 Despite stating that Stefani " shamelessly plunders " 1980s music , Krissi Murison of the NME referred to the album as " one of the most frivolously brilliant slabs of shiny retro @-@ pop anyone 's had the <unk> to release all year . " John Murphy of musicOMH found the album " enjoyable , if patchy " , but commented that it was too long . Rolling Stone 's Rob Sheffield described the album as " an irresistible party : trashy , hedonistic and deeply weird . " The magazine later placed the album at number 39 on its list of the top 50 albums of 2004 . Robert Christgau gave the album a three @-@ star honorable mention ( ) and wrote , " Turns out the problem wasn 't ska per se — it was No Doubt . " Edna Gundersen of USA Today called the album " [ f ] un , fizzy , frivolous " , while noting that Stefani 's " caffeinated electro @-@ pop amounts to little more than sly channeling of Lisa Lisa at a disco revival . " Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times viewed it as a " clever and sometimes enticing solo debut that doesn 't quite add up . " 
