Download: New Gwen Radio Interview With Mojo 95.5 From Friday Morning

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD GWEN’S INTERVIEW WITH MOJO 95.5 (7/3/2009)

Thanks to Rosie for heads up, but Gwen called into local Detroit radio station Mojo 95.5 this morning to talk about the show tonight in Auburn Hills (ugh at them for playing “The Sweet Escape” in the background, but anyways.) She sounds really groggy, “tour voice” as she likes to say, but she did just wake up and she is… in the middle of the tour. She talks about the goods and the bads of being on the road with her children, she tells a cute story about how the kids climbed into bed with her in the middle of the night and woke her up. Gwen talks about how she’s done it before with King on her last tour, but she finds her days off harder than nights with shows. Apparently tonight’s meet and greet before the show has over 60 people in there… yikes!

The DJ brings up the whole “tension” thing with her, and she explains how of course they are going to have their issues, but it wasn’t that big of a deal. She talks about how they were getting frustrated trying to write the next record, but it wasn’t coming for them. No Doubt decided to hit the road, then Gossip Girl called them and wanted the band to record a song… which the band wasn’t planning on. She describes the studio situation as “challenging,” and says that her and Tony got in their first fight in a really, really long time. Apparently it was over the phone, they were cussing each other out (she actually cussed on the radio — they bleeped her!) She thinks it had to do with the pressure to do the song, the band wasn’t ready, the tour, and just unresolved feelings. The DJs are kind of jackasses asking her if she appreciated going solo so she didn’t have to fight, and asks if she plans on heading to do more “Gwen Stefani stuff” after the tour is over. She explains that fighting is never fun, but she never intended to the solo thing to last as long as it did, it was meant as a dance record, and the plan was to come back home to do another No Doubt record, which is what’s next. Maybe it’s just me, but you can kind of her an annoyance in Gwen’s tone with the DJ keeps pushing the solo thing even going as far as asking her if Interscope is pushing her to ditch the band and go solo since “she sold all those records” and that “she can do it by herself.” What an dork! She just responds, “No, not one bit,” and assures them she’s never heard that. She was in a hurry to get off the phone. I don’t blame her.

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