Gwen Stefani Live on the Beach Is What You Need in Your Summer

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.