Gwen Stefani Recalls Feeling ‘Completely Depleted’ While Making Final No Doubt Album: ‘That Was a Struggle’
usmagazine.comGwen Stefani famously sang about feeling “hella good” during her time with No Doubt — but the group wasn’t immune to pressures of making a hit album.The “Hollaback Girl” songstress, 53, got real on about the hardships she faced while recording No Doubt’s final record in 2012.“Push and Shove, the title, actually makes so much sense to the songs,” Stefani told Fault magazine in an article published on Thursday, June 22. “That whole time period was just a really hard time.
Everything was like we were in molasses, and nothing was coming easy.”The Grammy winner cofounded No Doubt in 1986 with her brother Eric Stefani, who left the band in 1995, and John Spence, who died by suicide in 1987.
Bassist Tony Kanal, guitarist Tom Dumont and drummer Adrian Young joined the group before they released their debut record, No Doubt, in 1992.
Trombonist and keyboardist Gabrial McNair and trumpeter and keyboardist Stephen Bradley toured with the ska band beginning in the mid-1990s.The Orange County-based group released five records between 1992 and 2001 that included hits such as “Just a Girl,” “Hella Good” and “Hey Baby.” The band’s 1995 chart topper “Don’t Speak,” which Gwen wrote, was inspired by her split from Kanal, whom she dated from 1987 to 1994.
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