2024 has absolutely been particular for Gwen Stefani! The Hollaback Lady hitmaker spoke to the U.Ok. journal HELLO! About her band No Doubt reuniting and acting at this yr’s Coachella for the primary time in practically a decade.
“Acting at Coachella and feeling all that love for us in any case this time was sort of overwhelming,” she advised the outlet. Stefani revealed that the bandmates hadn’t achieved something collectively shortly, then to be performing on-stage with their households supporting from backstage “meant a lot to me.”
The singer felt as if they’d “by no means been aside” all these years and known as herself “extremely fortunate” to have been a part of one thing that’s so timeless within the music business. The band comprised of Tom Dumont on guitar, Tony Kanal on bass, and Adrian Younger on the drums headlined the annual California music pageant in April.
The Wealthy Lady singer donned a costume impressed by 90s vogue, consisting of ripped-up black tights, cutoff denim shorts, and a white tank high. Their set additionally featured a shock look from Olivia Rodrigo who joined Stefani to carry out the band’s hit track Bathwater.
In 2016, throughout an interview with Rolling Stone, Stefani mentioned {that a} reunion for the band was unlikely as a result of everybody had “grown aside so far as what sort of music we wish to make.” The Voice coach admitted that she was drained and burned out whereas recording their 2012 album Push and Shove. “And I had a variety of guilt: ‘I’ve to do it.’ That’s not the precise setting to make music,” she mentioned on the time.
No Doubt was fashioned in 1986 and was dissolved in 2012 after six report albums below their label all through their musical journey. Fortuitously for the followers, Stefani’s assertion didn’t flip right into a truth and a No Doubt reunion ended up taking place.
Talking to Folks journal in January, the Don’t Converse singer revealed that every little thing about their Coachella reunion was natural. “It simply occurred so quick, and that is my favourite sort of factor to occur,” she mentioned on the time. “We’ve not actually found out the subsequent steps of how we will do that, however we’re simply all so excited,” she added.