In a recent interview with Robert Kessler, Stefani reflected on where she is right now with her music and her private life, which recently underwent some colossal changes after the singer divorced her husband of 13 years, Gavin Rossdale.
“What’s so cool about right now is that I feel, like, weirdly with Tragic Kingdom, I feel like I’m almost in the exact same place that I was,” she says.
“I have an album that documents where I’m at and it’s so pure and it’s so real and it’s so… not about anybody else,” the 46-year-old said, referring to the 20th anniversary of No Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom, which catapulted the band to superstardom.
Prior to doing Tragic Kingdom Stefani broke up with Tony Kanal, her No Doubt bandmate, a life event which inspired one of the most iconic albums of the 1990s. Following her divorce from Gavin Rossdale we know what to expect from her new songs – bitterly honest ballads revealing her feelings about the breakup to which most people can easily relate.
Last Saturday in New York the mother of three debuted her new single, “Used to Love You,” about Rossdale. “I don’t know why I cried, but it I think it’s ‘cause I remembered for the first time, since I hated you, that I used to love you,” are the types of lyrics we expect from a female rock star, and which also give us a small insight into the spirit and tone of the album.
More than a quarter of a million hits in less than 24 hours since her single was released on YouTube speak volumes about how eager Gwen Stefani fans are to hear new music and get a glimpse of her love life which she always painfully reveals in her songs.
