“It didn’t even represent what we were doing. Even the guitar solo has no business being in that song”: Gwen Stefani on the No Doubt song that “changed everything” after it became their biggest hit

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Best of 2024: No Doubt’s Gwen Stefani has admitted that she had “absolutely no idea” that the band’s 1996 single Don’t Speak would become such a huge hit.

In an interview with the Guardian, in which she took questions from the paper’s readers, Stefani said of Don’t Speak”: “It didn’t even represent what we were doing, because No Doubt were such an uptempo, live-energy band. Even the guitar solo has no business being in that song.”