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"Simple Kind of Life" is a song written by Gwen Stefani for American rock band No Doubt's fourth album, Return of Saturn (2000). The song contrasts Stefani's desire to settle down and start a family with her commitment to the band.
The music of Return of Saturn further explores new wave style, [13] while adding an alternative rock feel and maintaining some of the band's ska and reggae sounds. Adrian Young's drum part on "Simple Kind of Life" was mixed through low fidelity filters to give it the sound of a lo-fi power ballad. [14] "
No Doubt's self-titled debut album was released in 1992, but it featured no radio singles, although a video was made for "Trapped in a Box". Owing to the music world's direct focus on grunge, No Doubt's album was not supported by the record label, and was considered a commercial failure for selling only 30,000 copies. [ 4 ]
No Doubt's fourth studio album, Return of Saturn was recorded between 1998 and 1999 and released on April 11, 2000. Over 40 demo tracks were recorded for Return of Saturn, but the list was whittled down to the fourteen for the album's final composition, [1] four of which were released as singles: "New", "Ex-Girlfriend", "Simple Kind of Life" and "Bathwater".
Perhaps, then, No Doubt’s reunion at Coachella served as a worthy reassurance — or a colorful, energetic statement — that there are no signs of rust more than 30 years after they debuted ...
No Doubt's fifth album – Rock Steady (2001) – features contributions from a wide variety of high-profile musicians, including William Orbit, Prince, David Stewart, and Pharrell Williams. It features "mainstream pop" and reggae music and was released following the commercial success of two of Gwen Stefani's solo singles: " South Side " (2000 ...
Jeff Apter, a music journalist and author of the 2009 biography Gwen Stefani and No Doubt: A Simple Kind of Life, provided a mixed review for "Squeal" when discussing The Beacon Street Collection. He suggested that the song sounded as if it was "stitched together from several separate, unfinished pieces of music".
"Ex-Girlfriend" is a song by American ska band No Doubt from their fourth studio album, Return of Saturn (2000). The song was released as the album's second overall single in early 2000 and was moderately successful, reaching the top 40 in most countries it charted in, including peaking within the top 10 in Australia, Iceland, and Spain.