{"id":118790,"date":"2024-11-13T21:01:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T21:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/11\/13\/gwen-stefani-recalls-making-first-solo-album-20-years-ago-i-had-zero-restrictions\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T21:01:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T21:01:35","slug":"gwen-stefani-recalls-making-first-solo-album-20-years-ago-i-had-zero-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/11\/13\/gwen-stefani-recalls-making-first-solo-album-20-years-ago-i-had-zero-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwen Stefani recalls making first solo album 20 years ago: ‘I had zero restrictions’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gwen Stefani<\/strong>‘s debut solo album,\u00a0Love. Angel. Music. Baby,<\/em> was released 20 years ago, and she tells People<\/em> magazine that it was a time of total creativity for her.<\/p>\n

“At that point, things were unhinged, meaning that I had zero restrictions: I wasn’t in the band. I didn’t have children. I wasn’t married,” Gwen tells <\/strong>People.<\/strong><\/em><\/a> “I was like, ‘I’m making a guilty-pleasure dance record.'”<\/p>\n

Gwen’s memory obviously isn’t perfect: She was actually married when she started making the record. The album came out in 2004; she and Gavin Rossdale<\/strong> wed in 2002.<\/p>\n

“I had such an unbelievably clear vision of what I wanted to do,” she adds. “I had made a style Bible … I had torn [out pictures from] every magazine, everything from makeup images, to hair, to clothes, to musical references. Everything was collected.”<\/p>\n

Gwen also recalls writing her first #1 hit, “Hollaback Girl,” with Pharrell Williams<\/strong>: “We did the ‘bananas’ part, and we knew after we wrote it \u2014 we just made a cultural collision. We were jumping up on the couch, and we got the champagne.”<\/p>\n

The star is also looking back in her new video for “Somebody Else’s” from her new album,\u00a0Bouquet,<\/em> dropping on Nov. 15.\u00a0 Sharp-eyed fans pointed out that when she premiered the video<\/strong><\/a> during her appearance on HSN on Nov. 11, she was wearing the same 1994 Vivienne Westwood<\/strong> Spring Collection corset that she wore in the video for No Doubt<\/strong>‘s 1996 video<\/strong><\/a> for “Spiderwebs.”<\/p>\n

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