No Doubt

0:08You guys, did you know that the Statue of Liberty was built? And... She always had fans of you, like, the way the video works. I'm not very smart, but I didn't. I didn't know this. We took a little break and that's when I said I wanted to do dance record and that turned into this whole huge project that I did, which I was just so inspired about, you know, this floor might be at your whole side and my girly side and costumes and I started to hear as you love us during that time period. I even started to land. I think I started all my clothing lines right around that time period.

0:54So there was so much creative energy in me during that time period. So I did so many things and when I was done, I felt done. Like it was a moment in time. It was always going to be a moment in time. We'd always plan to do another record after that. It was just sort of very natural and it did go on a lot longer than we talked about. Just because it was inspired and how do you cut that off? You know what I mean? To go, oh my God, I better hurry I can go do this now. It's like you're in the moment. You gotta live it. So that's kind of what I did. And with the baby coming in between that, it just lengthened everything. And as soon as I finished the 106 shows, I just knew I was so inspired to do the no doubt record. And they had come on stage during one of the shows we were playing in Irvine, like our hometown, and they came on as a special surprise.

1:40And that's kind of the moment where I just felt like, okay, this is definitely where I'm headed next. And the month that I got home from the tour, we were going to start writing again. It's the month that I got pregnant with the second baby. So it was like, ah, so much at once. And I couldn't really write. And I decided to just, let me just do this right now. So then as soon as I had the baby, we said, okay, this is more I'm going to start this record. And I still couldn't do it because it was a lot. Having a new baby, another baby, and all the stuff that I had done. So we decided to go on tour. And that's when the baby was about eight months on a whim. We just went on tours and just get inspired again. You know, you're up there, you're singing all these hits that we've done. And like, singing songs that are reflective of like the future, you know what I mean?

2:25Old songs that were like simple kind of life. Like one day I want to be a mom. I'm looking over at both of my kids on the side of the stage weeping. You know, I'm weeping at them. But, you know what I mean? So it was very inspiring. So as soon as we came home from that tour is when we wrote our first song. And once we did that and was like, okay, now we can write. And then it was like, we wrote for about a year. We kind of grew up together in this band. We worked and made records and toured for so many years. And so to get a little bit of a break for everyone to step out and do their own thing and stand on their own feet, it was, I think, a really healthy thing. You know, so I kind of stuck to the studio a little bit and did two mat costa records. And it was great.

3:10You know, the funny thing about Tom and he won't tell you this. I didn't notice. He went out with mat costa on tour as a space player. That's really good. Yeah, we did summer tour with Jack Johnson. I think we played Canada. Yeah, I remember I was drinking it for a minute. Yeah. It was a good time to tour the band. I'm a rock and it's a nice band. I'm a rock and bass player in Tony Gallo. I'm nervous. What is going on here? This is Tom's way of being in play bass. Yeah. Because I see he eyes me on stage where we'll be playing and be like, oh, oh. I can just get that four stringed instrument. I'd run circles around you. Oh, look at you. We all worked on so much stuff. Well, the band was on a break and I think coming back together, a few things happened.

3:59One, it makes you, I think, a better songwriter, a better musician, but also putting yourself in those really uncomfortable, sometimes uncomfortable situations makes you realize how much we are to be back together, where it's comfortable and it feels like home. And I really don't take it from the band. Like this writing, even though the writing process for this record was a struggle, it was really fun. Like we had a great time doing it. We were doing what we've done as a band for 25 years, which is making music together and I had a good time doing it. I think we're constantly evolving as a band. We're always trying new things. We're open to trying different things and different kinds of collaborations.

4:45Our producer Spike Stent brought some great programmers in to work with us. And the cool thing is they would try some different ideas with our ideas and we'd bounce stuff off each other. And then we would take those ideas and maybe rewrite the song and try some different things. It was this ongoing process and we'd constantly keep tweaking and fixing and checking. It was just a different way of making a record than we've ever done in the past. I think it's also, if you think about it, like we always had a keyboard player in our band, but it was always very traditional. But that's because we didn't have all the sounds that we have now. So it kind of evolved with just what's out there to use. If you think about before, when we had keyboard players who'd come in and play on the record and do their thing, well now we have programmers that come in and do their thing and then we just kick what we like about that

5:31and then how it all blends together is what ends up being the song. But it's really a natural process of evolution. And even if you look back at Rock Steady, there was a lot of that in there as well. But it just is over time, it just became maybe a little bit more. And in the back of the 80s, there was in the UV-40 or Ganderan or you know, well indeed they were incorporating trigger drums with acoustic drums as well. And so we touched on that a little more actually quite a bit on this record. And it was fun to do because we grew up listening to that music. So. Do you send call five questions before the video? Five good questions, more answers. You guys know what I'm saying. I'm going to start here. You can call them Broad Street. That's a tough.

6:19You can answer whatever. Oh, excuse me. Road. Road. I'm ready for the show. I cannot, I will not answer that question. The whole thing. Let me know regarding. Oh, come on. That's neither. I've never been to the same question. Neither. Neither. He's up on her side. Sabbath. Sabbath. I will not answer that question. You don't answer anything? I'm not answering it. What? We can hear a song usually that gets you firstly, or it's melody, you're rhythm. I bet most girls say lyrics. I think most girls say lyrics. Boys will say the opposite. No, they would have to say melody. Song you're very, very most proud. Obviously.

7:06On the new album? That's like saying which child are you most proud of? You don't really. Right? You can't do it. Nope. Not shit. I don't want to say it. I had to answer a lot. They were something to play a lot. But what are you most excited to play a lot? When you guys go out on a question show? Yeah, I agree with you. I'm looking forward to that. Yeah, push it up. One more summer. One more. Go get it. Winning. No. I had to do it. Sorry. You scared it right up. That's a little man.