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Gwen Stefani feels something however hella good when listening to No Doubt songs.
“I can’t listen to a lot of the songs because they speak so clearly to me,” Stefani, 54, advised KROQ’s Audacy Check In present earlier this week. “And it’s like, you know, you have regrets, you have mistakes you’ve made. And most of the songs are about that.”
She continued, “If I do ‘Ex-Girlfriend,’ even when I say it, I almost throw up in my mouth. Just knowing exactly where I was in that moment to write that song and what I know now? It’s just like, ‘Oh, my God.’ It just brings you right back.”
Stefani didn’t make clear which “mistakes” she was referencing, however she’s been identified to write songs about her private relationships. No Doubt’s 1995 hit “Don’t Speak” 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. In the tune, Stefani sings, “You say you’re gonna burn before you mellow.” The lyric is a reference to the Bush tune “Dead Meat,” the place the lyrics learn, “I’m doing you in tomorrow, I’ll burn before I mellow.”
No Doubt performed underground gigs for practically a decade earlier than their first hit single, “Just a Girl,” 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 deal with solo initiatives. In January, the band revealed they are going to reunite for 2024’s Coachella Music Festival, 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 stay is a very totally different expertise.
“There’s lots of times you’ll be on tour and doing the repetitive songs but it’s not the songs, you’re with these new people every night and they’re receiving the songs,” she defined. “I can’t believe I was chosen to have this life because it’s such an incredible way to express yourself and to know yourself. And the songs do that.”
Coachella will mark No Doubt’s first efficiency as a band in 9 years. Last month, a supply solely advised Us Weekly that a reunion had been within the works for some time, with Stefani working because the driving drive. While a second insider advised Us that Kanal, guitarist Tom Dumont and drummer Adrian Young “hadn’t been into the idea” when it was introduced up by Stefani up to now, they’re now all fortunately on board.
“Once the Coachella team heard they had been talking and reached out with the offer, it really solidified the reunion,” the supply defined. “The whole group has some ideas for new material and are open to a tour directly after [their] performance.”
While talking with People final month, Stefani mentioned she’s “completely overwhelmed” by the followers’ pleasure and the love the band has obtained.
“I definitely have that little thing in your stomach where you’re like, ‘Oh, my gosh! What?’ It’s going to be amazing,” she gushed. “It’s just going to be cool. It’s just going to be: get up there and do what we always do, which is play our music and try to connect and be so grateful that we got this amazing career that we never expected to have.”
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