NO DOUBT Interview Archive

 Phone Interview with Gwen Stefani, March 3rd 1999:
When No Doubt were going to have their world premiere of their new video "New" on MTV, Gwen called in right before they showed the video. This is what she said to the host, Carsen.

Carsen:
-Hello!

Gwen:
-Carsen, wuu-huuu!

Carsen:
-Wuu-huu! It's been far too long.

Gwen:
-I'm telling you, i'm so exited! I can't believe that we actually are gonna have a world premiere video on MTV, it's like.. how does it happen to us again? Do you know what I mean?

Carsen:
-I know.

Gwen:
-It's so weird.

Carsen:
-It's gonna be better this time around, I promise you.

Gwen:
-Oh, man. We have had like the best year ever, we came off tour and all we do is wake up every day to write a good song. That's our life.

Carsen:
-Let's talk about some of those good songs that are gonna be on the new album. When, when, when?

Gwen:
-I know. We just...on Monday we go into the studio, we're actually gonna be in the studio recording drum tracks, and getting the songs together. And we have like million songs, we're just doing it the old school with Glen Ballard who actually... some people might know him from doing Alanis Morrisette records. And he wrote that song "Man In The Mirror" with Michael Jackson.

Carsen:
-He's that dude!

Gwen:
-Yeah, he is that dude.

Carsen:
-Let's talk a little about the video that we are about to see. The world premiere, it's called "New".

Gwen:
-It's called "New". This is actually an old song we've had for about three years, and we finally get it put out, and we called it "New".

Carsen:
-That's awesome.

Gwen:
-The video, we did it with Jake Scott. It was a new thing for us. We've never worked with him before. This was the first time we've ever deone a video without playing anything. It was a little concept video. We all had our own little character that we play.

Carsen:
-Yeah. Let's go through those characters as we're about to watch the video.

Gwen:
-Ok, ok.. Tom is like the army guy who wanders to this kinda rave. And makes his way in.

Carsen:
-He is like on leave? US are all going those clubs. Adrian is on the moped.

Gwen:
-Adrian is the kind of speed racer maniac guy that kinda picks up on every one and sneaks in...breaks his way in through the glass.

Carsen:
-Right. Tony is like the rich diplomat in Rolls Royce?

Gwen:
-Tony is kinda like the owner of the club. And i'm like a loner girl who goes to dance.

Carsen:
-You look a little in my mind like a retro-raver. It's kinda weird, but it looks awesome.

Gwen:
-Thank you very much. We had a really fun time making it. It was really freezing cold here in L.A., we shoot like all night long. And during the shoot we felt like movie stars. It's been fun.

Carsen:
-Gwen, we don't have much time obviously. But say hello to everybody for me.

Gwen:
-Ok. Well, thanks for playing our video.

Carsen:
-We're exited about it!

Gwen:
-I hope everyone likes it and I can't wait to the show, when we do the new song. It's gonna be so fun.

Carsen:
-When you are around, we'll sit down and we'll rap out more.

Gwen:
-That'd be fun.

Carsen:
-Alright, say hi to the gang.

Gwen:
-Take care.

Carsen:
-Ok, Gwen. Bye

Gwen:
-Bye.

Carsen: (presents the video)
-Here we go, right now. I'm proud to present the world premier of No Doubt here on Total Request Live, it's called "New" enjoy!


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