Earlier this week Gwen Stefani joined Jimmy Fallon and the Roots on The Tonight Show to perform her 2005 hit “Hollaback Girl.”
Utilizing a banana as a microphone, The Voice judge sang her classic track as the talk show host and the house band shook tinsel-colored pom poms while accompanying the superstar singer/songwriter with a tambourine, a xylophone, handheld drums, and kazoos.
Along with her multi-year appearances as a judge on The Voice, on November 15, the now 55-year old Stefani dropped Bouquet, her new album featuring singles “Somebody Else’s,” and “Purple Irises,” a suet with her husband, Blake Shelton.
In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Gwen said that creating “Purple Irises” liberated her from a creative block, adding “It felt like I was repeating myself a lot.” “It just never landed, and it didn’t even inspire me, so at a certain point, I just wrote a song called ‘Purple Irises,’ and it felt like, ‘I’m on now.’ I felt like I’m in the zone, this is it.”
Bouquet is the former No Doubt lead singer’s first solo, non-Christmas album since 2016’s This is What the Truth Feels Like.
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Author: Saul Goode
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