'The Voice' coach Gwen Stefani: Adam Levine is "so inappropriate, it's crazy"

Gwen Stefani already has three little boys at home and now she's apparently going to work on The Voice with another set of three "little boys."


The No Doubt frontwoman appeared on the Today show Monday morning to discuss her experience thus far on The Voice's seventh season as a new coach. She'll be sitting in one of the four big red chairs next to fellow newbie coach Pharrell Williams and mainstay coaches Adam Levine and Blake Shelton when the show premieres September 22 at 8PM ET/PT on NBC.

While insisting The Voice has been "so fun," Stefani joked it "literally is" like working with little boys.

"Adam for sure," the singer noted with a laugh. "It's little boys but it's a little more X-Rated, honestly. You guys get the G-rated version on the TV. It is crazy with those guys. You know what? Adam is so inappropriate, it's crazy."

Stefani, 44, said she feels like her The Voice participation started in the blink of an eye.


"What happened?! It's like all of a sudden I'm on TV. Woo! It's so crazy... It was all, like, spontaneous. I didn't know I was going to have another baby. That was a miracle, like, surprise blessing. He's just turned six months. [Show producers] called me right after he was born and were like, 'Christina Aguilera's pregnant. Do you want to do the show?!'" Stefani explained on Today.

"I just hung up the phone... My parents were over -- and I was just like, 'My life is so weird!' And then it was filming. It was really, really quick."

Stefani admitted she surprised herself when it came to selecting auditioners for her The Voice team.

"I thought I was going to be looking for someone who is very unique sounding. All the people that I love growing up don't necessarily sing great. Do you know what I mean? Someone like David Bowie, he has a character voice, you know what I'm saying?" Stefani said.

"But when you're there and you're in the blinds [audition phase] and you're not seeing people and you're listening, sometimes those incredible singers that maybe are soulful -- [who] I didn't think I would go for -- I just couldn't deny them. I was like, 'I have to press [my button],' because I can't do that, you know?"


When more than one The Voice coach wants a singer on his or her team, the coaches must pitch why he or she is most deserving.

"This is the awkward part of the show because it's like, 'I'm so great!' But it's fun for me because I look back at all of the things I have done and I'm like, 'Wow. I have a lot of advice to give,'" Stefani noted.

"I've been in a band since I was 17-years-old. I've had so many different varieties of being in a band. I was in a garage band and then I actually got on the radio and then I went all around the world on tour and then I did a solo career. I've recorded all these records. So, I do have a lot of advice to give to some of these people."

Stefani apparently didn't have a mentor of her own throughout her music career, so she's excited to help up and coming artists.

"[No Doubt] was just our own procrastination from going to school. It was what we loved to do. It was for fun and we were never trying to make it. It was more about, 'This is super fun to do today, right now,'" the rocker explained.


"We [spent] nine years doing that together in the garage before we ever had any success. So you could tell we were doing it for fun. I don't know how our quirky band got on the radio next to Nirvana at that time, you know what I mean? It was a really weird [thing]."

Stefani's husband Gavin Rossdale, 48, will join "Team Gwen" for The Voice's seventh-season "battle" rounds as an advisor. Rossdale is Bush's lead singer and has been married to Stefani for nearly 12 years. The couple's youngest son, Apollo Bowie Flynn, was born in February.






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