I swear I am not making this up...

Gwen Stefani's upcoming album The Sweet Escape
features the single "Wind it Up".
I'm not sure what prompted Gwen to think it was a good idea---
i'll chock it up to pregnancy hormones---
but she sampled THE LONELY GOATHERD from THE SOUND of F'n MUSIC.
The conversation in Gwen's recording studio must have gone something like this:

"Wow, Rich Girl did really well on the charts. How can we recreate the same success. I know! We'll sample another musical. Everyone loves the Sound of Music. Let's use the song with all the yodels in it! GENIUS"

yes! the song includes the yodels. how i wish i was kidding--
here is the song she sampled

i never thought i'd see the day when blog that Fergie's new single Fergalicious is leaps and bounds over anything Gwen does.