dress is so bad it makes Christina Aguilera look like Grace Kelly and her videos, well let's put it this way, if Leni Riefenstahl was alive and asked to direct a video for Hitler she'd have trouble coming up with more Fascistic images.

This morning Stefani's new video was unlucky enough to follow the latest effort by Pink and boy was there ever a difference in creative styles at work, you know that old saying "you can't polish a turd," well it must have been coined by Stefani's ex-manager. She sucks the oxygen out of new music.

She's not alone on my why? list: James Blunt, Paolo Nutini, Mika, Pussycat Dolls, Black-Eyed Peas to name just five.