Why Gwen Stefani almost throws up listening to No Doubt songs
Gwen Stefani.
Hubert Vestil/WireImageGwen Stefani feels anything but 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, told KROQ's Audacy check-in shown earlier this week. 'And it's like you're sorry that you've made mistakes. And that's what most of the songs are about.”
She continued, “When I say 'Ex-girlfriend' I almost throw up in my mouth even saying it. Just knowing exactly where I was at that moment to write that song and what I know now? It's just like, 'Oh, my God.' It just takes you back.”
Stefani didn't clarify which “mistakes” she was referring to, but she is known to write songs about her personal relationships. No Doubt's 1995 hit 'Don't Speak' details her and bassist's rift Tony Channelwhich dated from 1987 to 1994. 'Ex-Girlfriend', meanwhile, was released in 2000 and served as a shoutout to then-husband Gavin Rossdale.
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The couple, who share sons Kingston, Zuma and Apollo, were together for 14 years before divorcing in 2015. In the song, Stefani sings, “You say you're gonna burn before you get soft.” The lyrics are a reference to the song 'Dead Meat' by Bush, where the lyrics read: 'I'll join you tomorrow, I'll burn before I get softer.'
No Doubt played underground gigs for nearly a decade before their first hit single, “Just a Girl,” hit radio in 1995. Their latest album, Push and slide, arrived in 2012 before eventually going their separate ways to focus on solo projects. In January, the band announced that they will reunite for the 2024 Coachella Music Festival, which kicks off on Friday, April 12.
Stefani may have complicated feelings about her old music, but the pop star told KROQ that being on stage and performing live is a completely different experience.
“There are a lot of times when you're on tour and you're 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 explained. “I can't believe I was chosen to live this life because it is such an incredible way to express yourself and get to know yourself. And the songs do that.”
Coachella marks No Doubt's first performance as a band in nine years. A source said this exclusively last month Our weekly tThat a reunion had been in the making for some time, with Stefani as the driving force. While a second insider told it Us that Kanal, guitarist Tom Dumont and drummer Adrian Young “weren't working on it yet” when Stefani brought it up in the past, now they're all happy with it.
“When the Coachella team heard they were in talks and reached out with the offer, it really cemented the reunion,” the source explained. “The entire group has ideas for new material and is immediately open to a tour [their] performance.”
While you're talking to People last month, Stefani said she was “completely overwhelmed” by the excitement from fans and the love the band has received.
“I definitely have that little thing in your stomach where you're like, 'Oh, my god! What?' It will be great,” she said enthusiastically. “It's just going to be cool. It'll just be like, get up 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.