Gwen Stefani Goes Bananas Performing ‘Hollaback Girl’ on ‘Tonight Show’

Gwen Stefani stepped into a time machine with Jimmy Fallon and the Roots on The Tonight Show to perform her 2005 hit “Hollaback Girl.” Using a banana as a microphone, The Voice host sang the foot-stomping track as Fallon and the house band shook tinsel-colored pom poms and performed with a tambourine, a xylophone, handheld drums, and kazoos.

While “Hollaback Girl” is a throwback, Stefani recently released new music. She dropped her album Bouquet on Nov. 15, which includes the singles “Somebody Else’s,” a tune about past mistakes, and “Purple Irises,” featuring partner Blake Shelton. Stefani told Rolling Stone that creating “Purple Irises” liberated her from a creative block.

“It felt like I was repeating myself a lot,” Stefani said of her false starts. “It just never landed, and it didn’t even inspire me, so at a certain point, I just wrote a song called ‘Purple Irises,’ and it felt like, ‘I’m on now.’ I felt like I’m in the zone, this is it.”

Bouquet marks Stefani’s first solo, non-Christmas album since 2016’s This is What the Truth Feels Like.