Tony Kanal, Gwen Stefani, Adrian Young and Tom Dumont of No Doubt backstage at the Wadsworth Theater prior to an insulation of ABC Family’s “Front Row Center” in Los Angeles on Nov. 11, 2001. Kevin Winter/Getty Images
It’s been 24 years because No Doubt launched their Return of Saturn solitary, “Ex-Girlfriend,” yet the track still raises feelings for Gwen Stefani.
“I can’t listen to a lot of the songs because they speak so clearly to me,” the vocalist informed KROQ’s Klein & Ally throughout an Audacy Check-In meeting today. “And it’s like you have regret and mistakes you’ve made. Most of the songs are about that. If I do ‘Ex-Girlfriend,’ even when I say it, I almost throw up in my mouth because…it’s just like, ‘Oh my God.’ It just brings you right back.”
She proceeded, “There are lots of times when you’d be on tour doing the repetitive songs, but it’s not the songs. You’re not in the songs. You’re there with these new people every night and they’re receiving the songs. So that’s where you get the energy and you relive that moment with them. I can remember when ‘Don’t Speak’ came out. My family was very conservative. I was very naive. The only place we’d ever traveled to was San Francisco. I’m not kidding you. We would [do]…Catalina Island, Big Bear. [I lived at home until I was 26] and when I was 21, they called this family meeting, and we were like, ‘We’re going to go to Italy next year, and it’s going to be this big trip.’ And we did. I cried when we left. I was like, ‘I’ll never get to go back to my Italy.’”
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After taking place what seemed like an irreversible respite in 2013, the vocalist will certainly be rejoining with long time bandmates bassist Tony Kanal, guitar player Tom Dumont and drummer Adrian Young for this year’s Coachella celebration in April.
“We’ll see you in the desert this April!!!,” reviewed a declaration on No Doubt’s social accounts recently revealing the Coachella job together with a piled lineup including Lana Del Rey, Tyler, The Creator and Doja Cat as headliners, together with Peso Pluma, Lil Uzi Vert, Blur, Ice Spice, J Balvin, Jhené Aiko and much more.
Listen to Audacy’s complete meeting with Gwen Stefani listed below.
