VH1 talks to No Doubt about their latest "Rock Steady" with a brief but rewarding mention of their collaboration with P...

http://www.vh1.com/thewir...s/nodoubt/

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VH1: I heard the song you did with Prince was actually recorded for the last album. What happened?

Gwen: Some songs come together really fast. Some you labor over and they come together. Some just don't really come together. For Return of Saturn, we wrote this song called "Waiting Room." That was one of those tracks that was like, "What's wrong with it?" We couldn't figure it out. We did a demo and sent it to him. He generously flew the entire band out to Paisley Park. By the time I got off the plane, his security guard guy was like, 'The Artist wants to speak with you.'

Tony: It was like three years ago, when he was still "The Artist."

Gwen: So, I get him on the phone: 'Oh man, I'm so excited about the track. What do you think?' 'Well Gwen, I had to rewrite it.' 'What? Well, you're the Artist, you do what you want, I guess.' We get there. It's like 11:30 at night. We were exhausted. He played us this track and our mouths were on the floor. It was so amazing. He had recorded the whole thing. He had rewritten it using a lot of the lyrics about my boyfriend that were in the initial song. So Prince is singing about my boyfriend! It would have never fit anywhere into Return of Saturn. But it fits perfectly for this record. We ended up opening it up like three years later when we were mixing in London. We had added keyboards and stuff. I re-sang it because I felt I could do a better job. We like how it turned out.

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[Their new album is great, too, Prince tune or not. Oh yeah, and Gwen is such a hottie! -Ben]