Popcast: Gwen Stefani Returns

Popcast

The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Ben Ratliff, Times music critic and Caryn Ganz, Times pop music editor, discuss the singer’s new album.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times
0:05.8	podcast, your solid gold rebound of music news.
0:09.6	I'm your host Ben Radliff. You're listening to make it
0:25.0	something I could get used to this.
0:30.0	It's getting harder to leave it.
0:32.0	You're listening to Make Me Like You, the second single from Gwen Stefani's new record.
0:39.7	This is what the truth feels like.
0:41.9	And Karen Gans is our guest today to talk about it.
0:44.8	Hi Karen.
0:45.8	Hey Ben.
0:46.8	Karen we haven't had you as a guest on the pop cast since January 2015 when you were talking about Sleater Kenny and since that time
0:57.1	you've become my boss incredible leapfrogging move.
1:03.0	What will happen between now and my next podcast.
1:05.0	Well, what will happen is you're going to do a lot more podcasts with us, I think.
1:09.0	I hope.
1:10.0	So Karen is here because she wrote a quite an amazing story on the front of Arts and
1:17.9	Leisure that came out last Sunday that started being about X and then ended up being about Y.
1:25.0	Gwen Stefani has a new record and it's her first new record in a long time
1:29.0	and I imagine that was the original reason that you went out to interview her.
1:33.0	Yes, I was interested in what she had been doing and what she thought making a pop record now would be like as opposed to making it 10 years ago when the last time she had a pop record was. But then I was sort of
1:44.7	of taken by surprise when she started talking about her personal life and then didn't stop for 90
1:49.2	minutes. So you really didn't see this coming? I mean I knew it was a part of the song writing process for this record.
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