Gwen Stefani Goes Bananas in Classroom With Jimmy Fallon & Roots For Classic ‘Hollaback Girl’ Performance: Watch
Gwen Stefani jumped in the wayback machine on The Tonight Show on Tuesday night (Nov. 26) when she joined host Jimmy Fallon and house band The Roots for a run through one of her most beloved solo hits on classroom instruments. With Fallon pounding on a drum and shaking tinsel-decked percussion instruments, Stefani sang the beat-heavy “Hollaback Girl” into a banana-shaped shaker as the veteran hip-hip group buzzed on kazoos and other classroom instruments in the classic Fallon bit.
Eschewing the song’s four-letter shouted refrain, the crew still enthusiastically shouted out the “B-A-N-A-N-A-S” chorus as they busted out beats on toy xylophones, tiny guitars, bongos and tambourines. The song — co-written by Stefani and the Neptunes’ Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, with the latter also producing it — was the third single from No Doubt singer Stefani’s 2004 debut solo album, Love. Angel. Music. Baby. The Grammy-nominated tune topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks in April and May of 2005.
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The Voice coach released her fifth solo studio album, Bouquet, two weeks ago. The 10-song LP features the singer’s collaboration with husband Blake Shelton on the single “Purple Irises,” and was her first new release since 2016’s This Is What the Truth Feels Like; the latter also marked Stefani’s first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The singer released the propulsive new single “Somebody Else’s” last week.
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Earlier this year, Stefani reunited at Coachella with her former No Doubt bandmates bassist Tony Kanal, guitarist Tom Dumont and drummer Adrian Young for their first gig since going on permanent hiatus in 2013.
Watch Stefani, Fallon and the Roots performing “Hollaback Girl” below.
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