Stefani Silences the Lambs

    Gwen Stefani and Pharrell Williams will be hollering together once again. The duo that worked on “Holla Back Girl” will be crafting L.A.M.B. Part 2, which will be released early next year.

    Initially, Stefani hoped to release the extra tracks on a Christmas DVD. She had enough material to release another album which may have featured songs with guitarist Rich Harrison and Linda Perry. While working, she came across songs she and Williams made together.

    One of those songs “You Started It,” struck a spark that wouldn’t stop. “It has these great chords, and to me, it doesn’t sound anything like the Neptunes. It sounds like an early, early No Doubt song,” she said of the track. Even after the discovery, she still went forward with her initial plans.

    Williams, however, felt the two should go in a different direction. Instead of simply working with the left overs, Pharrell wanted to create something different. He convinced her that she should do a brand new album. Thus, came the birth of L.A.M.B. Part 2.

    The Neptune’s producer invited Gwen to Miami and the singer couldn’t resist. She even ditched the only available free time she could spend with her husband to work on this record.

    “On the one break that I might have to hang out with Gavin (her husband), to hang out with you for 10 days and write songs again?” she said, speaking about Pharrell. “But it’s such an opportunity to work with him, so I did it.”

    Williams feels the pair is a great match musically.

    “I think me and Gwen are like the same people,” Pharrell says. “We’re people cut from their own cloth. Not a different cloth, their own cloth. Gwen is like the girl in high school who had her own style. Everyone went to high school with that girl, and she’s cute with it. And then you got the other girls with the purple hair, standing by the lockers, who are just followers of a musical movement. Gwen marches to the beat of her own drum. We wave that flag together, ‘Just be you, who cares?'”

    New tracks include Orange County Girl, Breaking Up, Candyland and Wind It Up. Williams is proud of the progress. “It’s incredible work that she did,” he told MTV. “They (the tracks) sound hot.”

    Fans must be patient, though. No release date has been finalized as press time.

    Pharrell’s new record In My Head is set for a December 13 release.

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