No Doubt On ‘Push And Shove’ Album: New Single 'Looking Hot' Was 'Almost Thrown Away'

No Doubt's highly anticipated album, "Push and Shove," their first in 11 years, is finally poised to grace music shelves on Tuesday. Phew. The band is claiming their single "Looking Hot," which has already been released to the public, almost didn't make the cut.

"The next single we're going to do is called 'Looking Hot,' and I love that song!" frontwoman Gwen Stefani revealed to MTV News. "[It] was one of those songs that was almost thrown away; it was an end of a song that turned into a chorus that ended up being [a song] ... it was one of those weird transitional songs."

Since then, the track has become one of Stefani's favorites on the album -- among others.

"Nobody really took CDs home to listen to stuff while we were making it, except for me, because that was my process of being able to see what we've got so far; I would drive home with the songs, and I've listened to this album so many times already," she guffawed. "I've had different songs be my favorite songs. 'Gravity' was my favorite song for the longest time, and I feel that's like a girl song, like more girls will like that one. And I love 'Easy,' which was one of these songs that, like, had so many versions before we got to the final one, which is the perfect way it needed to be presented. But there really aren't any songs that I don't like on the record!"

Of the album, guitarist Tom Dumont said, "We wanted it to sound modern, but we've openly said the album is really made up of influences of things we grew up with.... It opens the question of what is modern? When I hear 'Settle Down' on the radio, it still doesn't sound like anything else."

"We're very lucky in that sense," bassist Tony Kanal told The Los Angeles Times about the evolution of the band. "To have grown in so many ways: to be that band that was in the garage, to be that band that toured the world together, and now to be that band that's raising their kids together - we got to see it all, and everything in between, which is pretty awesome."