Gwen Stefani has unwrapped a few new holiday songs this season, released the Deluxe Edition of her album, You Make It Feel Like Christmas, and she continues to be the gift that keeps on giving with a No Doubt Las Vegas residency planned for The Sphere in 2026. Tis the season for more Stefani so lets dive into an Audacy Check In.
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Earlier this month Gwen debuted the Amazon Exclusive song, "Shake The Snow Globe," set to appear in the upcoming film, Oh. What. Fun. which arrives on December 3. Stefani also found her sleighbell swagger on "Hot Cocoa," which is featured on the new deluxe version of her 2020 Christmas album, You Make It Feel Like Christmas.
"I wasn't even planning on it. I got this call last summer, they sent me the link and so I'm like sitting in Oklahoma at like 100 degrees asking my kids, 'hey, you want to watch this Christmas movie?'" reveals Gwen to Audacy's Dorothy Tran. "Sometimes things just come out of nowhere and it's just one of those things where, here we are again, and I just feel so grateful because every time I get asked to be part of anything these days, it's hard for me to explain it because people can't see it from my perspective, but you're always super grateful, but the longer it goes, the more you realize you're at the end of something. You have to be, you know what I mean? But then you get this life again and, so the gratitude just gets deeper."
Becoming a Christmas Queen in her own right, Dorothy wanted to know when it's the right time to decorate for the holiday. For Gwen, it all depends on where she is with husband, Blake Shelton. "I live in Oklahoma now half the time, half the time here [in Los Angeles], and depending on if we're there for the holidays or not," she shares. "I love to do the fall stuff, like sometimes Blake will go out and we'll get stuff from nature and do a fall design around the door. We're such nerds, it's so much fun and we have like these little traditions now that we do. Well we didn't get to do it this year because we were here."
"I think after Halloween it's fair game," Gwen says confidently. "You know what really I've learned is at the end you're just ready. You're like, get this out of my house. I don't want to see a snow globe ever again," she laughs.
Once the lights are down and the tree is packed, there's plenty more in store for Gwen in 2026, as No Doubt's residency at The Sphere has stretched to 18 dates across May and June. The nostalgia is running deep as the band preps for the show, and they look back on the music that has impacted generations.
"I love certain songs for what they've done, not just for me but for people, like a song like 'Don't Speak' that, it's just a pure song that didn't even make sense to No Doubt really, because it was so different from everything we were doing," says Stefani. "It just has so much, I guess, truth in it that it just transcends languages."
Just last month Gwen found herself back on stage singing "Don't Speak," as an invited guest at Dua Lipa's Los Angeles show. "It was just, she knew. like it was such the perfect choice," gushes Gwen. "And then honestly, like I got up on stage and we did that together and she's just, she's a superhero. I mean, she is a Wonder Woman. She's so beautiful. She's disgustingly beautiful because it's not just the outside, she's just so smart and cool and beautiful on the inside."
"It was crazy because at that point, when I said yes, I didn't know we were doing The Sphere," she shares. "When everything kind of aligns and it's like, 'wow,' like this is supposed to be happening, obviously, because there's no way you could plan that."
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