Gwen Stefani featuring Eve - Rich Girl

**1/2 (out of four)





Practically a decade of music stardom and Gwen Stefani is looking hotter than ever. Still sporting one of the hottest sets of abs and juiciest petite booties in the MTV lineup. And there's Eve, who spends half the video wearing some kind of strapless T-shaped piece of upper body lingerie I swear I can see her nipples through. It makes it almost possible to forgive Gwen's building of her first solo single around a signature song from Fiddler on the Roof. Oy fucking vey indeed, Miss Stefani.



The video takes place on a number of stages, spanning time and culture - there's the harem set, the English ale house set, and let's not forget the enormous pirate ship set. Where Gwen lip synchs from a giant swinging anchor and frolics with a bunch of shirtless seamen. (Remember these words of advice from Waylon Smithers, Gwen: "Women and seamen don't mix.") Eve is spotted at one point with a pirate patch over her eye, no doubt manufactured at great cost by Gucci. Or Prada. Or Versace, whose 2005 winter line of eye patches is simply to die for.



Then there's the video's intro and outro, which both feature giggling little girls playing in a bedroom with Gwen and Eve dolls in a plastic pirate ship. "No Cindy, I get to take off my clothes and give myself sexually to a dozen randy pirates!" "No way, Samantha, it's my turn to snog the pirates! Don't cross Eve, bitch!"

NOTE: This review written March 8, 2005.