One of the big news of 2024 is (or rather will be) the return of No Doubt to current music. The original formation returns to the first final on the international scene to offer a new and surely interesting stage of this peculiar band. And Gwen Stefani has begun to promote it in style with statements that are already causing people to talk.
Because the performer has had no problem recognizing which song from the quartet’s origins causes her mixed feelings, to put it finely. In fact, she recognizes that there are several but there is one in particular that makes her ‘vomit’…
“I can’t listen to a lot of the songs because they speak to me so clearly. It’s like you regret the mistakes you’ve made. Most of the songs are about that. If I play Ex-Girlfriend, even when I say it, I almost throw up in the mouth. mouth because… it’s like, ‘Oh, my God.’ It just brings all that back to you,” he says in KROQ’s Klein & Ally during an Audacy Check-In interview.
It is not the first time (nor will it be the last) that over time an artist regrets a song that was successful or that was significant at that time and stopped being so. It seems clear that Gwen Stefani no longer feels that song as her own or she doesn’t like the approach she had to it and sees it with different eyes as the years go by.
The soloist and vocalist of No Doubt has had a very intense relationship with the group’s compositions: “There are many times when you would be on tour doing repetitive songs, but they are not the songs. You are not in the songs. You are there with these people new every night and they get the songs. So that’s where you get the energy and relive that moment with them. I remember when Don’t Speak came out. My family was very conservative and I was very naive. The only place we had ever traveled to Maybe it was San Francisco. I’m not kidding you. When I was 21, they called a family reunion and we said, ‘We’re going to go to Italy next year and it’s going to be a great trip.’ And we did. I cried when we left. I thought : ‘I will never be able to return to my Italy.’
We will have to wait to see if the return of the quartet formed by Stefani, Tony Kanal, Tom Dumont and Adrian Young entails more than just a spectacular performance at Coachella but also new songs that would put an end to more than 11 years of musical absence from the formation .
