No Doubt are reuniting at Coachella
Gwen Stefani is getting No Doubt back together for a Coachella set.
Bang Showbiz
Gwen Stefani’s career-defining hit “Don’t Speak” impacted more than just her music career.
The former No Doubt frontwoman opened up to People on Monday about how she “wouldn’t be here” without the track from the group’s 1995 album, “Tragic Kingdom.”
“That song was written by my brother,” Stefani said of No Doubt co-founder and former member Eric Stefani. “He would stay up all night and smoke cigarettes and eat burritos and write.”
But after the band played the song for their record label, it went through some changes.
“It was completely different when (Eric) wrote it,” she said. When the label suggested simplifying the verses, Stefani pulled from her own breakup with bandmate Tony Kanal.
“Tony had split up with me, and I was about ready to die, and I wrote the words,” she said. “It’s one of those crazy rewrites — probably the only one in history ever that actually turned out to be the heartbeat of my entire life. I wouldn’t be here without that song.”
“The Voice” coach has been open in recent years about her time with No Doubt, especially since the rock band reunited at Coachella in April for the first time in nearly a decade.
Stefani opened up to People earlier this year about having to catch her young son Apollo up on her No Doubt days and explaining her relationship with Kanal. Stefani dated the band’s bassist from 1987 to 1994, when Kanal ended their relationship. The former couple were able to remain friends as famously noted in “Don’t Speak.”
“I had to literally lay in bed with Apollo and he’s like, ‘But mom, what is Coachella? Everyone’s saying it. What is this? It sounds like it’s a big deal,'” she told the outlet at the time. “So we had to watch the ‘Don’t Speak’ video. And he’s like, ‘But wait, which one was your boyfriend?’ It was so weird and so funny.”
