At one moment during Gwen Stefani’s show at New York’s Jones Beach Amphitheater last night (July 21), she simultaneously had a six-year-old weeping with joy and a die-hard announcing she’d flown from another continent just for the concert, all while the whole place danced their asses off.
Gwen herself, a tireless blond blur, seemed far more shocked than her fans to be throwing a dance party right by the beach—stopping between songs to talk not only about how she hasn’t toured in seven years but how surprising it was to write a new album, this year’s This Is What The Truth Feels Like, all of the sudden.