While it’s unquestionably currently pumpkin spice season, Gwen Stefani had another flavor in mind during her recent appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon -- getting special help from The Roots to run things back with one of her most beloved solo hits, “Hollaback Girl.”
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Backed up by the Late Show’s house band with classroom instruments in hand, Stefani sang a percussion-heavy “Hollaback Girl” into a banana-shaped shaker as the veteran Hip-Hip icons accompanied by buzzing kazoos and banging bongos for the classic Fallon bit.
Forgoing the four-letter word in the refrain, the entire group came together to shout out “B-A-N-A-N-A-S” for the chorus as they continued to bust out beats on toy xylophones, tiny guitars, and tambourines.
The 2004 hit song, co-written by Stefani and the Neptunes’ Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo -- the latter also producing it -- was Stefani’s third single off her debut solo album, Love. Angel. Music. Baby.
Now 20 years later, Gwen is back with her fifth solo album, Bouquet, which she released earlier this month. A country-tinged, rock-infused bundle of 10 personally hand-picked songs, that Gwen detailed as “a combination of the past, the present, and the seed of hope for the future.” Noting,” each song was sort of individually, finally, chosen for this bouquet, a work of art.”
Watch Stefani, Fallon and The Roots' classroom instruments performance of “Hollaback Girl” below.
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