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Gwen Stefani feels something however hella good when listening to No Doubt songs.
“I can’t hearken to numerous the songs as a result of they converse so clearly to me,” Stefani, 54, advised KROQ’s Audacy Test In present earlier this week. “And it’s like, you recognize, you’ve got regrets, you’ve got errors you’ve made. And many of the songs are about that.”
She continued, “If I do ‘Ex-Girlfriend,’ even after I say it, I nearly throw up in my mouth. Simply realizing precisely the place I used to be in that second to write down that track and what I do know now? It’s similar to, ‘Oh, my God.’ It simply brings you proper again.”
Stefani didn’t make clear which “errors” she was referencing, however she’s been identified to write down songs about her private relationships. No Doubt’s 1995 hit “Don’t Converse” chronicled the breakup between her and bassist Tony Kanal, who dated from 1987 to 1994. “Ex-Girlfriend,” in the meantime, was launched in 2000 and served as a shoutout to then-husband Gavin Rossdale.
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The pair, who share sons Kingston, Zuma and Apollo, have been collectively for 14 years earlier than their 2015 divorce. Within the track, Stefani sings, “You say you’re gonna burn earlier than you mellow.” The lyric is a reference to the Bush track “Useless Meat,” the place the lyrics learn, “I’m doing you in tomorrow, I’ll burn earlier than I mellow.”
No Doubt performed underground gigs for almost a decade earlier than their first hit single, “Only a Woman,” made it to the radio airwaves in 1995. Their final album, Push and Shove, got here in 2012 earlier than they in the end went their separate methods to give attention to solo initiatives. In January, the band revealed they are going to reunite for 2024’s Coachella Music Pageant, which kicks off on Friday, April 12.
Stefani might have sophisticated emotions about her previous music, however the pop star advised KROQ that being on stage and performing dwell is a completely totally different expertise.
“There’s plenty of instances you’ll be on tour and doing the repetitive songs nevertheless it’s not the songs, you’re with these new individuals each night time and so they’re receiving the songs,” she defined. “I can’t consider I used to be chosen to have this life as a result of it’s such an unimaginable approach to categorical your self and to know your self. And the songs do this.”
Coachella will mark No Doubt’s first efficiency as a band in 9 years. Final month, a supply completely advised Us Weekly that a reunion had been within the works for some time, with Stefani working because the driving pressure. Whereas a second insider advised Us that Kanal, guitarist Tom Dumont and drummer Adrian Younger “hadn’t been into the concept” when it was introduced up by Stefani up to now, they’re now all fortunately on board.
“As soon as the Coachella group heard that they had been speaking and reached out with the supply, it actually solidified the reunion,” the supply defined. “The entire group has some concepts for brand new materials and are open to a tour instantly after [their] efficiency.”
Whereas talking with Folks final month, Stefani mentioned she’s “fully overwhelmed” by the followers’ pleasure and the love the band has obtained.
“I undoubtedly have that little factor in your abdomen the place you’re like, ‘Oh, my gosh! What?’ It’s going to be superb,” she gushed. “It’s simply going to be cool. It’s simply going to be: rise up there and do what we all the time do, which is play our music and attempt to join and be so grateful that we received this superb profession that we by no means anticipated to have.”
