No Doubt’s Olivia Rodrigo Surprise, Plus More Best Moments From 2024 Coachella Reunion (2024)

• Olivia Rodrigo Duets on One of Her Favorites

  When Olivia Rodrigo was tasked with choosing her “18 favorite songs” to celebrate her 18th birthday back in 2021, No Doubt’s “Bathwater” was among her picks. Fast-forward three years, and Rodrigo — wearing a cropped white tank top that read “I [heart] ND” — popped up on the Coachella Stage for a surprise duet on the Return of Saturn single, trading verses and sharing the chorus with Stefani. The two were playful throughout the song, with Stefani saying ahead of the bridge, “Olivia Rodrigo, why do the good girls, like me and you, always want…”

  “…the bad boys!” Rodrigo finished with a theatrical flourish. Stefani even called her fellow singer/songwriter over at the end of the song by calling, “Come here, my little Vampire!”

  Rodrigo has had quite a streak recently of paying homage to her heroes, from Sheryl Crow and Alanis Morissette to Jewel and the Breeders, and this latest stop on her appreciation tour couldn’t have been a better fit.

• A Ska History Lesson

  No Doubt made sure to pay tribute to their ska roots throughout the show, playing non-singles from their breakout album Tragic Kingdom like “Different People” and taking to the B-stage for a first-time cover of Madness’ “One Step Beyond,” which kept the band busy as Stefani underwent a mid-set costume change. No Doubt has often pointed to the late ’70s and early ’80s British ska revivalists as inspirations behind their own early ska sound.

• ‘Just a Girl’ Callbacks

  When Stefani dropped to the stage to do push-ups as the band played the intro of “Just a Girl,” we couldn’t help but think of Gwen also doing push-ups in the song’s 1995 music video. And when she climbed the scaffolding to initiate a call-and-response during the song (first for the men and then for the titular girls), it called to mind a similar stunt she pulls in a video from a late ’90s concert – only this time, she didn’t tell the women to yell, “F— you, I’m a girl!”

• Gwen & Tony’s ‘Don’t Speak’ Slow Dance

  While not rising to the tense inter-band romantic drama of a group like Fleetwood Mac, No Doubt does have its own tangled spiderweb, thanks to a pre-fame, seven-year relationship between Stefani and Kanal, which famously inspired the band’s biggest Pop Airplay hit: “Don’t Speak,” a 10-week No. 1 in 1996. But if there’s any question about lingering animosity, the cute slow dance the former couple shared during Dumont’s “Don’t Speak” guitar solo on Saturday night surely put that to rest.

• A Family Photo to End the Night

  

  The No Doubt reunion was of course a big deal for fans who hadn’t seen the band play together in almost 10 years, but it was also a big deal for the group. Once they wrapped their set with “Spiderwebs,” the six bandmates turned their backs to the crowd to face the drum kit and take a group picture with their epic Coachella crowd behind them. Like they say in their song “New,” which they also performed on Saturday, “Don’t let it go away/ This feeling has got to stay.”

  They definitely want to immortalize this night forever.

• No Doubt's full Coachella setlist

  Hella Good
  Sunday Morning
  Ex-Girlfriend
  It’s My Life
  Different People
  Hey Baby
  Total Hate ‘95
  Bathwater (with Olivia Rodrigo)
  One Step Beyond (Madness cover)
  Simple Kind of Life
  Underneath It All
  Happy Now?
  New
  Just a Girl
  Don’t Speak
  Spiderwebs

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