Following her duet with Eve, Gwen Stefani kept looking for ways to relate to hip-hop through her band No Doubt as well. Here they are still making rock, but for the production they hired the Neptunes, with their immediately recognizable funk. For Gwen, it was another important step in creating her new image; for the Neptunes, it was an expansion of their empire into the rock world, and they would continue to produce rock records throughout the decade, bringing their unique touch to that world as well; for No Doubt, it was their best record ever; and for the pop world, it was a record that reintroduced the sound of a synthesized electric guitar, kind of electro-rock, a thundering sound that would resound in other records further on in the decade. A record that lives up to its name.
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