”Early Winter” on MTV Buzzworthy’s List of Must-Hear Cold Weather Songs

MTV Buzzworthy has put together a playlist of 5 must-hear pop songs that have to do with cold weather,and Gwen’s final solo single,”Early Winter”,is among them. We love how they praise the ballad so being so heart-wrenchingly brilliant. (As an East Coaster who experienced the bizarre October snowstorm this past weekend,I couldn’t get the song out of my head,lol!)
It’s Tuesday! Time for another round of 5 Must-Hear Pop Songs for the Week!

If you live anywhere near the New England area, you’d know that all Hell truly broke loose this Halloween weekend: It snowed! Like, a lot. And suddenly everything got really cold, and all the pumpkins froze, and everything was just such a terrible mess. It was one of the weirdest Halloween celebrations I can ever remember.

To celebrate (or more appropriately, to mourn), I put together a list of must-hear pop tracks that have to do with the cold! And changing seasons. And then a song about being hotter than fire, which is really kind of the opposite effect I was going for, so…let’s just go with it.

Here we go!

5.) Gwen Stefani, “Early Winter”

While I spent the bulk of my Halloween weekend shivering and fantasizing about moving to Fiji, I was reminded of a fitting song for the past weekend that I cherish ever so dearly: “Early Winter,” the ice-encrusted gem found on No Doubt front-woman Gwen Stefani’s oft-overlooked second solo album from 2006: The Sweet Escape.

Co-penned with Keane pianist Tim Rice-Oxley and produced by Nellee Hooper, “Early Winter” is an astonishingly emotional, ’80’s-inspired piano-pop ballad. The song, which was originally released as a single in January of 2008, follows Stefani as her relationship comes slowly crashing to an end: “I always was one for crying, I always was one for tears,” she sadly mourns above the chilling synthesizers and tender piano chords as she braces for impact.

And although the songstress all but confirmed that she will never enter the studio again as a solo artist (which we are most definitely NOT going to talk about right now because it’s so upsetting), we’ll always have “Early Winter–her final solo single, and one her most tender, heart-wrenching numbers to date — to remember what once was the brilliance of Solo Stefani.

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